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Newspaper
Wilson News
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1899
Page
3
A fashionable health note argues beauty depends on blood quality and a complete diet change. It promotes winter friendly foods, warns against rich sweets, and favors liver friendly meals and fresh air. It cites old remedies like milk washes and a sulfur cream mixture for complexion.
May 1 dispatches reveal ten Yorktown boat crew members including Lieut Gilmore are prisoners at insurgent headquarters with four missing likely killed. Capt Rockefeller of the Ninth Infantry is missing since April 28 near Caloocan. Peace overtures from the Philippine Commission president hint at a propitious path to negotiations and end of hostilities.
A local Atlanta preacher faces backlash after denouncing mob violence. His anti-lynching sermons spark protests and division within the community, drawing attention from civil rights groups and church members alike.
In Atlanta on May 1 a mob despoiled Dr. Broughton's tabernacle following a sermon denouncing the lynching of Sam Hose and Lige Strickland. A note warned Broughton to leave the city or face harm as threats circulated after the incident. A grisly taunt involving flesh of Sam Hose was also reported.
A light exchange between Mr. and Mrs. Ferry notes a second-hand hairdo in Colonial style. Mrs. Ferry replies it seems to be pretty well colonized, playing on the era’s look.
This ad declares Browns Iron Bitters a universal remedy for diseases of the blood nerves and stomach. It claims quick permanent cures and notes the product has been used for nearly a century and is sold by all dealers.
Advertised remedy promises rapid relief from distressing kidney and bladder disease. Sales pitch claims pain relief within six hours for men and women, including reduced water retention, with E F Nadal listed as the druggist in Wilson WC.
Washington May 1 Secretary Hay handed four treasury warrants totaling twenty million dollars to the French ambassador representing Spain as indemnity for the Philippines. Altgeld is reported critically ill as doctors attend him at his Chicago home. Sing Sing introduces Addison Johnson as the new warden as Oscar Sage departs with a farewell ceremony.
The article describes May Day celebrations on May 1 in Manila New York London Rome and Paris. It notes Dewey Day festivities in Manila with a fleet holiday and a flag flying in New York and patriotic school activities. In London thousands of soldiers honored the day as crowds gathered in Hyde Park.
An old advertisement extols OOD S Sarsaparilla as the essential blood purifier and nerve helper. It proclaims its stomach regulating powers and high merit among nostrums.
Willis Seer, a black man, was taken from Osceola jail by a mob of about three hundred lynchers and hanged twice before confessing to burning a neighbor Quinns barn. The spree of arsons prompted the lynching. Seers wife disclosed the arrest.
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