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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1900
Page
7
A National Magazine note says over 90 000 enumerators start and finish work nationwide, posting daily progress on pre prepared blanks from Eastport to Mendocino and Pembina to Key West. A Capetown dispatch reports President Kruger is in feeble condition.
The 1900 Republican convention set a record for brevity, adjourning sine die after a swift sequence of sessions. Roosevelt emerged as the leading candidate for vice president, with a noted rise from civil service roles to national prominence through his Cuban War exploits and Rough Riders leadership. The piece traces his ascent from New York politics to governor, his family life, and references to his published works and public image. It also touches on early electrical power by product developments and steam heat ventures in Western cities.
The readable text references medical cures for dyspepsia and indigestion with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, mentions commercial treaty talks with France via Brazil, and notes Japanese press urging proactive measures. Also includes scattered lines about medical books, a Chinese army description, and a testimonial from Mrs Taos Renee in Norwich Ped.
James McKinley ancestor of the president landed in 1743 and settled in Chanceford Township Pennsylvania. David McKinley, his great grandfather, fought in the revolution and died in 1840 in Ohio. William McKinley Sr. moved the family to Ohio, and William born 1848 became president after years as a teacher and lawyer. He served in the Twenty third Ohio Volunteer Infantry and later polished a national career from Canton Ohio. The piece covers his early life schooling in Poland and Meadofleld Allegheny College brief, marriage to Ida Saxton, two daughters who died young, and his political ascent including the McKinley tariff measure of 1899 and his leadership at the 1892 convention.
The sketch traces Theodore Roosevelt Jr from his 1858 birth in New York City through his upbringing with Dutch and Bootch Irish roots to private schooling and Harvard, highlighting his early political ascent. It notes his home education, college leadership, and early push for civil service reforms, including a state assembly seat and a mayoral bid.
The Roosevelts at Oyster Bay include child of 13 and siblings Ker mit 11 Ethel 9 Archibald 6 and Quentin 3. Rep Romeo Hoyt Freer of West Virginia is noted as the only house member who tramped on foot over both the Panama and Nicaragua canal routes during his tenure as American consul to Nicaragua and a later canal-route journey with a small party and a New York Post reporter.
Geovertor Thomas of Colorado has received an official inquiry from Secretary of State Hay into the renewal of the Colorado quarantine against Chinese and Japanese. The item mentions a broker’s offer in New York to loan 10,000,000 on real estate at a stated rate, reflecting a new record in bond and mortgage loans.
Mrs Pinkham Lloyd shares twenty years of constant success offering advice to women. Illness prompts a free consultation through Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Readers are invited to write Mrs Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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