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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
2
The notice outlines pricing for various local notices in the Citizen. Local business notices cost 5 cents per line, 10 cents if set in blackface type. An entry of thanks costs 25 cents. Obituaries priced by word count from 50 cents for 50 words to 1 dollar for 150 words. Extra copies 5 cents each. Church events with admission charge priced per word. free events incur no charge. Display ads have rates on application.
South bound and express services listed with times 7:37 am and 2:58 pm for the NortH bound mail and express, reflecting a railway timetable snippet.
The text cites Exodus 20 16 with the admonition against bearing false witness. It presents a biblical quotation reference and emphasizes truthful conduct toward neighbors.
The passage notes several people qualifying for membership in the Ananias club and includes a caution about the female of the species being deadlier than the male. It suggests two weeks ago dictographs placed around town would reveal interesting and possibly embarrassing conversations.
Officials warn against magnifying rumors and repeating phrases that distort incidents. The speaker notes how rash talk breeds falsehoods, harms friendships, creates factions, and undermines harmony and success in life.
In Outlook remarks quoted, Rev Charles M Sheldon condemns press invasions of private life and false reporting. He urges readers to demand truth and condemns lying in journalism and politics alongside perjury. The piece cites Roosevelt and discusses ethics in public life and media.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot achieve. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorsed by Walding Kinnan & Marvin and others. Cure taken internally, claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free, price 75 cents per bottle, sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The phrase suggests a routine practice of labeling daily prints as news. It implies a standardization of content tagging and the ongoing production of current events material each day.
The Law Firm of Megee and Kiplinger has dissolved and John D. Megee with Samuel L. Innis form Megee and Innis a law partnership. Office over Peoples National Bank Rushville Indiana contact 1119 for services.
J S Pitts visited Indianapolis for four weeks and Greenfield for five weeks. He stayed with daughter Cassie Norton and hosted by Lemuel Menefee Charles Ward Henry Allender and Henry Henshaw families. He attended Christian Church heard Rev Day at Carthage Christian Church last fall.
Grover Shimer of Indianapolis visited Mr and Mrs J A Lineback for the weekend. Mrs John Gartin of Rushville stayed with her daughter Mrs J A Sipe from Thursday to Saturday. Mrs Merrel D Coffin hosted a small gathering Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs Grover Shimer with rock and fancy work entertainment and refreshments.
The Republicans of Rush County call meetings in each township on Friday and Saturday March 15 and 16 1912 to choose delegates and alternates for state congressional judicial senatorial and county conventions. State delegates will also serve at the March 26 1912 state convention to nominate four delegates and four alternates and electors. Congressional delegates will attend the March 28 1912 Connersville Indiana session to select two delegates and two alternates for the national Chicago convention.
The Republicans of Ripley Township meet in mass convention at Carthage on Friday March 15 at 2 p m at the Nickelo to select delegates to State Congressional Judicial Senatorial and County conventions. Fred White Will Norris Conrad Kizer committeemen.
The notice lists candidates for various county offices in Rush County including Wm R Jinnett Walker township for Representative, William H McMillin Union township for County Auditor, George B Moore Jr Posey township for Clerk, William M Bosley Anderson township for Clerk, Thomas E Bottorff Anderson Township for Clerk, Ezekiel M Jones Ripley township for Sheriff, Jesse K Jameson Rushville for Sheriff, Earl H Sears Center two for Northern District Commissioner, and J A Widan Washington township for Northern District Commissioner. all subject to the Republican nominating convention.
Mr and Mrs Z. O. Blackford of Noblesville stayed with Mrs Mary Willcutt’s family on Friday and Saturday. They traveled via Shelbyville where daughters Marguerite and Virginia visited Mr and Mrs Curtis Bassett.
Mrs A H Johnson has been the guest of her daughter Mrs Clarence Weaver of Indianapolis since Saturday. For insurance of any kind see Moore and Cooper. Phones 103 and 21.
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