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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
2
A mobile correspondent recounts a night of skirmishes near a bay town with gunboats expected. He describes heat, hunger, fevered nerves, and the lure of Cuban goods while noting plans of a Cuban uprising and rising preparations amid scarce supplies. He mentions prices in Mexico and American currency, and notes native fatigue duty and a hospital camp.
The read line indicates a purchase of a product described as The Kind You Have won Beat Service. Details are fragmented but imply a transaction involving a branded item. Further specifics on buyer, seller, or price are not provided in the readable text.
Reports describe L Gardner's magnet driven gun using a glass tube wound with coils. The device aims to shoot projectiles without recoil and with speed regulated by a switch, promising low ammunition cost and potential naval defense use.
An advertisement from Sterling Remedy Co Chicago promotes Dr Hobbs Sparages Pills as a universal cure for kidney ailments. It falsely guarantees complete recovery with a simple remedy and provides a dubious contact for purchasing.
Cyrus Losee, a young Ohio railroad man in the Thirty first U S Volunteers, writes from Pollox island Mindanao on Christmas Day. He portrays Moros as naked fighters armed with long knives who kill without prisoners and believe killing Christians earns them a higher place in heaven. He notes their discipline, bravery, and the harsh law including punishment for infidelity by women.
Arrangements completed for daily stage connections between Chadwick Forsyth and Lead Hill and between Eureka Springs and Yellville via Berryville Green Forest Harrison and Powell. Through trains on the Frisco Line connect with stages offering convenient travel to the Lead and Zinz Fields region. Literature with rates and schedules available from Frisco representatives or General Passenger Agent Bryan Snyder in St. Louis.
London based contest offers £5000 grand prize for the longest list of bird names from the supplied letters WOOOVUCOKQULIAPATARIDGE SPNNELVEERDIMWADOHTL. Prizes include a gold watch, tea set, and gems for top entries, with daily judging and no payment required until winners are announced.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad offers superior facilities for tourists and travelers headed to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America or Nassau. Double daily sleeping car service runs from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville interior Florida points and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans serving as embarkation ports for the specified regions. For folders contact Jackson Smith DPA Cincinnati Ohio.
The Nickel Plate road joins the Central Passenger association Mileage Ticket bureau making all mileage tickets issued by any bureau member valid on Nickel Plate trains from February 10 onward. Tickets are good between Buffalo Chicago or intermediate stations per the association. March 16 No. 32
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