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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1898
Page
6
Poem portrays Hope confronting night and storm with steadfast optimism. The speaker, invoking Hope Gates, envisions stars shining, clouds passing, and a coming halcyon calm. The poem suggests resilience, nature’s cycles, and the promise of spring amid adversity.
Fannie McLane, a young widow, is invited to Fort Sedgwick to visit the Graftons as Randolph Merriam returns with a new bride. A tangle of romances unfolds across chapters involving engagements, nursing, and a hasty frontier journey ending with plans shifted toward Fort Stone and San Diego.
In Monterey, a sensational society tale unfolds as John Harold McLane of New York is shot after leaving the University club. The assailant and a mysterious couple vanish, leaving police tight lipped and Mrs McLane shocked by the incident amid a high society backdrop.
The narrative follows Randy and Florence as newspapers relay the shock of the near-fatal shooting of McLane. Florence’s sympathy clashes with her own numbness while McLane fights for life. The tale extends to Panama Havana and New York, where illness and legal battles over Frances Hayna McLane’s inheritance unfold amid family strife and the looming question of Uncle Mellen’s influence.
The Grafton family reflects credit in affairs as Mrs Fr McLane remains shaken after the murder of 3 Lane. Charlotte and the Graftons travel toward Sedgwick while Fanny, left at the station, awaits their arrival at the Clarendon. Grafton frets over five days’ bills and the cost of entertaining the widow, yet he relents to host Seema and friends in his wife’s sorrow, weighing courage against expense as illness and travel plans unfold.
Drama unfolds as Merriam confronts a past love while Fan pressures a marriage plan. Harriet reveals a frank Pacific coast affair and Merriam fears scandal at Sedgwick. Mrs Grafton’s heart breaks as the Merriams’ house darkens with unspoken guilt and couples drift from harmony.
In a troubled Jersey scene crowds panic as darkness falls and rumor spreads of apocalyptic doom. People scramble for safety while a mix of shouts, prophesying preachers, and frightened workers fill streets and doorways amid collapsing dusk and tense superstition.
A former burglar recalls struggle to adapt to normal life after quitting crime. He describes sneaking in through cellar windows, a wife’s fear of burglars, and a jammed shelf that caused a fall among jars and bottles. He gradually adopts ordinary hours and uses a key, not a jimmy.
A brief Commercial Tribune item depicts a speaker urging charity during hardship. A poor man is offered available scraps from the back yard as a basic meal, highlighting urban poverty and social aid. The fragment hints at a literary or theatrical reference with a cryptic dialogue.
A parent asserts that nothing is smarter than guiding his children to learn. He emphasizes practical lessons over formal schooling and urges curiosity, patience, and hands on activities to foster growth.
The au toelectropolyphone, claimed as the world’s largest instrument, is built by Italian Antonio Zibor di and features 8000 instruments. It will debut in Paris with two three horsepower motors powering dynamos for light and an electric fountain. Two orchestras of 1306 brass and string pieces can operate separately or together, and the device will travel from Milan to Paris by rail.
A humorous scene from a Cleveland Leader item shows Mr Primley dressing in a dress suit while his son Percey watches with suspicion. The boy gleefully mishears and insists they will stay home, prompting a playful exchange.
A digest of cases held in 41 L. R. A. volumes covers duties of stepfathers to stepchildren, mandamus limits on governors, travel merchandise, excess baggage charges, physician licensing exams, bicycle handlebar height, noncompete agreements for sellers, freight car safety with self couplers, and continuing negligence affecting contributory liability. Key jurisdictions include Georgia, New York, Arkansas, Indiana, District of Columbia, Ohio, and North Carolina.
Over 12 000 Irish girls work in the race trade and Hall Caine argues women reach parity with men in literature journalism art and drama. Ethel Mary Charles is England’s first woman architect with many prizes. Mme Sarah Bernhardt, on holiday, pursues shooting fishing boating and cycling to rest by tiring herself. Miss Lutie A Lytle Topeka's black woman lawyer joins Central Tennessee College Nashville as law faculty the only female instructor in the world teaching domestic relations evidence real property crimes and criminal procedure.
Florence Holme explains how the Allelhuia plant, an Easter flowering oxalis, is known in Europe as C. acetosella. The article suggests daily watering and even dipping heads in soapy suds on wash days to yield bigger, sweeter blossoms.
A catalog-style entry names various girl types with playful labels such as fighting girl, sweet girl, clear case of girl, geometrical girl, musical girl and others. Each entry pairs a descriptor with a pseudonymous name, forming a whimsical glossary.
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