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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1900
Page
3
Winston Churchill returns to England to a strengthened political standing after a wartime defeat, with broad public enthusiasm suggesting near certainty of his future success in parliament or high office. The remarks imply his wartime leadership has boosted his acceptability across parties.
The Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives records last year show 30.97 percent arrested cases, 46.10 percent improved, and 21.23 percent not improved. Mrs. J. Nichols of Princeton Indiana reports Piso's Cure for Consumption cured her bad lung trouble. A man's ideal figure is often a dollar sign.
In March 1884 at Caldwell cowboys Ben Franklin and Johnnie Potts faced a deadly conflict after a night of revelry. Potts fired first but Franklin disarmed him and three shots ended Potts threat with a fatal hit to his vitals. Franklin, remorseful, returned home aged and haunted by Potts’s grave and the ruined night.
Report from the Falkland Islands describes the exhumed body of Admiral Spotts preserved by peat water. The coffin vanished yet facial features remained exactly as at death, attributed to peat’s embalming action. The attending Falkland physician witnessed the exhumation when the cruiser Badger was sent for the body last year.
Consul in Bombay says permission to introduce electric traction has been requested. Presently horses are used and are well treated. He notes Indians in the United States are believed to outnumber those at Plymouth but this claim is not provable.
A collage of short items features a Connecticut bottle seal device, a New York tire with three tread layers, and a Chicago water massage apparatus. Other items promote free patent advice, a South Dakota land pamphlet from a railroad, social quotes, Teitlebaum’s humanitarian trust, and travel and banking notes with multiple city mentions.
Wihun BR Gage a Boston lawyer dies, longtime admirer of General Butler, preparing a life of Butler. he led defense in many murder trials and had notable success in Massachusetts. The era notes highlight the importance of college education as a major national enterprise with 420 colleges and 175,000 students, $250 million invested, and 25,000 employed.
Jacob Reichert describes his year in western Canada after homesteading near Virden Manitoba. He details land selection, built shelter, 175 acres cropped next year, 2,700 bushels yielded, wheat at 24.5 bushels per acre on sod, and prices with Canadian Pacific land at 3.50 per acre. He notes proximity to Virden and Hargrave and comparable living costs to southern Minnesota.
Between friends frequent reproof makes the friendship distant. Try Magnetic Starch it will last longer than any other. When you have faults do not fear to abandon them. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money it fills to cure 5c B. W. Grove's signature on each box. If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow in store.
A readable fragment shows Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co based in Lyon Massachusetts advertising women’s health products. The brief mentions the company and location without additional details or context.
In Lynchburg Virginia and Augusta Georgia one Walter Clark shares a father named Samuel and a mother whose maiden name was Walker. Both Walker Clarks have brothers Samuel and William and uncles Charles and John and an aunt Elizabeth. Yet no shared lineage can be proven between the two families. What can be put into a mind already full of itself.
Sailor Giuseppe Marate was struck by a streetcar in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. He suffered a dislocated shoulder, was placed in a wagon to Pennsylvania Hospital, where a jar jolting the ride reset the joint and doctors afterward bandaged him before sending him back to his vessel.
Noted Washington barrister Belva Lockwood writes to The Peruna Medicine Company praising Peruna for herself and her 88 year old mother Hannah J. Bennett. She says it helps cold catarrh hay fever and nerves and calls it a tonic for the feeble. Health and Beauty free to women from The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
The first half of 1900 will feature The Autobiography of W. J. Stillman in The Atlantic. Stillman, an artist, editor, and foreign correspondent, portrays figures such as Dr. Nott Ruskin Turner and Kossuth in early excerpts. The Century plans a February issue with Talks with Napoleon diary excerpts by Dr B B O Meara and a related portrait and map of St Helena.
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