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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1900
Page
2
Readers see a collage of commentary on US and British politics. Admiral Dewey faces presidential speculation while Henry Clark Daly battles for Montana Senate seats. Kansas political notes include prosecutions, conventions, seed theft, and postmaster organization amid a turbulent campaign year.
A fragment from a diary parodies a congressman elects life in Washington. It shows repeated assertions that politics is rotten, with mentions of the Universal Control company and a $5,000 salary, plus dinners and social campaigns. It lampoons money influence, the oppressors, and the quest to right wrongs while noting costs of living in the capital.
Listings show scattered classified items including sale of animals eggs and hardware, requests for workers and stenographers, and rental offers. Names and places like Mt Hope nurses, A C Griesa & Bros, 525 Broome Street New York, and 929 Mississippi Street appear with mixed spellings and garbled text.
A historic testimonial tale extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a curative for severe eczema and general weakness. Mrs E W Decexry from Gardiner Maine credits two bottles with curing painful skin lesions. Other letters praise better sleep appetite and renewed energy after taking five bottles.
The Senate scheduled a final vote on Lou. M. 5 for a Pennsylvania senatorial seat on Tuesday April 24 at four p.m. A broad set of approvals followed, including amendments to civil government in Hawaii, and retention of officers from the volunteer ranks for key adjutant general posts. A separate agricultural appropriation bill progressed in Washington with debates over seed and vaccine distributions and farm bulletins.
The World features an extensive interview with President Kruger from Pretoria. He argues burghers fight for freedom, criticizes Rhodes and Milner, rejects foreign meddling, and stresses independence as the core war aim. He notes Red Cross aid and condemns British food-blockade rhetoric, while defending the Transvaal and boer resolve.
The April report from the Department of Agriculture shows winter wheat averages on April 1 at 21 cents. notes Hessian fly damage in Ohio Michigan Indiana and weaker crop prospects in several states. Naval efforts to aid India's famine include food transport plans and vessel chartering by officials and experts, plus rail and labor unrest reports from Chicago and Texas regions.
The fragment promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by F J Chesey Co Toledo and Waters Kumgn Manis wholesale druggists. It touts a $100 reward for an uncured cape of catarrh and endorses the remedy as a system-wide internal treatment. Also mentions Holt home rates and monthly train fares for trips to various locations.
An old physician from Washita describes four doses of Electric Riders curing Mrs. Brewer of long standing scrofula and muttering, with terrible sores on head and face. Claim markets Electric Bitters as top blood purifier and liver kidney digestive aid. Also mentions Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as trusted cures.
A brief antiquarian note on a 1811 Boston News-Letter issue recounts early piracy tales. Reports detail a sloop of 10 guns plundering European vessels off Virginia and Long Island, with Captain Williams and Captain Bellamy’s crews, captured ships, drownings, and shipwrecks near Cape Cod and Nantucket. Accident anecdotes conclude with a plug for Dr Thomas Electric Oil.
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