Cash Prizes for Word Puzzle and Flower Seed Offer
A notice offers $100 in cash for solving four groups of letters to form four common food items and promises six packets of flower seeds for respondents. April 30, 1900 deadline. multiple winners share prize. Also promotes Evening Hours publication with a six month trial subscription for 15 two cent stamps. An Albany dairyman reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy eased his child's croup. Druggist Otto Scholz notes rising demand.
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Albany
N. Y
Otto Scholz
Chamberlain
Charles Rager
Adulteration in Food Warns of Cheap Havoc on Health
The piece highlights widespread adulteration in food costing Americans about ninety million dollars yearly. It details substitutions for bread, oils, coffee, spices, and candy from damaged peas to chalky substitutes, tinning, and unsafe additives. It warns about low quality canned goods and unsafe colorants and flavors.
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Germany
Notable European Art and Racing News Briefs
A German sculptor Max Juse-Lietzeburg carved a Nietzsche bust erasing his insanity marks. Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg Schwerin won a Berlin steeplechase becoming the first prince of a reigning house to race in Germany. Richard Croker lost 2500 pounds on Knickerbocker in England and was not invited to wear Bilbury Club’s button despite entering Champagne Stakes. Thomas Escott claims Henry Labouchere inspired Disraeli’s Lord St Aldegonde and that Duke of Devonshire inspired George Eliot character. A marble bust of James G Blaine by Prof. G Trentanove stands in Augusta Maine rotunda as a state gift. Manuel Tamayo y Baus dies in Madrid, noted dramatist and former secretary of Spain’s Academy. Hans Makart monument in Vienna bears a simple inscription and Nikolaus Dumba lauds Makart as Vienna’s color master matching Schubert’s lyric spirit.
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Adolf Friedrich
Mecklinburg-Schwerin
Berlin
Germany
Richard Croker
Knickerbocker
England
Bilbury Club
Thomas Escott
Joseph H. Manley
Madrid
National Library
Manuel Tamayo Y Baus
Cotemporary
Spain
Academy of Spain
Hans Makart
Vienna
Nikolaus Dumba
Makart
Schubert
Insulted Over Calf's Brains Request in Barred Eatery
A patron recounts being insulted in a restaurant after requesting calf's brains. He and his companion Charley Boy-Wy and Algie discuss the incident while a sharply dressed man questions the patron's order. The exchange ends with frustration and talk of a grievance.
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Charley Boy
Wy, Weally
Algie
Weally
Charley
Clock with a Human Face in Petersburg Shop
A St. Petersburg watchmaker displays a human-faced clock with hands on the nose and a phonograph repeating spoken messages from its ears. Also mentions a 70-year-old widow in Chillicothe, Ohio, who drove a man from her home after he refused to quit Salvation Army ties.
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St. Petersburg
Chillicothe. C
Lim
The
Salvation Army
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Mrs. Myvyers
South Side West Main Street
al Wglemen
Silver Lake
J. W. Rine
Market St
Newark
N. J
Max Juse-Lietzeburg
Nietzsche
Elorengf
Lee ‘Anc Iy Uo
Belvidere, Ill
Adam Stout
J.C. Cavender
E. Stout
Adam Stout & CO
Silver Lake, Ind
S. D. Henderson
Oteen
Indiam
Diam
Kim Bolta
Silver Lake, Indiana
Orry Boater
Burdge’s
E. B. Flavien, M. D
Central Drug Store
Monroe Wedrick
Ind
Cleveland, Cincinnati
Chicago & ST. Louis
R.Y
Michigan
Mail and Express
Nail and Express
J. L. Arthur
D. B. Martin
Ina
Cincinnati
Cornell
DRUG
Ghas
Rager
Conner
John Fitton
C. E. Rantz
W .S. Fitter
Stockup SpEars
W. J. Fitton
Elmer Snell
Sale Crier
Rose Ifill
North
Manchester, Ind
J. D. Gill
P. O
Indiana
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