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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1900
Page
10
An advertisement-style piece touts relief from rheumatism by a tonic claiming mercury in prescriptions worsens the disease. It presents testimonials from individuals asserting cure and permanent relief after using the product, dated in a period voice with medical-sounding names and vague locations.
Washington March 14 Secretary Gage explains provisions of the financial bill passed by the House. The measure fixes the dollar standard of value backed by gold and empowers the treasury to maintain parity across notes and coin. It creates a redemption fund of 150 million to back United States notes and treasury notes, limits its use, and details adjustments to gold reserves, silver certificates, and national bank circulation under the new law.
A testimonial notes how ongoing nerve pain and kidney concerns improved after using Swamp Root, prescribed by the speaker’s physician during convalescence. The writer urges others with nervous neuralgia to consider the remedy and extends best wishes to fellow sufferers.
The piece promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a universal kidney remedy. It claims kidney health affects all body organs, lists symptoms, and urges trial and purchase with offers of sample bottles and a book. It notes hospital use and physician recommendations, and directs readers to send addresses to Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
The Twentieth Kansan regiment has joined the Fourth United States infantry and will return to the Philippines. Topeka figures include Mr. True and George Bertinham, the latter arrested for larceny and burglary after attempting to pawn a suit from a house on East First Street. A James-Sheassey raid on a Kansas Avenue joint yielded a pine bar and liquor bottles.
A church prayer meeting Thursday evening will include a table on the Newspaper and Region. The note indicates hopes to secure the speaker for a future date and mentions the lecture as a possible event linked to the church program.
Kentucky adjourned its legislature after a conference between Adjutant Generals Collier and Castleman. Governor Taylor remains acting governor while Beckham delays purifica tion actions until the Court of Appeals rules. The session appropriated 10000 for Beckham to reorganize the state militia.
Washington report notes the House adopted the conference report on the financial bill by 166 to 120 with others present. the Senate had already approved it, awaiting President McKinley’s signature to enact the measure. Also from Chicago, author Lilian Bell and Arthur H Bdelle announce their marriage plans for April 2.
The Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf line sale will occur in Joplin next Monday. The reorganizing committee will meet in Kansas City Saturday and travel to Joplin Sunday evening. Reported that Vice President Lichbury of Lake Erie and Western has been offered the presidency.
Henry Savage Landor of London traveler and explorer, famed for his Tibet torture ordeal, arrived in Chicago and registered at the Auditorium Annex. He claims to have visited most countries since age 16, including Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and comments on the Boer War and potential Russian moves toward India. He plans a lecture tonight at the Century Club.
High water in the Fox and Illinois rivers at Ottawa Illinois has caused heavy property losses. The city is largely flooded with much damage expected from the rising rivers. Residents along the Fox and Illinois rivers were driven from their homes during the night as water breached structures and imperiled more property.
The article describes widespread flood damage with houses wrecked and carried into the river channel. Bridges near Ottawa and Bout N were closed, hindering traffic while trade continued in limited fashion. A floating harbor and factory operations were suspended as water levels rose and dunes formed threatening further damage. Gavitt’s System Regulator is advertised amid the flood narrative.
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