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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1898
Page
3
A persuasive notice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co inviting women to consult Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It emphasizes comfort speaking with a woman, offers free personal responses, and claims extensive experience aiding female illnesses without charge.
El Liberal prints Sagasta remarks on the diplomatic standstill after the Manila suspension of hostilities. He cites bases for negotiations, evasion of sovereignty over the Antilles, and pending questions on Cuban properties and Spanish criminals in Havana. Government withholds comment on Gov Gen Augusti’s Manila departure.
The Spanish cabinet decided to appoint Gen. Gonzales Parrado and Rear-Admiral Luis Pastor Landero to the Cuba evacuation commission, with Marquise de Montero as finance minister. Admiral Valleriano to join the Porto Rican commission. Peace commissioners unnamed but likely chosen. government delaying to avoid a cabinet crisis.
London reports in the Spectator that America will retain Spanish possessions it has captured and that Cuban loyalists pressure may force a US governed Cuba for twenty years. The piece foresees America forming an overseas tropical empire by year’s end and notes English views on its possessions.
Elmer Campbell, a green recruit in Col Hartigan’s Tigers, studies a tactics book to become an officer. He attempts to issue drill calls exactly as written, but when told to “Forward, column right,” the troops laugh as his left turn instruction confuses them. The colonel revises him, and Campbell remains a private.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer spoof, Blimber urges patriotic duty to take up arms. His wife, Mrs. Blimber, calmly reframes the imagined perils of war as she continues her work. He frets about hardship and death, while she retorts there will be no draft.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a treasury messenger who berates an absent clerk for leaving pins on a desk edge. He warns they will be wasted and costly to the government. Clerks laugh, but he vows not to waste funds and to pick up every pin himself.
An ad offers growing wheat at 30 cents a bushel with samples of Salzer's Red Cross claiming 80 bushels per acre and a farm seed catalogue for four cents postage. It promotes seeds from JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO of La Crosse Wisconsin and includes brief ad copy from other products and quotes.
Calico, from Calicut in 1532, was first manufactured in India and named after the city. It was introduced to England in 1631 and later to the United States, which consumes the largest share globally, driving extensive domestic production. The finest calico bears the William Simpson & Sons ticket, famed for color fastness and brilliance. The fragment includes a dialogue on foreign servants versus home industry and tariff notions.
Under date of August 15 the President of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company announces that on and after September 11, 1898 the Kansas City Osceola and Southern Railway will operate as part of the Frisco system from Kansas City to Bolivar Missouri. All transportation issued by the Frisco will be honored over the connected line unless limited. Also contains a humorous quip about Fe the widower and a bicycle left by his wife.
An 1890s style advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a universal foot cure for painful swollen feet corns bunions and sweating. Claims ease in tight shoes instant sting relief and comfort with trial offers and drugstore availability. Also notes other quotes and testimonials about various products and sayings.
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