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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
4
A glacier volcano in southeastern Iceland erupted last summer after subterranean fire found an outlet. A postman witnessed ice blocks hurled into the air and torrents of water as enormous ice floes filled the plain, delaying him ten days.
The article explains differences between ordinary seal skins and fur seals, noting the under fur that constitutes commercial sealskin. It describes shaving the upper fur, and the practice of pulling where long hairs are deeply implanted and their roots cut so they brush out.
A 1888 Toledo advertisement and testimonial flood promoted Hall’s Catarrh Cure promising cures for catarrh and related ailments. It includes a sworn claim of payment for uncured cases and mentions Hall’s Family Pills, plus a separate piece touting EE M Medicated Smoking Tobacco and cigarettes as remedies and mail order offers.
The Temple Garden flower show opens with an extraordinary orchid from Mr Sander of St Albans. The Cattleya Respeckiana features seagull white wings and a gold vermilion body, eight inches across, valued at 1000 guineas.
Conwright Schreiner, an ostrich farmer for nine years, challenges the belief that running ostriches skim with wings. He explains that during speed, the head stays low and forward with a looping neck while the neck vibrates. wings lie along the body and are not used for lift or balance.
The London Daily Chronicle warns Spain may face pressure if the reports are true that W Hughes, correspondent for Black and White, was assaulted and starved to death in Havana after being robbed by Spanish guerrillas. He had earlier traveled with a Cuban pass and sought help from the military commander.
George M. Pullman palace car magnate died at his Chicago residence at 5 a.m. Tuesday after a summer of angina pectoris. He was 65, had mapped a model town for his workers near Lake Calumet, and owned about one fifth of the Pullman Palace Car Company stock.
Washington obituary: Admiral John L Worden, who led the Monitor in the Hampton Roads engagement with the Merrimac, dies of pneumonia at eighty. Retired in 1886 with full admiral rank and pay, he earned Congress’ thanks for gallantry in the war.
The Treasury Department announced that Tuesday’s customs receipts totaled 681,423 dollars, the largest single day in the department’s history under the new tariff act. This is about 85 percent higher than the same day last year, a gain of 318,300 dollars.
The Tradesman notes numerous ventures including brick works in Palatka Florida Union Compress Co capital 24000 Augusta Georgia a 120000 flouring mill in Atlanta Georgia Cyclone Air Power Co capital 500000 Alexandria Virginia and irrigation and scale companies in multiple cities along with tobacco and lumber ventures in Tennessee Virginia Florida North Carolina Arkansas and Texas. A water works project costs 200000 at Augusta and additional wood plants and mills emerge in several towns.
London advices say US monetary commissioners received no official word on Saturday's cabinet action. Private reports claim Britain has ruled out their plan and will not pursue a new proposal. If true, commissioners may return home, ending efforts for years amid banker and Times opposition.
Dr Guelph Norman from India has treated blind New Yorker Charles Broadway Rouss for over a week. Rouss says he can see a little though remains skeptical. Normans claim faces skepticism from the medical fraternity and has yet to prove lasting results.
William Jennings Bryan stated via telegram from Norfolk Neb on October 18 that he has not expressed any opinion about the Greater New York mayoralty race and does not wish to express one, countering reports that his views favored the George ticket.
A Washington special reports the cabinet spent extensive time discussing civil service and how to implement the president's order. Departments will draft their own regulations mirroring Treasury guidelines to carry out the directive.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church began in Baltimore on Wednesday morning and will run for a week. About two hundred delegates from every state attend as significant business is expected.
A column warns women of neglecting early symptoms and cites Mrs Lyness of Rochester New York who avoided an operation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The piece urges seeking care early and credits the remedy with restoring health and vitality.
In this excerpt from Memoirs of Sir John Drummond Hay the envoy confronts Kaid Ben Tahir for not offering a chair and for keeping the divan to himself. The confrontation ends with the kaid apologizing and both men sharing the divan.
In Rome during the summer, horse racing with no jockeys unfolds as horses are started by a gun fired behind them. They wear small spiked balls on cords that swing around their bodies serving as spurs.
An editorial fragment contrasts theatrical tears with real suffering and cites a medical remedy. It promotes Tetterine as a topical treatment for skin irritation and claims eight cent postage from J T Shuptrine of Savannah Georgia.
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