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Newspaper
Silverton Silvertonian
Location
Silverton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1899
Page
3
A collage of old advertisements touts Royal Baking Powder as economical and healthful, contrasts alum powders as harmful, and promotes various products and notices including catarrh cures, pension ads, and labor movements. It references medical claims, postal firms, and train equipment updates in a period newspaper style.
General Miles leaves immediately for an extended tour of inspection across the west northwest and southwest. He will travel to Chicago Omaha the Northern Pacific as far west as Seattle and Portland then to San Francisco and back via New Orleans. Montana volunteers arrive at Ho Tutt e Mont October 25 and receive special medals of honor from Senator Clark after speeches and a dinner.
General Otis rebuffs ransoms offered by insurgent Pio Del Pilar while reports claim plans to seize Manila and capture Otis. Dispatches note Del Pilar may seek deals. skirmishes at La Loma and San Mateo. News recalls evolving tactics with electricity and autos replacing horses. Kingsbury named surveyor general at Olympian.
A Chicago housekeeper at 802 Chestnut Street endorses Peruna as an ideal remedy and tonic for general debility liver complaints dyspepsia and female catarrh. She claims it aids irregularities weak nerves and pelvic catarrh from girlhood through child bearing and offers health and beauty information to women via The Peruana Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
The article states that the remedy Peruna soothes mucous membranes, preventing malarial germs from entering through porous membranes caused by catarrh, and thereby prevents and cures related fevers and chillo.
William T. Lord of Oregon has been appointed envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic. The designation signals a high diplomatic mission for the United States relations in South America.
Lipton Ins Satisfied that Columbia is superior after beating Shamrock in varied weather. Barrie says no regrets. Columbia would beat Shamrock with a better start. Also reports from La Guayra say Andrade’s forces left Caracas. Admiral Dewey assigned to special duty. trips canceled until spring.
The British foreign office reports that verbal changes to the Alaskan modus vivendi are of no practical importance and have been readily agreed to. It is assumed that U S Secretary Hay and the British charge d affaires in Washington will sign immediately.
Boston report says the British steamer Ardanhu while outward bound to Halifax ran down and sank the Gloucester fishing schooner Two Forty. Nine men were aboard and only two are believed saved.
Det. Amos Lunt of San Quentin’s prison, after eight years and 200 executions, has become a mental wreck haunted by visions of those hanged.
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