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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1897
Page
3
Fashion notes describe a favored coat style that outlines the figure with a close back and loose front, remedies including the pirle finish for sponging cloth, and tucking in all forms. It covers gloves, handkerchief colors, collars, hats, and fur jackets, with Paris influences and new decorative touches like violets on collar tabs and embroidered handkerchiefs.
Compressed air powers portable boring tools for drilling and reaming metal holes and is now standard in rock drills hoisting engines and pumps in mines and underground works. One medium rock drill replaces twelve men, drilling 20 to 150 feet daily depending on rock hardness, with air cost cited as favorable for ventilation and efficiency.
Earlham College in Richmond Indiana has acquired a near perfect mastodon skeleton that drew world interest. The specimen, excavated from swampy land, weighs about ten tons when alive and is among the largest of its kind, with experts from Lansing and Rochester aiding in restoration. Crowds flock daily to view the display beside Van Amburgh’s elephant Tippo Sahib, and college officials vow careful preservation for generations.
Agee recalls a tale of soldierly action at Korti where Nourse and a nameless ally unknown to rank stage a swift post office cleanup. They sort letters by regiment, papers center, and deliver mail to camps by night. The mysterious companion proves to be Lord Wolseley.
The Pawnee reservation case shows Indian names like Coo rux rah rah koo turned into Afraid of bear by an agent, a poor result. It notes many names such as Flying eagle and Crazy horse are ludicrous and un American, and should not be perpetuated.
Mary C. Stetson urges more music at home in the February Woman's Home Companion. She argues singing eases child labor, strengthens parental effort, and offers rest and recreation, quoting a minister who learned rest revived his health and inspired many across America. She asks mothers to balance home duties with genuine care, prioritizing nourishment and mental development over superficial surroundings.
A compact health excerpt explains proteids or albuminoids as flesh formers and the role of proteins fats starches and salts in nutrition. It notes meal-time mood affects digestion and that nitrogen in proteids repairs nervous and muscular tissue with oxygen supporting bodily tissues.
A clever workman in a Sheffield cutlery factory crafted twelve pairs of ultra small shears each weighing under a half grain combined. Each pair was perfect and capable of cutting if a sufficiently delicate material existed. They lay on white paper and appeared no larger than fleas.
A gas company collector returns a bill to the president noting the bill is unchanged from last month while a scarlet fever sign appears on the door. The president quips that the sign proves gas is being burned all night and jokes to increase the bill.
In the April Century, dedicated to Grant tomb, John R. Proctor contributes A Blue and Gray Friendship about Grant Buckner's relationship. A facsimile of Grant's Mount McGregor message expresses harmony between sections, noting peace, national strength, and afterwar travels.
A jovial old Parisian woman left $400,000 in small sums to a large number of casual acquaintances she met in streets and shops. An invalid with no close relatives, she funded balls and parties to invite anyone whose face attracted her. Upon her death she remembered all in her will.
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