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Newspaper
The Chanute Times
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
4
Advertisement note from Chanute Times promising advertisers the best authentication of any paper for 12 years of Chanute service or no charge. Subscription records are kept for patron inspection.
Friday June 21 1901 Erie special correspondents report Prof Merwins lecture to a large audience was humorous and instructive. Remarks on Risdon dating show a playful school atmosphere. A boat ride on the Neo sho, visits by Miss Dunham and others, and lively class notes follow.
Timely use of BALL Ard's HOREHOUND syntt prevents coughs and colds and relieves bronchial ailments. Safe, sure, swift remedy sold by Geo. P. Wilder for 25 cents.
The Drs Light recently installed valuable mechanical appliances for treating eye ear nose and throat diseases and catarrhal affections. Their hydraulic osilator enables targeted application of remedies. They offer specialty care comparable to top city doctors and have invested hundreds of dollars in modern equipment to meet emergencies.
Dr J F Hickey examines eyes fits glasses treats catarrh deafness and general practice. Call and see the names of nearly a hundred people he has furnished glasses to. Office over 1st National Bank 3?
The piece laments Chanute women for lacking enterprise in marriage. It praises Minta Soyder and Emma Light for success in courtship, notes George Bordenkircher’s charm and business status, and mentions local men like Mike Cunningham as potential matches. The tone is rowdy local column with playful jabs.
The Neosho Valley Creamery produced 21,400 pounds of butter in May with a top day of 1,100 pounds. It paid out $3,100 for milk and 16 cents per pound for butterfat, reporting a May output increase of about 6,000 pounds over any previous May. Under Mr Tweed's management the creamery is in a prosperous condition, pleasing stockholders and patrons.
The ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets to cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee from druggists. E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box.
The Santa Fe speeds up yard improvements with a half mile coal dump trestle, elevating a dump-bottom coal car system and steam shovel coal handling to stockpile thousands of tons for emergencies, hoping soon for a depot and office building. A cough remedy ad notes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day.
A Tuesday electric storm struck the M. E. church torquing the tower corner and snapping a post while shivering a rear cottonwood. The Rooker kitchen caught fire from a bolt but was quickly extinguished with no serious damage. The account ends with an odd local quip about the Rooker family following the blaze.
Organ for sale a second hand metey organ as good anew inquire at this office. The delightful rails Tuesday cooled the atmosphere laid the dust and made the farmer and everybody feel good. But the magnificent downpour Tuesday night saturated the ground thoroughly and put the core crop in one canal then. The dry hot weather of the past three weeks has given the farmer exceptional opportunity for cultivating and cleaning out the corn sod this who failed they self of the opportunity now have felt crop in the finest shape possible for rowing. During the dry weather the corn did not seem to grow much.
The report notes healthy, deep roots and good color with weed-free ground. Despite below average rainfall early in the year, moisture remains sufficient and plants show vigor. With late June conditions favorable and scant rainfall earlier, the speaker predicts the best local corn yield in years.
Parsons Kansas June 12 1901 letter from BRAUNSDORF BROS Chanute Kans endorsing your Liquid Lice Killer as vastly superior for Poland Chinas and poultry. The Evergreen Hill Herd proprietors urge stock raisers to use the product.
Monday night a fire consumed a near completed residence on East Muto Street beside the planing mill. The blaze scorched the mill interior, destroying belts pulleys and machinery while five boys saved much property and kept the mill's operation alive with insured loss estimated at 300 dollars for Mason.
An odd fragment notes cats sold by Geo P Wilder, mentioning feeling better after using herbine and foord food, claiming improved nourishment and loving supportive energy from the string. The readable text is highly garbled but centers on sale and health claims linked to Wilder’s goods.
Dr Charles J Moffett of Philadelphia introduced Teethina Teething Powders for children in Georgia to ease teething and heat related digestive issues. The piece warns against unsafe use and urges relief be sought through proper medical guidance and contact with Moffett in Saint Louis Missouri.
Public notices cite uncalled letters at Chanute Kansas with two week deadline, include names such as Anderson Men NE Sun Flower Cigar Co Parendor JG and others. Also promotions for Hayner Distilling Co inventions, Katy excursions, Christian Endeavor in Cincinnati, Mahan Educational Association in Detroit, Biks in Milwaukee, plus Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets free sample offer.
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