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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1900
Page
4
An old ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a natural corrective for blood disorders causing weariness and pains. It claims 90 percent of illnesses stem from blood issues and urges readers not to be disappointed.
The text notes snakes and birds as major lines for an animal importer. It says that many creatures arrive from India Africa and South America and that India supplies the best reptile specimens including very long snakes worth substantial sums. It also mentions value being tied to size rather than venom.
An assortment of advertisements and notes tout internal remedies for health and beauty. Cascarets Candy Cathartic claims to cleanse blood and liver to improve skin. Hall's Catarrh Cure advocates internal use for catarrh. Miscellaneous quips and brief historical notes from Collier's Weekly conclude the page.
A coffee berry rival to Java is valued in Queensland in small quantities. A German miner’s lamp using acetylene is new to Selbeck mines. Alabama cotton mills grow rapidly and may consume all local fiber soon. Holyoke paper mill expanding to produce Japanese napkins. Sweden’s drought lowers water power for woodpulp mills, raising pulp prices. England shifts to paper ropes for power transmission. Northern Arizona sheep herds move south as cattlemen threaten to block drives. Sheep drives remove wide swaths of grass, signaling a rising sheep industry in the Territory.
The article recounts a French made artillery piece used by the Boers near Johannesburg and Natal. It notes British preemption rights over Delagoa Bay and a 1896 secret British intelligence regarding Boer plans to seize the port. The gun and companions were shipped via the Netherlands Railway and later deployed to guard Ladysmith.
The text describes an eighty year old man praised for elegance and wealth with bespoke shoes at sixteen dollars and numerous outfits kept meticulously. a lawyer then shares a riddle about Lot's wife as the unnamed biblical figure whose story links to a modern author’s Looking Backward.
In a rural settlement villagers hid as a strange procession roared past. Hissing sounds and wheeled machines spurred alarm yet ended with universal cheer as the automobile departed, leaving workers to resume toil amid church bells.
Sir Redvers Buller showed his stern duty bound approach when a well known guest told an off color anecdote at his dinner. He ordered Mr A s carriage and gently escorted him from the hall, signaling that such conduct would not be tolerated.
A Dakota Huronite interview with a farmer shows large dairy profits boosting the county. The farmer’s 1899 returns include potatoes wheat milk wool and cattle income totaling about 1848 dollars with dairy products seen as the main profit driver.
France relies on English cables for war reports and seeks huge profits to free itself. The piece then pivots to a doctor’s advice urging Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, malaria, and ague.
The new government printing office will cost about 2 million dollars and despite completion it may still be insufficient for demand. It will rise eight stories with about nine acres of floor space and will support a load of 85 million pounds.
In a terse comic exchange, a man refuses to use strong language in a lady’s presence while his companion scolds him for failing to answer. The dialogue highlights social restraint and midwestern manners in a humorous clash.
An old style advertisement promotes No-To-Bac as a magnetic remedy to quit tobacco. It claims to make weak men strong and offers a free booklet and sample by mailing Sterling Remedy Co. in Chicago or New York.
Lord Charles Beresford cites deteriorating roads in China in a China story. An American resident in China responded that a mule drowned in a road outside his house, illustrating the road conditions.
An OCR fragment mixes patent medicine pitches with stray phrases and a note on Westminster Abbey. It cites Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Piso's Cure, with a 1894 Harrisburg address, and ends with an offhand observation about the abbey carrying 1 178 buried bodies.
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