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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
2
A Kansas letter from William Miles among colored soldiers at Santiago details daily life, markets, and scarce comforts in Cuba, noting belts, uniforms, and local behavior. The column cites meat exports to the war effort, railcar estimates, and Rocky Ford melons as famed in eastern markets, alongside notes on prisons, clergy, and local oddities.
A 12 year old boy from Le Roy falls from a scaffold and suffers severe injuries mistaken as a stroke. The article repeats testimonials claiming Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People cured paralysis and related ailments after medical opinion, and mentions new bicycle toe clips as a product note.
In wartime efforts the American Tobacco Co. provides tobacco to U S soldiers and sailors free of charge, supplying camps and hospitals with rations including Battle Ax Ping and Dukes Mixture. Headquarters in camps ensure tobacco reaches every unit and thirty ships in Cuban waters share this aid. The note highlights corporate philanthropy amid national crisis.
An assortment of faded 19th century ads notes a ship yard in Ominato Japan and a potpourri of quack medicines and household goods. The clippings promote Fall's Family Pills sold by Drugelsta, auctions, cosmetics, and humor about husbands and shopping with a stray reference to Dr H H Green's Sons and chainless wheels.
The War Department inquiry into the recent conflict opened with eight members present at the White House, while a ninth, Dr. Phineas S. Conner, was added as physician. Granville M. Dodge was elected chairman and Richard Weightruap became secretary as the commission set to work.
A tornado hit St Catharines Ontario on September 27 causing five deaths and many injuries. The Lincoln Paper mill and Acetylene Gas power house were wrecked along with Orange Hall public school St Patrick’s church and the Presbyterian church. The public school collapsed injuring forty pupils. Frank Moffatt died in the ruins. Mrs John Nickley was killed at her home as lumber struck her head. The militia armory and Collegiate Institute suffered severe damage with collapsing chimneys endangering students.
Chaplain Joseph P. Mecintyre of the battleship Oregon faced a court martial in Denver over alleged language unbecoming an officer during an August lecture. He pleaded not guilty as the proceedings opened and adjourned to resume at 10 o clock.
Reported wreck of the Houston and Texas Central passenger train six miles north of the city at 10:03 leaving coaches demolished. No fatalities but numerous serious injuries. Also notes Lafayette Day observance plans in Efficago and Carcaco, and news of President Errazuriz's mild paralytic shock in Chili.
Renowned actress Fanny Davenport died at her home in Duxbury Massachusetts at 10 30 p m after a long illness from heart enlargement. Born in London April 8 1859 she rose to fame under Augustin Daly in New York and starred in many Sardou plays American tours and notable performances.
A Norwegian laborer in New York recovers brain injury but lacks his mother tongue. Kansas reports nearly 100 Hour mills closed as farmers hold wheat for higher prices. Buffalo Jones of Perry Oklahoma plans to domesticate musk oxen from the Northwest. The dispatch boat McCulloch captured Aguinaldo’s warship Abbey and reportedly seized 7000 rifles for insurgents. General Gomes seeks food for troops. failure may lead to armed action. A ruling says mixed four must be sold from original packages. Sedalia’s Con McHugh sues Joseph E. Imian for $15090 over false imprisonment. Hill praised as railroad genius. Colonel Roosevelt asserts New York state citizenship and eligibility for governor. Austrian empress remains buried in three churches. Nebraska stock reports show rising sheep, horse and cattle prices. Missouri and St Louis set October for Exposition celebration. Missouri mine inspector notes prosperous mining with rising output. Louise King, missing then identified with Yellow Mill Pond case, returns married. Thomas Collins of Collins Brothers dies. firm reputed to have built many railways. The ship Olga from Java arrives at Delaware breakwater. crew perish onboard. Five men drown in St Mary’s River, Silver City, Mich., due to lighter sinking. Filipinos taxed by Aguinaldo demands and expect abolition rather than new taxation.
Army Navy and departmental updates blur with postwar notes. Reports detail a Tacoma exposition building blaze valued at 100000 with no insurance, Roosevelt’s rough riders sold in New York, and Winnie Davis memorial plans in Richmond. France shifts on Dreyfus while Spain trims forces and China eyes Li Tanghua.
The Nebraska Supreme Court removed the Omaha fire and police commission and ruled Mayor Moores ineligible due to default as district court clerk. The court also sided with local bondholders in a separate audit case, issued a mandamus to Auditor Cornell over Home for the Friendless claims, and noted fires destroying the Paddock Hodges elevator in Toledo and a Masoule Judge building in Osceola with substantial losses.
Reports from the south say yellow fever spreads while troops disperse and seek peace. Fire destroys several blocks, druggists push war tax shifts, and General Garcia is welcomed as a hero in Santagre amid war news.
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