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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1898
Page
6
A quaint dialogue on gratitude cites Mr Brainley and a judge. An ad touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for digestion and dyspepsia, alongside a claim about state spending on North Carolina’s senate employer and overpayment. Cascarets promise beauty via clean blood, with varied prices, and Cascade tobacco and a note on a folding bed.
Advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine to sharpen appetite purify blood and energize. Claims quick benefits and urges readers to start taking it today with druggists listed as sellers.
A statue of Deshnev the Cossack will be erected at Chabarovsk to honor his 1048 voyage by sea from Kolyma to Anadyr via Behring Strait proving Asia and America separate. Plans also rename East Cape to Cape Deshnew, likely drawing geographers’ objections. Aluminum adopted for French Army gear including canteen and mess bowls. 1894 trials and Madagascar campaign volumes noted. Aluminum price cited at 26 cents per pound.
Mrs Rang of Philadelphia writes of severe womb trouble and prolonged illness causing despair. After months of poor sleep and risk of mental collapse she tries Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and improves after the first dose, now claiming to be well and thanking the medicine. She notes Mrs Pinkham offers advice from Lynn Massachusetts and that letters are answered by women.
Hon. Hoke Smith inaugurates a program where business leaders address Atlanta schoolboys to stress industry and thrift. J. K. Orr argues service before self and practical arts in manufacturing as paths to success, citing Edison, Vanderbilt, and Peabody as exemplars and urging education as a multiplier for opportunity.
Karl Wagner recovered from St Vitus' dance after five boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. His father credits the pills with a permanent, complete cure and praises the medicine's blood and nerve restorative action. Sold 50 cents a box or six for $2.60 via druggists or mail from Schenectady New York.
A Boston Transcript note recalls Hans Anderson of Brooklyn who was shot in the head 45 years ago and last week coughed up a bullet, then hints at Spain offering to sell not Cuba but Porto Rico and the Philippines to France for about $1,000,000, suggesting Spanish honor has sometimes carried mercenary considerations.
A collage of old ad copy and brief notices includes Tet terine cures for itching with 80 cent prices, a 1500 year old Jerusalem mosaic found in Palestine, Cascarets for constipation, Dr Kline’s Great Pain cure, Taber’s Pepsin, Piso’s Cure for coughs, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, No-To-Bac tobacco cure, and a remark on the quietest, most dangerous man.
The decree sets September 6, 1898 as the coronation date for the Dutch queen. She will swear before the States General to uphold the fundamental law, defend the kingdom’s independence, protect liberty, and pursue prosperity with the laws as her due, pledging before God and herself.
A Kansas City crutch dealer claims steady sales with about ten pairs weekly and an annual total near 1500 for his firm. He notes several firms in the city handle crutches and estimates citywide annual sales around 5000 pairs. The report also notes Russia's silk industry consumes raw material valued at 7 500 000 yearly.
An old advertisement promotes Ne-To-Bac as a cure to quit tobacco with a guarantee and a free booklet. It targets “weak men” and claims strong life, with distribution through druggists and the Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York. The text also notes Greece has 152 newspapers.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease for painful feet and bunions, claiming instant relief and comfort in new shoes. It lists prices and stores, plus other remedies like Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer, Cascarete Candy Cathartic, and a general bowel education claim. The text includes multiple brand names, addresses, and trial offers.
A fragment shows Mrs. Gidding urging her husband Lester about his cough. He apologizes, saying it is the best option available, reflecting a domestic moment described in a Harper's Bazar volume.
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