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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
7
The British army medical service experiments with typhoid inoculations for troops sailing to Africa. Officers urge vaccination, hoping data from the campaign in the Transvaal and comparisons with Spanish-American War fever prevalence will yield useful insights.
The article notes a sizable herd of European Bison in Europe, possibly larger than Yellowstone's herd, kept by the czar in the imperial forest of Bie lovege in Lithuania. About 714 men have been sent to Siberia in the last three years for killing these animals.
Mrs. Henriette C. Olberg of Albert Lea Minnesota recalls her World’s Fair duties in Chicago and the Omaha Exposition of 1898. She praises Dodd’s Kidney Pills for restoring vigor after travel fatigue poor water and irregular meals. She serves as secretary of the National Flax Hemp and Ramie Association and assistant editor of the Distaff.
A fragment notes Aman who risks nothing accumulates eight two bounty like a plentiful stock. The text implies a proverb style warning about risk and reward with repeated quantity imagery.
The navy denies a plot linking Lieutenant Sims to alleged French gun secrets. Sims was kept in Paris by the Pollok heirs, later ordered to Gibraltar to join the battleship Kentucky bound for Manila via Suez. Officials say General Porter and the embassy are not implicated and no French inquiry suggests embassy confidence loss.
Dispatch reports an axe attack on Emperor William as his open carriage passed the Cuirassier barracks in Breslau. A hatchet hurled by Selma Schnapke struck near the carriage but did not injure him. police restrained the assailant, who was declared insane after preliminary medical examination. The emperor was greeted by cheering crowds on the return journey.
A dozen laborers with pick axes crowbars and shovels began removing the Dewey arch at Madison Square New York around midnight Friday. Spectators relic hunters crowded the area as workers stripped the base pedestal and front reliefs including Victory. The dismantling was directed by a department of streets and highways foreman. Czar in No Great Danger bulletin reports his condition after a febrile day with fever around 102 and a resting night.
Charles Patchin, a farmer near Callaway Nebraska, was loading a load of corn and fell while descending a steep hill. A wheel passed over his body, breaking four ribs. He is hospitalized in critical condition at the Ewing hotel.
Washington dispatch reports United States Vice Consul General Knight in Capetown informed the state department plague officially exists in the colony’s interior. The information was immediately communicated to the marine hospital service.
Excerpt details FitzGerald's harrowing ascent in the Andes with severe altitude sickness. The narrator, near the summit, staggers two to three steps, suffers violent nausea, dizziness, and near collapse, calling for aid and finally crawling to snow before descending to camp with a splitting headache after reaching the tent near five o'clock.
James D. Reid, organizer of the Old-Time Telegraphers' association, supervised the Washington to Baltimore telegraph line. He taught Andrew Carnegie to be an operator and now manages the steel magnate's Scotch estates.
An old advertisement touts Cassarets Candy as a natural laxative to cure various ailments by restoring bowel function. It claims quick, easy movements, pricing at ten cents, and warns against imitations. A stray line references a dog scene to urge caution.
A letter from Colonel Moody of Buffalo New York touts Peruna as a lasting remedy after years of catarrh and stomach distress. He credits Peruna with full recovery for himself and his wife, urging others to begin treatment promptly. The piece also extols catarrh as a widespread, stubborn disease and promotes a free Peruna catarrh book from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio.
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