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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1933
Page
2
The piece praises Abraham Lincoln as a man of the people who stood for workers and earned respect through hard work and self education. It notes his modest origins, lack of university degrees, and enduring relevance of his words about labor and justice. Lincoln’s legacy as a defender of workers remains celebrated.
Fragmentary notes indicate the emancipation proclamation formed by Lincoln around September 2, 1863 and became elective on January 1. The text references Freedanary 1 1863 and related acronyms, with unclear surrounding details.
A fragmentary history recalls John Wilkes Booth as a spoiled prodigy on the Booth farm near Baltimore, his father Junius Brutus Booth, and his sensational acting, followed by a separate report on a January train wreck in Greenfield that killed a woman and involved engineer T C Canning and fireman Fred Eppert.
A stark portrait traces Booth from a starstruck youth to a notorious actor whose lack of discipline fueled a path to infamy. The piece links his volatile personality with his infamous acts and the deaths surrounding his life, including the assassination of a president.
Mrs. Horace J. Oldham, a teacher at Knightstown School, resumed her duties last week after recovering from multiple broken ribs suffered in a Indianapolis automobile crash some time ago.
Biographies note that many influential figures were below average height. Examples include Napoleon at 5 feet 2 inches, Stephen A. Douglas dubbed the little giant, Van Buren the little magician, and McClellan known as Little Mace. Other brief rulers and artists such as Farragut Holmes Jones Sheridan Beethoven Keats Swinburne Whistler and many more are listed as short or medium height.
A simple refrigerating box designed to work without ice. Constructed from small lumber screen wire burlap and pans it uses a water pan on top with burlap strips soaked in water to create evaporative cooling. Placed in a breezy spot the evaporation chills the box interior.
A London anecdote explains the phrase hearing a pin drop. At Lloyds Coffee House on Tower Hill ship auctions used a lighted candle with a pin in the wax. The final bid before the pin fell was accepted, and silence fell as bidders waited for the pin to drop.
A reader letter recalls two pumpkin anecdotes. One a grocer allegedly swindled by sending a hollow pumpkin to an innocent bride. The other about a Maine aunt sending a giant pumpkin with a pumpkin pie recipe that cannot be cooked in the couple’s small kitchen.
Dr. Ned Dearborn argues in Food of Fur Bearing Animals in Michigan that mink prejudice is justified. He warns minks kill muskrats in winter when other prey are scarce, burrow into houses, and devastate muskrat colonies.
A concise survey notes several historical pairs where wives were older than their husbands, citing figures such as Empress Josephine and Napoleon, Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, Mary Stuart and Francis II, Jenny Lind and Otto Goldschmidt, and Disraeli and his wife.
The undershot jaw and retreating nose of the bulldog are the results of specialized breeding to enable the dog to breathe freely and at the same time to hang on to its adversary's nose in the sport of bull baiting.
The newly discovered portrait study of Mary Todd Lincoln by Daniel Huntington adds to the nation’s Lincoln legacy. Jana Lincoln, daughter of Robert Smith Todd and born 1818 in Lexington Kentucky, died 1882, fourteen years after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Fort Stevens in Georgia avenue near Walter Reed hospital lies a small cemetery recalling the Civil War battle when Confederates neared the Capitol. The site offers a grim reminder of the era and its proximity to the White House area.
The passage recalls the Fort Stevens engagement near the city and notes forty soldiers who fell there. It mentions the fortifying chain of small forts surrounding the city and Lincoln exposing himself to fire to observe the battle after Yorighht ordered retreat.
Abraham Lincoln argues property is the fruit of labor and a positive good. He contends wealth signals others may become rich and encourages industry. He warns against pulling down the house of others and urges self-reliance to ensure safety.
The volcano near Naples Italy rumbled and shook with ash spouts and powerful explosions on Friday morning alarming villagers. Historic eruptions have claimed thousands of lives and devastated towns for centuries.
John Hasty aged 63 and his son Fred 35 were each sentenced in circuit court to one to ten years for grand larceny rooted in the theft of hogs from a Posey township farm owned by Elmer Caldwell of Rushville and tenanted by Fred Hasty. John Hasty was fined five dollars and costs while Fred faced a ten dollar fine and costs. Caldwell held a mortgage on Hasty's property.
Sometime after the hogs disappeared, Hasty claimed they were stolen but later admitted selling them. John Hasty had previously served a term for chicken stealing.
Miss Sarah Jane Heliker formerly of Knightstown married Gil bert W. Kehn son of Otto Kehn international banker and patron. Heliker daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Heliker of Jacksonville Florida is an actress and star of the Third Little Show after a Florida beauty contest win led to film fashion reviews.
Robert L. Newkirk, 30, sentenced to one to ten years for theft from Farmers Trust Co in Rushville. He changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on grand larceny, embezzlement count dropped. Under new law embezzlement convictions carry 5 to 50 years. He bid farewell to wife and daughter before judge, then was jailed.
Mr and Mrs Paul Parish and Miss Francis Peters with Dr Harry Steen of Indianapolis spent Saturday night with Mr and Mrs Ralph Siler.
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