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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1904
Page
7
A Milwaukee reader reports severe headaches back pain and monthly dizziness attributed to catarrh of pelvic organs. The ad claims Peruna cures catarrh anywhere by addressing the head as the root cause and urges readers to write Dr. Hartman in Columbus Ohio for advice.
Chicago dispatch notes mixed farming signals with no large wheat export fears yet a strong corn yield likely. Wheat prices rose 8½ cents, provisions and livestock rebound, wholesale activity up, and retail demand steady. grain shipments lagged behind last week and year. Failures in the Chicago district totaled 23, down from 25 last week.
In Athens Ohio Aug 22 a pitched battle between regulars and militia at Camp Antonytage near the city ends with Corporal Charles Clark Warren dead and three militiamen wounded one seriously. Provost guard militiamen tried to arrest regulars who overstayed leave triggering fighting. Troops patrol the town. no arrests reported.
Aug 22 report from Louisville states Mrs. Lydia A. Monroe of Riverside California has been elected supreme chief of the Rathbone Sisters. She defeated incumbent Mrs. Belle Quinlan of Galesburg NL and Mrs. Emma Young of Zanesville Okie in the contest.
Henry Warner aged 70 died from gunshot and blunt force injuries after a dispute with Gip Griffin a tenant two months earlier near Hoplhinayvile Kentucky Griffin fled the scene and remains at large authorities said Warner succumbed to wounds after being shot and clubbed during the conflict
Michael Callahan and John Markham of Van Horne perished when a Chicago and Northwestern freight train struck them at a grade crossing near Flairstown in Cedar Rapids Iowa on August 22.
Aug 22 Locogcotee Indiana report of a saloonkeeper John P. Davis firing at Martin Patterson. The shot went wide and Patterson was killed, details fragmented.
Boston Aug 19 Gen Wilson W Blackmar of this city was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic by acclamation at the encampment closing session Denver Colo was chosen as 1906 encampment site Other national officers named include John KR King George W Patten Warren Mt King J H Bradford appointments followed and various resolutions and notices adopted A pilgrimage to Lexington Concord and a campfire event marked the afternoon activities.
Charles Erickson was arrested at Nathan Michigan on the charge of murdering his brother in law Gus Adams. The crime occurred Oct 1 1902. Sheriff Stiles traced a bloody thumb mark in a notebook to locate the suspect and transported him to the county jail. The report comes from Menominee Michigan aug 14.
Richmond Aug 19 report from Lynchburg says twenty five people at the Piedmont Baptist association meeting at Pleasant View Amherst county were poisoned by ice cream with several fatalities.
Lansing August 19 Secretary of State Warner reports Michigan’s population from the June estate census at 2 630 016, an increase of 109 034 since 1900 reflecting a growth of 4 4 percent.
In Peabody Massachusetts on August nineteenth five people were injured in a head on collision between two trolley cars on the Wakefield branch of the Boston and Northern street railway.
Paris obit notes Jules Felix Govetot, former president of the armament committee during the famed era of Perle, aged 78, dies as city records list the year’s notable deaths and a late summer passing.
A garbled OCR page shows multiple product pitches and aphorisms from the late 1800s. Notable items mention Piso's Cure, The Marine Eye Remedy Co, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Mother Gray's Sweet Powders, and Defiance Starch. The tone is promotional, listing cures, testimonials, and neutral observations on luck and cheer.
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