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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1904
Page
2
The Rimplecute announces Taylor and Taylor and associated offices in Jefferson Texas with publication details. Copies of the Jefferson Jump Lecture wraps available at the office, single or by the dozen, and mailing to subscribers continues until an order to discontinue is received and all arrears are paid.
Train schedules show East and West bound expresses and local stops by Jefferson Texas with times for the Cannon Ball and Mail and Express services. The text shifts to broader notes: Maryland race issue political parties, English penny telephones discontinued, Clara Barton’s role, Boston pleasure excursions, Cuban market gains by Germany, Mantanzas banquet US flour, Newport battleship incident, and cautious naval conduct.
The column surveys wages in Belgium with women earning a few tens of cents daily, US politics seen as dull, Bryce visiting America, a St Louis disappearance ending on a dissecting table, California watermelons growing wild, Kansas farmers holding a hundred million dollars in deposits, and fading cries of hard times in Kansas.
Sir Thomas Lipton refuses another challenge citing the Atlantic crossing as impossible aboard a yacht that could win under the New York Yacht Club rules. The piece questions whether Americans view such handicap persistence as creditable or sportsmanlike.
In Philadelphia a new hotel requires 1,300 staff with 1,000 bedrooms, 45 miles of carpet, 2,700 windows and 1,000 telephones. The kitchen and dining totals include 60,000 napkins 60,000 pieces of silverware 15,000 plates and 10,000 glassware. Five thousand pictures were purchased for display. Also notes patent grants to Texas inventors and plans by Lake Shore railroad to build summer hotels in northern Michigan to spur travel. Cincinnati reports fifty hello girls flirtation case ended with discharge after a trap.
John Mitchell Jr the Black president of the Mechanics Savings Bank Richmond addressed the American Bankers Convention in New York on the 15th and was warmly received.
State of Ohio notice swears Frank J. Cheney as senior partner of F. J. Cheney and Co. to pay a hundred dollars for every catarrh case cured or not Hall's Catarrh Cure claims. Mink kills 72 turkeys in one night on Mrs C. P. Bird's farm as it waited under a poultry shed to capture more birds.
An old advertisement promotes Herbine as a cure for malaria and related symptoms. It cites testimonials from J A Hopkins of Manchester Kansas praising Herbine for malaria chills fever headache biliousness and blood purification. The ad notes 50 cents at WJ Sedberry. The text ends with a quip about a lazy debtor.
A health claim from John Dixon of Tullamore Ontario credits Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets with ending a three month period of severe indigestion and sleepless nights after meals. The testimonial notes immediate relief after using the product.
A pest resembling the boll weevil has been observed in Georgia and South Carolina. Reports note the insect’s appearance prompts monitoring by farmers and extensions as officials assess potential crop damage and management steps.
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