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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 29, 1899
Page
3
An advertising column extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a health aid for various ailments including scrofula dermatitis and nausea. It cites testimonies from families praising cures and links health to wealth, with other items noting theater actor Tomasso Salvini in Florence and military dispatches on volunteers returning from Manila.
An assortment of 19th century ads and notes includes Cascaret’s Candy Cathartic 10c 2c 50c and Dr Texe Larative BromoQuinine Tablets with money back guarantees, Hall's Catarrh Cure and testimonials, Allen’s Foot Ease claims, Piso’s Cure for Consumption praise, and statistics on delirium tremens deaths. Mentions Horace L. Higgins and a Spanish war pensioner Mrs Bibbreath of Austin.
Reports from Chicago on April 24 state contracts were signed in London transferring most large U S copper mines to a single international trust. The deal covers about 425 million pounds of refined copper, with projected 475 million pounds in 1809 output and a value over 400 million dollars. Rothschilds fund European interests. Standard Oil backs American side. properties include Wendigo Copper, Arcadian, Centennial, Old Dominion and others.
Professor Jerome J. Greene demonstrated wireless telegraphy on April 23 in Chicago. Receiving from the Marquette building eighth floor, signals traveled from the Tribune building two blocks away. After an initial failure at Dearborn station the second test sent dots and dashes clearly through walls and three doors, marking progress in the experiment.
The Oxnard beet sugar factory and 3000 acres in Ventura County were transferred by the Pacific Beet Sugar Company to the American Beet Sugar Company. The deed shows a $1,500,000 consideration. The American Beet Sugar Company, formed in New York with $20,000,000 capital, now owns plants at Norfolk and Grand Island Nebraska, the 760 ton Chino mill, and the 2000 ton Oxnard factory just conveyed.
New York banks increased cash holdings by 3.864 million in one week, boosting gains to about 6.5 million since April 8. Deposits shrank by 5.657 million, lowering reserves and expanding excess reserve funds by roughly 15 million in that period.
Riots at the University of Kiev in April led to smashed windows and a heavy police response. Troops dispersed the mob and arrested about 400 students.
In Tallahassee on April 20, Taliafero won election to the United States Senate on the first ballot of the joint assembly yesterday.
Matthew Quay was found not guilty of conspiring to misuse state funds deposited in the People's Bank of Philadelphia. The verdict triggered a rush of supporters who crowded the streets as he left the municipal building. Governor Stone soon afterward appointed Quay as senator to serve until the next legislative session. In Victoria, B C, the German Falke captain was arrested at Apia for supplying arms to Mataafa, per the steamer Aorangie from Australia.
The first international chess contest between American and British students concluded with Oxford and Cambridge defeating their rivals 3 1 2 to 2 1 2.
Peter A B Widener a Philadelphia traction magnate owns an art gallery valued at 2 5 million dollars and believed to be fully worth that amount.
A varied miscellany notes Rudyard Kipling as an amused convalescent artist and mentions Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup for teething children. It also cites Dublin University faculty critics Professor Mahaffy and Dr Atkinson opposing Irish in Ireland study and Senator Hoar nearing 75 in 1901 alongside health ads for Dr Plunder s Oregon Blood Purifier.
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