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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1897
Page
11
Mrs Fannie M McKoon owns and manages a vast 10 000 acre California ranch near San Diego. Since her husband died three years ago she has taken over with no prior experience and turned it into one of the country’s most successful ranches.
Water Darlington, mayor of Concordia Kansas, runs the region’s largest cattle feed operation. This fall he holds 1,700 head near Big Bend Phillips county 600 head near Harlan Smith county and 400 head near Concordia Cloudy county. He expects to feed over 100000 bushels of corn this winter.
Brooklyn inventor G W Glinby unveils an electric land torpedo. The long cigar shaped projectiles ride on rolling trucks and are propelled by electricity via a wire to a central station.
Snow statues are the latest artistic freak and their creator is M Pierre Roche, a French sculptor of repute. The statue is copper with a base reservoir of liquefied carbonic acid to generate cold, drawing moisture from the air to coat the surface with snow within moments, kept from thawing by the freezing mixture.
A historic con resurfaces as a fake Spanish officer in prison writes claiming a beloved daughter’s voyage and treasure costs. The letter asks a reader to mail a small sum to unlock his supposed funds.
French peasants light smoky fires before storms and Schuster explains the belief has reason. Smoke acts as a conductor carrying electricity away slowly. He cites lightning damage data showing churches and mills hit more often than factory chimneys.
In New York a rare 35 year old case shows Amos F. Eno paying off the remaining claims of a firm that failed at the start of the Civil War. Creditors received pro rata payments and releases. now he settles the balance with 4 percent interest since 1861 totaling about $500,000, bolstering confidence in commercial integrity.
The French impose taxes on new transport modes. After bike taxes, authorities plan motor car levies varying by population density. In Paris the charge is 12 dollars for two seaters and 20 dollars for larger vehicles, signaling heavier burden in dense centers.
The U S army signal corps now runs about 802 miles of military telegraphs. The year’s key advance is a combined telegraph and telephone device weighing 16 pounds, allowing a single soldier to telegraph to a destination while conducting a phone call with another station. Distant operators receive only the messages meant for them.
The national post office faces a deficit of 15 to 16 million dollars this year while England reports a surplus of about 20 million. The shortfall is not due to letter postage but to second class mail losses, where the established rate is far below actual transmission and handling costs, totaling nearly 40 million annually.
McKinley presses currency revision to reduce debt burden and prevent bond dependence, outlines gold parity concerns, and endorses banking note reforms. He faces Cuba Spain policy, weighing belligerency, neutral rights, and potential intervention as Spain shifts to Sagasta premiership. He stresses Hawaii annexation continuity, Behring Sea seals, and international arbitration as paths forward.
A Cleveland landlord avoids repairs as a tenant family, possibly two households, complains of a leaking roof that drenches a sister’s bed. The head of the household explains the roof leaks over her bed and she cries from memories of home, prompting no immediate action.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway begins a system of tourist sleepers on its excursion dates between Saint Louis or Kansas City and South Texas points. For information contact H. F. Bowsher at 435 Walnut Street Cincinnati Ohio.
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune quotes a playful exchange about a girl misplacing stockings and a mother using the hose as a playful corrective gesture.
An advertisement asserts None So Good as Star Tobacco. It claims Star plug tobacco has the world’s largest consumption and is unrivaled in all respects.
A mix of quips and ads from various papers includes a homeseeker excursion notice via the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway with tourist sleeper details and an Ohio address. It also references medical cures for colds coughs rheumatism and back pain from products like Laxative Bromo Quinine Pills Piso’s Cure for Consumption and St Jacobs Oil with endorsements from named readers.
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