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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
4
The story recounts a British assault on Sidon during the Syrian campaign. A lone soldier named Cummings bravely steps onto a long bridge under heavy fire from a six-gun battery, is almost overwhelmed, yet remains uninjured. The troops rally, seize the bridge and battery, and the threat is overcome.
Cassarets promote natural bowel movements at 10 cents to start, claiming gentle relief without pain. The ad touts genuine Candy Cathartic in metal boxes and warns of imitators while noting a separate sale of fifty walnut trees in Cass County, Michigan for cash.
The Mount Vernon Illinois veterans reunion drew large crowds with speeches by Senator Shelby M. Cullom Congressman Walter Reeves and Judge Joel M. Longenecker while campfire reminiscences and a Fourth Regiment band marked the event. In Chicago a grain tariff debate led to a ten cent rate in future shipments from Kansas City to Chicago, reaffirming seven cents and disputing earlier twelve cent levels amid protests over recent cuts.
McLean county supervisors decide to demolish the old court house basement and replace it with a wholly new building of granite and Bedford stone. The plan adds 19764 to the contract, totaling about 204,097 for the structure and fittings. Overall project estimate stands around 372,097 including site work and furniture. General John A. McClernand at Springfield grows weaker daily from dysentery amid pneumonia recovery, with no nourishment for a week and concern rising among family and friends.
A long critical piece contrasts vain efforts to keep up appearances with sincere hospitality. It recalls social dinners and the strain of prestige in 19th century circles, noting a woman’s costly winter season and a judge’s prolific year in 1888. The excerpt ends with a tiny Sheffield mirror exhibit and a critique of social folly.
Fragmentary reader items include an ad for Bairs Catarrh Care at 75a, scattered notes on misdirected letters with many place names, a reference to Canadian recruitment in the British Army, and stray quotes about broken china and a Pittsburgh Press snippet.
Readable OCR pieces narrate legends of Lake Morat turning red from oscillatora rubescens, a Burgundian battle tale, Hobson’s brother at West Point hazing, a chortling tonic ad, Edison on limits, a postal system anecdote, and assorted trivia from early 1900s newspaper miscellany.
A Morley Morley writer to the Femly Herald disputes a Jan issue claim of a 21,700 square mile coal seam in Hunan China. He asserts Alberta hosts a coal field 500 by 150 miles, about 75,000 square miles, over three times Honan, and cites farm-born IQ stats and various ads and quotes in a collage of era miscellany.
The item notes Tibbeai of Geld Mince claims the richest gold mine in the world lies under Ballarat, Victoria, and that thirty years of operation have yielded 250000 dollars. It also includes fragmented ad chatter for tonics and shoes and stray dialogue from Chicago News.
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