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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
8
Poem recounts a lonely boy in the House of Too Much Trouble where strict order, quiet, and precise rooms leave little room for play. The verse notes the boy’s longing for a friend and a toy, contrasted with constant rules and a lonely rest.
A nephew of William Lay recounts the Bounty mutiny, Bligh’s voyage after the mutiny, and the Pitcairn settlement. It follows William Lay’s voyage from Connecticut to England, the mutiny led by Christian, Lay’s survival, the massacre of islanders, and Lay’s later life on Pitcairn before joining an American vessel for return to the United States. Kansas City and Kansas City Kan. population figures appear at the end.
Pittsburg August 2 Associated Press reports Pittsburg and Eastern capitalists have purchased four thousand acres of coal land in Westmoreland county for 1,400,000 dollars. The purchase signals a major expansion in the region's coal development and investment activity.
The hospital ship Relief arrived from Manila carrying three hundred fifty invalids. Firemen's Tournament at Salem features a contest between surviving volunteers from Cleveland and Salem to throw water farthest using old hand pumped engines. Hudson Academy Incorporated formed in Columbus to prepare students for higher education, with an endowment fund of 100000 dollars and subscriptions to be paid to the new corporation. Wording reflects move to independence from Adelbert College.
Fish and Game Warden Reutinger will visit in September with fish for the river and soon send Mongolian pheasants. The New York Star offers a daily High Grade Bicycle for the largest word list from THE NEW YORK STAR letters, plus other prizes and a thirteen week trial subscription.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for dyspepsia nervousness catarrh rheumatism eruptions and related ailments by enriching and purifying the blood. It claims improved appetite digestion strong nerves and health, and calls Hood's Pills a treatment for biliousness and sick headache.
D. & C. floating steel palace steamers run daily between Detroit and Cleveland with two weekly trips to Toledo Detroit and Mackinac. Regular service starts June 17. Send 2 cents for illustrated pamphlet to A. A. Schantz G. P. A. Detroit Michigan.
A historical ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cool swollen feet, ease tight shoes, prevent blisters and callouses, and soothe coins bunions. It promises comfort from walking and lists 25 cent price with trial package option and druggists and shoe dealers as sellers.
Cleveland Elks Exposition will debut a baby camel, the only one in America today, as part of a highly anticipated street demonstration. Merchants are urged to decorate for the two week event, with Ohio Elks State reunion days on August 9 to 11 drawing attendees from across Ohio and neighboring states. Niagara Falls and Return $4.00 from Massillon via C L and W Ry offers through sleepers and coaches for 15 days.
The nineteenth annual West Virginia Exposition Association fair on Wheeling Island begins September 4 after thorough overhauls. Exhibitors rush in with every department filled and a superior racing program. Railroads offer excursion rates and preparations accommodate out of town patrons. Grain-O advertised as a coffee substitute promotes digestion and nerves, priced 13 and 25 cents. Fortnight ads note a New York Star promotion giving away a forty dollar bicycle, with names of notable directors. Allen’s Foot-Ease advertised for foot care and gloves with testimonials from a caller.
Travel to Mackinac and Georgian Bay via D and C coast line to northern summer resorts. Send two cents for frustrated pamphlets to A A Shanty G P A Detroit Michigan.
Pittsburg market notes show wheat futures and prices for corn oats hay and livestock with mixed quality grades and multiple units. New York spot prices echo weak wheat and corn with modest cattle sheep and hog valuations, plus tone of routine market trading.
The latest market notes from T. E. Drake’s exchange dated August 2 report fluctuations in wheat and other stocks. Includes notices of sheriff sale in Stark County Ohio and travel ads for Massillon routes via the C L & W Railway with implied sale terms and prices.
The undersigned has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of Thomas Laviers, late of Stark County, deceased. Dated the 2nd day of July, Jean Chara M Laviers, Administratrix.
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