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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1898
Page
2
The Chipley Florida notice reflects on Congress adjournment to January 4 1899 and the Christmas New Year period. It lauds the Christmas number of the West Florida Echo and notes national currency growth while commenting on Booker T. Washington and civic virtue.
Bailey’s challenge to General Wheeler could cost the old cavalry leader his seat in Congress though he will remain beloved by many once Bailey is forgotten.
Hyde Park Post G A R in Dubuque Iowa unanimously supports President McKinley's Atlanta declaration that the Federal Government should help Southern states care for Confederate dead graves. A copy of the resolution was sent by telegraph to the President at Augusta Georgia. Hyde Park Post is the first in the nation to act on the proposal.
Ex Queen Liliuokalani sends a Senate protest against US appropriation of about one million acres of Hawaiian crown lands claiming ownership. She denounces the Board of Enquiry and criticizes government waste. Includes critique of McKinley’s defense fund allotment and calls for renewed investigations after war.
Senator Butler of North Carolina proposes an amendment to the Pension appropriation bill. It would extend all existing pension laws to all invalid soldiers widows minors dependents and other pensioners regardless of whether they served in Union or Confederate forces. Confederate veterans would not receive back pensions before passage but their claims would start with the bill’s enactment.
William J. Bryan, in New York, declares opposition to McKinley’s expansion policy and colonial ideas. He cites free silver and labor rights as key 1900 issues while noting imperialism and territorial expansion pose dangers and that he cannot predict the Senate fate of the treaty.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets candy cathartic claims to purify the blood by stirring the liver and flushing impurities. Begin today to vanish pimples boils blotches blackheads and bilious complexions with ten cent remedies.
In Leon County Circuit Court the State secured a verdict against the Dunn estate for 84000, after previous judgments against Collins and others tied to the Collins bond to cover state losses. The defense argued Dunn was of unsound mind when signing the bond in December 1892.
Miss Carrie Weislogel of the Imperial Hotel and William Mepham, a St Louis native now thriving in Santiago, plan a wedding in a church ruined earlier by shellfire. Weislogel leaves St Louis soon, travels via Florida to Cuba with Mepham, who built a wholesale business in Santiago after wartime service.
Two million boxes yearly with a forecast of three million before New Year marks rising demand. The ad credits Cascarets as the year round bowel regulator and promises druggists sell at 10 25 and 50 cents a box with guaranteed cure.
The intense itching and smarting from these diseases are relieved by Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases have been permanently cured by it. It also treats itching piles sore nipples chapped hands chilblains frost bites and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts per box.
Dr Cady's Condition Powders advertised as a tonic blood purifier and vermifuge for horses in bad condition. Sold as medicine to restore prime condition, price two cents per package.
An advertisement touts Browns' Iron Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia and other stomach blood and nerve diseases. It claims unpredictably presenting symptoms require the tonic and notes it is sold by all dealers.
An O14 Idea asserts eminent physicians link impure blood to most diseases. Twenty-five years ago Browns Iron Bitters used this theory as its basis, and the many remarkable cures by this old household remedy are cited as proof.
Newspapers announce a new game titled Our Naval Heroes by N. L Stafford and B. B. Tatum. The Bartow publishers offer a 52 card pack with instructions for 50 cents mailed postage paid in the United States. Suitable Christmas gift for family and friends.
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