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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
5
A lively exchange on a streetcar between a thrilled young woman returning from Philadelphia and Colonel Stillwell. The woman longs for her “dear old spot” while the colonel, distracted by outside sights, quips about real estate and a long hotel stay, finally acknowledging shared sentiment with a humorous nod to a card game metaphor.
A compact note notes a planned Paris expedition amid postwar attitudes, poking fun at frictions between American reporters and French people during the late war era.
A courtroom scene features a clever applicant who passes a geography test to gain citizenship. Jokes pit overwork, salary, and a Hebrew Tubal Cain, with blinds and laughs about wheel riding and a wife gift episode.
A Philadelphia North American note laments a German band visiting and asking for money, calling it worse than their music. The piece condemns the added burden of being asked to pay the hat.
A dramatic quarrel erupts as Mrs. Peck accuses a minister and Henry calls for punishment, insisting on consequences for a failed wedding. The heated exchange reveals tensions over respect, payment, and social expectations in a small community.
A short verse contemplates the day ahead and the habit of counting good deeds at sunset. A father asks what a lineal descendant means and a light humorous definition follows about relying on an ancestral figure for personal importance.
A Shelby, Ohio report tells of Mrs Luther Lotz who suffered seven years from a fatal illness. After three months of coughing she bought Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and slept through the first night. Two bottles reportedly cured her. Trial bottles offered free at J. H. McCarty & Sons Drug Store with regular sizes priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
Dr A notes that Kruger's ultimatum is the first such demand received by Great Britain, urging readers to consider The Indianapolis News value for two cents. The comment contrasts the paper’s worth with the investment price and underscores Kruger's diplomatic gambit.
A testimonial extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from O. S. Coffin & Co. Druggists of Glencoe promising refunds after two thirds usage if unsatisfied. Opening of Chicago drainage canal anticipated between December 1 and 4. Also a note of a chronic diarrhoea cure via Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after two bottles.
In Harper's, Mr. Shivvers follows a health hint claiming cold water immersion cures neuralgia. He begins a gradual plunge but balks at the cold, resulting in a comical and painful morning ordeal as his wife prompts and he retreats to bed. PMID: none.
A satirical note on state protection and confinement, recounting a child’s joke about a tame cow and recalling pessimistic articles by the Star of Hope writers. The piece hints at threats to discontinue contributions unless certain pieces are published, and references Sing Sing Prison’s Star of Hone.
In a humor piece from New York Weekly a widow explains she keeps a chair for her dead husband at every meal to lure his spirit back. A visitor retorts that a medium claimed the husband met Queen Elizabeth Helen of Troy Cleopatra and Venus in the afterlife and married them all, prompting the widow’s furious retort and a joke about inheritance.
A dialogue unfolds as a man tells a maiden he will win, claiming luck and a strong hand. She sits beside him, fingers clasped, in a quiet twilight moment amid talk of money, lands, and fate.
The exchange shows a mother scolding a son in the army for poor handwriting. She admits using a typewriter to improve her own letters, prompting a jab about her son's penmanship compared to hers.
A fragmentary exchange describes a landlady removing a chrome strawberry display from a dining room after Jr. orchestrates a demand for extra rhubarb pie, causing tension among boarders. The brief scene centers on a kitchen table confrontation and a prank escalator.
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