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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
3
A jumbled 1900s page highlights Grain-O as a coffee substitute touted for delicate stomachs and low cost, plus various medical and household notices. It includes advertisements for Allen's Foot-Ease, soothing syrups for teething, and warnings about mining accidents and female health cases discussed by Mrs Pinkham.
Ex rebels led by Macabolo and Northern Pat<in> speak of supporting a Filipino defense under American troops to protect natives. Aginaldo remains in southern Luzon while church state relations are debated. Senator Lodge backs Spooner bill giving presidential authority with congressional consent for Philippine governance.
A gang attempted a bold heist at Sperry Warnstaff’s deposit vault in Ashley north of the town. Guards repelled by gunfire as criminals dynamited the vault three times, stole horses and wagons, then fled toward Ash ley. Damages estimated at about half the bank’s value. Police sought suspects.
Mrs Beanell a plucky widow walked from Pine Ridge Tennessee to Hashville Illinois a distance of almost 600 miles to be with her aged mother and relatives before an anticipated death. She learned upon arrival that a prior letter could have saved the long journey as her relatives had since become wealthy. Her husband died recently leaving them penniless.
Martin Irons once led union labor organizations and directed Missouri Pa elite in the eighties. He died yesterday, January 17, at Bruseville, twenty miles south of Waco, Texas. The prominent figure’s passing ends a notable career in labor activism.
Charles Hoyt the well known playwright died at his residence in Charlestown at 7 13 p m after several months of illness. He had recently returned from a private asylum in Hartford by order of the court and had been gravely ill with appetite loss and weakness, slipping into unconsciousness before death.
The case of Johann Mueller, who died in West Superior in December 1898 after a life of hardship, is cited to show fortune’s fickleness. He saved for years and invested in forty acres on the Me fabatenga, now valued at about 200,000 dollars, with Carnegie interests holding an option. A Catholic priest once held a mortgage on the land for 2800.
Delegate Dennin reports Flynn of Oklahoma fearfully warns that cattlemen may block settlement opening of Kiows and Comanche country. Congress act for Indian allotment is awaited, work half done, allotment appeals possible, and smallpox among Indians hinders progress.
A sequence of brief reports recounts deaths and accidents across small communities. Mrs Anna Duckton dies at Wercome Kennett Mo after a family saga over a governor promised pardon. A minister Rev G Tourtelot loses a hunting companion in Turin Ia. A fire injures Ethel Moe in Portland Michigan and a brother suffers burns. Pittsburg reports heat causing hardship for mill workers and Alexander Jacobson lies near death in McKeenport. Detroit businessman pledges self destruction, grandson of Gen Hugh Brady.
The American impresario Barnum with Tom Thumb and guardian meets Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. A young pageant featuring Tom Thumb backing along to keep up amuses the royal party including King Leopold of Belgium. General Barnum is asked to sing Yankee Doodle for the queen.
An Odd mix of profiles and anecdotes from Albert Lea Minnesota recounts Mrs Henriette Olberg a famed judge and exhibit head who credits Dodds Kidney Pills with improving her health and vitality. A forest and stream writer describes a prairie dog village victory over a rattlesnake showing dog cooperation and ingenuity. Also notes on Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a Toledo medical ad.
Four Kavanagh siblings from Wexford have been admitted as recruits to the Dublin Metropolitan Police creating a mild sensation. Each brother stands six feet six inches tall and is described as of splendid physique. Two other brothers remain at home, reportedly much shorter, possibly the dwarfs of the family.
Fragmented paragraphs describe a climber’s brutal experience with mountain sickness on a high ascent and a later note on a British Army medical service inoculation against typhoid fever for troops moving to Africa. Also mentions telegraph history and patent remedy ads, with garbled OCR crowding the page.
A garbled mix lists trains from St. Louie via Katy Flyer to San Antonio Los Angeles and San Francisco, with stray names and times. It includes broken product ads and bid for medicines, drugs and dyes, plus a stray remark about undertakers and mortality.
A prominent Knight Templar from Chicago lauds Peruna as a cure for catarrh and stomach trouble after years of illness. The testimonial features Colonel Moody and mentions other sufferers improved by the remedy. The piece promotes Peruna with quotes and a request for a free catarrh booklet.
A 1900 population booklet from the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway lists cities with populations above 25,000, obtainable by mail. The clipping includes stray notes about Thanksgiving dinner, Garfield Tea, and throat and lung remedies, with a partial line about gifts to girls.
The piece notes painted coffee beans as adulterated goods colored to imitate Mocha, described as shiny brown and yellowish, tasteless. It promotes Alt Foot-Hage powder from Allen 8, Olmsted, Roy, N.Y., claimed to cure sweating damp swelling and foot pain, with assertions it eases corns and bunions and is sold by shoe stores. The writing also mocks loud sensational talking and a donkey’s bray.
Fragmentary OCR lists domestic sweets and preserves, reference to family jars and home rituals. Mentions names like Dick T. Morgan and Perry. Lacks clear event or dates, overall unclear.
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