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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1898
Page
4
The period marks growth for Polk and Mona as mills bustle with timber traffic and farmers invite invest ment in real estate. A county fair style display wowed locals, proving productive lands and proud businessmen driving progress, with crops and fruit praised as first rate.
Topeka and Kansas City consider building and operating street railways while the U S aims to nationalize telegraph and post service. The piece praises local agricultural exhibits and Arkansas wheat gains with farmers boosting self sufficiency and diversification away from cotton.
The Arkansas Gazette condemns the Clarendon lynching and urges full due process. It cites sheriff John Parham as a model for officers to back state law against mob violence and calls for more men like him to uphold law and order.
The Arkansas Gazette defends aggressive state control over tele graph and express firms arguing costly law evasion by powerful corporations. It urges government ownership via post office integration and criticizes public passivity in bearing the burdens of corporate property rights amid lobbying and court favoritism.
Warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments and recommending Hall's Catarrh Core by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a safe internal remedy. Claims no mercury, works on blood and mucous surfaces, testimonials available, price 75 cents per bottle, Wall's Family pills are the best.
Washington reports detail talks between Cuban representatives and U S officials aiming to resolve status after Spain renunciation and future self-government. Admiral Sampson and Maj Gen Butler meet with Assistant Secretary Moore to finalize commission tasks and potential governance structures in Cuba.
United States commissioner Ford W. Peck announces the Lafayette monument commission members including Chief Justice Puller ex President Harrison and Thomas Everett of Cleveland to join eight existing appointees, completing the panel for the Paris exposition project.
News from Honolulu dated August 12 describes the ceremonial transfer as the Hawaiian flag lowered from government buildings and the United States flag raised. Minister Sewall accepted sovereignty and property for the United States, with President McKinley directing civil, judicial, and military powers to continue under Hawaii’s officials.
Advertisement notes a 1757 edition by Benjamin Franklin printer and claims the speech contains wisdom of ages gathered into one discourse. It notes worldwide attention and widespread reproduction in newspapers and translations and offers a free copy at FLC Savages's drug store.
A cloud burst at Sawmill Run yesterday morning sent a tidal wave through a Pittsburgh stream endangering about a dozen people. Five children are missing and presumed drowned. Local authorities launched rescue efforts as crews searched downstream.
The Rev W R Costley of Stockbridge Georgia near Edenwood reports cholera morbus attack but credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life after he incidentally used a bottle. Sold by PC Savage.
Cuban troops are quitting their posts at Gen Lawton's request and returning home to resume former occupations as orderly disbandment proceeds near Santiago de Cuba. An American reader, E C Blanks of Lewisville Texas, reports a box of DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve valued at $50 helped his ten year pile problem and credits it with curing eczema and other skin ailments.
New York, Aug. 2. Theodore Roosevelt, famed Rough Rider leader and NY Republican standard bearer, is expected to be nominated to succeed Praas S. Black at the Saratoga convention, marking a key party decision amid ongoing campaigns.
An old advertisement endorses DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as best for piles and skin diseases. The note cites John Dunn of Wheeling West Virginia urging readers to try it. The piece mentions Pipkin and Hanes relocating September 1 to Hudgins building in Mena and branding the shop as the Racket Store on De Queen Street.
A vast pageant of warships sails into New York Harbor drawing acclamations from shore and water. Admiral Sampson and Admiral Schley’s fleets, including the New York Brooklyn Massachusetts Oregon Iowa Indiana and Texas, pass Governors Island and Grant’s Tomb amid cannon salutes and roaring crowds.
Washington reports a unique cable from Gen Shafter transmitting a Spanish private Pedro Lopes de Castillo farewell letter. The letter thanks American troops, praises their conduct, and notes surrender after capitulation. It also critiques colonial violence and laments Spain losing Cuba. Also mentions McKinley’s consent to attend the Trans Mississippi Expo grand peace jubilee in Omaha in early October.
Mr John Mathias a stock dealer from Pulaski Kentucky describes suffering with flux for over a week before relief. He was advised to use Chamberlains Col Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and reports that half a bottle cured him. For sale by F C Savage.
N M Roach offers a full assortment of field seeds for fall planting at his wholesale flour feed and seed warehouse east of the depot.
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