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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1901
Page
3
The piece surveys Wall Street activity and high finance with mentions of Dewey, Rockefeller, Morgan, and McKinley. It notes the rise of trusts like Window Glass and Standard Oil and warns of a looming stock market crash. It also critiques Sen McLaurin’s party-building efforts and recounts a Philadelphia ad agency dispute with a Virginia newspaper.
Governor White announces appointments to boards of directors for state institutions. The Weston Hospital gains Alex McVesh Miller Alderson Monrou county IT Lownsles Jr Clarksburg plus Vander wort Weston and others. The Spencer Asylum fills a six member board with two and four year terms. Miners Hospital Fairmont stage adds EA Billingslea Ty Hatchinson A M P democrat Weston. Jefferson county secures multiple seats, with Brackett and Gibson noted for their qualifications.
A grand plan emerges to establish a vast industrial town in the western region, combining diverse manufacturers with an extensive workforce under modern business practices while prioritizing residents welfare. The piece promotes Hustetter’s Stomach Bitters as a world famous remedy and notes new tobacco license fees and dates.
Notes from nearby recount a series of local calamities and events including a fire that wiped out C. W. Allamong’s lumber yard in Winchester, a Baltimore estate inventory valued at $6.6 million, and various deaths, appointments, and community happenings across Martinsburg, Hagerstown, and surrounding towns. The roundup covers fires, deaths of notable residents, political events, a train accident aftermath, and regional industry shifts in rail and manufacturing.
A sprawling caution against mercury containing catarrh ointments warns of loss of smell and system disruption from improper use. It endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo as mercury free, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Also notes Hall's Family Pills and local grape wines from Portugal and New Jersey.
Jacksonville Florida endured a nightmarish blaze that razed the core of the city from a fiber factory outbreak. The fire destroyed the city hall hotels and hundreds of blocks leaving over 1300 houses ruined and up to ten thousand people homeless. Aid pours in from across the nation as authorities mobilize, with losses exceeding 10 million dollars and insurance around a third of that.
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