Williams Pink Pills Proclaim Cures In Chicago Ad
A Chicago Chronicle notice touts Williams Pink Pills for nervous disorders and blood vitality. The ad claims patients improved after using the product and lists postal pricing and mail order details.
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1897
Page
8
A Chicago Chronicle notice touts Williams Pink Pills for nervous disorders and blood vitality. The ad claims patients improved after using the product and lists postal pricing and mail order details.
Secretary Long announces no consequence to the Philadelphia movement to Hawaii while the Atlantic fleet plans a station upgrade. The Philadelphia is to relieve the Marion, with repairs needed on the former flagship. The move signals projected standards and Samoa strategy, plus brief travel ad from the Santa Fe line.
A Toledo report describes a revived farmers trust organized in the United States. P F Brown of Johnstown Pa as a national organizer met with lawmakers including ex Representative Charles P Griffin and Jonas Stanberry who heads the Ohio section. The group operates under New Jersey incorporation with federated state, district, and county boards. The plan aims to withhold selling farm products generally until 1808 when county stores would hold all produce under county boards and shipments would be allotted by state and national directors.
An 19th century drug advertisement promotes Electric Bit tera as a non alcoholic tonic aiding digestion and bowel and kidney function for older adults. It claims mild stomach effect, strengthens organs, and improves energy. Sold for $1 a bottle at J K Jones' drug store, Fifth Street and Canse Avenue California.
The Topeka temperance committee mobilizes to force County Attorney Jetmore to pursue liquor-law violations. Subpoenas are served, and plans consider seeking an assistant attorney general or removing Jetmore if he fails to proceed. Debate and tempers rise as the effort to curb joints intensifies.
In Madison Wisconsin on April 3 the monthly statement of State Treasurer Peterson shows a large deficit with receipts about 120000 and disbursements around 575000 for the month. The balance available is about 60000, but 147000 owed to trust funds and the Wisconsin Central Railroad debt of 67000 push the apparent deficit toward 21. Wages rise at Politan Iron and Land Company in Michigan. E Hughes offers installment goods in Topeka with low prices and easy terms.
The steamship of the Independent line sank in the Chattahoochee River near Columbia Georgia at midnight. Five persons are reported drowned or missing. Cause was a drift strike to hull and inability to reach shore. Randolph Truesell, son of Congressman Benjamin Russell, survived by swimming ashore. A second large steamer City of Columbus had sunk earlier this week near Smith's Point, Alabama, after pilot blinded by grit from furnaces. Cargo, mainly flour, and property valued at about $20,000 were lost.
Washington April 3 Secretary Alger issues orders shaping a wide reallocation of command. Major General Thomas H. Russer placed on retirement list while promotions and transfers touch the departments of the East Missouri Dakota and Colorado. Brigadier General Wheaton to major general. Otis to Colorado. Brooke to major general. Coppinger in Dakota, Shatter to fill brigadier slot.
The Blane brothers, Alexis and Ernest, executed in Lafayette Indiana after confessing to the murder of merchant Simon Regnaud of Scott Louisiana. They aged under 20, educated in France, previously traveled through New Orleans and Europe before plotting the Beenaud robbery to steal about three thousand dollars. They murdered Regnaud during a storming of his room, tied him, and killed him as they forced him to open his safe. The execution drew about 3,000 spectators with no disorder.
In Pittsburgh on April with Newark NJ based Harvey Steel Company filing suit in the United States circuit court alleging Carnegie Steel infringed the Harvey process for hardening steel used in armor plate at the Homestead plant. An injunction and accounting for alleged sales are sought. The case involves thousands of dollars though exact sums are not stated.
Senator Hanna complained of being besieged by office-seekers while relaxing in the dentist chair. A resident of Alton IL, A Inveen, suffered sciatic rheumatism for months and found relief after using Chamberlains Pain Balm. The remedy is offered publicly by request.
Washington April 2 President will attend the Grant memorial dedication in Riverside park New York despite incomplete plans A special train is arranged likely leaving the 27th The entire cabinet foreign ambassadors diplomatic corps and many senators and representatives will join the party May 20 invitations issued for Decoration Day services in Philadelphia and Missouri but choice awaits final decision
Parker Levi, 28, of Austin Texas, traveled to Springfield to commit suicide by gas, dying in the home of his cousin W. W. Moffenberger. Levi, who had not seen relatives for years, was found in the room with the gas supply on. Bodies to be returned to Austin for burial.
A man named Douglass ML Rees was hypnotized by a magician in Chillicothe Ohio. He was placed in a coffin at a city park and buried as a large crowd watched. He will be dug up tonight after remaining in the ground for several hours. The event was staged as dramatic interment with a hearse and a long procession.
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