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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1900
Page
3
A promotional pitch touts a high quality drink at just one cent per cup and urges customers to test it themselves rather than relying on claims. The appeal stresses very small usage due to the product’s premium nature.
Local notes from Bod NTV News Chronicle Rockland and surrounding islands. Family visits, travels, and small town happenings are listed along with society, church events, school openings, and a few brief business updates. A medical ad promotes One Minute Cough Cure for coughs and colds with local references toward the end.
An August trip from Silverton to Red Mountain details a perilous scenic ride along the circle route to Ouray. Mrs. Tol Jr. notes the rugged terrain, mining towns, and a Maine landlady who selects the trusted driver Mr. Stewart for a daring ascent amid high altitude vistas and historic stage coaches.
Market notes list prices for produce including potatoes at 70 cents per bushel, beans higher, cranberries up 2 cents, bananas 20 to 30 cents per dozen, oranges 85 to 140 per dozen, apples 4 to 20 dollars per barrel, lemons 25 to 43 cents per dozen. Hay and straw supplies noted as abundant with hay price stable.
County News reports a visit by Charles H. Crimmins of Haverhill Mass and notes Ken Wilbur’s gradual recovery from lung hemorrhage. Homer Kingman returns from Amherst with a cut foot while Ellery Wilbur and Marcia Dinsmore wed. Greenwood Orange greets two new members as Bayview Grange names officers including Master Daniel Hall and Secretary Lonn Rich. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is endorsed as a healing antiseptic.
Advertisements tout Peruna as a cure for kidney trouble with testimonials from John H. Corlies and others. The notices describe symptom relief, weight gain, and improved health after fourteen weeks to four months of use, and urge readers to request the “Summer Catarrh” booklet from Dr. Hartman.
Obituary notes on George Knight a former state prison mate who died at eighty three, Elisha F Blackman of Augusta who passed aged about sixty seven, and Horace W Reynolds the alleged North Lubec postmaster facing embezzlement charges. Also reports Bath Maine city gifts for Arthur Sewall, Maine State Grange meeting at Lewiston December 18 20, Lewiston Auburn tours by Lewiston board of trade, and Halley’s comet nearing return. Includes Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills adverts.
Frank P Wood of Bangor plans a new summer hotel at Castine named The Dome of the Rock to be ready next summer. The hotel will sit on a rocky ledge overlooking Castine harbor and Penobscot Bay with interiors salvaged from the Bradley Martin mansion and other New York houses. It will feature seven foot wainscoting, Japanese paper, a 50 by 26 foot dining room, a 25 foot square music room, private parlor, thirty six sleeping rooms, two suites and several bachelor apartments. Misses Tyleston will run the hotel, who previously operated Rockwood last summer and at Old Point Comfort in winter. Pure artesian water will be supplied.
When Christmas comes the house is dressed with holly pine and fir and mis tetoe. The Christmas throngs invite mingling and bright talk and the joy of children. Read a Christmas story sing a Christmas song and observe the day’s sweet significance. Margaret B. Sangater in Ladies Home Journal urges happiness shared with all.
An advertisement states that when the stomach is tired it needs help and that Kodol Dyspepsia Care digests what you eat. It claims the preparation digests all kinds of food and lets you enjoy meals while restoring digestive organs to health.
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