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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1900
Page
8
An ad urges buying winter hats with big reductions in trimmed and street styles, listing prices from $2 and $1 for children. A separate notice quotes new Idaho law on contagious diseases requiring reporting, school exclusion, and disinfection, with enforcement and penalties.
A promotional notice for a costly art book with nearly 100 full page engravings of Christ and Mary. It highlights European masterworks, painter biographies, child’s department, and sales commissions offering manager or state manager roles. Agents Mrs. Waite in Massachusetts and Mrs. Sackett in New York cited with sales figures.
An early patent remedy markets Moki Tea as a positive cure for wick headache, napignain, and constipation. The ad touts a delightful herb drink that removes skin eruptions and claims improved complexion with a money back option. Sold by Williams, druggist, priced at 35 cents and 50 cents.
The piece discusses Cuba as a portion of the territory acquired by the United States after the Spanish American War and predicts Cuba becoming free following direct popular election of senators. It notes geologists’ views on leveling mountains and valleys as a metaphor. Also includes a local notice urging settlement of debts to Weiger Milling Co and an advertisement for Rose's sale at cost.
News bites report Kravers in France praised by crowds, McArthur seeks 7000 man army, China and Pacific shifts, Holland seeks China rights, Roberts injured, Czar ill, smallpox in Vancouver, storms and snow in Boise, a Chicago novelist bankruptcy, Italian troop withdrawals eyed, Booth cabinet turnover, Thurston declines re election, six new submarines, Hopkins county miners strike, Senator Davis ill, war tax cut in sight, Peary polar trek, arid West reclamation plans, Vermont population note, Paris expo closes, US Mexico boundary marks, Hawaii population rise, India famine and digestion contrast, new paper mill from cotton hulls, Nicaragua canal talks, Mexican cotton factory strikes, Emperor William escape, Croker travels Europe, and Idaho state and local news including rail push and county split discussions.
An anonymous letter from Manchester New Hampshire reports nine years of shoulder pain ended by one bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm after tried medicines and doctors failed. The ad also notes loan offers on farms and mentions R W Syn and R C McKinney in Weiser.
A vintage medicinal advertisement claims Dr King’s New Life Pills restore youthfulness after two weeks use. The reader D H Turner of Dempseytown Pa touts benefits for liver stomach and bowels. The product is described as purely vegetable, non gripping and priced at 25 cents at Sim’s Drug Store.
A chicken pie supper will be served by the ladies of the Congregational church on Friday, December 7. Dainty handmade handkerchiefs and a few Christmas gift articles will be for sale to raise funds for sidewalk construction. Encourage wives to enjoy a day of rest and dine at the Royal Cafe for Sunday dinner.
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