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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1911
Page
2
A fragment from a timetable lists train services: No 1 Mail and Express, No 33, No 34 Mail and Express, with partial notes on routes or destinations. The text is incomplete and provides only headings for a railroad schedule.
The article notes thousands of flies captured in the last week with many businesses using large capacity traps. It describes homemade designs using screen wire and cheese boxes with banana skin or berries as bait. E D Lewis is cited as a local pioneer and H H Henley offers attractive traps.
The use of oil to control street dust proves cheaper and more satisfactory than water. Dust no longer clings to porches or enters homes, keeping houses presentable. No odor or tracking issues are observed as feared.
Dates announced as Wednesday and Thursday August 23 and 24 1911 at Rush County Fair Rushville Indiana. Over half of Indiana fairs accepted two day live stock judging courses at their own expense with a final contest for boys 15 to 20. A Purdue man will attend each fair for two days to provide instruction in livestock judging with the second day hosting the contest.
The article notes ancient Roman cements owed durability to low soluble silicates and lime under 50 percent. It contrasts with modern high lime cements, which may lose strength in water with alkalis and sulfates. It mentions an American firm producing cement with low lime and excess silica from limestone, shale, and slag to resist alkalis and sulfates.
A farm situation involving a man and wife with no children is described. Call at the citizen office for further information and address details.
Personal items from Rushville and surrounding towns list visits and guests, travels, social calls, bakery ads, births, and local happenings. People like Hazel Dyer, Grace Tyner, Evelyn Lewis, Dorothy Emmerett, and many others are noted with friends and relatives in Greenfield, Knightstown, Indianapolis, and Alexandria area communities. A midsummer storm, a public festival, and business travels are also mentioned along with salt rising bread at Watling's Bakery.
A historical advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a grand protector that destroys disease germs in air water dust and food. It claims the product cures chills fever ague malaria and many blood diseases and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied, price 50c.
Sunday visits mark a busy week as Quincy Buckner W H McCullough and Horace Stewart spend time in Rushville Shelbyville and Knightstown among others. A M E church presiding elder Charles Hunter attended quarterly conference in Indianapolis while Trail reunion is set for Sunday July 30 and several residents travel to Greenfield Newcastle Anderson and New Castle for family and friend visits.
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