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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
4
A historical survey recalls Chicago's 15 year struggle to end grade crossings. Railroads resisted, cities pushed reforms, courts ruled, and engineers showed elevation could proceed with minimal traffic disruption. The effort cost roughly 59 thousand dollars per mile, enabling safer travel ahead of the 1892 World’s Fair.
The article recounts a long battle over elevating railroad tracks in the city starting in the 1890s. Courts upheld the city's power to compel changes, while railroads resisted costly grade improvements. By 1893 a new, detail-focused strategy aimed at elevating specific crossings, beginning with the Northwestern line's Galena division, showed early progress.
Canton houses the queerest street on earth roofed in glazed paper and packed with signboards. It is a business street yet contains only apothecaries and dentists parlors with no professionals but doctors making it a sick man's paradise and a physician’s Klondike called Physic street.
The notice touts a new life saving device for non sinkable boats and urges attention to safety measures. It also advertises Unstetter's Stomach Bitters as a stomach remedy and tonic claiming cures for dyspepsia indigestion and various stomach troubles.
A poised exchange unfolds as a young man asks Miss Smith if the cigarette will be offensive. She replies it would be offensive if lit, and silence follows for two blocks as they walk.
The John M. Smyth Co of Chicago at 150 to 166 West Madison Street, in business for a third of a century, promotes its illustrated catalogue of household goods. A combination bookcase priced at 13 95 is highlighted as an example of the many valuable items in the catalogue, promising fair dealing and reliability.
A clipped quotation notes questions about Boers in South Africa and a British war report claiming many are being rifled, reflecting press commentary on imperial conflict.
Try Grain-O ask your grocer for Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as adults. It has the rich seal brown of Mocha and Java but is made of pure grains and is easy on the stomach. Priced at 44¢ and 25¢ per package, sold by all grocers.
The summer of 1899 in Italy is remembered for a storm season that produced numerous lightning fatalities. Officials recount the events and document the affected towns and victims.
A patently odd note advertises Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement aids health. It promises gentle action on liver and kidneys and claims to cure headaches. Prices listed as 25 and 50 cents.
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