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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1898
Page
6
A bookseller and stationer notes the obscurity of the pencil inventor while explaining how graphite and German clay are mixed to form pencil leads. He describes grinding, paste formation, die pressing, and gluing leads into wooden blocks, clarifying common myths about pencil manufacture.
A humorous exchange about marriage ends with a suggestion to pursue Miss Floyd, praised as one of the town’s most intellectual women, highlighting social wit and courtship norms.
The dialogue shows a playful exchange in Harlem Life where a woman smiles and jokes about proximity while a man jokes distance is felt as a mile. The pair tease about closeness and gendered flirtation in a social setting.
A garbled article blends warnings of maritime disasters with promotional quackery for tonics and cigarets. It oddly touts Hostetter s Stomach Bitters for seasickness and features mislinked testimonials and patent remedy claims amid noisy ad copy.
Ohio Governor Bushnell was sworn in at the state capitol in Columbus amid massive crowds and festive displays. Excursion trains brought thousands, with Bushnell supporters marching from Spring Street shops and cheering the oath administered by Chief Justice Burkett. The inaugural address urged honest service and greater respect for government, delivered after a brief ceremonial program in the rotunda.
The Interstate Commerce Commission, in a decision by Commissioner Clements, ruled that freight rates from New Orleans to LaGrange, Georgia are unreasonable both in themselves and relative to rates to Atlanta Fairburn Palmetto Newnan and Hogansville. The case involved F. E. Calloway of La Grange against several railroad companies.
The senate plans an earlier vote on the Hawaiian treaty as opposition totals indicate enough votes to defeat ratification. Representative Livingston of Georgia spoke in the House on the urgent deficiency bill supporting the item which assigns transport costs from the assay office to the mint for bullion deposits.
The British steamship Ranza capt Johnstanhope cleared from Savannah for Bremen carrying 18,200 bales of cotton weighing 8,963,855 pounds valued at 524,952 dollars. It is the largest cotton cargo ever shipped from an Atlantic port.
Governor Ellerbe notes a $100,000 deficit and a lean year for phosphate royalties used as a sinking fund. The dispensary debates persist with a plan to run without profit, while education and penitentiary finances receive scrutiny. The report details treasury balances and a large cumulative phosphate royalty fund allocations.
Voters statewide approve a constitutional convention and elect 134 delegates 36 at large 98 by district. The convention is expected to be dominated by Democrats with a large majority and no black delegates. The plan aims to disenfranchise Black voters with educational qualifications.
A Butte dispatch reports two blasts in the flume tunnel near the upper smelting works in Anaconda destroying timbering and entombing five workers. Miners and timbermen push a three foot drift toward the side to rescue them, but timing and outcome are uncertain.
In Ohio the senatorial race and civil service debate in the house draw public interest. Monday morning discussions center on Senator Hanna’s chances, as his private secretary Mr. Perkins wagers 1500 dollars on Hanna’s return to office.
A New York Advertiser recounts how Swiss cheese, largely made in huts high in the Alps, gains its distinctive flavor from a mountain herb. The article explains mixed milk usage, seasonal cheese making, and the laborious two year salting of Gruyere types, noting their size and creamy texture with pea-sized cavities.
A humorous exchange features a bluebird a catbird and a berry stuck in the eye as a husband is blamed for disturbing thoughts. The catbird calls out the husband while the bluebird replies with sarcasm about the current of thoughts being disrupted.
A Greensburg Indiana case shows stomach trouble causing heart irregularity can mimic organic disease. Ellen Colsom, 43, suffered four years with indigestion and choking spells. after taking Williams Pink Pills for Pale People her appetite returned, spells lessened, weight and blood improved, and her heart beat normally.
Clarence Pullen recalls secretly stocked land locked salmon in a remote Maine lake. He describes trekking to a high mountain pool where a 32 pound landlocked salmon was trapped after climbing cascades as the brook dried. He offers to prove the tale with a return visit.
A fragmentary survey of Christmas folk beliefs notes taboos like not spinning during the twelve nights or after sunset on Saturday to avoid death afterlife pursuit. It cites eating herrings on New Year for luck and warns against rocking an empty cradle or spilling salt. Other rules warn that dirty tablecloths anger angels and certain gestures offend celestial or magical beings.
An English prophet predicts for 1898 a North Pole discovery and Mars communication. He foresees war in Europe, a South American revolution, London riots, and the kidnapping of Spain’s young king. The South American event is deemed reasonably certain by the exchange.
An advertisement touts Tetterine as a simple cure for eczema and other skin ailments. It promotes mail orders from J. T. Shuptrine in Savannah Georgia and warns against self treatment harming the stomach. The text also mentions a Swede named Carl Jersen in Turkish politics.
An Ontario note claims the product cures cold in one day with a money back guarantee. The text also mentions Canadian labor and lumber concerns, citing purity and domestic supply requirements.
An advertisement offers Salzer's German Coffee Berry seeds for 15 cents a package from John A. Zer Seed Co. La Crosse Wis. The note promises 800 pounds of better coffee at 80 cents a four point seven package and requests 15 cents in stamps with the notice.
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