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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1898
Page
6
A dialogue fragment shows Blinks and Jinks discussing lodging on a farm for eight dollars a week and Jinks describing hunger. The piece includes a comic merchant exchange about riding with Gambriel and Snaffle, noting a rider’s ease in the saddle and a horse’s movement.
The Temple of Serpents Dahorhey is famed for a long building where priests house over a thousand serpents of various sizes. They feed the snakes with birds and frogs offered by the local people.
Mrs. W. E. Paxton of Youngtown North Dakota shares her experience with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after a difficult birth She reports relief from leucorrhea bearing down pain headaches and dizziness after using three bottles She praises the medicine and urges other women to consider it Mrs Pinkham offers guidance for expectant mothers with address at Lynn Massachusetts.
Secretary Alger denounced American press and critics in a Jacksonville address. He defended war management, praised army speed and victories, and pledged not to apologize, while inspecting Seventh Corps camps and hospitals with General Lee present.
About 100 delegates from the Chicago platform Democrats met in executive session in Troy and adopted an ultimatum. They demand that reaffirmation of the Chicago platform be embodied in the Syracuse convention’s platform.
Dedham Massachusetts reports the death of Thomas F. Bayard at 4 30 pm on Wednesday at Karlstein the summer home of his daughter Mrs Samuel D Warren after a six week illness of arterio colorosi and general decline in old age. Surrounded by family he died peacefully with wife and children present and the funeral planned for Wilmington Delaware at the Swedish church.
Lucy Lee Hill, a Chicago civil service examiner, is named the new Daughter of the Confederacy after Miss Winnie Davis's death. A Virginia native with southern aristocratic roots, Hill recalls kinship to General A P Hill and relation to Jefferson Davis. She moved to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair and has since worked in the civil service office.
Paris reports the house and furniture of Emile Zola to be sold to satisfy a 30,000 franc judgment against him by three handwriting experts who recently won a libel suit tied to the Dreyfus affair. The experts declined Octave Mirabeau's offer to cover the amount. The justice minister may order leniency in Dreyfus imprisonment pending cassation.
Dispatch from Camp Meade reports Major General Graham retires from the U S regular service as a brigadier general on his 64th birthday. He will continue commands in the volunteer service. Staff members presented a silver loving cup inscribed to honor the occasion.
James J. Corbett and Kid McCoy met in the Gilsey House hotel corridor in New York on Wednesday afternoon and clashed over talk of a match. The dispute escalated with McCoy kicking Corbett in the groin before friends intervened to separate the men.
John Young of Le Ruy Nebraska fell from a 22 foot scaffold while weather boarding a barn. He suffered paralysis like sickness but recovered after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The Herald notes his health restoration and recommends the pills for various nerve and blood problems.
The line depicts a sympathetic maiden asking Jimmie if he has been fighting and him replying he has been fought, in a London Judy setting.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a ten cent beauty aid to cleanse blood and liver, promising banishment of pimples boils blotches and a bilious complexion. Also promoted as a guaranteed Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for cures not achieved and various tobacco and medicine pitches.
A collection of light quotes from Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Post and Brooklyn Life. Jabs about corn booze soap tax assessors and parental discipline appear in a humorous dialogue. Each item reflects period newspaper tone and witty sharpness.
Advertising copy touts NoTo Bao as a wonder-worker to stop tobacco spitting and smoking. It claims a cure guaranteed with a booklet and free sample, urging readers to contact Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York.
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