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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
7
A fragment describes rheumatism sufferers growing worse under mercury and potash treatments. The writer claims a blood remedy is the proper cure and criticizes doctors for using harsh metals. A testimonial tone notes a local retiree and mentions a regimen costing around five dollars.
A garbled ad promotes No-To-Bac for fifty cents with claims of cured tobacco use and health benefits. A separate misspelled notice seeks district office managers in Illinois with yearly pay and references, plus stamped envelopes. The rest contains incoherent lines about holiday celebrations, a Midwestern parade or event, and scattered prices and names, all largely unreadable.
A record of Senate and House actions from Dec 12 to Dec 16 detailing a range of measures. Resolutions aim to align presidential and congressional terms to the last Wednesday in April, curb interstate corporate power, and audit Philippine and Cuban policies. Debates on a currency bill and related finance proposals dominate, with pensions, postal banks, telegraph links to the Philippines, and statehood measures for Arizona included.
Mr Moody Te Woerne of East Northfield Massachusetts reports Dwight H Moody is in critical condition and may die within days. If recoveries occur he could live for years but only if he ceases work. Washington dispatch notes Maj. Gen Leonard Wood to command the division of Cuba replacing Maj. Gen John R Brooke. Whitesburg fight resulta in four men killed Alexander Bryant John H Mullins David L Craft. St Louis prizefighter Henry Neise killed by Fred Bellerson both amidst December 14 15 reports.
At Mount Vernon Washington December fifteenth a unique Masonic ceremony honored the one hundredth anniversary of George Washington's death. President McKinley delivered a tribute alongside senators representatives and other officials with grand lodges from the United States and Canada in attendance.
The first Lafayette dollar authorized by Congress was struck at the Philadelphia Mint for the Lafayette monument fund. Fifty thousand coins will be produced at two dollars each and presented by the U.S. president to the president of France. The second and third coins were dispatched to Mrs. Milliley and Mrs. Kate Thyson Marn, respectively.
The item surveys a wide range of events from declines in Alabama labor union tensions to a San Francisco theater fire. It notes a lynching in Jones, Louisiana, a Williamsville blaze, a Boston mayoral result, and a Binghamton farmers union, alongside deaths from suicide and illness, a naval battle veteran, a world record in San Francisco, and a major Boston pork packer failure.
Washington reports the Republican National Committee chose Philadelphia to host the 1900 convention, with Chicago and New York narrowly losing. The vote was Philadelphia 24 to Chicago 23, amid enthusiastic, harmonious proceedings.
The Bulletin reports Ceram suffered massive losses after earthquakes in November. The steamship America March brought word of 5000 dead on Ceram alone amid broader Pacific turmoil. Separately, Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Edgewood burned, $150,000 loss, 500 pupils upset yet saved by swift staff action.
A general order from the Southern Railway requires all Southern division employees to quit smoking or resign. Future employment will be denied to anyone who smokes cigarettes. In Newport, Rev Dr Warren Randolph, aged 84, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Indianapolis, has died. The League of Republican Clubs sets St Paul Minnesota as host for the next convention on the third Tuesday in July.
Charles Helmeke, foster-father of "Swift Water Bill" the Klondike millionaire, died in Red Wing Minnesota county poorhouse at age 64. He had long fretted over the neglect of the boy he adopted years ago.
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