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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1896
Page
5
A flood of advertisements tout One Minute Cough Cure as a quick remedy for coughs colds and hoarseness. Coffin & Co. push products including DeWitts Little Early Risers Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Witch Hazel Salve with confident claims and customer testimonials.
The ad touts Dr King’s New Discovery for bowel and lung complaints. O S Coffin & Co sell it at 25 and 50 cents per bottle. Mr Gilman Brown credits the remedy after costly doctor visits failed to help his son after typhoid malaria. Free trial bottles at Owen S Hill’s drug store. Northport residents displaced by fire find shelter in railway coaches.
Promote Dr King s New Life Pills as a vegetable remedy claimed to cure constipation and sick headache and aid malaria and liver troubles. Advertises free sample box for vetting, with a 25 cent price per box and sale via Owen Hill druggist. Also mentions Chamberlain s Pain Calm and Pain Balm for rheumatism with application method.
A farmer and his two sons were instantly killed by lightning a few days ago while seated at table eating supper near Orange California. The tragedy occurred during a family meal and left the community in shock.
The Union plowboy from Rush county J C Wilson is announced as a candidate for Representative. A native of Fayette with Civil War service, he is described as a farmer of broad experience and a loyal Republican, seeking to advance farmers’ interests in the coming Assembly.
A discussion on orange grafting asks why growers favor thick skinned varieties for profits while thin skinned fruit is preferred by consumers. The snippet adds a Scotsman barrack-room joke about a sergeant mishearing a light instruction, leading to a humorous exchange.
Affidavit dated August 10 1894 attests May 11 walk with crutches to Malick's drug store to buy Cham berlain's Pain Balm for inflammatory rheumatism. After using three bottles the writer claims complete cure and recommends the product. Sold at 50 cents per bottle by O S Coffin & Co Druggists.
The Boston Herald notes a missing groom who skips his wedding due to extreme modesty. It mocks him as unworthy of a wife and unlikely to find one due to his bashfulness.
Rev 8S Doyle reflects on life through the Easter message of sacrifice for higher life in Christ. The sermon urges dying to worldly pleasures and self to live in Christ, citing Paul and key Bible readings.
A moral exhortation urges American youth to guard every sense and action with Christian virtue. The piece extols teeth against liquor, ears against bad talk, hands against wrongdoing, heart against irreverence, feet against bad company, eyes against harmful media, pocket against theft, and tongue against impurity, asserting Christian armor protects the nation more than ships. It closes with the word Selected.
The St Louis Post Dispatch reports statistics comparing church membership and political influence. About one third of the population, 20,613,307, are church communicants: 14,000,000 Protestants and 6,000,000 Catholics. Qualified voters total 15,137,889 with 8,400,000 Protestant communicants and over 10,000,000 nominal Protestants. Catholics total a little over 2,000,000 voters, about one fifth Protestant totals.
The passage argues against indifferentism toward church unity and calls for a positive mutual coherence in a living Christ. It emphasizes that unity will not come by lowered doctrinal concern but by shared faith and purposeful alignment among believers.
A Presbyterian reflection argues that God weighs intentions and actions, beliefs and practices, stressing harmony between inner life and outward conduct to meet divine requirements. The piece links character to destiny and urges moral consistency.
The passage contrasts the allure of grand sights with the virtue of quiet usefulness. It reflects on seeking rest in distant worlds yet finding no true harbor outside God, expressing a return to faith and longing for divine shelter. The speaker pledges to seek God rather than roam.
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