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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1896
Page
7
A collection of light pieces and curiosities from the era. It includes a poem urging leisure in rustic country comfort, snippets on weather, fruit trade, and health beliefs, plus a tale of an antelope killing a rattlesnake with swift, repeated hoof strikes and notes on life expectancy, cycles, and a peculiar doctor payment custom among Eskimos.
Nellie Mordelle, thirteen, leaves for Chicago with a Board of Children’s Guardians agent to find her grandfather John Pfeniger, a wealthy ranchman near Los Angeles. Her history spans the Chicago home, a wandering mother, and a distant father, with a three year search finally uncovering her identity and placement. The story traces her years of hardship, her early life with a paralytic street vendor and caretaker Miss Belle Carroll, and her refined appearance as she departs for a new home.
A collection of comic vignettes and snatches of dialogue in a busy social scene. Jests about tailoring, mind reading, foreign words, promises, and politics mix with flirtations and party chatter as characters tease and trade witticisms in a lively, informal air.
An Irish hod carrier Tim Finigan reportedly dies after a fall from a ladder. Friends hold a wake with pipes and banter. Tim awakens amid chaos as relatives quarrel and a bottle erupts, then seizes a shillelagh and commands the room with a burst of rowdy sport.
Dr. Weir Mitchell will publish Hugh Wynne Free Quaker as a Century serial starting in November. The novel, praised as a potential American masterpiece, is set in Philadelphia before and during the Revolutionary War with Wash ington Franklin Lafayette Benedict Arnold and Major Andre among its figures. The hero serves on General Washingtons staff.
A dainty workbag remains essential for the boudoir, balancing plain and ornamental stitchery. A highlighted example shows a green four-legged frame supporting a rose India silk bag, folded with yellow silk bows and matching lining, reflecting both function and ornament.
The report notes Prince of Wales life insured for 900000 dollars. Gen Gordon considered inviting Cecil Rhodes in old days to the Soudan. John Abrahams, England’s oldest working printer, dies suddenly in Bolton after seventy years in the trade. Robert Taylor of Casper Wyoming leads this year's wool clip at 500000 pounds, likely the largest U.S. producer. Paderewski cancels engagements due to a severe collapse. John Hardy, vacuum brake inventor, dies in Vienna, once with state railways. The Emperor of Russia backs a commission to collect folk songs. M Tromaine directs the inquiry.
A young attorney asks a friend why he keeps changing his appearance. The man admits he alters his beard and hair to confuse creditors and revive his credit, planning another disguise when trouble returns.
A travel sketch visiting Key West cigar factories notes top Cuban tobacco from Vuelta Arriba, two main Havana brands veruera and regalias, and explains that Key West cigars use Cuban leaf yet not all brands labeled Key West originate there. It contrasts climate and production with Tampa and Jacksonville and observes quiet evenings and neighborly Cuban children of poorer families.
A Washington Post item recounts a gossip tale about Mrs X trying to hire Mrs Z's cook for higher pay. At a state dinner Mrs Z avoids acknowledgment of Mrs X, refusing to exchange courtesies, highlighting social snubs and kitchen tempers among prominent society ladies.
Aldy recalls an interview with Brigham Young. When presented, she said it was a privilege to meet him and note his influence on women. Young replied in a laconic, humorous fashion.
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