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Newspaper
Carlisle News
Location
Carlisle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
3
A playful exchange about hiring for the new work Fits and Fancies. An offer invites a picture for 1500 dollars, with a jokey reply noting 3000 dollars to keep out and a check being presented. The dialogue hinges on sizing up the check.
Herr Emile Allemandi a wealthy Basel banker leaves a large fortune the interest of which funds dowries for poor girls in his native Basel.
Heavy exports of rice and teakwood valued at over 12 million dollars were shipped from Siam in 1904. Rice led in quantity while teakwood ranked second in value, reflecting strong plantation and export activity.
In Dumfries the Hole in the Wa Inn displays a private Burns collection gathered by John Thomson. The oldest licensed house in town hosts 30 to 40 relics, documents, portraits, and a Burns library, dating back to 1620 as the town’s oldest fixed house.
The Textile Mercury notes a controversial claim that Chinese graves are yielding hair for sale, a practice said to be unique in Chinese customs. It reports skepticism about living hair, cites low sand contamination, and notes hair prices around 86 cents per pound amid widespread trafficking.
The Shanghai volunteer force, about 5000 well-drilled men, mostly British, aided in quelling recent anti-foreign riots with organized, well-equipped units.
Local brief highlights arrivals departures and visits from Vincennes Oaktown and surrounding towns. Notables include Otro Pifer returning from Vincennes and visiting cousin Russell Racey Charles Wolfe on business John S Howard visiting from Eloise Ila for several weeks Miss Edith Ravenscroft wedding in Vincennes and residence planned in Freelandville plus local shop offers meat and groceries and church events with upcoming children's day exercises.
Dr William Osler argues medicine springs from inborn craving for drugs and calls for clinicians to couple culture with skill. He warns that patients expect prescriptions even for simple cures and urges physicians to stay connected with younger colleagues between ages 25 and 40 who perform the real work.
Good zinc water tank and pump complete offered for sale by Charles E Knotts.
In a fashionable London hotel two little children lay dead in bed beside their mother who was unconscious on the brink of death. The gas jet was on and the room jammed with papers to trap the gas. A note said to wire for the husband and contained a letter from the girl to her father about seeing the pantomime.
The late Gen Joseph Wheeler a man of intense mental activity. A 1863 volume titled A Revised System of Cavalry Tactics for the Use of the Cavalry and Mounted Infantry C S A by Major General Joseph Wheeler published in Mobile Alabama by S H Gaetzel Co is cited as evidence. The work was produced during his constant field service and is noted as an extraordinary achievement. A copy is kept among the library of congress locked treasures.
The Academy notes that folk-tales are the unwritten literature of primeval man and arise from the universal urge to tell and listen to stories. Tales animate savages and peasants alike across Europe, Russia, and the Basques, shared by communities gathered by skilled storytellers.
An office space is listed in the Speake Building on Ledgerwood Street seven, West Street, hone 136.
A milk deliverer confesses a wide gap between daily sales and cow output. Thomas reveals nine cows yield seven quarts each, totaling 63 quarts while he reports delivering 91 quarts, prompting a puzzled calculation about the remaining milk and possible water dilution.
The Liverpool Mercury notes that blimming is the talent to converse pleasantly without substance. Society hostesses praise clever talkers who avoid meaningful content, calling it a refined skill. The piece contrasts past admiration for profound talk with today’s value on light, entertaining chatter. It warns Smarts may burn when pressed to speak sense.
A Lee New Hampshire juror recalls a capital case where a stubborn elder questioned how to vote and who selected him, highlighting a bygone civic conscience. The anecdote captures a juror’s confusion amid moral pressures and public trial expectations.
The Egyptian government plans to construct several bridges over the Nile with French engineers already on site to study requirements and design needs for the new crossings.
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