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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
3
A collage of brief phrases from a newspaper page includes dialogue about a theft suspect, a record distance gun forecast, and multiple advertisements for tonics and breakfast foods. The pieces mix humor, medical pitches, and light social banter with stray quotes and product claims.
Gen Charles E Knox has led a pursuit of Gen De Wet in the southern Orange River Colony. In South Africa about a year, he fought heavily and commanded a brigade under Lord Roberts until Paardebars where he was wounded in the chest. Born fifty four years ago, Knox served with Sir Charles Warren in Bechuanaland 1884 and holds the rank of colonel in the British army.
Edward Cudahy Jr the son of Omaha packer recounted his kidnaping to police after being returned home and receiving a $25,000 ransom. His father Edward A Cudahy announced a $25,000 reward for the abductors with $5,000 for one or $15,000 for two suspects and released the ransom letter.
A man recounts a sensational abduction from near Win's Place at 332 South Thirty seventh Street. Masked captors forced him into a buggy, blindfolded him, and confined him upstairs while six conspirators planned a larger crime. He was later found three blocks from home after a dramatic escape.
Engineering Magazine describes EL 610 as the largest locomotive, weighing 86 tons with a 46 ton tender for a total of 132 tons. The articulated design uses four foot driving wheels on steam bogies with paired high and low pressure cylinders, 18 1/2 and 28 inch diameters, and a chimney top 16 feet 9 inches above rail.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets nature cure with claims to cure illness by regulating bowels. It markets Cascarets Candy Cathartic in metal boxes and warns buyers to avoid imitations while noting a ten cent start price.
Mrs. Longwood scorns her spouse claiming greater cleverness in her little finger. Mr. Longwood coolly notes she married him and asks what she married him for, implying the value of their union.
The Commissary Department has secured a large shipment of Libby, McNeill & Libby's Peerless Plum Pudding for Christmas dinners in the Philippine Islands and Cuba. Soldiers will taste home life at Christmas far from home. In Zante, Ionian Islands, a long known petroleum spring is noted and dated by Herodotus.
The advertisement extols Original Gresm as unequalled for scratches, cuts, blackheads, and pimples with promises of renewed youth and beauty. It quotes New York readers from 1887 and notes inquiries about price and supply for travel, mentioning Mrs James Brown Potter at Brevoort House.
Biologists note a rare reanimated Devonian shark with tricuspid teeth named Chlamydose achus anguiccus. Thirteen specimens were secured before 1890, all from Japanese waters. A later specimen was captured by the Prince of Monaco of Madeira, and a new find occurred off the coast of Norway.
A 100 dollar reward is offered for Saycare of Cabaret not curable by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney and Co of Toledo are named as developers. The undersigned declare Cheney honorable and able to meet obligations. The ad endorses Wallding, Marvin wholesale druggists and claims the cure works internally on mucous membranes.
The elephant beetle of Venezuela is noted as the world’s largest beetle with a full grown individual weighing about half a pound. A separate note mentions Mrs. Austin's pancake flour and a claim of extinction in three generations in London’s flumen where the third generation is born and bred but has no progeny.
Advertising copy declares quick Jell O dessert mix in Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry flavors. Ready in two minutes with water. no boiling or baking required. Sold at grocers for 10 cents.
Coughing leads to consumption and Kemp's Balsam offers a free sample bottle with 25 and 50 cent bottles sold. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day with money back if it fails. Satlej river in India noted as fastest flowing, 12 000 feet descent in 180 miles. Putnam Faceless Dyes claim color fastness to sun washing and rubbing. Carter's Ink advertised for deep color and eye comfort.
A Finnish tactic to force Russian authorities to forward letters uses a Finnish stamp placed in a thin transparent envelope inside a Russian postage stamped outer envelope. The ruse highlights Finns' resilience and Russia's stance amid tensions, drawing sharp reactions from both sides as collectors note the stamp's rising value.
A heated exchange questions whether women have equal rights to men. One speaker asserts support but recalls a confrontation in a car where he would have struck a woman if she had been a man.
New Zealand joins Iceland in being free from all cattle disease. An early 1900s ad rhetoric touts Piso's Cure for Consumption, Dete Palm in Australia, Mrs. Austin's pancake flour, and Cushion Rubber Stampe products. Ends with a generic order line for Lock Box 230, Fort Wayne.
A Westerly physician advises in a letter that Pere-na cures catarrhal conditions and colds quickly and permanently, claiming no cough medicine equals it and that Pe-ru-na beats la grippe. He says he supplies many invalids and trusts Pere-na for extreme weakness cases.
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