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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1897
Page
4
Guide to washing embroidered linens without fading colors using a tub of warm water Ivory Soap suds rinse in blue water thin starch and shade drying. Iron on the wrong side with firm pressing to restore stitches and original beauty. Exrza B Pasxen
A dialogue compares value and advertising in magazines priced ten cents. The exchange shows contrasting views on why readers pay for periodicals. An inserted note promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for seasickness and various ailments.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube and catarrh. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure and invites readers to request free circulars from F. J. Cuengy & Co of Toledo.
An advertisement asserts EE-M Medicated Smoking Tobacco and EE-M Cigarettes are remedies for catarrh hay fever asthma and colds with a pleasant smoke. It invites orders by mail from Atlanta Georgia and notes use by reputable citizens. Also promoted are Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and Piso's Cure for Consumption with testimonials.
An advertisement extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a tonic for tired mothers and pale children, claiming blood purification and nerve strength. The piece mentions Hood’s Pills and Gam, vaccination implications for Norway voters, a 400 year Greenland whale claim, hereditary short sightedness, a Portland streetcar receipt habit, and deepest Australian mines Medala and Jansells with depths.
The Chicago Journal recalls humor about Grabber's estate, noting it was worth around one and a half million and implying the famed magnate had only one family despite rumors.
A Washington dispatch to the New York Herald reports Associate Justice Stephen J. Field has filed formal application to President McKinley to retire under the seventy year age rule. Attorney General Joseph McKenna is to be nominated to succeed him on December 6 when Congress convenes. Field, aged eighty one, surpassed Chief Justice Marshall as the longest serving member after August 16.
The examination in chief of Mrs. Atkinson wife of West Virginia Governor Camden who faces forgery charges continued in Glenville Virginia. She described her marriage in 1883 and her clerical role writing letters receipts and signing with authority. She denied signing after Judge Camden’s death and said pre death signatures were with his consent. The trial has run about ten hours daily.
Washington reports the resignation letter of Associate Justice Samuel Field, effective December 1 1897, accepted by the president. Field notes a forty year judicial life and ranks among the longest serving justices, praising his tenure and accuracy in court decisions.
The South Carolina and Georgia railroad will build a through line from Augusta to Thomasville via Sandersville Dublin Hawkinsville Cordele Albany and connections with the Oconee and Western and the Albany and Northern. It has leased Augusta Southern for 99 years and contracted portions of the project to be rapidly completed.
A Thursday fire in Durham North Carolina destroyed seven tobacco warehouses and eight cottages causing about 400000 dollars in damage with 200000 dollars insured. It was the worst blaze since 1885. Three American Tobacco Company buildings were gutted and the firm stored roughly 2.5 million pounds of tobacco in three houses. W T Carrington reported about 500000 pounds of tobacco and 20000 dollars in insurance.
At a Paris cabinet meeting on Thursday President Faure signed commissions naming M. Jules Patenotre to be ambassador to Madrid and M. Jules Cambon to be ambassador to Washington.
From Selma Alabama comes a report of a feud near Richmond in a southern county where West Ethridge is accused of killing Allie Coleman. Barrett Duckworth Shelley Sumner and Frank Banks are among those slain in a chain of retaliations. No arrests have been made as raids continue.
A disaster at the Central Sugar factory in Cambria near Lille France leaves fourteen men buried by a falling boiling vat. Two injured men have died and more fatalities are feared as rescuers work through the debris.
St Johns reports the schooner Bloodhound totally wrecked near Cape Pine on the Avalon peninsula. Seven crewmen are confirmed dead.
A heavy snowstorm began Thursday afternoon and lasted through the night sweeping southeastern Idaho. It threatens heavy damage to grain and lucerne still in the fields.
The man seeking an appointment confesses envy at a schoolboy's simple routine. He denies longing for youth pastimes, but wishes to pass a civil service exam as well as the boy. The remark highlights competitive spirits and aspirations within a formal setting.
At Madrid the Spanish cabinet council decided to pardon all Cuban exiles not covered by previous amnesty. It also suspended the September 12 decree on reforms in the Philippine islands and ordered vigorous suppression of political associations and the blood societies secret pact.
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