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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1898
Page
7
The first iron bridge in Ohio, a Bollman deck truss over Salt Creek in Muskingum County on the Baltimore and Ohio line, built in 1851 and TL feet long, has been removed. Bollman, then chief engineer, oversaw its construction as the state’s pioneer iron span.
Dispatch from July 21 describes the Spanish surrender of Santiago de Cuba after intense siege. Gen Shafter, Gen Toral, and staff exchange formalities as arms are laid down and a Spanish detachment marches through American lines. The article notes dejected Toral, ruined city streets, famine, water cutoff, and lingering malarial conditions.
Since 1871 Kimberly South Africa has produced diamonds valued at over 100 million. About 1,000 petoms are employed in world coal mines. A soda siphon explosion in a Washington store injured a clerk named George Curtin, blowing off the back bead.
The item notes public school swimming in Boston and lists Meeks siblings in Company 1 first regiment with Captain F Meeks Sergeant EO G Meeks and privates Ludlow C and Benjamin F Meeks. It recalls General Lawton’s Santiago campaign and earlier Indian war exploits including a trek in the Sierra Madre. A German land buyer buys plots in Moors town. An Englishman jokes about gardens on fort sites near Tangier. Major Pond offers ten lectures on Santiate warfare with proceeds to army hospitals.
A jaggedOCR fragment describes amber containing a small squirrel with visible teeth and claws. Other disjointed phrases reference nurses, homesickness, a diplomatic man, and a question about size, suggesting a chaotic, partial manuscript segment with vivid but unclear details.
A stream of letters to Mrs Pinkham from women praising the Vegetable Compound for relief from backache headaches nervous fatigue painful menstruation and leucorrhoea. Testimonials from East Rochester Ohio and Gibson City Illinois describe drastic improvements after using four bottles of the remedy Liver Fills and Sanative Wash. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice from Lynn Mass and urges addressing root causes rather than simply “working it down.”
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