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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1896
Page
4
A jumble of ad copy and quotations from a late 1800s layout mentions Paris study fate, a thief warned, and health elixirs. Prominent items include Hontetter's Stomach Bitters, Dobbinat Electric Roap, Brown's Konchial Troches, and a village motto about honesty.
Riots erupt as Premier Crispi resigns with government remaining in place until successors are named. Leftists press for accountability over Abyssinia disaster, while Italy mobilizes reserves to about eighty thousand, many married men under strain.
News notes that Major General Merritt, commander of the Missouri Department, may be sent to Cuba to report to the president on the situation there. The article cites past practice of dispatching officers to observe wars, but provides no official confirmation or war department details.
The National Armenian Relief committee in New York sent 10000 dollars to Constantinople to aid Armenians and relief work proceeds as funds allow. Clara Barton reports Red Cross shipments to interior Armenia via Alexandretta with supplies to Harpoot Sivas and Marash as needs rise.
The Albion Paper Company of Holyoke Massachusetts has failed with debts reportedly well over half a million dollars perhaps $700000. Assets include a mill plant valued above $400000 and 12 water powers valued at $125000, while bills receivable are small.
A Newark candy shop owner describes sudden crippling pain and tremors while crossing streetcar tracks. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills, bought for 50 cents, with rapid relief and weight loss, claiming full recovery after a second box. The ad asserts the pills rebuild blood and nerves and offer female and male health benefits.
A German paper reports successful experiments heating freight cars on routes from Coblentz and Wiesbaden to Berlin to prevent losses during the cold 1894-95 winter. Perishables like vegetables beer wine and mineral water suffered less, with a central stove and external thermometer guiding inspectors to adjust heat and fuel. An added rate covers the service, which merchants favor over weather risk.
A Victorian tale of Rev Lorimer Fison the Melbourne Spectator editor who smoked to prove the board of examiners wrong. He vowed to quit after finishing a plug of tobacco and claimed to still hold that same plug years later.
The fragment repeats a coin phrase and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Piso’s Cure, naming FPJ Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and Druggists Tc Piso’s Cure. It includes a consumer testimonial fragment and addresses in Brooklyn.
General Sewell of New Jersey questions genuine Irish senators. Born in Mayo Ireland he arrived in 1851 at sixteen as a penniless orphan. The Duke of York stamp collection sold to a Rothschild carried 600000 ins. The widow of Alexander Campbell founder of the Campbellites lives in Bethany West Virginia at ninety four. Mrs W B Thompson longtime Louisville postmistress is her daughter. Rain-in-the-Face now police at Standing Rock agency and wears a government uniform. George Vanderbilt buys 125 Jersey cattle herd from Pittsford near Rochester for his Biltmore farm at Ashville New York. The herd sale stems from state board of health action on cattle tuberculosis and court of appeals affirmation.
A promotional letter extols new grasses and fodder plants that can reclaim worn land in about a year, claiming big crops and a variety of seed names. It urges sending cash and self addresses to John A Salter Seed Co to receive a free catalogue and samples. The note also praises Tyner's Dyspepera Remedy for indigestion with quick relief and lists a bank endorsement.
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