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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1900
Page
3
Leonard's Drug Store W E Smith, jeweler and stamp maker, now located in Post Office Block with Wellington Type Writer agency. Beck & Krumpetz continue practical horseshoeing and black smithing. East Franklin Street. Cooks, photographer, 423 Main Street.
Heffner & Co. offer low prices on groceries smoked meats and baked goods at G W Robinson 216 East Jackson. Kesler Bus offers quick money saving bargains. G J Duncan agency for Advance Thresher with full repair line. Pop corn five cents a pound at A C Neen 516 Main. Dr Kinghams Snow Flake White Lime praised as city best. Aliso carries coal plaster cement. J P Sanders Columbia hotel offers $1.50 day rate and best city service. Elkhart gains first class optician locally. W Brunk fully equipped.
Felt's promotes new go carts and footwear with Fedver Bros at 6 percent? Carrison Street listed as dealers in groceries. Call for more details.
Massage for rheumatism neuralgia and similar ailments along with toning steam and plain baths offered at Fred Solia's bath house located at 514 South Main Street.
Local shoppers are offered bargains from hardware and lumber yards to meat markets and bars. Advertisers include Borneman Co hardware, Geo Weippert meat market, Thos Dettling & Son hardware, W H Mann lumber, Knevels book store, and Wambach meat market with promotions for watches, jewelry, and fabrics.
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska is nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Kansas City. The platform reaffirms anti imperialism and 16 to 1 free coinage, while Tillman denounces imperialism amid crowd fervor and flag waving.
Kansas City July 6 The Silver Republicans spent the day waiting for the committee on resolutions to report. Friction in the subcommittee delayed the platform as work continued to present the formal enunciation of the party's principles to the full committee.
A Le Roy New York resident, O F Myers, writes that Grain-O from Genesee Pure Food Co is superior to all other beverages. He says it is solid grain and urges families to choose Grain-O for health and children's welfare.
Oliver Mills, of Wabash Indiana, was kicked in the head by a horse and fatally injured. His skull was fractured and two deep gashes were cut over the right eye.
Household brand Houseworth Bros promotes Banner Salve as a fast healer for bike mishaps and sports bruises. The advertisement touts quick relief for minor injuries and sore skin.
A period advertorial extols Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female ailments regulating menstruation reducing weakness and restoring health. It cites Ella Sapp of Jamestown North Carolina who reports relief from years of painful monthly periods after using the tonic and notes that Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness.
In a gale on Lake Evie sixteen miles west of Cleveland the schooner yacht Idler owned by Captain James Corrigan sank. Three women and two girls plus a baby died. Mrs. John Cory also perished returning from St. Clair flats. Mrs. James Corrigan, Mrs. Charles Reilly, Miss Jane Corrigan, Ida May Corrigan, Etta Corrigan, and Baby Reilly are listed among the deceased. The crew survived.
A lady touts Alien’s Foot Base as a glove powder that absorbs perspiration and keeps gloves dry. Dr W C Abbott of the Chicago Clinic commends the preparation as a grand product for practice. The ad notes availability in drag and shoe stores and provides a sample offer with a New York address.
The Chicago Times Herald reports a girls high school must be abolished because students flirt with male medical students from a nearby college. The piece attributes this to old human nature attacking higher education.
A Hampton, L. L. net set for a sturgeon entangled and captured a finback whale about 30 feet long. The sighting marks the season’s largest fish catch reported so far.
A note claims divorces are fewer among the Chickasaws than any other race. The statement reflects a comparative social observation without cited data or sources.
The notice promotes Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a universal cure for constipation indigestion sick headache and stomach trouble. Sold by Thomas' drug store.
The body of Joseph Guepe of Fond du Lac was found in Briggsville lake while visiting his wife's family. He had married six weeks earlier and suffered heart disease. Authorities suspect death from a heart attack causing a fall from a boat while fishing, as lungs contained little water.
It has been demonstrated by experience that consumption can be prevented by the early use of One Minute Cough Cure. This is the favorite remedy for coughs, colds, croup, asthma, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Cures quickly. Houseworth Bros.
Chicago reports 52 deaths and 95 prostrations over six days of intense heat. The list tallies fatalities and health impacts from the heat wave in the city.
Advertisement touts Ban ner Salve as effective for cuts burns sores piles and skin diseases. Claim emphasizes universal usefulness across politics religion or finance and cites Houseworth Brother as source.
The Democratic platform denounces imperialism as the paramount issue and calls for a labor department in the cabinet, direct election of senators, arbitration for labor disputes, and sympathy for the Boers in their fight for liberty. It also supports bi metallic currency, national bank note retirement, and territorial ambitions including New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma statehood.
Pittsburg's downtown business district suffered a major blaze injuring five others and killing five firemen. The dead are John Griffin engine 4 St Clair Crawford engine 11 Max Batterbaugh engine 11 John Lewis engine 11 Stewart Burns engine 4. The injured include Captain Dan Campbell engine 4 and firefighters Edward Kearney William Erb George Munn and William Doyle.
The International Stove Mounters union elected officers led by President H. Keefer of Detroit and Vice Presidents James Devonish of Chicago John Philips of Hamilton Ont organizer James A. Davis St Louis treasurer H P Oberling Quincy delegates to AFL William Feighrey Piqua Ohio Next year convention to be held in Hamilton Gat and wage changes are expected to result from deliberations.
A gentleman cured of dyspepsia offers an apt Burns blessing blessing the benefits of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. The ad claims the preparation digests food and relieves indigestion and stomach disorders with a promise of radical cure from Houseworth Bros.
Hila Saunders 28, from Owosso, died after taking poison in Battle Creek Michigan following a dispute with her lover Frank Macomer who urged a lake trip. He left angrily. she died in a local hospital.
The Amur arrived from Skagway bringing $250,000 in gold dust and 140 passengers. Thirty returning miners carried sacks of $3,000 to $10,000 each, while Vancouver merchants reported large returns from northern branch stores.
Backache signals possible kidney trouble warnings of Bright's disease or diabetes if ignored. Igley’s Kidney Cure is advertised as guaranteed for the kidneys by Houseworth Bros.
Chicago July 9 The Socialistic Labor Party has nominated a state ticket for Illinois with August Klenke as Governor John S Pederson as Lieutenant Governor D H Daly as Secretary of State Joh A Buell as Auditor G F F Schmitt as Treasurer Marcus H Taft as Attorney General and electors at large L Dahlgren James S Smith along with Trustees Mrs Stokes Mrs A M Simons and C Halbeck for State University
A brief advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as the only harmless remedy with immediate results from Houseworth Bros.
A lightning bolt hit the White Star liner Oceanic at pier 48 along the North River, shattering the mizzen topmast and leaving scorched splinters as souvenirs. Nearby the Quebec line steamship Trinidad at an adjacent pier was struck, knocking off a brass ornament atop its foremast.
A. O. Rowe, druggist, offers Chamberlain's Pain Balm touted to heal cuts and bruises in about one third the usual time due to antiseptic properties. The product claims wounds heal without maturation.
Exports from northern Germany for the recently ended fiscal year totaled 57,184,563 dollars, up 8,203,461. Hamburg contributed about 36 million, while Dresden reports consul general valued exports at 1,130,101 dollars, an increase of 186,728.
A spark from an adjoining foundry started a blaze at the Standard Wheel company plant in Sandusky Ohio, total destruction. The loss is put at 200000 dollars with 60000 dollars insured, and 250 workers lose their jobs.
Chicago records seven teen deaths and thirty nine prostrations over two days due to heat. In slum districts residents slept on sidewalks and in alleys seeking relief from extreme temperatures.
Advertisement for DeWitt’s Little Harry Biters claiming they ease liver and bone troubles without gripe. Distributed by Houseworth Bros. in an era style medical patent remedy notice.
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