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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1899
Page
4
J. D. Dennis offers terms at $1.00 year in advance. Water works and electric lights mentioned. Describes losses among young grapes in the locality. The temple of Janus remains open and Mars in ascendency as the war continues. Wheat reportedly not seriously damaged by the April 1 2 cold snap.
The article predicts a mass shift as 40,000,000 Japanese may convert when the Mi cade declares paganism at an end and Christianity to be the national religion, signaling a major religious transformation.
A large audience packed the ME church last Sunday night to honor Carthage graduates and pay homage to the esteemed speaker. The town demonstrates pride in its young people and their achievements.
The message echoes M Fabius lines to Carthage in 218 B C with a preference for peace if possible. It contrasts Rome’s caution about pursuing peace while not fleeing a hostile crowd. The passage frames a strategic choice between conflict and retreat in a historical analogy.
The issue touts Ripley Township High as among the best in the state and notes pride in graduating seniors. It covers closing exercises in each room yesterday and commencement tonight. Lloyd Henley, formerly of this paper, has bought an interest in the Rushville Graphic and became editor last Monday. His Carthage roots and Republican voluntarism are seen as assets for the paper’s future.
A sea gull dazzled by electric lights in a western town headered into a building during an evening flight. The note invites locals to report lamp locations for night travel safety. Also mentions Joaquin Miller visiting Liberty and recounts a tale of his nickname origin Walk-in Miller later changed to Walk-out Miller.
A wary note compares the aims of preachers and teachers, saying both seek to guide youth toward becoming good citizens through careful, persistent effort and moral instruction.
In every sense they seek to supplant sinful thoughts with spiritual themes and enable the soul to become a temple fit for Him who is chief among ten thousand. They labor to unite the spiritual and the mental, distinguishing man from the brute.
An old advertisement promotes DeWitt's Hazel Salve and One Minute Cough Cure, claiming quick relief from piles without surgery and from pneumonia flu coughs croup and whooping cough. It lists names and locations and notes a Women’s Literary Circle meeting with readings on eighteenth century textile history and songs. An endorsement from W A Stroud praises Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. For sale by OS Coffin Co.
A partial reading lists numerous former Indiana residents now living in states and abroad. Entries name individuals with towns and states such as Lizzie Allan West Chester Pennsylvania Ardelotte Fall River Massachusetts and many more across Michigan Kansas New York Illinois Colorado Oregon California Oklahoma and beyond with scattered foreign locations including Manila and Mexico.
An undersigned offers a free prescription for consumption and other diseases to fellow sufferers, with a note of fearlessly curing claims. The text also discusses lawn grasses such as Kentucky blue grass and bent varieties, noting clover as a substitute and shade considerations in green tones.
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