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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
4
Charlottesville Progress lauds President McKinley for fighting any effort to reduce Southern representation and for fostering amity between the North and South. The piece credits his four years in office with liberal Southern appointments, calls his heart right, and predicts broad support if he continues in this vein.
L C Overstreet of Elgin Tenn recalls his wife’s coughing nearly collapsing her lungs and credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving her life. The medicine promises relief for coughs colds bronchitis asthma and lung diseases and is sold at W T Youngers drug store with trial bottles free. Hawaii statehood mentions weakly with 11000 registered voters. Russia plans to boost troops on German and Austrian borders to 200000 men.
Winthrop Massachusetts officials including Selectmen Magee Craig and Pope pass a by law to curb kissing at church entertainments and town gatherings. Constable Samuel Jenkins is ordered to enforce it and faces challenges from indignant Winthrop girls who vow to kiss public officials. The town blames the trend on social mixing at refreshments and looks to the by law as a remedy.
A mixed old item offers agricultural advice praising high priced vegetables and a fertilizer with at least 8 percent potash, then presents a Yorkshire girl's brick code for flirtation using a brick as a signaling device with various hand gestures and messages.
A flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm bound to the affected area offers superior relief to plasters. It eases pains in the back side or chest and cures rheumatism with a single application. For sale by W. T. Younger, druggist.
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