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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
3
A fragmented 19th century shop index highlights W J Brown at 118 Jackson Street and Leonard’s Drug Store with fresh meats and produce. It mentions D N Lieb batteries for electric bells, Elkhart Steam Laundry, Beck & Krumpetz horseshoeing, and Bonemas and Doty hardware touting the largest stock for best prices.
The notice notes Hotel Golden charging one dollar per day and promoting neat rooms. It mentions ongoing coal season wrap up and suppliers for lime cement oak stucco and paints. Elkhart plans for numerous buildings with De signs and calls for designs at 202 S Main Street. N D Gran Am, Tonsorial Parlors and C F Crane & Co feature up to date services and Union shop with Clauss Schares.
Elkheart ladies urged to visit M. A. Tompkins millinery for a full line of new goods. Photographer O. E. Hollana promotes portraits and sittings. Leininger’s advertises candies ice reams and serrberts at 113 Main St.
Friends of labor urged to seek the union label and Helfrich and Gelzen hand made shoes. G W Robinson's at 216 East Jackson street advertises low grocery smoked meats and biking goods while A W Shively clears summer weight clothing and gents furnishings at bargain prices including straw hats at cost.
An advertisement urges care for teeth and mouth as health, noting S. B. Suyert, dentist, at 112 Marion in Rice block. A second ad proclaims The Fair Store as the city’s greatest bargain house with new and up-to-date goods and a mention of Mo, Tur Fats.
Stark and Eardsley props and Stephens and Son offer exclusive funeral directors and embalmers in Elkhart. Dr Kingham's Snow Flake White Lime billed as the best lime in the city. coal plaster and cement also available. The Columbia Hotel advertises quiet boarding at $1.50 per day at Main and High streets.
Old Kentucky Blue Grass touted for medicinal uses at Weiler Bros Aliso. A. C. Keen at 516 Main St advertises fine yellow shelled popcorn at five cents per pound. Buck Ye Pilsner beer bottled for celebration.
Massage treatment for rheumatism neuralgia Turkish steam and plain baths at Fred Sohns bath house 514 S Main. Also groceries and balked goods at M Swinehart 119 East Jackson Street. Good things for everyone who thinks of good things.
The annual weather bureau reports document the service’s growth since 1870, storm histories, meteorological instruments, and telegraph cooperation. They detail normal data, self registering devices, and the vast data treasury used to improve agriculture, transport, and climate understanding.
Consular Agent Frisbee reports Rainy lake Indians gathering for a big medicine pow wow have disavowed hostility toward white settlers, claiming the Great Spirit requires appeasement. Fort Francis dispatch says most believe the uprising may be postponed until annuity payments, though some fear ongoing danger.
An old advertisement fragment references DeWitts Little Early Risers as a top pill for stomach relief, with an odd aside about acidity and Houseworth Bros as the possible distributor.
A Daily Market Report notes a guaranteed Dr Osldwell's Syrup Pepsin with refund if it fails to meet claims. Readers are urged to call Thomas' drug store for a booklet detailing the product.
In London Captain Stephen L. H. Slocum, U.S. military attache, says the South African war is over with Boer resistance in guerrilla phase. He notes Boers fought well but odds were against them and contradicts mismanagement charges in the royal army hospital services, praising Lord Roberts' field medical service.
Many women suffer from varied so called female weaknesses caused by kidney ailments and deserve to know that Foley's Kidney Cure is what many ailing women need. Houseworth Bros.
Dorovenko, an escaped convict captured on Saghalien, admits to killing and eating his fellow fugitive in swamp forests to avoid starvation. The grisly tale comes from the penal colony on Saghalien reported from Moscow on July 23. A note adds that Chamberlain's Pain Balm speeds healing of cuts and bruises due to its antiseptic qualities, sold by A. O. Rowe, druggist.
James Hyde of New York has been named a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in Paris in recognition of his work for French literature in the United States through the Cercle Francais of Harvard University.
Mrs. James Bastedo while raspberry picking near Genoa New York grabbed a buckthorn fence and severed the head of a 13 foot nine inch black snake that menaced her and her companions. In a separate incident nearby a second large black snake measured 11 feet five inches after Parker and others killed it on the same field.
A letter from F Myers of Le Roy New York to Genessee Pure Food Company Washington D C extols Grain-O as a superior solid grain beverage for family health and children's welfare, claiming it surpasses all other beverages tried.
Near Fishkill New York on Wardwell Peak M B Benton uncovered a buried trove of Coleman family silverware after eighteen years of loss. Amasa Coleman and Mrs Robert Welsh linked the pieces to the historic robbery and Benton turned the collection over to the rightful heir.
An amusing county note describes an eating contest held at Pin Hook schoolhouse. Ben Splatters-hen reportedly ate nine heads of cabbage before the winner was declared, with the crowd attributing the ease to a bottle of Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin.
Immense underground streams of pure water were found on Hawaii at 1500 to 2000 feet elevation. Water will be flumed to sugar plantations for irrigation. Olas plantation taps five streams yielding 20,000,000 gallons daily, enough to irrigate the island's largest plantation. Water drains from the surface into ancient lava bed underground reservoirs.
The ad claims kidneys fail health until corrected by Foley's Kidney Cure. It asserts the remedy purifies blood and restores healthy kidneys with the promise that nothing else is as effective.
In Warrensburg Missouri chemists conducted three rainmaking experiments last year and another this year. They used sulfuric acid and zinc to generate hydrogen and create an upward air current to form a storm center. The latest experiment, begun Wednesday, yielded a heavy rain by Thursday night and cost under $100, potentially saving crop yields worth many thousands.
A letter from HLwoop McCracken of Koxomo addresses the Dear Sir claim that Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin relieved a decade long stomach trouble and four year rheumatism, saying it saved his life and that rheumatism is gone. Sold by Thomas' drug store.
London reports in the House of Commons that over 12 000 troops have been sent to South Africa since Pretoria fell. Critics condemn harsher exile of Boers to Ceylon and the use of women in Boer ranks, while most insist the war must end soon as it nears its first anniversary.
The advertisement proclaims Banner Salve as a universal healer for wounds and sores, claiming complete healing without leaving scars. Houseworth Bros. markets the product as a major cure option.
A mob of 25 youths aged 10 to 15 attacked a Chinese laundryman in Peoria Illinois. They seized a basket of clothes, struck him with rocks and clubs, and chased him down Adams Street while singing patriotic tunes. He fled to a store and was escorted back to his laundry by officers.
In Detroit on February 5 1900 Constable Jacob Brandon declares he has long used spring medicines and finds C D Warner's Compound of Seven Cures superior He reports recommending it to a friend with cancer who says it was cured by the remedy.
A collision outside Belfast between the Dromedary and the Algator struck five passengers dead and left over thirty injured. About 600 people were aboard the two steamers as rescue operations followed and fears of further drownings spread. Amputations were often necessary amid harrowing scenes at the scene.
Kaukauna Wisconsin July 23 An elderly man Andrew Miller aged ninety eight years rests in a casket he constructed himself. He came to Kaukauna a year ago from Woodville where at age eighty eight he built the coffin used for his burial.
O W Wakefield of Columbus Ga declares Chamberlains Oolic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy superior for stomach and bowel troubles. He cites two cholera morbus cures in his family and claims he has sold hundreds of bottles with customer satisfaction. For sale by A O Rowe druggist.
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