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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1899
Page
5
A jumbled 19th century advertisement parade touts strange health tips and potions. Claims range from a bath ritual and walking distances to a foot powder by Allen of New York and teething salves. It mixes dubious medical claims with moralizing lines, ending with ads urging personal wellness and questionable tonics.
A Buffalo police court acquitted the St Paul team of playing baseball on Sunday after expert testimony. The report notes the champions of Santiago and lists local merchants selling mowers binders rakes and threshing machinery with references to Idaho towns and Ute Coop.
One year ago last June three doctors gave me up to die and after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with Liver Fills and Sanative Wash I greatly improved. I weighed 155 pounds, never weighed that low before, and credit the remedy for my recovery. I recommend it to friends. Anna Eva Guyie, Missouri.
A historical piece argues against saloon keepers holding public office, urging prohibitionist reform and civic exclusion of liquor sellers from leadership. It questions fairness of civil law, asserts anti saloon sentiment rising among temperance groups, and cites municipal reform aims to bar saloon influence while retaining lawfulness of liquor sales.
From Mount Hamilton California the summit offers a wide, clear view of the earth’s surface, with distant ranges like San Bernardino visible several hundred miles away. The piece blends scientific note with a Paris exposition preview and a humorous ad insertion about a digestive remedy, ending with a street quote from a Philadelphia Bulletin item.
A promotional description touts a wall remedy named Tica by the California Fig Syrup Co. It claims to cleanse kidneys liver and bowels gently without irritation, uses figs for taste but derives medicine from senna and aromatics, and promotes the product as an ideal laxative. It lists distributors in New York Louisville and San Francisco with a 59 cent bottle price.
Washington reports President McKinley will call for volunteers to serve in the Philippines. Initial plans aim to form at least ten regiments, with estimates suggesting 12,000 to 15,000 volunteers may be needed to supplement the regular forces. Enlistment will follow army officers guiding the effort and recruiting after the upcoming holidays.
June 24 Manila details sentencing of Colonel Arguelles after appeals over autonomy versus independence. Convicted of treason, he faced the death penalty but was reduced to twelve years imprisonment due to prior service. trial included heated debate on autonomy under American rule and possible civil war.
Puls June 24 reports a new cabinet formed by Senator Waldeck Rousseau heading the council of ministers. Key figures include Deleasse foreign affairs, Marquis de Gallifet war, Lanessan interior, Monts justice, Calloux finance, Milleraud commerce, Toygues public instruction, Crala colonies, Dupuy agriculture, Vieurre Daudin public works. The coalition excludes moderate reformers. Millerand may limit longevity.
Washington reports from June 24 that a dispatch from Bartlett Lipp United States Commissioner in Samoa states peace is restored in the Fiji land dispute and that Malifon has resigned with a provisional government to be set up. At the GAR encampment a resolution to admit all Union soldiers and veterans to the Army and Navy of the Republic is to be introduced. The Hague dispatch notes Dutch claims of Trassynal defense preparations and Pretoria ordering ships and guns for fort artillery.
A scattered summary of world events notes pension grants in New Zealand, a Klondike Nugget trial acquittal in the United States, and trials in North Yakima. Fiji reports crime on sugar plantations, artificial coal from earth, and a Belgian firm forming to develop the Philippine Islands. Earthquakes from Colon to the Caribbean, colonial politics in South Africa, and war department credit sales to unpaid officers are mentioned alongside drought in Riveria and masked bank robberies in Australia.
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