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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1899
Page
4
A Paris chamber debate features a sharp exchange between two deputies. One accuses the other of forgery and swindling, prompting a retort that insults on the floor reflect differing convictions rather than personal accusations. The exchange is cited in Le Petit Journal.
A brief notice discusses lawmakers in Albany wrangling over abolishing the death penalty and hints at the political stakes for reform. The fragment includes ads for patent medicines and cautionary notes about temperance, with Law and health topics interwoven.
Georgia marked its role in the Chickamauga battles with a grand unveiling at Chickamauga Park. Governor Candler and dignitaries attended as Miss Myrtle Everett pulled the flag cord. Major Black and General H V Boynton delivered remarks praising the state’s monument.
Major Thomas, head of the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, commented on Atlanta council’s decision to hear no railroad representatives. He said the city must act and that the railroad was ready to propose in good faith, noting, if Atlanta is content, the matter rests there.
A war department cablegram from Manila dated May 2 reports Lieutenant Gilmore and seven Navy sailors from Yorktown, plus six Army enlisted men, as well and safe. Three Army men were wrongfully arrested before hostilities began. Two men in insurgent hands and Captain Rockefeller remain unaccounted for.
The College of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South met in Nashville Tennessee on Wednesday and adopted plans for Episcopal visitations. The Tennessee conference is set for Columbia on October 18 with Bishop Galloway presiding. The Memphis conference will convene in Brownsville on November 15 with Bishop Fitzgerald presiding.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer clipping describes a boy involved in a poisoned candy scare. The sister received a five pound candy box anonymously as a reminder. The boy faced medical care for a week after the incident.
A Tit-Bits humor item portrays a teacher asking about life when a man’s temperature reaches the bottom. The smart scholar replies with a pun about him having cold feet, delivering a light classroom quip in period style.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure corns bunions swelling sore hot callous aching sweating feet and ingrowing nails. It claims it makes new or tight shoes easy and offers a free sample by mail Adr's Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy NY. It closes with a humorous line about love in a cottage as a labor union.
An old advertisement promotes No-To-Bac as a tonic to quit tobacco with a money back guarantee and free booklet from Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York. It also touts Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething infants, claiming gum inflammation relief and wind colic cure for a 5c bottle.
Watts argues there is no moral difference between a prize fight and war between nations. Potts counters that a key difference is the unfairness of finishing a fight by kicking a fallen opponent. Indianapolis Journal.
A playful exchange quotes a boy Billvillian warning of a large rattlesnake beneath the bed and his mother’s calm insistence to leave it be to avoid alarm and trouble, reflecting a rural humorous scene from the Atlanta Constitution.
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