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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1899
Page
5
A user reports lasting relief for chronic diarrhoea in his son after using two bottles of Cham berlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The writer, Thomas C Bower of Glencoe, urges others facing similar issues to try the product, noting cure and hoping to help. O S Coffin & Co druggists advertise it for sale.
Bold health claim cites enhanced brain and body power from Dr King’s New Life Pills. Advertisement touts benefits for stomach liver kidneys and bowels with a sales pitch at J. H. McCarty & Son’s Drug Store priced at 25 cents.
A traveler recounts visiting Carthage after thirty years, revisiting the mill by Blue River, the Friends meeting house, and former schoolmates. He recalls Miss Elizabeth Thornburg, Eunice S Phelps, and Wim Johnson, and praises Colorado as a healthful retreat for pulmonary troubles.
A jumble of travel musings about Denver and western scenery, with promotional notes for One Minute Cough Cure and medical claims. Mentions Ruutt Co California and Sedalia Mo with vague references to a petrified forest discovery and a child saved from croup by the cough remedy. The ad copy promotes products and periodicals with prices and sample offers.
Miss Annie E. Gunning of Tyre Michigan reports long fighting dyspepsia with weight loss and weakness. Coal Dyspepsia Cure claims to digest food and cure all forms of stomach trouble, providing immediate relief even in severe cases as distributed by O S Coffin & Co. Great Britain is buying U S arms.
Mrs R Cherechill of Berlin Vermont reports her baby suffered sores before using DeWitt s Witch Hazel. Coffin Co of James Holton Crown Point notes a 200 year old family clock. Also mentioning troops returning home from Cuia.
A collage of short items includes Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin claims for constipation relief with prices. Baltimore Chamber of Commerce backing gold standard. Dr Caldwell’s product sold by J H McCarty & Son. Gen Anderson on British military actions. a Greencastle kindergarten year ends positively. call for Rocky Mountain Tea by druggists. insurgents to be treated as outlaws. severe famine in India covering 350000 square miles with 80000 people. Hendricks county farm telephone networks. a claim of wheat fertilization unaffected by flies. a dated testimonial from Sept 14 1898 about Metean’s Liver and Kidney cure. local sale by O S Collin & Co.
Admiral Dewey's flag Lieutenant Thomas M Brumby died of tropical fever in Washington on the 17th. He carried the official news of Manila Bay to Hong Kong for cable to America and had long distinguished service. The body will be shipped to Marietta Georgia for burial.
The Warren Featherbone Co of Three Oaks Michigan will buy the entire product. White them for directions.
Urgent reminder to call the office and secure BS prescriptions due in January 1900. The note urges immediate action and starting now to ensure timely fulfillment.
Anderson will take the lecture platform in a city event led by Mayor M M Dunlap. The program aims to discuss local governance and community initiatives with attendance open to residents.
The article recounts cases where pets and even a goat ingested unlikely objects such as hatpins meat skewers knitting needles and wine corks. It notes veterinary interventions sometimes requiring anesthesia and reports one dog’s recovery and another dog’s death from swallowed valuables.
The Philadelphia Record describes a shift from traditional at sea cutting to Norwegian whale butchery near Vadso and Vardoe. Ships tow the catch to shore, where partnerships pay ship owners for rendered oil and bone. Whales provide meat as fertilizer and hides and skeletons for markets, employing about 1220 men.
An old note explains how Magellan’s westward sail added four minutes per degree of longitude, creating a sixteen hour time gap at the Philippines. The error went unnoticed until 1844 when New Year’s Day was skipped. Manila’s noon differs from Madrid by eight hours, and from Washington by about seven hours.
Reports from Sauk City Prairie du Lac and Merrimack Wisconsin describe wells drilled to 60 to 120 feet that exhale air for 24 hours then inhale for another 24. Cold-weather freezing causes burst pipes, while observers note boards blown from wells and air escaping from coarse gravel strata. Additionally French slate quarries near Angers Maine et Loire produce slate for roofs billiard tables and tower rooms.
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