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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 18, 1899
Page
3
Historic ad copy touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as cleansing nature after winter and America's greatest spring medicine. Claims include blood purification, strength for nerves and disability, and cures for blood diseases with numerous testimonials from Lovina Madox Annapolis and others.
Legal principle denying a cause of action for mere fright or nervous shock is reinforced by Braun v Craven Ill 42 LRA 18. The case involved fright triggering St Vitus dance after a landlord suddenly appeared at a room door as a woman packed for moving. Chicago News
Advertises low priced mining shares in Republic Mines and nearby outfits. Claims rapid daily advances of several cents and urges purchases of Morning Glory Extension Chespa Blue Jay Morning Glory Gold Iron Mask Quilp El Caliph Savage Gold stocks. Promises free map and info from Exchange National Bank Tate & Dawson Spokane Wash.
A collage of brief items cites The Native Population of the Philippines, head money claims for Dewey's fleet totaling 187,500 with 400,000 prize money, and notes on Admiral Dewey's health. It includes consumer ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure, products like Laxative Bromo Quinine, Casareta candy, and Fly proliferation data, plus hotel rates in San Francisco and various curiosities about European royalty and Miscellaneous notices.
The piece notes detectives use a criminal’s past to gauge guilt. An old offender typically rises, folds his bed nine times, or straightens into line in the prison line. If he avoids these rituals, he may reveal his inexperience and falsehood.
Letter from Mrs M Rank Philadelphia recalls long womb trouble and despair until using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports rapid improvement after first dose and now claims to be a well woman grateful for the medicine. Also notes an injunction staying proceedings until appeal costs are paid in Knee v Baltimore City Passenger Railroad Co.
An old advertisement claims Allen’s Foot-Ease soothes swollen nervous feet, relieves tight shoes, cures blisters corns and bunions pain and chilblains. It notes 30,000 testimonials and sells for 26 cents with a free trial pack, from Allen E. Olmsted, Le Roy, New York.
In Havana public session on March 13 the Cuban military assembly impeached and removed General Maximo Gomez as general in chief by a 26 to 4 vote. The decision followed debates over abolishing the grade and cited disobedience. Gomez responded calmly and proceeded to attend a dinner with his daughter.
Victor Guinet, a workman at the Cascade dam under construction by the Do minion Mining Development Agency Co Ltd, suffered a fracture to the left leg in an accident. W J Snodgrass & Son expanded their mail service from three to seven weekly deliveries without extra charge since June. Nearby notes report Grand Forks to gain a modern hotel costing about 50000 and the Yale project ready within sixty days. Advices from Cariboo cite unchanged high water. no life risk. Pearl Trevelyan attempted suicide on Commercial street in Nanaimo over a faithless suitor Samuel Hague. A six year old girl, daughter of John Douglass, was killed by a trolley in New Westminster. The Cristobal Colon armor cruiser, sunk July 3, remains unrecovered per Washington dispatch. Swedish wrecking engineers depart Stockholm.
Omaha reports a fierce Nebraska blizzard as Ed Fogg kills Lee Pearson in a room after a confrontation with Mrs. Fogg nearby. Fogg wounded, crawled through a transom, and the two exchanged shots in darkness before Pearson died.
A device placed beside the bed uses a metal sheet such as iron or zinc on the floor to wake a somnambulist. When a sleep walking fit begins the foot touches the cold metal and the person pulls the leg back into bed. After about three twists they abandon the attempt and settle in.
Thomas P Donaldson, the diver injured while diving into a tank at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, dies in New York. He had been hospitalized since the accident.
The Canadian Pacific Railway annual report shows gross earnings of 26 138 077 with working expenses of 15 605 053. Net earnings total 10 475 372 and surplus for the year stands at 4 124 417.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Wilson arranging to award government seed contracts in spring instead of autumn as done before. In London, Rev Charles Wesley, rector of Grosmont, was fined 75 dollars after disputing a bill from a workman and assaulting him, breaking ribs.
An aristocratic woman visits Mrs Grindstone and teases Willie Grindstone about kissing. Willie proudly claims a quarter from his mother, who warned she would kiss him only for a price. The scene shifts to a list promoting St Jacobs Oil with many claimed cures. An experimental paddle wheel design for steamers follows.
General Merritt says Aguinaldo would be replaced by Pio del Pilar as a hostile yet unconciliable Filipino leader if captured. He adds another capable insurgent, Mariel, could be treated with, though he is a difficult figure.
An advertisement touts Dr Foote and an Adams partner as exclusive male health specialists in the United States offering confidential remedies in sealed packages. It claims permanent restoration of vigor and nerves, warns against non authorized clinics, and targets Western towns with private, discreet treatment.
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