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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1898
Page
4
The piece contrasts humane treatment of defeated Spaniards with a nostalgic chat about romance and neighborhood chatter. It touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for stomach and liver disorders, claiming its universal benefits and praise across nations. An Ute Indian clarinet discovery is noted as a new musical oddity with a sweeter tone than American orchestral instruments.
An advertisement touts a one day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if it fails. It also notes Bagdad district in Turkey as a source of fine wool used in worsted fabrics like braids and sweaters.
A report from the British Consul-General at St. Petersburg to the Foreign Office says timber supply fears may be overstated. In Archangel province Crown forests cover about 88 million acres and tree felling has barely begun. Virgin Petchora forests are opened for trade with new mills built at Archangel Pushlata and Kola on the Lapland coast expanding timber access.
English soldiers marching and billeted on publicans receive a breakfast allowance of three cents per man, outlining the wartime provision for troops and publican support.
A reader writes of four years of female troubles and reports a complete recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Sonative Wash and Liver Pills. She asks Mrs Pinkham to publish her letter to share the results.
In Chicago a four hour jubilee parade drew about 30 000 in uniform and civilian crowds despite cold rain. President McKinley reviewed the march with General Miles and others, followed by a grand banquet in the Auditorium where Clark Howell spoke on a reunited country after the war with Spain.
Colonel JohnS. Candler resigns the colonelcy of the Third Georgia regiment and will preside in the Stone Mountain circuit courts. The move was forwarded to Adjutant Tena Corbin on Saturday. He was appointed July 20 to lead the regiment with Lt Col Berner next in command and Major Robert E. Lee Spence third in command.
A Paris report states the Duchess of Devonshire, spouse of the British prime minister’s president, lost a satchel with jewelry valued at 150000 on a train to Calais. She alighted at Amiens and returned to report the loss to authorities. The fate of the satchel remains unclear.
Detroit resident Major A. D. Bishop a civil engineer with long ties to the city credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his strength after a hospital spell. He touts the pills as a safe tonic that rebuilds blood and brain, claiming many so-called incurable diseases have yielded to their potent vegetable ingredients.
Chicago druggist H B Leavitt answered a call to reach John Olson at 86 Hill Street. A second call sought confirmation Olson was at home. Olson and his wife found their flat ransacked with over $100 worth of silverware jewelry and clothing missing after the two conversations.
An aggregation of classified blurbs includes a money maker listing for Southern Manufacturing Co of Atlanta offering 25c. a shingle mill outfit for sale or trade. health ads for Cascarets and Hall’s Catarrh Cure. testimonials and patent medicine claims. various odds and ends about groceries, soap, and curiosities, all in a dilapidated OCR fragment.
In broad daylight two thieves abduct a farmer and his wife torturing the man for a hidden hoard. The wife reveals a chest. a thief is killed by a pistol shot from a neighborly woman. The recovered dead man is identified as the Attorney General. the accomplice is rumored to be the Criminal Court judge.
A son of Ireland painting a fence shows haste as a bystander asks why. He smiles then paints faster, saying he has little paint left and wants to finish before it runs out.
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