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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1890
Page
3
A cryptic ad-like excerpt speaks of conquering cattle, a boy praising a syrup, and a woman discovering a salvation owl for twenty five cents. The fragment hints at a quirky medicine claim and price but lacks coherent context or full narrative.
Professor Culver of the South Dakota university Vermillion will head experimental irrigation surveys in North and South Dakota. Professor Updyke of Brookings college and Professor Bailey of the school of mines Rapid City will oversee work west of the Missouri. The excerpt also oddly mentions Syrup of Figs and ladies, unrelated to the main report.
A fragmentary medical advertisement pattern discusses a gloomy mood linked to dyspepsia and stomach trouble. It references various ailments such as constipation chills and kidney complaints and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a remedy.
Gody Phillips of Kalamazoo won five thousand dollars from The Soviet State Lottery drawing on March 11. Phillips held one twentieth of ticket No. 14,794 which earned the second prize of one hundred thousand dollars. At 26, he co-owns Richmond & Phillips Saloonitiats and plans to keep trying luck, saying he will not retire from business.
A letter advertises a so called cure for consumption promising a permanent end to hopeless cases after timely use. The writer offers to send two bottles to any reader who pays express and postage, signing as TA Biocon M.O. with a P I address.
A Chicago building at Van Buren and Wabaab housing furniture optical photographic bicycle and inn o firma burned. Four occupants escaped asphyxiation with damage estimated at 44 500.
A fragment recounts a child’s ailments and care with Castoria as a repeated remedy. It echoes a lullaby style urging Castoria during illness, referencing a baby and pediatric comfort. The text blends playful mis-spellings with a historic brand flavor.
Joseph A. Allen, a reporter for the New York Evening Telegram, died by suicide at his residence on Hicks Street in Brooklyn. The coroner and authorities note rheumatic illness and alleged throat ailments as factors, with chloroform mentioned as the method. The fragment references medical and remedy items unrelated to the incident.
The Dacotah relief steamer saved hundreds from flooded Pointe Coupee. Dozens of plantations, farms, and stock were destroyed as crevasses widened and levees failed. Residents, black and white, crowded the remaining high ground pleading for safety while authorities report extensive damage and ongoing rescue efforts.
A large crowd gathered near Lewinton Illinois on the 20th amid notable activity surrounding rabies fears and reports of mad dogs. Local authorities urged calm while health officials investigated several biting incidents and advised caution.
Chicago city council passed a resolution directing the corporation counsel to sue every treasurer from the past decade on bonds to recover interest kept from city funds in banks without legal sanction. Mayor Cregier had noted this practice as a personal emolument against policy. Estimated yearly total ranges from thirty to fifty thousand dollars.
A southeast gale and heavy rain flood New Orleans causing levee ruptures above Wilkinson Myrtle Grove plantation and at Gelvix street. Water pours through a fifty foot crevasse, threatening the center city up to Clarebone street as bulkheads fail and backwater rises.
Inspector Byrnes in New York was asked by Chief Marsh to track a transatlantic liner to Havre for Jennie Ducécastle a 17 year old French girl who fled Monteville near Paris with about $100 cash. Her father J D Ducécastle a trusted attache to C P Kimball & Co reported her disappearance after she packed her trunk while parents were away.
Senate committee on agriculture and forestry heard Senator Vances bill to create a nationwide government run warehouse system for farm produce. Col Polk argued the plan, rooted in the St Louis convention's work, would aid farmers amid falling values and rising progress elsewhere. He urged three reforms: free minting with silver, direct low interest currency to people, and tying new money to real values. Dr McCune supported the warehouse merits, noting storage preserves quality and citing California’s earlier groupers’ bank loaned to farmers on deposited wheat.
Diptheria has ravaged Vining since last fall with about forty deaths, mostly among Scandinavians. Local doctor disagrees, while Dr. Reynolds from Fergus Falls confirms diphtheria after investigation. No public health action taken. funerals are large and ongoing. State health board notified but offered no assistance.
A historical notice touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure for weak health and blood disorders, promising cures or money back. It also claims Lieut. Col. Dugas won $10,000 damages against La Monde newspaper amid charges tied to the Riel rebellion and biased reporting.
An ornate testimonial style ad extolls Golden Medical Discovery for liver disease biliousness indigestion and scrofula. It claims unique curative properties with guarantee refunds and warns against inferior substitutes. Promotes the product as a concentrated vegetable remedy priced at $1.00 per bottle or $5.00 for six, from Worths Dispensary in Buffalo New York.
Three travelers a Londoner a Scot and an American meet at a wayside inn in Europe each proposes to pay by a contest of oldest name. Richard Eve Adam McTageart and Mr B. Giining claim ancient lineages as they joke and laugh at the table about who must settle the bill.
J M Sigaby and son Williams arrested near Birmingham Alabama on a charge of taking and passing counterfeit money. They are linked to the Jon Bennefield gang known for operations in Georgia Tennessee and Alabama. Joe Bennefield on long prison term and several gang members dead. Moulds used by the Bigbys same as Bennefield s seized with hundreds of dollars in counterfeit notes.
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