Banking Routine Notes Farm Loans and Collections
A general banking business transaction is noted with farm loans negotiated and collections made. Interest is paid on time deposits, reflecting standard financial operations.
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Newspaper
Perry Advertiser
Location
Perry, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1898
Page
6
A general banking business transaction is noted with farm loans negotiated and collections made. Interest is paid on time deposits, reflecting standard financial operations.
The Fifth Congressional District Republicans met in Cedar Rapids nominating RB G Cousins by acclamation. They report a severe accident in Ames as a 9 year old boy died after a fall from a tree while gathering eggs. A major fire in Charlotte destroyed several business properties causing heavy losses.
An American force of about six hundred marines, under Lieutenant Colonel Huntington, landed near Guantanamo Bay after shells from Marblehead and other ships opened on Spanish earthworks. They burned Spanish buildings, silenced guns, and established a beachhead while awaiting further orders to take the main fortifications within the city. No American casualties reported. Spaniards briefly fired but offered little resistance before the landing.
Advices to the Liberal from Manila describe advancing insurgents under Aguinaldo pushing Spaniards back. Fighting is continuous with skirmishes day and night, shortages of provisions and ammunition forcing Spaniards to retreat at points. Wounded are sheltered in churches under Red Cross care. Jesuits and sisters flee to safety as Manila’s capitulation nears with American arrival anticipated.
June reports from Sierra Leone describe massive killings in the uprising. About a thousand killed including Freetown traders and strangers. many abducted into the bush by war boys. White missionaries of the United Brethren of Christ reportedly murdered in the violence.
Bombardment demolished the brick fort and line earthworks at Calmanera at the end of the railroad to Guantanamo. Texas Marblehead and others engaged, lasting about an hour and a half. Spaniards in the brush opened fire after ships withdrew, then were driven inland.
The column blends a renominating scene in Pilih district with a Washington voting note on the Hawaiian question. It reports a British steamer from Kingston bringing a coal cargo and a presumed Spanish emissary under a write crew. Also noted is President’s recommendation for Lt. Richmond P. Robson, the sinking of the Merrimac, and Spain’s request to the powers about occupying Manila should insurgents yield.
Reports indicate Major General Kilpatrick plans a 40,000 strong force to move on Havana with 10 day readiness. General Lee’s detachments may land within thirty days to encircle and invest the Cuban capital as Wheeler’s cavalry and Fourth Army Corps prepare for Porto Rico expedition from Tampa. Porty-ninth and Fiftieth Town volunteers in Jacksonville, Fifth second at Camp Thomas, poised to join.
New Orleans shelled Morro Castle hill top for twenty minutes as Vesuvius fired three times, releasing two hundred pounds of gun cotton per blast. The explosions sent Earth rising from the hillside and shook ships five miles away, with men in darkness catching the warning. Firing received praise as well done.
The report details Walter Leiter’s collapse as wheat prices plummet after he placed roughly 7,000,000 bushels in trust. Pressure from margin calls and his father’s refusal to lend more precipitated a rapid sequence of sales begun with broker George G. French, driving prices downward through 14 months of trades.
Troops under General Shafler will land from north Cuban blockading squadron near Zachera Bay in Santiago. The transport fleet carries about 26,600 infantry, three cavalry squadrons, and an artillery regiment and is expected off Santiago by Thursday. The Assciated Press reports plans for direct Washington communication via the cable with Admiral Sampson to manage the sea operation.
The Frankfort Zeilung notes insurgents have captured Manila and set up a provisional government before the contact with land. The Gerona consul in Manila reports 300 Germans and Swiss aboard a refuge steamer in the harbor.
June 18 reports the second expedition to aid Admiral Dewey at Manila leaving under General Greene with transports Senator, Colon, Chima and Zealand. About three thousand five hundred troops aboard four vessels march to sea as cannons fire and crowds cheer along the harbor.
A Detroit businesswoman, Mrs. L Mansfield, endorses Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as restoring sleep and strength amid chronic female ailments. She reports relief for herself and others, praising the pills for boosting nervous health and general well being. The ad claims benefits for growing girls, mothers, and even paralysis and locomotor ataxia.
A wartime remark questions why leaders rejoice. It argues politicians should focus on the broad future of young soldiers and their interests. The exchange highlights tension between victory sentiment and duty to care for veterans.
Curio items include an automatic bicycle pump that recharges a deflated tire each wheel revolution. Inventors seeking patent law guidance are urged to contact Sues & Co Registered Patent Lawyers at Bee Building. Military notes state a first-class battleship’s heaviest shell from an 18 inch gun weighs 1,150 pounds while Salting guns fire bullets around three-tenths of an ounce. A Gatling gun shower is said to clear a ship’s deck at dusk.
Advertisement highlights Allen's Foot-Base powder for feet curing painful swollen feet and bunions. It claims instant sting relief, improves shoe fit, reduces sweating and callouses, and offers mail order and free trial. Also notes sailors on lakes train sharper for navigation due to busy waters.
A fragmentary display ad quotes R D Blackmore praising Lorna Doone as a magnum opus and notes a plan to obtain the Standard Dictionary via small down payments. The text also mentions tobacco tainting meat and proctors smoking in New York kitchens.
The text notes the Marshall twins Paul of Pitistizania County Virginia and Saul of Pole Arkansas, aged 97, in good health and resembling each other closely. It mentions credin class SCReRt salesmin and references sales from photographs by Wecaaristos S20 toTMonthon Imaiomdery Address, with Bernard Mic. Co. in lowe Cy. Jows.
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