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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
3
A jumbled OCR page shows disparate items including tonics and patent medicines, shoe powders, explosives production figures in Britain, parliamentary hats, boiler danger, weather almanac notes, and market boasts. It includes product pitches, medical claims, and social notices with scattered names and places.
An article extols Mrs Lydia E Pinkham for providing help to women when doctors fail. It notes her Vegetable Compound has aided many in the United States and cites Mrs Chappell of Grant Park Illinois urging others to seek her guidance for ovarian inflammation.
A long list table shows Grimes presenting figures for the total assessed valuation of property in Kansas since state union, and the levy amounts. The data spans multiple years with numerous large monetary totals and percentages.
Governor Stanley of Kansas studies state and national capital punishment laws to judge its effectiveness. He may urge a restored death penalty if findings show reduced vigilante violence, while existing death sentences raise questions for the legislature.
A Boston Transcript note reports a Hartford Bridgeport area discovery of a century old collection of letters from George Washington Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams James Monroe and Henry Clay. The letters, found among old family papers, include Washington’s on movement of troops and Jackson and Adams letters dated March 1824 about presidential chances and conduct after election. The cache excites antiquaries and prompts rummaging of trunks and libraries for more such items.
A Minnesota woman Laura J Smith receives state and national organizing posts for anti drink leagues. Her fight against drinking, described as life long, followed a kidney illness relieved after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, with her claim of daily use preventing recurrence.
Tens of thousands of mourners pay last respects as Cushman Melroy, former governor of Minnesota and U S senator, lies in state in the capitol's south chamber. Military escorts and police units guard the rites as the public files past the casket.
Dr Towne from Omaha, special representative of the Nebraska state board of health, arrives to handle a 130 case smallpox outbreak in northwestern Nebraska. He cautions that on the Omaha and Winnebago reservations the issue may be harder, with reports of many cages among the Indians denied and only a few deaths noted.
A Burlington assault case features a woman recognizing her attacker George Adderson as the man who harmed her and her husband. A coroner’s jury orders holding without bail. Other items include Julius Thande pleading guilty to petit larceny and receiving up to thirty days in jail, cattle theft reportage in Indiana, and William Datton’s four year penitentiary sentence for burglary.
The Saints of the United States embassy in London report no formal notice or institution received to proceed with Florence Maybrick's release from life imprisonment for poisoning her husband. A new company has been formed to operate the Independence cotton mill.
An old advertisement extols catarrh as a universal throat and chest threat. It warns that catarrh alters speech, breath, and health, then promotes Peruna as a cure based on personal testimonials from Mrs F J Lynch of Grand Rapids Michigan and others, claiming rapid relief.
A new open top passenger car built by the Pullman Company for the American Tourist Association of Chicago is designed for steam roads. It resembles a summer trolley car but offers a top opening as well as side openings. Intended as an observation car for trips through mountainous canons.
An incomplete account recounts a tale of a Chilean mountain railway journey. It mentions a goat on the car, limited views due to window obstruction, and references to officials, a tourist association, and a Mexico relation, all in a fragmented narrative.
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