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Newspaper
Decatur Weekly News
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
2
The text muses on Nature as queen of tempests and tranquil harvests, noting calm thoughts and minds full of repose. It mentions California bay seed shipped with race horses to avoid changing their diet during travel.
Seven years of U S exports across the Pacific rose from 27,000,000 to 100,000,000 with cotton and breadstuffs leading. Southern leaders cite Asiatic demand for cotton goods as proof of expansion. Mothers should watch for worm symptoms and use White’s Cream Vermifuge priced 25 cents. sold by W. H. Long.
The 11 week old John Nicholas Brown of Rhode Island becomes principal heir to an estate valued at 12 million dollars. The piece portrays the burden of wealth on a child and laments the unfairness of inherited fortune overshadowing life’s opportunities.
Despite socialist objections the Reichstag finally votes to cover expenses for the German emperor's 1898 journey to the Holy Land, marking a resolved government decision after long debate.
Advert shows Botanic Blood Balm claims to cure eczema and related skin woes by purifying the blood. It touts 30 years of testing, promises a free trial bottle, and directs readers to Blood Balm Co. in Atlanta, Georgia for samples and advice. The ad targets readers with itching, scales, sores, and hair loss concerns.
M. B. Smith of Butternut Michigan declares DeWitt's Little Early Risers the very best pills for costiveness and liver and bowel troubles. May 25.
Goshen Indiana resident Lewis Ackerman states DeWirts's Little Early Risers reliably relieve headaches and cleanse and invigorate the bowels and liver. Sold by W. A. Long as of May 25.
A pamphlet extols external treatment over internal remedies for expectant mothers. It argues internal remedies are injurious and promotes a liniment designed to ease discomfort by relaxing strained muscles, claiming a new combination of ingredients.
The ad touts Mother's Friend as a safe, scientifically compounded remedy used during pregnancy to ease morning sickness reduce tightness headaches and labor pain. It claims doctors often recommend it and that many buy it at drug stores with no objections from physicians. A $1 bottle price and a request for an illustrated booklet are noted.
The Bragfield Regulator cites a cure claim stating deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It argues inflammation of the Eustachian tube causes deafness, often from catarrh, and offers $100 for any case of deafness due to catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A. K. McClure recalls Davis praising Abraham Lincoln ten years after the war. Davis admired Lincoln's character and asked about his personal qualities, calling Lincoln's death the darkest day the South has known beside the destruction of the Confederacy.
The editor catches a miscredit in the reporter's copy claiming Shakespeare authored a line now traced to Ibid. Meanwhile pine and hemlock stumps expected to be worthless are gathered in Northern Michigan to be made into lath for manufacturing.
A farmer asks about an air building and is told it is a pant. The bystander says they raise currents sold by the shock. The farmer, puzzled, hurries to market.
The Southern Railway will sell tickets from all points to Asheville North Carolina for the Southern Students Conference of the Y M C A and Y W C A events. Round trip fare applies with sales June 15 14 15 and 16 and return by June 18 1900. For more information contact any Southern Railway agent.
Mrs Harriet Evans of Hinsdale reports that One Minute Cough Cure relieves her children from croup instantly and that she would not feel safe without it. The ad promotes quick cures for coughs colds grippe and throat and lung diseases.
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