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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1897
Page
6
Assistant Treasurer Meline explains at the New Orleans Sub-Treasury that fumigating old bills protects clerks handling the currency. He notes risks from odor and disease, describes disinfection, and cites extreme cases where money found on murdered victims or recovered from stoves is brought in for redemption.
A reflective note from the Boston Globe praises the horse's enduring bond with humans. It highlights the animal’s varied usefulness and suggests horses will remain valued amid new technological forces.
A period advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe antidote to malaria and a remedy for dyspepsia constipation rheumatic liver and kidney troubles. It also notes Wheat and Corn as profitable markets and promotes Ony ugridge & Co. of Commerce Building Chile for market insights.
Montreal report says Thomas Nully aged 21, elder brother of three Nully siblings, confessed to fatally attacking his sisters Elizabeth Annie and two younger children after quarrel. He allegedly used a keen bladed ax to strike and kill each victim, then surrendered and was jailed in Joliet.
Fall River manufacturers signaled intent to adopt recommendations from a special Manufacturers' Association committee to improve the local cotton industry. A shutdown or wage cuts are expected, though some oppose a shutdown, arguing it may push over time work to mills in other states. A national labor-hours law is seen as the only lasting fix. Some committee members favor across the board wage cuts starting with the treasurer.
A San Francisco special reports eight whaling ships trapped in ice at Point Barrow with nearly 200 souls on board. Coastal merchants, sailors, and families fear for the crews. San Francisco Chamber of Commerce trustees plan an urgent meeting to draft a telegram to the President urging a relief expedition at once.
Georgia received a gold medal for its agricultural display at the Tennessee Centennial. The governor was notified by exposition authorities and an order to a Nashville jeweler was issued for the medal, to be paid at a price between 150 and 185 dollars. Georgia can obtain a medal at the price it is willing to pay.
Augusta Nack, co defendant with Martin Thorn, testified as state's witness in the Thorn murder trial at Long Island City recounting the June 25 killing of William Gulden Suppé. She described Thorn firing, dismembering the body, and disposing of bundles including the head, which he later discarded overboard after ferry crossings.
In Columbia South Carolina State Constable W H Newbold shot Baptist preacher J H Turner in Cedar Grove parish as Turner was driving to Spartanburg. Turner a county businessman and Good Roads delegate died from a bullet to the jugular vein. Newbold fled town with his lawyer reporting dual pistol discharge as accidental. Governor Ellerbe lamented the incident.
A collage of aphorisms from Dryden Sterne Shakespeare Paley Fielding Johnson Tilotson Hannah More Jerrold Ninon de l Enclos Rossean and others. The selections urge bravery wisdom patience grace and inner stillness, noting how will and self are tempered by God and discernment.
In Brussels lives Mme Henrietta Ronner, famed animal painter known for cat portraits. Daughter of Joseph Augustus Knip, she first gained notice with A Cat in the Window and The Friend of Man, then specialized in cats using posed models brought to her studio.
A Columbus dispatch notes Wood County shifts from doubtful to Republican on the next general assembly outlook. Chairman Nash doubts a Democrat appeal, cites a plain law, and mentions possible injunction talk that was not confirmed. If unchanged, Republicans gain a five vote majority on joint ballot.
Postmaster general issues a fraud order against John Wedderburn and his companies including the National Recorder and National Recorder Publishing of Washington city. The action follows charges by patent attorneys in Washington and other cities alleging fraudulent activities.
Albany dispatch reports the third department appellate division upholding Judge Chester by vacating an order that would have required the coal trust president to appear before a referee. The constitutional question was not settled beyond Judge Landon’s dissent.
A laundress pierced by a broken needle in the hand avoided surgery using a feeble electro magnet. After two months she lost hand function and endured pain. magnet applications gradually drew the needle to a fleshy area and finally expelled it without pain or bleeding.
The German Post-Office Department plans to test automatic stamp selling machines after their display at the Berlin Industrial Exhibition. Machines will be placed at busy points and dispense stamps when the correct coin is deposited.
A medical advertisement warns of ovarian illness signs and urges early treatment with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Personal testimony from Mrs. B. L. Mrens of Quanake Pa credits relief from severe ovarian pain after using the remedy, with free advice offered by Mrs. Pinkham.
The piece outlines ideal serving temperatures for foods and beverages. It notes infants should receive milk at blood heat, drinks to quench thirst around 50 to 70 degrees, water at 55, beer no cooler than 60, red wine 65, white wine 50, champagne not below 45, and coffee or tea between 105 and 120 degrees. Milk is cold at 60 degrees for best aroma.
The text notes growing use of cash payments to experts in trials such as Barbieri in New York, with $7,250 paid to three experts and speculation that city-wide expert fees could fund permanent staffing. It also includes assorted advertisements for Tetterine eczema remedy and Hall's Catarrh Cure, touting cures and urging readers to procure them.
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