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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1897
Page
2
Distorted wires discuss death and politics. sugar stock dips to 11534, Greek mediation on Cyprus and Armenia, White House talks with Senators Davis For Morgen, Cuban question, Union Pacific probe plan, Syrian volunteers in Athens, and a May 6 incident off Honduras involving a US steamer.
The senate on the 12th discusses bringing Elverton Chapman before the bar to purge contumacy as a condition of pardon. The body also passes bills including for Montana land and an asylum for the blind. The house is not in session.
Cot Buck is named new minister to Japan and to pause in Honolulu en route. McKinley plans a congress message on Cuba with potential disclosures of Weyler orders. A British loan talks in Pekin, bank arrests in Kansas, Oklahoma wheat records, and a San Quentin confession tie in a broader patchwork of global and domestic stories.
A wide range of items from the United States Presbyterian general assembly near Kosciusko Indiana to legal and political notices. Includes decisions against the American Tobacco Co, indemnity talk in Constantinople, Cardinal Camillo’s death, Gerald du Maurier marriage, bank reserve excess in New York, a streetcar spitting fine in St. Louis, naval mobilization orders, Cuban relief funding debates, Hawaii’s finance minister in Chicago, leadership hints for the silver Democrats, tariff amendments, a Cretan water shortage, Missouri shooting tournament opening, and a treasury assistant secretary nomination.
In the senate on the 1%th Stewart gave notice of an amendment to the tariff bill concerning the treasury reserve fund. The calendar moved with bills and resolutions passed of limited importance. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The house was not in session. An expedition departed Philadelphia on the 17th to explore areas around Mount St Elias Alaska with possible ascent attempts. A London special notes philanthropist donor of £25 000 to feed the Jubilee famine relief is claimed as William Waldorf Astor though unconfirmed. William I Meyers of Chicago, after long service at Farwell Co., was arrested for embezzling $10,000. bail $10,000 posted. Gov. Brook of New York refused Utah governor’s requisition for custody of Clarence Barton and Graves, accused of stealing $5,200 from Utah Loan and Trust Co. in Ogden City. W J McConaghy, temperance lecturer of Cleveland, became deranged while speaking at Whitesville, likely from overwork. The San Francisco welcome committee for Christian Endeavor members to California will have 900 members and 85 staff. On the 18th the comptroller of the currency issued a call on national banks for a year-end condition statement.
The Illinois Supreme Court upholds the indeterminate sentence law in two cases, including Charles D. George of Chicago for embezzlement and David A. McDonald and John H. Clement for manslaughter, prompting anxiety among about six hundred inmates at Joliet prison awaiting outcomes. Justice Magruder dissents in one decision, while the court remands the prisoners to the warden.
The first grandchild of Adlai E Stevenson was born in Harrodsburg Kentucky and will be named Letitia Stevenson Hardin in honor of Mrs Adlai Stevenson her grandmother The child is the offspring of Rev Martin D Hardin and his wife formerly Miss Julia Stevenson Baptism of converts draws 2000 witnesses as Rev Joe Myers another Baptist preacher baptizes 53 converts at Ram Bey after a four week meeting Meanwhile Galesburg passes a cigarette ban with a $100 fine per violation Judge Thomas R Murphy longtime Madison county figure dies in Upper Alton James French convicted of wife murder in Rockford death penalty imposed after a two week trial
Rev. W. 3. Harsha of Collegiate Reformed, New York City argues that ownership of a house and lot, or progress toward acquisition, curbs anarchy and socialism, as the act of paying toward property lessens demands for equal division of wealth.
The notice touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a premier anti bilious medicine that quickly relieves liver related pains from the right side to nausea and skin color. It cites infant colic and neuralgia as conditions addressed and ends with a jab about women and clubs.
A collage of testimonials touting St Jacobs Oil Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar and Piso's Cure for Permuration. Quips from Boston Transcript N Y Weekly and Ram's Horn claim swift relief from rheumatism toothache lumbago and sprains. The ad copy urges belief and warns against empty claims while extolling quick cures.
An appeal extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash to strengthen uterine ligaments and cure displacement of the womb. A testimonial from Mrs. Buta Pananosa of Mich recounts initial medical futility, then recovery after four bottles plus Blood Purifier, urging other women to seek Mrs. Pinkham's advice.
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