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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1896
Page
5
A 19th century ad list extols Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as mild and sure for bowel complaints. It cites consumer testimonials, druggist endorsements, and a home remedy preference, alongside notices offering travel employment and a note on DeWitts Colic and Cholera Cure. It also mentions an electric fencing umpire and a sudden death statistic.
Advertisements invite readers to send addresses to H C Bucklen & Co Chicago for a free sample box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. Claims include constipation relief headaches malaria and liver issues with vegetable ingredients and no deleterious substances. Price 25c per box sold by Owen S Hill druggist. Also mentions police use of bicycles in Calcutta and a patrol worker recruitment notice in Indiana with salary and reference enclosure.
A report notes that thieves in Great Britain purloin property valued at more than five hundred thousand dollars weekly. Meanwhile a corny local item in Joplin Missouri mentions a field settling twenty feet, and an ad touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a quick cure for poison ivy insect bites bruises scalds and burns by O and Coffin Co.
Don’t trifle away time when you have cholera morbus or diarrhoea Fight them in the beginning with DeWitt’s Colic and Cholera Cure You don’t have to wait for results they are instantaneous and it leaves the bowels in healthy condition O S Coffin and Co
A London paper’s account recalls the four British expeditions against Kumassi and the fall of Prempeh on January 20, 1896. It details Ashanti executions, human sacrifices, and state rites, praising Major Baden-Powell’s volume and noting plans for a light Cape Coast Castle to Prah river railway to reopen trade.
The coroner says signs pointed to natural death but fellow actresses doubted it, insisting the deceased could not die naturally and forcing an inquest. The Detroit Tribune reports the scene with whimsical dialogue from Nancy Prancy and Kitty Hardup. A note on patenting new machine improvements follows.
The piece catalogs widespread textile plant disruptions from New Jersey to New Hampshire, detailing wage cuts, reduced hours, and mills shut or running intermittently. Notable companies include Firth Carpet in West Cornwall, Sayles & Jenks in Warren, and Mason crews facing reduced time and layoffs. Atlantic-region mills face looming closures and bank recalls.
In a country theater rehearsal the stage manager learns his role requires six cigars nightly. The prop man balks at the cost eight shillings a week, suggesting penny favors, while the manager grimly faces paying more. The prop man laments the unwelcome expense of the inferior weed.
About 20 wholesale commission dealers now operate in cut flowers in the city. The first began roughly 18 years ago, shifting florists from sending flowers to growers to buying from local wholesalers. Flowers are grown in New Jersey Long Island and other New York areas and shipped by express. The busy hours run from 8 a m to noon as flowers arrive. customers include city florists and many within 75 miles, with shipments further afield.
City editor and reporter spar over focus of a story as they recall a semisocial gathering with numerous cigarette smokers present. The exchange highlights tension between sensational conflagration framing and quieter social details.
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