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Newspaper
Conway Log Cabin
Location
Conway, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1901
Page
4
Local notices include an advertisement for Pa Ers Hair Care promising restored youthful color and prevention of graying. The column covers residents visiting, shop news, weather notes, and local incidents around Conway and surrounding towns.
Mr and Mrs Sturgiss hosted a midsummer lawn party at their suburban home on Tuesday July 9. Guests enjoyed music and a three course luncheon from a Little Rock caterer as they bid farewell to Miss Alexander and Mr Woodruff who left for Quincy IL after a prolonged visit.
Last Tuesday afternoon the Bud's wore green uniforms with Bud's across their breast and faced Conway's regulars on the diamond. Allinder relieved Bullion at bat as the invincibles were kept close, but Conway won 15 to 14. The Bud's played a fair game and showed potential with practice, though arguments over umpire calls marred the match.
The popularity contest standings list Carrah Bolding 822 points and Lucy Livingston 523, followed by Lizzie Lea 403, May Hardin 212, Iva Walthal 35, Lillie Simms 30, Bertha Paine 28, Cora Reynolds 23, Essie Murphy co 29, Georgia May Welcher 16, Maggie Middleton 15, Clare Hicks 15, with Osporn CUREDON noted.
The advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages as a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case that fails to cure. Proponents urge sending for testimonials and note availability from A F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
Farm of 280 metres located 3 miles southwest of Conway. Contains a good house barn and tenant houses. Will sell as a whole or in divisions to suit purchaser. For price and terms apply to E. W. Hovis Conway Arkansas. Also Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin offered for stomach troubles by Dr C J Hamilton.
A Kentucky attorney promotes Mother's Friend as a premier liniment for expectant mothers. He claims it reduces suffering, calms disposition, and ensures a healthy, prettier child post delivery. Advertises free illustrated book from Atlanta, Georgia.
Across the Atlantic a British garrison at Richmond faced a 3000 Boer assault on June 27, lasting eleven hours. Reinforcements forced the Boers to withdraw, marking a tense colonial skirmish in the period’s warfare notes.
An officer commanding a Sussex volunteer regiment bets a box of cigars that a lieutenant can call 20 shots in sequence. The lieutenant correctly calls misses for the first five shots, then asks to keep firing to win cigars. The colonel stops him, declaring the bet won as all shots were misses.
A 1,500 carat turquoise block was found in a Colorado mine near Lajara the only such find to date in the state. The specimen, prized by western experts for its beauty, came from a volcanic hill location west of the Rio Grande river and north of Canton residence of President and Mrs. McKinley for summer.
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