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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1898
Page
3
A long reader letter and assorted ads recount two years of coughing after the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Mrs. L. W. Stevens credits Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral with quick relief and cure. The page also promotes Western excursion rates, asthma cures, and various health and patent medicine notices with multiple named places and figures.
A reader recounts severe menstrual pain and nervous distress eased by Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter praises the remedy's lifechanging impact on a working girl and encourages others troubled by female complaints to seek her advice.
Washington March 12 The House naval affairs committee authorized three new battleships in the naval appropriations bill. They also set armor plate at $400 per ton, added 473 Marines, and considered four dry docks to house the largest ships. Debates centered on ships and costs with a Maine-named vessel possibly among the new fleet.
Gen V S Rosecrans died at 7 a m at his Redondo California home after days between life and death. Survived by son Carl Rosecrans daughter Anna Rosecrans and other intimate friends. His career spanned West Point Siouxland service engineer to brigadier general duty in Civil War actions at Rich Mountain Carnifax Ferry Murfreesboro and Chattanooga later Mexican minister to Mexico and California congressman.
The Watertown Massachusetts arsenal, long a maker of carriages and projectiles, begins gun manufacture. Work on a 3.6 inch breech loading field mortar has started, with carriage produced on site. The shift follows ordnance department concerns about high costs for privately made mortars.
Washington March 12 negotiations for the purchase of two Japanese cruisers under construction in Philadelphia and San Francisco are off, with no further steps expected. The Japanese government appears more eager than the United States, and the crisis between Russia and Japan is cited as making Japan’s needs nearly as urgent.
The battleship Oregon will take aboard 400 tons of powder shot and shell from Mare Island. Navy officers say the ship cannot reach the naval station due to shallow channels, so ammunition will be moved to Mission Bay. Estimates propose a $250,000 dock enlargement to deepen channels.
The House committee on public lands voted seven to two to report favorably the Shafroth bill ceding arid lands to the states where located. One million acres have already been ceded under the Carey Act, with Wyoming the only state to take advantage. A New Mexico provision allows selecting about half of lands for schools and penitentiaries upon statehood, a compromise amid admission delays. The measure reflects ongoing disputes over land control and state claims.
In Mionican City Indiana on March 12 a prison uprising broke out during supper as about 200 inmates led by 14 year old William Sauerwein from Vigo county assaulted guards with coffee cups Captain Barnard supervised the dining room when the riot began Night Man Anderson intervened drawing his revolver and firing wounding Sauerwein and another leader named Surber
Mrs J H Weaver of Bushnell Illinois, wife of ex City Marshal Weaver, testifies she suffered years of fatigue and illness at the approach of middle age. After trying various medicines she used Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People from March 1897, claiming complete recovery after a box and a half. She urges others to try the pills, asserting they restored health and strength. The affidavit is sworn October 1897.
A heated exchange shows Selfish and Brown arguing over debt owed. Jack defends indulgence while claiming willingness to pay, while Boston Tang script notes mutual dissatisfaction and conflicting attitudes toward financial obligation.
Escape the winds this month with through-car service from cities of the North to all Winter Resorts in Sauk Florida along the Gulf coast in Texas Mexico and California. The Florida Chautauqua is in session at DeFuniak Springs for six weeks with top lecturers and entertainers in perfect climate. Low round trip rates and omeseekers excursions on the first and third Tuesday. Tickets at about half rates. For details write to C P Atmore Louisville Ky or Geo B Horner St Louis Mo.
A brief quip from the Chicago Evening News notes the risk in eating toadstools versus mushrooms. It contrasts perceived danger with actual danger, highlighting mushroom safety in a concise exchange.
In a stark claim the piece notes one quarter of the human race dies before age five due to climate. It asserts many adults suffer stomach and bowel complaints, suggesting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters relieves and invigorates. It adds malaria, rheumatism, and kidney trouble yield to the Bitters.
An old Philadelphia Times quote defends harmless family pride in boasting about lineage. The Grain-O advertisement touts a grain based drink as a coffee substitute for the whole family, claiming health benefits, no nerves upset, and digestion protection, urging readers to ask their grocer for Grain-O.
A Philadelphia Inquirer quote notes Klondike tales show zero means nothing, while a printer recommends Mason prints. The ad urges buyers to seek Simpson’s goods for lasting brightness and quality, and to ask for William Simpson & Sons on the ticket.
An ad offers Scotch terriers Chinese pugs French poodles and Polish setters for sale. The clipped text also mentions patent cure claims for consumption neuralgia and a misdated medical promotion from Dr. Kline. The fragmented item resembles an old classified or miscellany page with pet listings and health cure notices.
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