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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1899
Page
12
A testimonial claims a blood disease cured by a product labeled 8.8.8.1 after doctors failed. The narrator details initial sores, weight loss, and recovery after using the remedy, urging others to avoid mercury and potash treatments. The letter cites an address in Newark, NJ.
Liberia, after 25 years of debt and failed payments, regains ability to meet bond obligations through rubber revenue. London agents report arrears settled at 75 000 dollars while current interest shifts to five percent until loan extinction. Foreign powers and US influence loom as rubber prosperity draws diplomatic attention.
Chicago assistant chief Lyman Lewis recounted a long romance, tracing George Smale and Margaret Tucker from Lowell to Milwaukee to Wilkes-Barre. The couple, once separated by age and distance, reunited after nearly twenty five years, with Margaret now Mrs Smale.
Talia Arthur halted the performance of More Than Queen after two spectators in an upper box talked and laughed. A man from the auditorium persuaded them to leave, and the curtain fell for the next act. The notice also mentions a Lime Plaza fountain gift from 1578 as America’s oldest fountain.
The War Department systematically gathers data on the war with Spain including copies of official records, photographs from Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and a vast collection of newspaper clippings forming a 20 volume journalistic history. The effort also compiles resources on participating countries political conditions and military operations for officers to study current and future operations.
German firms plan new American operations as Brahms Seeline of Gers considers a factory and branch in the United States. Reports say a syndicate aims to build further worsted textile plants in the United States while other German manufacturers seek silk and woolen branch factories. The tariff cut on the American market has driven this shift, a fact noted by German industry circles and press organs.
James Gilmer of Kansas City and Mrs K A Ferron of St Louis wed in Cincinnati after a tale of shipwreck desertion and reunion. Gilmer's voyage ended with a wreck near Africa and his wife remarried, believing him dead. A divorce followed Ferron’s marriage. After Ferron died, the war department learned Gilmer was alive and they were briefly reunited. He left her undisturbed.
Rev J H Seibold, an army chaplain at Fort Canby Washington under orders for the Philippines, claims he is three years older than thought born 1835 instead of 1838 making him eligible for retirement. He is the third chaplain of ten assigned to the Philippines to seek orders revoked. War department officials expect acceptance and retirement with three quarters pay.
Reports from the New York Times note that Mississippi papers urge a state technology school to supply skilled superintendents for new cotton mills. Under the current system many physicians and lawyers lack work, while mills seek qualified youths from northern states.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports Admiral Dewey did not tell the officiating clergyman You may fire when ready at his marriage to Mrs Hazen though he remained cool as on the bridge on that May morning in 1898.
The Washington post office department invites proposals for a new automobile mail service in Chicago linking the general post office on the lakefront with central business district stations including the Monadnock and Masonic Temple branches. Bids for screen wagons are also sought with one method to be chosen later. Postmaster Gordon supports the move, predicting Chicago may be first to adopt horseless wagons, though street conditions must improve and breakdown risks addressed.
A new anti toxin or plague serum developed by Prof Haffkine shows remarkable results in Bombay and western India. The serum is prepared from killed plague germs and their poison excrements and injected to render the blood immune to plague. Vaccination uses dead germs, while smallpox vaccination uses living organisms.
Fire Chief Croker reveals plans for a searchlight engine to increase efficiency by about 60 percent. The unit replaces pumping gear with a dynamo and high speed engine while mounting two 18 inch marine projectors behind the driver. The beam can be widened or narrowed with a diverging lens to illuminate dark stairways and rooms during fires.
The Wichita Eagle reports Gen. Fred Funston looked from a car window at a western Kansas town depot crowded with well wishers. He told his wife two years earlier he addressed an audience of seven in this same town. The note also mentions the prince of Wales turning 58 and a cryptic allusion from the Chicago Times Herald about his status.
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