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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1899
Page
3
A collage of late 19th or early 20th century advertisements promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot ailments, Salzer seeds including African chicory, and Lemercier style remedies for colds and liver health. The page also references a Farmers' Alliance supply house and various promotional lines.
Colonel Arthur L. Hamilton of the Seventh Ohio Volunteers in Columbus Ohio endorses Peruna for catarrh and stomach trouble. His wife Mrs. Hamilton reports she has used Peruna for years and credits improved health to the remedy amid a general recommendation by friends.
The summary lists a flurry of incidents from 1899 era: deaths from a ship report near Santiago, a fatal ranaway at Evansville, missing Windsor Hotel guests in New York, a Killing of Melvin Heaton in Worthington Indiana, a Dupont powder explosion near Carey Point New Jersey, and other riots lynchings abductions and fires. It notes ship casualties on the Sherman voyage to Manila and a child and sailors deaths, plus kidnappings in Chicago and a steel company strike at Pittsburgh. It also references a possible papal papacy rumor and a county tornado near Liberty Tennessee with a broader tally of global misfortunes.
Amid Democratic chair banquet publicity Oliver H Belmont withdraws from Perry's club to attend a dollar dinner by Chicago platform democrats. Kipling improves, port Arthur canal opens, and Franco-British talks over Africa proceed. Major global items include Japan buying iron ore, Pletcher's death, and political clashes across continents.
A man faced a courtroom setback as a verdict awarded him six cents in damages without costs. He reacted with anger and proclaimed lawyers and courts negligent, muttering about ruined hopes while exiting the station, bewildered by the outcome and the system.
Historic report describes John Trompeter dying after a roof fall while discussing the Punshon murder verdict in St. Joseph Missouri. It notes Trompeter and another juror were key in convicting Punshon and that Trompeter had leaned toward acquittal before others joined the verdict.
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