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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
6
A postman witnessed a volcanic eruption under a southeastern Iceland glacier last summer. Subterranean fire burst through the ice, hurling massive ice blocks into the air and sending floods across the plain, delaying travel for ten days as ice floes clogged the area.
The text explains seal skin differences, noting the ordinary seal lacks the fine wooly under fur of fur seals. It describes shaving the upper fur and pulling the long hairs from the lower surface to remove them, a process in which roots are cut so brushing is easier.
An1880s style ad section promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills, with legal notarization statements from Frank J. Cheney of Toledo pledging payment for cures. Other items tout Hall’s remedies, Stomach Bitters, and EE-M Medicated Smoking Tobacco as cures and preventive tonics.
The Temple Garden flower show showcases a rare Seagull Orchid from Mr. Sander of St Albans. A Cattleya Respeckiana with white wings and gold vermilion body, eight inches across, valued at 1000 guineas, recalls Arnold’s perilous orchid hunts and a tale of rival collectors. A Jerusalem-like voyage narrative highlights dangers of orchid seeking and a zoologist Corrects ostrich running myths.
The London Daily Chronicle questions the Cuban death of W Hughes a Black and White correspondent alleging maltreatment by Spanish guerrillas. Hughes found dead in Havana after roaming the streets starved and robbed. report cites failed aid from Spanish officers and notes his prior war reporting in Africa and Sudan.
George M. Pullman palace car magnate dies at age sixty six in Chicago after a week of heat worsened angina pectoris. He led a model town project at Pullman Illinois and held about one fifth of the Pullman Palace Car Company stock.
Washington mourns Admiral John L. Worden, commander of the Monitor during the Hampton Roads engagement with the Merrimac. Retired in 1886 with full admiral rank and pay, he received congressional thanks for his gallantry. Pneumonia caused his death at age eighty after a period of good health.
The Treasury Department notes Tuesday's customs receipts at 681,428 dollars, far surpassing any prior day since the new tariff act. This marks an 318,300 dollar increase, about 85 percent, year over year.
The Tradesman list highlights major new ventures across the South including brick works in Palatka Florida Union Compress Co capital 24000 Augusta Georgia a $120000 flouring mill at Atlanta Georgia Cyclone Air Power Co capital 500000 Alexandria Virginia irrigation firm Green & Strengele capital 40000 Beaumont Texas Calhoun Automatic Scale Co capital 50000 Charleston South Carolina Phoenix Cotton Oil Co capital 50000 Phoenix Arkansas electric power plant at New Orleans Louisiana a 7500 spindle cotton mill at Fort Smith Arkansas a cordage factory at Paducah Kentucky Reynolds Tobacco Co capital 60000 Bristol Tennessee J B Pace Tobacco Co capital 100000 Richmond Virginia Apalachicola Lumber Co capital 50000 Apalachicola Florida Kidder Lumber Co capital 50000 Wilmington North Carolina Cameron Lumber Co capital 10000 Point Washington Florida a 100000 planing mill at Nashville Tennessee a 5000 lumber mill at Ellzey Florida a 18000 mill at Columbus Georgia and plants at Prairie Grove Arkansas Fitzgerald Georgia and Hamilton North Carolina water works costing 200000 at Augusta Georgia with further plants at Hazlehurst Mississippi Lumberton North Carolina and Canadian Texas.
Advices from London say the United States monetary commissioners have no official word on the British cabinet action last Saturday. Private reports, however, suggest the cabinet dealt the death blow to the mission and will inform the commissioners that Britain cannot accept their proposals. If confirmed, the commissioners will likely return home and conclude no further bimetallism efforts for years. They blame bankers and The London Times for the setback, noting early signs had pointed to cooperation.
Dr Guelph Norman from Burmah arrives in America to treat Charles Broadway Rouss, a blind millionaire of New York. After a week of treatment the patient reports some vision though remains skeptical. Norman seeks to prove his reputation as the Great Physician by restoring sight.
William Jennings Bryan denied any expressed opinion or preference regarding the New York mayoralty race. In a cable to the Associated Press from Norfolk Nebraska he stated he has not expressed any opinion and does not care to express an opinion on the campaign.
Washington report says the cabinet spent hours debating civil service reforms and how to implement the president's order. Departments will draft regulations tailored to their needs but align with Treasury’s established framework.
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 business of great importance is expected.
A letter recounts Mrs Lyness of Rochester New York escaping a feared hospital operation after miscarriage and overwork. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and halting the need for surgery.
Excerpt from Sir John Drum mond Hay memoirs describing a diplomatic visit to Kaid Ben Tahir. Hay upstages the local ruler by forcing him to sit, rebukes the guards, and ensures a formal audience with the sultan in a scene of comic cultural clash. The kaid apologizes and the two figures end by sharing the divan.
Report describes a summer roman horse race run without riders. Horses are started by a gun and wear spiked balls on cords that swing and act as improvised spurs.
A sharp editorial aside recalls a scene of tears and a sneering villain recalling his earlier days of dramatic mischief as leading figures were bathed in champagne milk tea and other liquids.
An advertisement claims digging into skin will worsen, then touts Tettering as the sole remedy. It stresses soothing, germ killing treatment, selling at 50 cents a box or by mail from J T Shuptrine in Savannah, Georgia.
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