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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1898
Page
2
A detailed overview defines torpedo boats and destroyers, contrasting small fast craft with heavy gunships. It explains night and day attack tactics, searchlight use, and vessel roles from battleships to cruisers. The piece quotes Kansas City Star commentary and includes advertisements for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
The Chicago Record argues for war financing via a popular loan with bond subscriptions through post offices. It notes the idea could extend access to those with little to invest, offering broader participation in government funding.
City officers recently elected and installed include Mayor Mark Whange, recorder I D Jones, city attorney W W Whit ley, city marshal R W Hill, treasurer P Sneed, aldermen C A Smith John Paul Dr L B Sutherland C Palmer W Scroggins, board of health L B Sutherland H M Dagg W Scroggins, and street commissioner W M May. An ad promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers to cleanse the liver and relieve stomach troubles.
A brief cookbook style note describes a baked omelet mixing yolks with milk flour baking powder salt then folded whites and served hot. It ends with a promotional line for One Minute Cough Cure from Pipkin & Co claiming it cures coughs colds croup bronchitis grippe and throat and lung troubles.
A promotional notice from The George P. Rowell Advertising Co offering a two hundred page index of U S newspapers with over 1000 copy circulation, based on the American Newspaper Directory December edition 1897, plus state maps noting towns with papers above 1000. The book, issued December 15 1897, costs one dollar postpaid to any address.
A fragmentary price list lists items such as Arbuckle coffee, navy beans, Y C sugar, steel wire nails, domestic yard goods, Humbolt jers, prints, butter, axe, traces, and flour with various weights and prices. The text is garbled with several missing words and unclear quantities.
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