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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1896
Page
2
The Hudson River ice broke earlier than any spring in 125 years. Fond du Lac alone reports 150 tramps jailed with $375 weekly costs for lodging and feeding camps this past winter. The state plans a convention to devise means to rid Wisconsin of the nuisance as taxpayers grow tired of the issue.
A Bucyrus Ohio prisoner used a sharpened stick to pick locks and escape. He returned to mock the warden before being recaptured, though the method and exact steps are not explained. He faces remaining prison time.
A Senate measure passes to remove from the Supreme Court all criminal jurisdiction except capital cases and transfer it to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Supporters say the change speeds major business in the high court and prevents petty cases from clogging the Supreme Court.
Editorial notes a trend toward disregarding minor clerical errors in legal records as grounds for new trials. Cites Illinois anarchist cases and Pennsylvania Holmes case as examples. Authors argue this shift should improve justice by preventing endless retrials over trivial faults.
The piece argues that electric lighting extends productive hours beyond daylight, enabling factories and farms to operate into night. It contends this shift is not beneficial, noting no necessity for longer farm work and criticizing the broader impact of industrial expansion on society.
The text argues that rapid city expansion and overfast production harm workers. It condemns overwork and automation as tools of wealthier classes, urging regulation of labor hours and machinery use to protect both labor and employment opportunities.
A tax statistician questions a 25 million adult population and one in fifteen being addicts, estimating about 1.6 million as drunkards. The piece argues many drinkers are not addicts and warns against equating all liquor users with drunkards, noting the number of true alcohol addicts has actually declined.
A London dispatch from Johannesburg recounts a Boer dispute over color of the British flag. An old patriarch wearing blue shirt and yellow trousers proclaims the flag is white after three sightings at Majuba Bronk spruit and Doornkjoach, settling the matter with quiet certainty.
Victor Louis Mason presents John H. Surratt and Wilkes Booth accounts in The Four Lincoln Conspiracies article in the April Century. Garrett recounts Booth’s last days and conversation with the departing defender as flames engulfed the Garrett farmhouse near Bowling Green Virginia. General Weyler pronunciation note appears alongside Cuba commander Weyler and De Lome.
Dr. Tal mage argues the modern newspaper is a divine blessing and a public good. He compares newspapers to wheels full of eyes contrasting with other wheels. He cites suppression by despotism and praises press freedom, democracy, and education through periodicals. He calls for editorial career training and exalted role of reporters, editors, and publishers. He ends with a plea to pray for those in journalism.
A 13 year old prodigy from Anderson creates a one horsepower steam engine from odds and ends. He built the shop drawn the molds and castings himself. Journeys through inventive projects include plans for home made lathes and devices. He sketches mechanical designs and explains their movements. He will attend polytechnic school for formal training and has already inspired older artisans.
In New London Conn three living descendants of a Revolutionary War general are named William H. Burbeck his brother John C. Burbeck and Jane or Charlotte A Burbeck. Their father fought at Brandywine Germantown Monmouth Valley Forge and served under Gen Wayne against the Indians.
The barbette for the battleship Iowa was finished at Homestead last week. It is the largest ever manufactured in America and has been under construction for more than a year. Nine plates weighing 95 000 pounds each, plus a large turret, form the barbette. The plates are fifteen inches thick and 220 inches wide. It will be shipped to Philadelphia on a purpose built train.
Elizabeth Patterson born in Baltimore on February 6 1785 married Jerome Bonaparte in 1803. Their son Jerome Napoleon born July 7 1805 in Camberwell England died June 17 1870 in Baltimore. He had two sons Jerome Napoleon and Charles Joseph. Napoleon ordered the marriage dissolved by the imperial council after Pope Pius VII refused a divorce.
Fashion across the season favors bright colors and bold combinations in dress and millinery. Spring costumes blend red, fawn, mahogany, green and gold with gray vests and waistcoats, using bright soft-textured cloth and bead appliques for a striking, modern look.
A New York Sun writer argues baldness signals higher intellect among men. He cites criminal heads, laborers, and Delmonico’s patrons, claiming deep thinking correlates with hair loss and that women’s hair stays longer until equality with men ends.
A German boasts of German army discipline while a Russian recalls an old czarist era incident. A single mishap at signal stations near St. Petersburg leads to a chain of suicides as news travels along the line to Warsaw. The German yields, saying that will do and to give it up.
An account traces soap origins to the Gauls using beech ash and goat fat, with spread of knowledge after Roman campaigns. It notes Pompeii ash rains burying a soap-maker, and growth of Italian and Phoenician soap trade, with early Marseille factories emerging five centuries later.
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