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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
3
The schedule lists discussions and addresses including Control of Soil Moisture by Rev. Chas Whitely on the relation of farming to civic life, followed by a benediction and a talk on mixed farming. A segment on Special Education for the Home Keeper is also noted with Mrs. Virginia Meredith.
Display prizes include cash for Yellow White and Mixed Corn and Tri-h Potatoes with best field corn display requiring at least three varieties. Exhibitors must prepare five ears per variety on the same farm and return all displayed items. displays due Wednesday at nine with state rules governing judging.
Rushville Graphic reports Rush County Democrats resent Shelby county adopting the unit rule for nominating judge and prosecutor candidates. Shelby will control nominations with 19 delegates while Rush has 12 or 13, forcing alignment with the Shelby choice despite protests led by John D. Megee and others. George M. Ray of Shelbyville wields influence to compel Rush County backing for a Shelby man.
Travelers may join an organized home seekers excursion along the Big Four Route with remarkably reduced fares. The itinerary covers numerous states and territories across the Midwest and South, with departure dates in December 1903 and January through April 1904.
Local butcher offers brisk turnaround on trimming and processing with clear price table. Pricing spans standard cuts and specialty services, featuring sensored weight-based rates and small-volume options for households and businesses.
A newspaper reply challenges a reader's Bible based calculations of the flood timeline. It cites a claimed 1756 13 C, a start on Dec 7, 1056 B C, lasting 377 days, with the ark resting on May 6, 1655 and Noah leaving Dec 18. It notes Genesis chapters seven and eight as the basis for such figures.
The Winter School of Agriculture at Purdue University offers four courses Agriculture Horticulture Livestock Husbandry and Dairying from January 5 to March 11 1904 in Lafayette Indiana. Courses cover soil fertility farm planning fruit growing pest control breeding and milk processing with practical on farm training and field lab work. An illustrated circular with full information is available on request.
Judge Morris ruled in the section suit Pesina Binford et al versus Maryvaret Small et al that a lane west of Carthage is not a public highway. The land is owned by the plaintiffs and the defendants are barred from using the lane as a road. Costs to be paid.
Orval Sampson, son of Mr and Mrs D D Sampson, entertained about 35 neighbors and schoolmates in a newly finished hall in Arlington on a Monday Dec 7 for his sixteenth birthday. Games and music highlighted the pleasant social evening as guests departed with good wishes for many more happy birthdays.
A traveler at a Leavenword hotel reported a bed bug incident as the bed bags inspected the hotel register to locate his room. The man quipped he’s been bled by St. Joe fleas and bitten by Kansas City spiders but never saw luggage-like bed bags eyeing room assignments.
Indiana builds a large display at St Louis exposition with a 30 foot coal pyramid and diverse exhibits. The Culver Military Academy sends troops for two weeks. Officials report Indiana progress while white labor and Northern settlers reshape the Gulf Coast economy, with North migrants guiding cotton milling southward and plastics of labor divisions debated.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet notes Grasp Em appears despondent with the quip that he looks like he has lost all his friends, attributed to there being five paydays in the month. The fragment implies financial strain and welfare-era humor without full context.
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