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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1897
Page
4
English towns adopt glass water pipes coated with asphaltum. Officials claim they are most sanitary and, though initial cost may exceed iron and lead, proper installation ensures century durability and long term economy.
Peevish, querulous people grow nervous. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters claimed to calm nerves by improving digestion. The ad promises relief from dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation and rheumatism, plus a suggestion of a light prebed drink of hot milk and peanuts.
A live Southern insurance company seeks a life insurance agent in every county. Four years in business, six policy forms, life and accident coverage with strong commissions. Write for details at 707 709 711 Equitable Building, Atlanta, Ga. Also an ad for EE-M Medicated Smoking Tobacco and Cigarettes sold by mail in Atlanta, Ga. No opium. 18c per tobacco pack and 6c per cigarette pack.
An 1890s style ad contrasts good health with pure nourishing blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as superior medicine for nerves digestion sleep and skin ailments. Short exchange jokes and social club scene wrap the piece with a New York Weekly flavor and a Detroit Free Press quip on justice.
The Mobile Board of Health reports three new yellow fever cases amid rising alarm. Jackson Mississippi reports about half the population fled Edwards and surrounding areas while New Orleans lists twenty six cases under investigation and four confirmed yellow fever cases.
In Oswego Tennessee a group of eight United States marshals guarding Standard Coal and Coke Company property faced a hostile non union miner mob. The marshals fired from a blacksmith shop after the crowd refused to halt, and the miners returned fire with winchesters amid the Jellico mining district confrontation.
The schooner Agnes I. Grace, sunk August 6 with four sixteen ton guns for Tybee fortifications, was found Tuesday twenty miles southeast of Tybee sea buoy by the tug William F. McCauley. The wreck shifted about 1} miles from the buoyed position by the US buoy tender Wistaria. deck sounding found guns not aboard, likely lost at sinking. The Grace is fast breaking up.
The No 1 mill at the Eagle and Phenix plant in Columbus Georgia begins round the clock operation. All departments now run day and night after Tuesday night inauguration with a full force. The schedule will continue for some time and may become permanent.
In an interview on Saturday President Gompers of the AFL denounces the Hazelton killings as a crime against constitutional rights. He condemns mine operators for using courts to enact repression and accuses Sheriff Martin of stoking xenophobic rhetoric to justify the shootings. He asserts miners deserve support in their labor struggle.
In Macon Georgia Charley Gibson a black ex convict died after a mob swung him to a tree limb while dying from a lung wound. He had just confessed to assaulting Miss Chapman and Mrs Couch and to killing Jim Smith during a shootout with pursuing officers.
The New Orleans board of health reports six suspected fever cases on St Claude Street as yellow fever. A later announcement adds a new confirmed case at Mirro and Esplanade Streets in the lower city. Officials caution no major change in the overall situation and maintain confidence in quarantines with sanitary measures.
A Washington dispatch reports Adjutant General General Roger Ruggles retired on account of age. Colonel Samuel Breck is promoted to brigadier general and named adjutant general of the army.
The steamer Humboldt arrived in Seattle from St. Michaels with fourteen passengers and about $15,000 in gold. Reports from Yukon returnees warn of privation and famine this winter, predicting sickness starvation and death on the interior as gold rush wealth continues to draw away food.
A Macon special reports the case against the Southern railway by Macon merchants postponed from October to an unspecified date in November. Senator Edmunds is involved with the Supreme Court and Judge Speer has informed counsels accordingly.
The interstate miners convention at Columbus, Ohio, voted 495 to 817 to accept Pittsburgh operators terms. A 65 cent advance in the Pittsburg district is offered, with funds to help nonreceiving miners and a ten day resumption window. Illinois delegates denounced the action and a resolution denouncing the Hazelton shooting was adopted.
Morgan county grand jury probes Henry R. Dickerson of Rutledge in a case described as one of Georgia s most sensational. He is accused of enslaving tramps and forcing them to toil on his farm in a secret convict camp with harsh treatment, including confinement and Sunday labor, allegedly claiming government authority.
From Van Buren Arkansas a freight wreck on the Iron Mountain road near Hanson Illinois left seven men dead and six others badly hurt two of whom may die. The wreck occurred at 2 o clock Sunday when a car coupler failed causing fifteen cars to derail. A car in the middle carried thirteen men riding for hire, resulting in seven fatalities and six critical injuries. Trainmen escaped injury.
Denver report says conductor Frank Burbank and engineer Ostrander faced coroner's jury for the wreck near Newcastle siding. The panel found they tried to meet the dispatcher’s time, with Burbank released on recognizance after verdict. Ostrander is deceased.
Spanish government orders military authorities to take action against officers criticizing Captain General Weyler unless they are senators or deputies. The measure aims to curb outspoken censures of Weyler's Cuba campaign management.
A humorous exchange about husbands contrasts activity and idleness. One speaker notes her husband is very active only with her help, while the other offers a sharper contrast by mentioning husbands who barely sleep to rise again. The wry dialogue captures domestic humor of the period.
A 19th century notice claims Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cures female diseases. It argues women conceal symptoms from doctors and praises Pinkham for expert advice gathered from women, asserting over one hundred thousand testimonials of success last year.
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