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Newspaper
Oakes Weekly Republican
Location
Oakes, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1891
Page
4
A historical advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a legitimate female wellness tonic. It promises restoration, improved digestion, enriched blood, and relief from melancholy and nervousness, claiming guaranteed satisfaction or money back. The copy stresses uniqueness and guaranteed results for various female ailments.
A Department of Agriculture report argues against a world wheat decline. It cites six year totals around 2,122,000,000 bushels excluding several European regions, Mexico and Japan. It notes 1887-88 totals rose 345,000,000 bushels over prior years and expects price variation with climatic shifts and transport growth. The US will stay surplus, while plains wheat gives way to diverse crops.
An account of General Wolseley’s night strike on Tel-el-Kebir guided by naval lieutenant Wyatt Rawoon who navigates by stars to reach the enemy works. The assault succeeds within an hour, the steerer is killed, and a chaplain’s reflections stress duty and courage. A local ad for Kidney cure medical claims closes the piece.
A Havana dispatch April 23 reports Manuel Garcia leading a feared band robberies murders and abductions spill across Matanzas. A clash at Plantation Esperanza leaves one bandit dead and several soldiers wounded. Band members including Antonio Macal Viccor Jane Antonia Cotz Gallo Sosy and 8. Plagencia are named. A brutal raid on Santa Rosa ends with the elderly Menendez couple murdered and the wife tortured before death. The attack prompts public anger as authorities promise pursuit and retaliation.
An essay describes modern graceful movement for women, contrasting past restraint with active posture and poise. It cites a streetcar scene where a woman boards with erect posture and controlled drapery, and recounts a lecturer urging bodily ease in walking and arm movements. The piece links grace to physical development from toes through joints and notes fashion schools’ emphasis on composed gestures.
A lavish American patron, nicknamed the American Prince, spends 400000 in two years at London Alhambra, flaunting jewels and champagne for ballet dancers. He envisions a New York Alhambra, recruiting staff and planning a transatlantic project with manager Frederick Strange, while rumors about his origins swirl.
A group recounts a perilous journey through New York after a vanished Mr Steggs. They find him later homeless, decades of excess exposed, as Silas W Steves once heir to £80,000 squanders his fortune across Paris London and New York. The tale ends with his ruin and arrest.
The Minneapolis Tribune questions the claim that world wheat production declines each season. Data from Europe, Russia, India and the United States show varied trends in yield and exports, with price declines tied to overproduction. Minnesota leads U.S. wheat output, yet room exists to expand cultivation if prices are profitable.
In Chicago the mayor’s first act to curb gambling begins with a fierce executive move from Chief of Police Marsh. The order warns gamblers that any remaining dens found open by noon will face removal. The measure raises tension as officers pledge to locate all gaming sites or face dismissal for failing to do so.
Thomas Cooper, a Wyoming guide, returned from Jackson Hole claiming Robert Ray Hamilton was drowned in September. Cooper says the body found was unrecognizable, and few present could identify it. Villagers speculate a body from a medical college was dressed in Hamilton’s clothes and dumped in the river to fake his death. The decomposed state suggests extended submersion beyond six days. The body could be exhumed for final identification if Hamilton’s friends wish.
Naughty Orleans reports indicate the young duke disrupted royal expectations by attending the St. Petersburg opera and throwing bouquets to a stageady, then demanding an audience with the emperor against his father's orders. In Vienna he appeared in a front box with an objectionable companion, prompting a societal walkout. At Emporia, Kan, a young farmer was...
A fragmentary clipping lists tonics and patent medicines claiming cures for malaria kidney troubles and rheumatism, with testimonials about Castoria for children. It also notes Rev. Dr Col W Bridgman resigning from a New York church due to disagreements, ending with an ambiguous nod to internal punishment.
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