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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1900
Page
2
A reflective column braids social satire with moral observations. It critiques charity, church state relations, and public virtue, noting the influence of media, memory of torture, and mankind’s tendency to pull down great schemes while pondering conscience and divine signals.
The text recalls Gen Buller mocked for promising to dine in Pretoria after a quick victory in a war. It compares his rash speech to Pitt’s 1793 boast about England and France, noting Pitt’s short war prediction failed over twenty-two years. Buller’s error is noted in context.
Historical notes recount Andrew Carnegie’s wealth and recent exits from Carnegie Steel, with mentions of F T Lovejoy leaving management. The piece links wealth to lost associates and highlights other topics including a widow’s family achieving education and a forester's note on longleaf pine fire resistance.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a safe natural laxative from a vegetable formula. It touts cleansing the bowels, boosting liver activity, and preventing sour stomach while guaranteeing satisfaction or money back. The ad urges purchase at druggists and via mail order, noting the genuine tablets bear the letters CGC.
Americans tend to own smaller, less perfect diamonds while European buyers favor larger stones. Artificial light makes Europeans display big stones that are not entirely flawless, highlighting cultural differences in diamond wear.
A letter from Mrs S A Brigham of Ross Creek Alberta, describes Beaver Hills farms near Ft Saskatchewan and Edmonton. She notes rich soil, abundant hay, large potatoes, diverse fruit, long twilights in June July, mild thunderstorms, summer heat near 90, cold snaps to 40s below, good roads, easy logging, and a busy winter fencing season.
The Hawarden Castle reached Cape Town recently and landed 4700 troops with ordnance and rations for 14 days. Troops were entrained within 10 hours of landing, marking a rapid disembarkation and deployment.
A crusading sermon exhorts temperance using Proverbs imagery of a venomous serpent. It cites political and social ruin from alcohol, highlighting drunkenness’s harm to workers, families, and churches. The speaker urges faith, women’s leadership, and personal pledges to end the saloon system.
The Scientific American notes a surge of organized expeditions abroad in the last year aimed at filling blank spaces in world geography. Peary advances toward the North Pole with Sverdrup, while Nansen’s Fram and other ventures like Abruzzi Wellman Frantz Josef Land, the Belgian Antarctic voyage, and Berlin Geographical Society plans contribute to this vigorous season of exploration. Prof Hatcher probes Patagonia and Wyoming fossil beds prompt a new expedition this year.
A historical note surveys seventeenth and eighteenth century blade inscriptions. Phrases praise God, courage, and loyalty, urging use of the sword for faith and homeland.
A child named Bobby began regular churchgoing but was thought unimpressed until last Sunday. The sermon on creation and the miraculous origin of Eve kept him awake longer than usual, marking a notable reaction from the youngster.
South Omaha reels from smallpox scare as two strangers from Kansas City display advanced symptoms and stay at large. City pest house near Thirteenth Street Boulevard burns overnight, raising exposure fears while officials scramble to contain the threat.
A Pierce man, A. W. Klug, bought a first class ticket at Grand Island for Union Pacific No. 2 and refused a 25 cent charge. A Pullman conductor allegedly kept Klug’s $8 Kodak and awaits county attorney action, with a warrant possible if a reply is unsatisfactory.
Beatrice police arrested Jim Lillie and a man named Stewart on sight after receiving a request from Washington Kansas authorities. They were dining at Dunn's restaurant when Officer Moore detained them without formalities. They will be held until Kansas officials arrive on the first train. Lillie is well known locally while Stewart is less known.
J H T Denney of Hayes county has filed a complaint with the board of transportation asking the Burlington and Missouri to provide depot facilities for receiving and delivering grain in car loads at Palisades and Arapahoe. Denney is manager of the Palisade Grain and Live Stock Company. The letter does not clearly define what he means by depot facilities.
Joe Kruta, who died by his own hand at the Elkhorn lodging house in Omaha, will be buried at county expense. No inquest was held since death was by self act. Kruta, a laborer from Geneva, came to Omaha a month ago seeking work but remained unable to find employment due to illness.
Miss Edna Reed of 1512 South Fifth Street Omaha rented a room to a stranger who fled with valuables including a gold watch valued at $20. Police are investigating the theft and seeking information on the suspect.
General Barry awards contract to Standard Planing Mill of Lincoln to produce war relics case. Bid amount 6408 with other bids ranging from 500 to 8780.
Union Pacific Railroad signs accord with the state to inspect all oil shipped into the state. The agreement ends a dispute over enforcement and promises regular audits by state inspectors.
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