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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1897
Page
6
English towns introduce glass water pipes coated with asphaltum noted as highly sanitary. Although initial cost may exceed iron and lead, proper installation and protection could render them centuries durable and economical in the long run.
Peevish people are described as bundles of nerves and easily agitated. The text claims Hostester's Stomach Biers can calm nerves by improving digestion and assimilation of food. It asserts dyspepsia biliousness constipation and rheumatism respond to the bitters. A nightly hot milk and peanuts luncheon is recommended.
A Southern insurance company with four years of operation seeks live agents in every county. Six policy forms combine life and accident coverage with attractive commissions. No trouble to sell. For information write 707 709 711 Equitable Building Atlanta Ga.
A prose style advertisement touts EE M medicated smoking tobacco and cigarettes as remedies for catarrh hay fever asthma and colds. It claims a pleasant smoke for both men and women with no opium or harmful drugs and notes use by prominent citizens.
An 19th century health ad touts Hood s Sarsaparilla as a purifier of blood to strengthen nerves digestion and sleep and boost vitality. The piece pairs with a humorous dialogue about social schedules and a joke on flypaper from Detroit Free Press.
The Mobile board of health reports three new yellow fever cases and residents flee for safety as trains fill and authorities investigate spread. In Jackson Mississippi rumors drive mass exodus while New Orleans records twenty six cases with four definite yellow fever infections near the French Market.
A Tuesday night encounter in Oswego Tennessee pits eight United States marshals guarding Standard Coal and Coke Company property against striking non union miners. The marshals fire from a blacksmith shop as miners fire back with winchesters, driving the mob from the company store.
The schooner Agnes S Grace sunk August 6 with four sixteen ton guns for Tybee fortifications on board. It was found Tuesday twenty miles southeast of Tybee sea buoy by the tug William F McCauley, moving about a mile from the buoyed position by the Wistaria. The deck was sounded for the guns but they were not on board, likely rolling overboard in the sinking. The Grace is rapidly breaking up.
No. 1 mill at the Eagle and Phenix mill in Columbus Georgia now runs day and night with a full force. The all night schedule began Tuesday night and all departments are operating on a 24 hour basis. The arrangement will continue for some time and may become permanent.
In a Saturday interview AFL President Gompers denounces the Hazelton killings as brutal murder. He says miners marching on public highways had rights equal to officials and attacks the mine operators for abusing courts to violate constitutional rights. He rejects Sheriff Martins foreigner claim and praises the miners’ humane, heroic struggle.
Special from Macon Georgia reports Charley Gibson a negro ex convict was hanged from a tree by a mob near the city Sunday as he died from a lung wound. He confessed to assaulting Miss Chapman and Mrs Couch while resisting arrest for murder. Officers killed him in a hand to hand fight after he shot Jim Smith during the escape.
A New Orleans board of health declares six cases on St Claude street as yellow fever and later confirms another case at Mirro and Esplanade streets. Officials expect bilious malaria in some cases but foresee no major alarm and assert confidence in quarantining the infected district with modern sanitary measures.
A Washington dispatch reports Adjutant General General Ruggles retired on grounds of age. Colonel Samuel Breck was 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 15000 dollars in gold. Reports from the Yukon gold hunters warn of privation sickness and starvation this winter due to a growing food shortage in the interior, stating that few aboard the Humboldt had money.
Macon merchants sue Southern railway over combination. hearing postponed from October to November. Senator Edmunds reportedly employed in the Supreme Court when set. Judge Speer notified counsel of the change.
The interstate miners convention at Columbus Ohio ended a four day session by approving a settlement with Pittsburgh operators. Illinois delegates opposed while Indiana and West Virginia backed the plan which sets 65 cents in the Pittsburgh district and funds for nonreceiving miners. Ten days to resume work. some Ohio and Pittsburgh mines may reopen immediately. A resolution denounces deputies firing on striking miners at Haselton Pa.
Morgan county grand jury probes alleged abuses by Henry Dickerson of Rutledge. The farmer allegedly enslaved and punished tramps and others, running a convict camp with horror akin to lawless oppression. Victims were imprisoned, forced to work on Sundays, and kept under guard at night.
A freight wreck on the Iron Mountain road near Hanson I T about 20 miles west of Van Buren Ark results in seven deaths and six serious injuries among thirteen tramp riders hidden in a car of heavy machinery. Trainmen escape harm and the wreck involved fifteen cars after a wheel failure at 2 o clock Sunday.
Denver report states conductor Frank Burbank and engineer Ostrander, now deceased, are found by the coroner's jury to be responsible for the severe Thursday night wreck. The inquest held Saturday concluded they rushed to Newcastle siding against dispatcher orders. the engineer was released on own recognizance after verdict.
The Spanish government will instruct military authorities to prosecute officers who criticize Captain General Weyler unless they are senators or deputies. The move targets censure of Weyler's conduct in the campaign in Cuba, aiming to curb public denouncement.
A humorous exchange about a husband’s activity level. The wife jokes that without her, he would not rise in time, contrasting his supposed vigor with the idea of other husbands who scarcely sleep. The quotation reflects domestic wit in Harper's Bazar.
An advertisement claims That Everlasting Trritating Totter Disorder can be cured immediately. It offers a box of Te drug stores or postpaid for 50 cents from J T Shuptrine in Savannah and G Fite, with a trial bottle from Dr Kha Noryo Restorer and Dr RH Keane Ltd of 931 Arch St Philadelphia.
A long-styled ad essay argues that women sufferings are best treated by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It claims women privately report symptoms to Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts and credit her with helping over a hundred thousand in the past year. The piece asserts physicians lack her kind of training and urges women to write for advice.
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