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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1900
Page
4
A 4200 ton displacement steamship was built and launched at Lake Baikal stage. The vessel was ferried by steamer and finally transferred to railway transport for completion and service. About 6000 men from St. Petersburg contributed to the project.
A new English invention enables steering any craft underwater or on the surface using ether wave wireless telegraph principles. In naval warfare it promises to make torpedo boats highly reliable. The claim likens its effectiveness to Fosters Bitters curing numerous ailments. The administrator says D L Moody’s estate largely comprises his library.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for half-sick feelings and low energy. It claims poor blood causes tiredness and touts the tonic as unique in its effectiveness, citing a Fall River Massachusetts user with improvements in fatigue and headaches.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent from Rivage de Questidhou describes an octopus invasion along the Cherbourg promontory. The coast is littered with cephalopods destroying shellfish beds, with large individuals reported and fears that cold weather may end bathing next summer.
Report discusses using the disused Themes subway under London as a mushroom growing site. It notes a medical authority warns influenza greatly weakens nerves, reducing national nerve energy by about twenty percent. Additional items cover a French naturalist's microbes from flowers and a German electrically powered mountain rope railway.
A shoe-string faker confesses to considering burglary after a string of small profits. An old lady offers five dollars to refrain for a fortnight, then plans to leave for California with her daughter, prompting reflections on crime and choice.
A Yorkshire clergyman asks a groom for payment after a wedding but accepts a gift later. The groom sends a greyhound pup as thanks, noting Marie proved such a treasure. Separately, North Carolina’s penitentiary remained self supporting and repaid $50,000 borrowed last year.
Pleger notes superstition linked nail shapes to character. Red and spotted nails signaled hot temper while pale nails suggested melancholy. Narrow nails indicated ambition and quarrelsomeness, round nails marked lovers of knowledge, and broad nails fitted gentle, retiring types.
A fragment discusses Lord Kitchener preferring bachelors for positions of authority and suggests matrimony he believes hinders business. The piece cites his bachelor status in Cairo conversation and notes his lack of appeal to ladies, ending with an advertisement for Puram Fapatzis Drs colors.
Mrs Muggs replies she does not miss her husband, joking that her parrot swears and a chewing monkey keep her company, making loneliness almost a memory.
The ad promotes Cascarets as a blood purifier and liver cleanser to improve the complexion. It claims the product cleanses pimples boils blotches and blackheads and that it is available from all druggists with a satisfaction guarantee. Prices shown include 10 and 60 cents.
A scattered collection notes ballooning trends in air clarity affecting travel, a quack cure claiming no cure no pay, a Rome Easter archaeological congress under church authority, patent cures for fever and constipation, mining growth in Canada especially Nova Scotia, deafness blamed on mucous issues with a patent cure offered, catarrh claims and a Cherbourg plague of octopi affecting coast activity and fishermen.
The fragment mentions a patent medicine warning about kidney cures and claims a product by E. W. Grove with refund guarantees. It also references a proposed Cuba-Canton railroad funded by American capital and a wedding notice for Rev. Dr. W. B. Riant of Plainfield New Jersey with a parishioner contribution.
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