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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1900
Page
3
A scrambled OCR fragment shows a referend um ent phrase about calling someone, suggesting confusion in the record. The readable portions hint at a debate over contact or notification timing without clear names or places.
Libby McNeill Libby Chicago receives Grand Prize and two gold medals from the International Awards Jury at the Exposition for purity and excellence of their tanned food products. Libby brands are praised as standard bearers of meat preservation quality in America, with high honors at U.S. expositions for two decades.
Obituary notes the death of John Sherman in his city residence shortly before 7 am in the seventy eighth year of age. He served as US representative for Ohio, senator, and briefly secretary of the treasury and secretary of state under McKinley. He had suffered illness for a year and a half, with unresponsiveness since Saturday, and died after a final decline just after dawn. The report recalls his birth in Lancaster Ohio on May 10 1823, and his long public career including nomination for president in 1880 and service in Congress until 1908.
Noted author Charles Tricken reports the death of Dudley Warner of Averary fame in Hartford after a long illness. Warners had a history of pneumonia and heart weakness from years past. He collapsed while walking to bid farewell to friends near his home, after a cheerful mood and a last walk to see a reading companion in the neighborhood.
A Navy report from Captain Chester of the battleship Kentucky cites a purely technical delay in departure from New York harbor. The turrets are sound and all needed repairs can be completed aboard. The chief of ordnance dispatched personnel to adjust the vessel at the Washington navy yard before Kentucky sailed from New York.
Illinois Supreme Court reverses lower court ruling, striking down a statute that barred small grocers and merchants from selling patent and proprietary medicines without regular pharmacists or state board approval. The decision cites class legislation favoring a few and notes no requirement for medicine analysis.
The First National Bank of New York disclosed that Charles L Alvord longtime note teller and trusted employee admitted to illicitly diverting about 700000 through balance book manipulation over years. Examiners flagged irregularities during audits and some funds likely funneled into stock speculation. Alvord had access as mailroom clerk and handled notes drafts and checks each morning. The bank expects only partial recovery and notes the bank remains solvent.
General Chaffen reports from Taku China list deaths Huo C Kraft Joseph Lyons Beary Kirkland and others from dysentery in Fourteenth Ninth and Thirty-seventh infantry. A San Francisco telegram from General Shafter notes more deaths on transport Sherman including J M Halles James Richison Elgar Werter and David Whitney Parham Barker and Clarence Elem.
A four year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs J G Long, was accidentally shot in Lincoln when his father dropped a coat pocket pistol. The ball entered below the stomach and caused a dangerous wound. Physicians treated the child at a drug store and later at the family residence.
Milford in Howard county expands rural delivery with single carrier T W Bundy covering 36 square miles serving 620 people. Camden post office to be discontinued with patrons served by mail carrier. First National Bank of Neligh Nebraska declares dividend increase of 10 percent for creditors, 50 percent on claims totaling 1484 dollars. Nebraska patentees include Hoover hay shaker and Owen padlock, Sims water motor valve, Welch dump. Lincoln widow's pension granted to Margaret Johnson at 3 cents per month.
Fred W Bullard, a tinware repairer by trade, was struck and killed by Union Pacific northbound train No 46 between C sud and D streets in Lingoin Nevada on Tuesday evening. He reportedly did not move when warned and may have stepped onto the track from the side. The shop he once ran at 91 Ninth Street burned in a prior blaze and was moved. Bullard had been traveling the city repairing tin ware for work.
An attempted robbery at the State Bank failed after robbers pried at the vault wall with a crowbar and tools from H. Gilett, Dicksmith shop, and a wagon shop. They did not enter the vault. investigators deem the burglars inexperienced and likely disturbed by ongoing rain overnight and this morning.
Military HQ reports a dispatch dated October 20 stating that the volunteer army now in the Philippines will depart Manila in November. From then to next June transports will repatriate about 25,000 men at roughly 4,000 to month. Early ships may be used if possible to avoid crowding.
Readable fragments indicate a Chicago woman led a movement to adopt a resolution opposing a folygsey style act. The item notes advocacy, a city response, and calls for submission of proposed measures.
A fragmented OCR page mixes advertisements for stomach bitters and health remedies with immigrant statistics and local railway souvenir offers. It references Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, Allen’s Foot Ease, Gurdeli Tea Syrup, and a Katy Flyer souvenir offer, plus scattered notes on immigration and public notices.
Official notice states Miller, brother of LP Miller and longtime railroad employee since 1874, appointed to head the passenger department at Pan Railroad after George H. Heatford’s resignation. The move places Miller as senior assistant general manager with several assistants to be named. Miller, born in Harford, Pa, has served since 1888 and begun as an employee on the passenger division.
A letters page sent by Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts urges mothers with large families to seek Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from heavy workloads and menstrual difficulties. The message describes personal recovery after using the remedy and appeals to women, young or poor, to view the advice as practical aid.
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