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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
7
A 1946 letter from Mrs A Tolle of Philadelphia credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with transforming a frail woman weighing 95 pounds to 140. She suffered headaches backache and falling uterus and says one bottle helped and eight bottles completed the improvement. The ad notes Mrs Pinkham has fifty thousand such letters.
A powder ignition likely caused a blast at Pleasant Valley Coal Company mines No 1 and No 4 near Scofield Utah killing all 250 day shift workers. Rescue crews recovered 137 charred bodies by midnight as families crowded the scene and officials sought the disaster’s exact cause.
The Treasury Bureau reports canal traffic and freight growth through Sault Ste Marie in 1899 with 20 055 vessels and 25 255 810 tons, noting grain and wheat transport rises. New York crime arrests in 1899 show 98 917 arraigned with 61 116 held for trial, while spelling debates place Porto Rico under a different orthography. Cape Nome notes scarce coal and wood amid Alaska gold rush. War tax on proprietary medicines criticized for taxation of alcohol and other ingredients.
The weather bureau reports heavy rains and low temperatures hurt crops nationwide. Texas farmlands washouts and overflows disrupt planting. Missouri valley and western slopes see slow progress. winter wheat improves in parts, while Central and Northern California crops gain from rains. Seeding nearly complete except North Dakota.
In Samar Island action a Forty third regiment garrison in Catubig Church faced several hundred Filipino rebels. After five days of bombardment and fire the church roof burned but walls stood. Ten Americans survived with eight killed and two wounded. reinforcements from Tapan arrived, forcing Filipino withdrawal.
After a bitter two day session the canal bill for Nicaragua moved through the House by 225 to 35. Democrats backed fortifications while Republicans supported the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. A recommit motion failed 52 to 171. Senate fate unclear this session.
Several higher education items are reported. Yale President Hadley takes a month rest in the South. Mrs. Caroline S. Tilden of New Orleans endows Tulane with 50000 for a library building. Columbia opens a government service course in political science. At Nebraska 2005 students report church affiliation with Baptists Catholics and others. Dr John Guiteras is named to a new intertropical pathology chair at Havana University. Edward Everett Hale Jr. will replace Frank H. Stoddard at New York University summer school. Harvard gains control of Copan ruins for ten years from President Sierra of Honduras.
An article warns that interior walls in schools and other buildings can harbor disease germs. It recommends coating walls with a clean disinfectant cement like Alabastine, noting easy renewal and similar initial cost to inferior coatings.
A scientific school of forestry is to be established at Yale University. The plan aims to advance research and education in forest science and management under university oversight.
J. W. O'Brien of 322 Third Avenue North Minneapolis Minnesota testifies on January 6 1900 that Piso's Cure is highly effective as a cough remedy.
The Eagle Linen Writing Tablet comes in 100 sheets and is described as superior to all others. The Letter size is priced at 25 cents and the Note size at five cents. Ask your dealer for them and take no other.
Tickets for the Methodist General Conference in Chicago May 2 through 31 are sold at Nickel Plate Road stations on May 1 2 14 and 21 with return by June 1 at one and one third fare for travel within 200 miles. Inquire at agents or address C A Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind.
An ad promotes air cushion rubber stamps as best and cheapest with mail orders to Lock Box 219 Fort Wayne Indiana. It also sells Mrs Winslow's Sporine Syrup for Children a teething remedy at 2 cents per bottle claiming gum softening inflammation relief and wind colic cure.
Advertisement warns against mercury remedies for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The product is claimed to be mercury free and taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists at 150 per bottle.
A huge wine barrel weighing seventy tons has been completed in Nancy for the Paris exposition. The barrel cost thirty thousand dollars.
A Chicago house Libby McNeill Libby advertises superior luncheon meats ready to serve or quick to prepare. Their booklet Blow to Make Good Things to Eat is offered free on application.
Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Eases, a powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet and cures corns, bunions, swollen or sore feet, hot or sweaty feet, and growing nails. Makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 23c. Sample mailed free to Allen S. Olmsted, New York.
In the Indianapolis Journal Bob asks what a book worm is and Papa answers that a bookworm is either a person who would rather read than eat or a worm that would rather eat than read.
Advertisement claims vitality restoration and debilitation cure by Dr. Kline at 20s Institute Philadelphia offering a free trial bottle with two weeks of treatment from Arch Street location. Founded in unclear year.
What Do the Children Drink dont give them tea or coffee Have you tried the new grain o It is delicious and nourishing and takes the place of coffee Grain O is made of pure grains and when properly prepared tastes like coffee but costs about as much All grocers sell it 15q and 26c.
The British government now engages 214 transports with a total of 1 050 359 tons. The largest vessel is the Cymric at 12 552 tons.
This family friendly note promotes Jell-O as a quick healthful dessert. It claims two minute preparation with no boiling or baking, just hot water to set. Flavors listed include Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry and it costs 10 cents at grocers.
A brief note describes a web of family connections with many interwoven links, hints of strained loyalties, and evolving loyalties within an extended kin network. The piece notes tensions and shifting alliances across generations.
A rare offer invites applicants to receive for free a 128 page booklet The Railroad in Education by Prof Hogg bound in cloth. Send 6 cents to cover postage and address to Crane G P and T A Wabash R R St Louis.
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