09 Jun 1898
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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1898
Page
1
The intense itching and smarting afflict eczema tetter salt rheum and related conditions. Many cases have been neatly cured by it. It is equally useful for itching piles and sore nipples. Sepia hands chapping frost bites and chronic sore eyes. Sold by druggists at 25 cents per box. Try Dr Cady's Condition Powders, a tonic blood purifier and vermifuge.
It is believed the first reinforcements for Admiral Sampson have arrived off Santiago. They consist of eight hundred marines who will be landed and take possession of the points intended for landing of the army of occupation.
A persistent rumor from Kev Weer on January 9 claims three Spanish warships forced their way into Havana harbor, suggesting a notable naval movement or action amid tensions.
San Francisco June 9 The second expedition to Manila will sail next Wednesday. Reports say the cruiser Charleston is bound for the Ladrones instead of Manila.
June 9 report notes the cut cable between this place and Santiago has been located and placed on buoys by Admiral Sampson, enabling quicker reconnection. Advertisement shows fast rail service from Winnemucca to Chicago, St Louis, Omaha, and Denver via Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, with through Pullman and other cars. Local merchants promote paints, wallpaper, oils, bicycles Road King and Road Queen, and Laird Shober shoes with KE Rei wuart & Co offering full lines.
An old advertisement touts Cascareta Candy Cathartic as a pleasant medicine that cleanses the system and aids kidneys liver and bowels. It promises to dispel colds cure headaches fever and biliousness with prices of 10 25 and 50 cents and a guarantee of cure by all druggists.
Brief notices report Colonel Thomse killed during Monday bombardment of Santiago harbor forts. Other items note pending execution stay for Albert Hoff, U.S. plan to raise sunken Spanish vessels, insurgent-initiated land attack near Santiago, 24,000 Spaniards in Santiago, damage to Vizcaya and Furor near Santiago defenses, and a shell burst affecting the Vizcaya’s rudder.
Edward Emerson Jr an attache of the war department bureau of information arrived on the Marianna from St Thomas recounting daring actions in Puerto Rico He used a bogus passport posing as a Berlin newspaper correspondent at San Juan and penetrated to the center of the island before being jailed He escaped on a horse theft and wandering two days and two nights across unfamiliar terrain aiding a map for the war department While in transit he notes fortifications at San Juan offered little resistance and confirms a dangerous but illuminating assignment and a later note on local equipages at Brown Piper's.
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