16 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1899
Page
1
A Washington sermon on Mary and Martha highlights the untold labor of housekeepers. The preacher urges appreciation for a wife and mother who balance cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and care, comparing domestic toil to sacred sacrifice and promising heavenly reward for selfless service.
The article argues Commodore George Dewey earned command in the east through seafaring aptitude and readiness. It contrasts hard sea duty with easy shore billets, urging young officers to seek opportunities at sea to be where danger and honor arise. The piece cites Stickney in Harper's Magazine on naval merit and initiative.
The mint director says the United States now holds about $910 million in gold. This is an estimate since data on deposits outside the treasury and sub treasuries are unavailable. If correct, U.S. gold stocks exceed any prior year, far above the 1888 peak of about $705.8 million. The director notes global gold stocks in 1878 totaled $1.21 billion, while current holdings are cited at $3.75 billion—$1.5 billion more than combined gold and silver in the same nations in 1873.
A private named Jamashita of the Third regiment Nagoya Field artillery has been presented to the emperor of Japan. Enlisted in December, he is 28. His strength allows him to shoulder a fieldpiece and climb mountains where horses are unavailable. He receives two men's rations and wears uniforms tailored to fit.
A Chicago News item depicts a grocer finishing a sugar package as he laments a dark lonely way. A customer replies that his path may be lonely but perhaps lighter. The brief exchange highlights plain street wisdom and humor.
A lament on neglect and illness with a suggestion that Foley's Honey and Tar might have softened a tragic outcome. The narrator notes grief and loss tied to pneumonia and the cold. The piece doubts the final happiness of the tale.
Howe chats with a conceited bachelor who longs for youth health wealth and beauty. A second note cites that the right leg sustains far more accidents than the left with a ratio of eighteen to three. A final line traces kissing under the mistletoe to ancient Druids and likely religious meaning.
A health notice argues most men suffer digestive issues from poor self care. It claims men show health talk in greetings and suffer headaches, bad blood, liver and kidney troubles. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation and bilious symptoms and warns against substitutes.
A country parson visits a desolate cottage to comfort a parishioner facing heavy trouble. The old man, imperfect in theology, claims Providence is against him yet believes another above will stop Providence if it oversteps. Baltimore News
An advertisement asserts that thousands of infants die yearly from membranous croup and claims Foley's Honey and Tar could have saved them if given in time. It urges readers to obtain the product.
A weathered veteran with a wooden leg, seeking shelter, knocks on a Lanarkshire village door. The housewife briskly replies that he did not lose his leg there, and slams the door. The Liverpool Mercury reports the brief anecdote with sharp humor.
English Spavin Liniment removes lumps blemishes and conditions on horses including blood spavin curbs splints sweeney ring bone and sprains. Save 50 by one bottle of this wondrous cure sold by druggists in Chariton La.
Dialog from Harlem Life shows a witty exchange as a son-in-law jokes he achieved his peak by marrying into wealth. The line underscores social ambition tied to status and family ties in urban humor.
An Indianapolis Journal snippet captures a witty exchange about wings. Hungry Higgins notes the wings offer less meat than other pieces while Weary Watkins laments lacking the wings’ flight. The brief humor reflects period slang and stage banter.
Advertisement for New Great South American Kidney Cure promising rapid relief from kidney and bladder pain and urine retention. Claims quick remission for both men and women and immediate water retention relief. Sold by druggists in Chariton Iowa.
The piece notes a seat on the New York Stock Exchange at about 35000 dollars and humorously suggests the average man would rather stand or ride the strap. It also discusses La Grippe and promotes One Minute Cough Cure with a claim of quick, pleasant relief. D Q Storie.
The piece notes Germany’s pride in denying the American hog entry while detailing his persistence of racial and imperialist privileges. It portrays a tense, satirical view of wartime or postwar social dynamics with commentary on seating and behavior.
A period ad promotes Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold tabs with no cure no pay and price 2c by D Q Storie sole agent. Editor B A Fackler of Micanopy Hustler recalls La Grippe misery and touts One Minute Cough Cure as the quick acting remedy used by many to ease after effects.
Birmingham post office tests bicycles for telegram delivery but decides to operate the machines only at night to reduce street traffic and minimize accident risk.
Paris police expose a con scheme where women pose as buyers to obtain Dr Beaumonts elixir from chemists. The fake product is harmless water colored with coffee, yet the operatives reportedly collected about 10 000 francs before disappearing.
Small ad offers Weeks Break Up A Cold Tabs with no cure no pay policy. Price listed as 25 cents. Includes tab product description and payment terms.
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