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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1898
Page
6
A New York town trial of a play shows a writer, male yet versed in female psychology, provoking amused and serious reactions in the audience. A witty exchange suggests women advance in thought while men remain in a “lower order,” inviting debate on gender and theater.
If you leave for the summer you will find a new world in Yellowstone Park with mountains 7,000 feet high. The area offers four hotels, government maintained roads, horses and pack trains, geysers canyons mud springs lakes and cascades within a 62 mile region. A Minnesota lake resort alternative offers new hotels fishing boating and reasonable rates. Send six cents for Wonderland ads by C B Fee Northern Pacific Railway.
A Chicago Times Herald item comments on a man who carries a baby in a way that tricks the mother into thinking he is bringing home meat for dinner, using sharp social satire about masculine roles and domestic life.
Grow wheat with big profit at 46 cents and samples of Salzer's Red Cross. Winter wheat rye oats clovers and more featured in the farm seed catalogue with 4 cents postage. JOHN A SALZER SEED CO La Crosse Wis.
An advertisement touts Dr Kline's Great Nerve Restorer claiming complete cure with no fits after daily use. It offers a free $2 trial bottle and treatise from 933 Arch St Philadelphia PA, urging readers to try the remedy amid assorted humor and quotes from periodicals.
A letter from Mrs Bupp describes relief from severe headaches chills and weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She claims prior doctors and plasters offered no help and credits the remedy with restoring health and sleep, recommending it to others.
Reported Aug interior of Puerto Rico sees small marine landings at Cape San Juan with no resistance as Americans begin coastal operations. Warships Montgomery Annapolis Puritan Amphitrite hunt troop transports while New Orleans blocks San Juan. Proclamation from Capt Gen Macias vows to resist. 9,500 Spanish troops in the city. Polynesian halted by New Orleans attempting blockade run with cargo of rum meat and tobacco.
In Manorin Aug 6 Senor Silvela urged summoning the cortes for peace treaty talks. Gen Polavieja declined to discuss the conference with press. Gen Azcarraga said war may continue if resources permit, else immediate peace. Chinchilla praised Madrid army readiness. Salmeron blamed govt for press censorship, vowed not to support the oligarchy. Latest reports note Sagasta’s meetings with Weyler, Primo de Rivera, Gamazo, and Romero Giron. An official dispatch reports American forces and insurgents capturing Fueneta and Cabejas lighthouse near San Juan.
The schooner Cambridge arrived in Halifax yesterday with a report of widespread hunger along the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. A prospecting party including Dr. Morris provided night and day care to starving and ill individuals at Lewis Inlet. Supplies were distributed and 1,600 people were said to need immediate relief as the fisheries fail, worsening conditions.
A New York Journal excerpt notes interior decorating trends with Moville porcelain game plaques featuring American Wild Ducks American Pheasant American Quail and English Snipe valued at $50 000 purchased by J C Hubinger Bros Co The firm offers free plaques to customers buying three ten cent packages of Elastic Starch through September 1st Plaques are decorative non advertising and not mailed but distributed via grocers Also includes a humor snippet about paying with a four months note.
A compact digest titled the Army and Navy vest packet memorandum book covers Spanish and U S naval and army information at war start with Cuba map ship layouts glossary and Spanish terms. Send ten cents to Charles Fee N P R R St Paul Minn for a copy. Immediate reconciliation joke included from a Chicago Tribune snippet.
A reader testifies that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured painful menstruation and backache. The letter praises the medicine and advice from Mrs. Pinkham and asserts the remedy is safe, reliable, and nearly infallible for irregular, suppressed, excessive, or painful monthly periods.
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