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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1900
Page
4
An omnibus summary notes agricultural price shifts with cotton at ten cents per pound, a Republican push for Hawaii governance, and ongoing Nicaragua canal debate. It cites Edwin H. Torrey as a Republican county commissioner candidate from Surry, jokes about Puff atop a factory smokestack, and remarks on Roosevelt and Long as potential 1900 vice presidential contenders.
The column notes river drivers going into camp and recounts Maine lore including early Bluebill settlement in 1762, ship news from Jockport Grand Bank, and local life scenes. It also reflects on ethnologist Cushing's death and regional quirks from Sugar Hill to Molasses Pond, with a nudge toward preserving old place names.
Paris April 5 1900 Judge Emery writes of an eventful voyage from Malta to Alexandria Cairo and the Nile listing pyramids temples and peoples along the way including Jerusalem Beirout Smyrna and Naples after a Mediterranean fever illness he plans to continue to London Ellsworth and then home to Maine The American readers are assured the New England outbreak rumors are exaggerated and that the ship departed Naples to avoid quarantine with a likely arrival in Boston on April 12.
8100 Reward offered for proof that Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh. Advertises systemic blood and tissue cleansing as the key to cure with a $100 reward for any case the remedy fails to cure. Claims to restore natural mucous membranes and lists CHENEY & CO Toledo as suppliers with testimonials.
At Lewiston the Republican State convention nominated presidential electors for McKinley, elected delegates to the Philadelphia national convention, and adopted resolutions endorsing the administration. Electors named include Smith Skowhagan Wescott Libby Wakefield Atwood Fogg. Delegates include Norton Bird Manney Murchie, with alternates Andrews Austin Higgins Beal. Resolutions urge unity, uphold gold standard, and back Frye shipping act to boost merchant marine and American prosperity.
The Beat Remedy for Rheumation offers quick relief from rheumatic pain. Mr D N Sinks of Troy Ohio reports severe rheumatism in arm and shoulder, relief after Chamberlains Pain Balm, and recommendation to friends as best muscular rheumatism remedy. Sold by Gao A Pancner Ellsworth and W I Par TRIDGE, Hiuetttt druggists.
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