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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1898
Page
3
The Ledger Monthly announces discontinuance of its weekly issue and will appear as a monthly. It notes founder Robert Bonmer and the ledger’s history as a leading weekly in seed fiction. References to contemporaries and generic ads appear in the fragmentary text.
A Mills Nebraska woman writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life after doctors said her tuberculosis was hopeless. She reports stopped menses, weight gain, and improved health after using the remedy, noting gratitude to Mrs Pinkham.
Mrs. Gro Leach of 1609 Belle St Alton Illinois reports severe womb trouble with frequent menses leaving her weak unable to sleep or eat She tried doctors medicine but found little relief after reading a booklet she began Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and says she feels like a new person She would not trade it for any doctor's medicine and praises it highly.
Philadelphia observers recount a lavish seven mile route for the peace jubilee parade with McKinley leading in open carriages. Generals Miles Shafter Lawton Chaffee and Hobson plus the Merrimac crew receive ovations as Twenty-first Infantry, "The President's Own," marches 300 strong bearing colors from Mrs McKinley and a New York donor. The decorated city glowed with red white and blue bunting as Grand Army units closed the line.
Washington reports of a conference among Secretary Bliss Commissioner Jones and Commissioner Herrmann on dead and down timber. They weighed Indian wishes for continuing or suspending timber cutting next year, noting substantial revenue and potential permanent suspension if Indians favor ending the practice. A Pillager petition sought to preserve cuttings as livelihood, with assurances about white men dating to Indian wives. Public opinion on keeping the Philippines is touched by a health remedies aside note.
Lisbon dispatch reports litigation already begun over the affairs of the failed First National Bank of Youngstown. RE. P. Burnett holds a note against cashier Child and has caused executions to issue against all of Childs property in Youngstown. Further investigation suggests weeks before any definite disclosures. More business failures are expected and litigation stemming from the bank's collapse promises to be endless.
Chicago reports Lyman K. Cooley stating that Edward Cragin and Frank Washburn rely on New York financiers William B. Grace and Charles Flint to back the attempt to secure an option on a Nicaraguan interoceanic canal concession. If the U S acts promptly the option may be moot. if Congress stalls, Grace and associates may step in as residuary legatees in October with arrangements with the old company.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad promotes enhanced through service with vestibuled sleeping cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati Louisville St Louis and Chicago to Mobile New Orleans Gulf Coast Thomasville Pensacola Jacksonville Tampa Palm Beach and Florida points. Visitors can connect with steamer lines to Cuba Puerto Rico Nassau and West Indies ports and tourist and home seekers tickets are offered at low rates.
A collage of old advertisements and quirky lines from Toledo era papers. Notable items include a 100 dollar reward for a catarrh cure by Cheney & Co., Toledo firms West & Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin promoting drugs, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, and testimonials. Miscellaneous snippets tease jokes and medical claims, with references to St Jacobs Oil and Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar.
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