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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
3
A local grocer at 12 and 14 E Main street promotes a choice lot of melons and the finest vegetables. The ad highlights a broad line of groceries, fresh product, prompt service, and low prices, inviting customers to phone orders.
An assortment of vintage ads promotes grocers helping customers economize and remedies for kidney and bladder diseases. It touts Foley's Kidney Cure and King’s New Life Pills, with prices and local sellers Smith & Winton and J N Jones Drugstore, and mentions Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption.
Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles retires from active service at sixty four, with S M B Young assigned to command until August 15, and Miles issuing an address praising the army. The text covers his reflections on duty, patriotism, and the army’s future under civilian leadership and equal justice. It notes Miles’s retirement date August 8 1903 and Young’s upcoming role as chief of staff.
Henry P. Lowe chief engineer of United States Steel completed a 3200 mile Atlantic to Pacific run in 70 hours 21 minutes to reach his dying 11 year old daughter in Los Angeles. She died before he arrived but the trip continued as planned.
Odessa dispatch reports dockers attacking shops and throwing contents into the sea while police flee Proclamations torn and rioters threaten fires. Troops fire and panic among Jews. railroads halted and crowds flee. In Kleff Russia disturbances renew with strikers marching breaking windows and workers compelled to join. Cossacks fire on a crowd injuring several as tramways suspend and bread prices rise.
Four Turkish battalions with artillery struck a force of about 1800 Bulgarians near Sorovitch and routed them in a brisk engagement reported from Salonica on August 8. Turkish forces and Bulgarians clashed as the Balkan theater continued to heat up.
Bulgarian insurgents dynamited the governor's palace at Krushevo killing fifty Turks. Fierce fighting resumes between Turkish troops and Bulgarian revolutionists with a large Turkish rout reported in the latest engagement.
Durand Michigan August 8 Grand Trunk officials blame engineer Probst for a collision between two Wallace Brothers circus train sections. They say air brakes failed or were not applied though the engineer says the brake wouldn’t work. Twenty three dead, over twenty injured with several unidentified butlers. The wreck destroyed the first section caboose and five cars of the moving train while a second section car carried elephants and camels.
Twenty two wounded circus workers were transported to Detroit on a special hospital train and admitted to Marper hospital. Officials say none are expected to die today, though John Thomson of Peru Indiana George Clough of Geneva Ohio and James Stewart of Denver remain in serious condition and may not recover.
Willard S. Allen treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Society of the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church confessed in a Montreal letter to the East Boston pastor that he misappropriated over 80000 dollars of the society funds. Allen had served twelve years as treasurer and long public offices in Boston. He said the loss came from speculation and left home a week earlier without notice.
The steamship Virginia Lake departed St Johns for Labrador with Colonel Willard Glazier of Albany leading an expedition to explore the Labrador interior. The party aims to travel inland toward Grand Falls, Hammond Inlet, hoping to reach as far as the falls of Niagara in the region if feasible.
Rome reports St. Peter's is closed as preparations for the coronation next Sunday proceed. Pope Pius X aims to admit 50 900 faithful via parish priests and associations, with remaining seats for distinguished guests. A large security presence and anti clerical protest ban are planned while Don Carlos eyes the papacy advantage.
Bradstreet's weekly review finds the past week in trade and industry satisfactorily secured while the future looks promising. It notes the East feels speculative liquidation and high raw material costs, whereas the West and South expect good staple crops and lucrative prices with confidence and optimism. Staple prices drift lower and food products trend lower.
Curiously cheerful claim about Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry curing dysentery seasickness and diarrhoea. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised to give a clear head, active brain, and vigorous body for life’s battles. Pleasant to take and harmless.
A 13 year struggle with nervous debility and kidney weakness ends with Doan's Kidney Pills proving effective. Mrs M N Bassatt of 100 N street recalls using a Hoosier drug store purchase to strengthen kidneys and ease secretions. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole U.S. agent. Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute.
This ad notes stomach troubles in season and promotes immediate relief through simple remedies. Louis F. Hunemeier, chemist at Farmers' Drug Store in Sums Block provides medicines to insure health and comfort.
Jepson at 313 Main Street invites readers to get a proper eye examination and glasses. The ad stresses eye health and urges customers to act now before it is too late, promising affordable pricing.
A Lancaster man F J Green credits Electric Bitters with curing years of chronic indigestion and nervous debility and says his wife also remains in excellent health. He praises the tonic as a grand invigorator for weak women. The testimonial ends with a 50 cent price and a satisfaction guarantee by J N Jones.
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