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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
3
The fragment promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure for various ailments including backaches and menstrual issues, claims safe natural bowels, and warns against imitations. It also references Magnetic Starch, Blondin the rope walker, a New Jersey farmer alarm to deter burglars, and miscellaneous notes.
Major H L Kramer enlarges the Indiana Mineral Springs hotel to add forty guest rooms and a two story wing plus a new bath house. The addition, projected at over 30000 dollars, will include dining music billiard offices dressing rooms and cooling rooms with white tile floors. A future plan envisions a 180 room structure as part of ongoing growth.
In a small Philadelphia graveyard long used by the Third Baptist church bodies are being removed for reburial elsewhere as progress reshapes the area. The 50 by 80 foot plot holds about 1,300 interred remains and has yielded multi generations of burials. Skeletons found in tiered boxes range from five to seven per search.
Advertises Allen's Foot-Ease powder as the remedy for swollen smarting burning feet corns and bunions. Recommends asking for the powder to be shaken into shoes. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a sample sent to Fred En dress Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy N. Y.
The novelist Conan Doyle favors a boy critic who reads a story and abandons it quickly. He says such a reader would scorn too polished writing and prefer a raw, engaging start. He mentions enjoying Charles Reade’s book, surprising in his older years.
Mayor Maybury proposed a proclamation outlining memorial options for Detroit including a $5,000 founder statue, a $15,000 to $25,000 old city outline memorial, a $25,000 to $50,000 fountain memorial, and a $100,000 to $300,000 central city project. He also suggested buying the old city center for a public space and noted other civic ambitions and debts of honor from era creditors.
Michael W. Regan a veteran Lake Shore locomotive engineer died in the Westfield wreck of the fast mail train on May 23. The Buffalo Express notes Regan’s 34 years on the line, his careful safe record, and his family's long involvement as engineers across the Lake Shore and related roads. His brother Thomas runs the opposite train, and other Regans also operate in the region.
A Boston Journal item jokes about Lord Salisbury dressing in a mishmash of uniforms after his valet left. He wears an elder brethren of Trinity house coat, deputy lieutenant trousers, and Royal archers hat. His garter is on the wrong side and the waistcoat sits oddly, described as a lucid interval in attire.
A legendary tale traces a silver wedding to Hugh Capet era France. Two aging servants are rewarded with a dowry farm and a husband for the woman, sparking a fashion to celebrate silver anniversaries after twenty five years of marriage. The king grants silver funds to sustain the couple, and the custom spreads across the country.
Reports from Sassari describe months of trials by doctors Fermi Cessul Rocca and Lambautor to curb a town's mosquito infestation. They claim larvae were killed using petroleum in swamps and chlorine and other chemicals to exterminate adults, suggesting feasibility for towns of about 50 000 people at a cost near 350 a year if geography is suitable.
An 1900 Irish World notice extols the Dueber Hampden Watch Works Canton Ohio as the world’s greatest watchplant. It highlights Hampden 17 jewel Lever set, Special Railway 23 Jewel, and the four hundred ladies’ model, with praise for precision, machinery, and trusted jewelers.
The fragment discusses The Boxers of China and a flawed approach to a major problem. It shifts to a Wisconsin farming location near Marinette County praising the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway line land value and water. It briefly mentions electricity, rail, and a U S infantry officer Daggett.
Do I C warns readers that popular worldwide reputations proof a product’s merit and that substituters aim to profit from credulity. It urges shoppers to avoid substitutes for Cascarets and to trust genuine boxes marked with a long tailed C. C. and the stamped tablet, noting fraud harms reputations and customers.
A mosaic of 1900 era advertisements mentions Magnetic Starch as superior laundry starch, claims cures for fits and nervousness, and promotes consumer goods. It also contains health tonics, naval uniforms, and travel notices, including Marquette excursions and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A fragment describes a sudden weakening of a mucous membrane allowing disease to take hold in any organ. It emphasizes the lungs head throat stomach bowels and other areas as potential sites. The passage attributes all such disease to a single cause.
Advertisement claims catarrh or inflammation of the mucous membranes weakens the system in winter and leads to pneumonia grip and fevers. It asserts Pe-ru-na is the only true cure that reaches the right place and cures catarrh, warning that other diagnoses won’t fix the underlying ailment.
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