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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
1
The First Parish of Rocester now part of Boston unveils a restored arch in dedication rites. The old bell, recast and hung in its historic position, tolled for 145 years from church to town events and Civil War mobilizations.
A girl with poor vision glances into a store window and asks her companion what she sees. She jokes about whether the display shows constrictors or bicycle stockings, highlighting a moment of humorous confusion in a Washington Star item.
A jumble of testimonials and ads extols various patent medicines and tonics. Claims promise relief for constipation biliousness kidney and nervous complaints along with cures for skin and scalp conditions. Includes references to Dr Kline Great Restorer Piso s Cure and Winslow s Soothing Syrup with price notes and distributor names.
An anxious New Yorker shares how Hood's Sarsaparilla revived strength and appetite after a long illness. He was confined to bed most of the time, slept poorly, and felt run down, but soon recovered energy and health.
Mrs. Laminda Fisk of Brookfield New York 76 was near death from neuralgia and heart failure when her husband bought Dr Williams Pink Pills. She reports rapid relief within weeks and full recovery enabling her to work again. The letter urges others to try the remedy and notes pills are sold in boxes at 50 cents each or six for 2.60.
A reflective quip from the Chicago Journal notes that assuming another’s burden is simple only if one considers how they share the trial. The saying warns against quick judgment.
The article notes sewing machines once cost sixty dollars in the United States but under twenty dollars abroad, with prices dropping after patent runs. It claims manufacturers earned hundreds of percent profit and argues similar margins exist for typewriters, while questioning if any other machines offer such gains except perhaps the bicycle.
A Chicago Post item questions why a gas front is placed at the savings bank facade. The note implies the move serves to display the president’s typewriter and suggests a symbolic, perhaps critical, rationale behind the decorative influence.
Poem excerpt by Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges cheerful resilience. It counsels smiling amid misfortune and fatigue to ease the burden of life and uplift others, reflecting on the power of a bright demeanor in hardship.
Dick Hatherly, a young painter, and Letty Lorimer navigate studio life and romance amid creative pressure. Letty reveals Captain Cecil Vere Grierson’s India return, stirring tension as Hatherly improvises a plan for Letty’s future while debating his own work and feelings. The scene switches to a confrontation at the Dowager Lorimer mansion where Grierson announces Letty’s engagement news amid celebratory chatter.
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