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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1901
Page
2
The article praises Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a simple rational cure for indigestion and nervous dyspepsia. It notes no grand claims beyond aiding digestion, emphasizes vegetable ingredients, and states no dieting is required. Manufactured by F A Stuart Co, priced per package. Ends with a plug about Edison’s interest in children.
Twelve years ago J. W. Sullivan of Hartford Connecticut scratched his leg with a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood poisoning followed for two years. Doctors urged amputation, but he used one bottle of Electric Bitters and 114 boxes of Bucklin’s Arnica Salve, and his leg recovered completely. The remedy cured eruptions eczema tetter salt rheum sores and blood disorders.
A new American company with Havemeyer interests is acquiring 66,000 acres in eastern Cuba for large scale sugar production. About 10,000 acres are under cultivation, with 350,000 tons of cane expected to be processed next year. The plant will feature a 6000 horsepower steam system, 200 sugar cars, and a 8000 ton daily grinding capacity, built largely with U.S. machinery.
Herbert B. Vreeland profiles Jacob I. Greatsinger, newly elected president of the Rapid Transit Company of Brooklyn. A Elmira native raised on a farm, he started as a clerk earning 100 dollars monthly, saved 1600, then entered railroading. He rose through lines to preside over the Duluth and Iron Range and now oversees vast Brooklyn–New York traffic.
A Beaumont Texas well began bubbling about three months ago and now yields an estimated 70 000 barrels daily. The Beaumont gusher profits its owners Guffey and Galey with Captain A F Lucas as discoverer. Colonel Jim Guffey, a famed Pennsylvania politician, built a vast oil fortune from western gas and coal ventures and is described as a shrewd, generous, high‑powered organizer.
Harvard University loses one student and gains one at the London embassy through two recent changes. Joseph H. Choate Jr., son of the ambassador, resigns as third secretary of the embassy to come.
The article notes a muddled outlook as talks unfold and calls for work to straighten relations. it mentions Dnele Sim and strategic interests across the Orient. Special Envoy Rockhill, Minister Allen, and Minister Buck are named, with Buck currently at home in Atlanta amid absence concerns.
Colonel Alfred E Buck, born in Foxcroft Maine, arranged to return in May from his post as minister to Japan. A Civil War brevet colonel, Buck later settled in Alabama in turpentine and resin work, rebuilt political career after Reconstruction, and became a Georgia Republican leader before 1897 appointment to Japan.
Mrs Josephine Wright Chapman of Boston, a young architect, designs the New England building for the Pan American exposition in Buffalo. The colonial style structure, costing about $20,000, will feature six eastern states and is noted as the sole on the grounds designed by a woman, reflecting her long practice since 1897.
A description of Armorican Poetry Professor Koopman assisting in acquiring the Harris collection of American poetry for Brown University with funds from Chancellor William Goddard. The note mentions a private library sale of Thomas J. Melteée and a sales guarantee for Greene's Syrup of Tar bottles with a money refund if not curing coughs.
An old advertisement extols Benson's Porous Plaster as universal external remedy, praising its curative powers for coughs, colds, rheumatic pain, and back issues. It contrasts Benson's plaster with rival plasters and asserts high trust from physicians and druggists, with nationwide sales and a mail order offer from Seabury & Johnson.
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