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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1898
Page
5
The Great Geyser, Little Geyser, Strokkr, and Little Strokkr exhibit warm mineral tints while Blesi glistens white like porcelain. Mud pools hazard visitors with hot spouts. visitors warned not to add stones to fountains. The Great Geyser, dormant a week, then erupted to about 150 feet for 15 minutes in a rainbow display before quieting.
A Glenville West Virginia note praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as highly effective. The testimonial asserts no better medicines exist and mentions the Gaugh Remedy failing elsewhere, with buyers recommending Chamberlain’s to relieve suffering. Sold by O Coffin & Co.
The Warttemberg monarch, an innkeeper by family tradition, runs two large hotels. While Peter the Great traveled incognito, the king displayed a tavern sign at a palace and welcomed the czar in disguise. His descendant now earns about $50,000 yearly from the hotels.
A Boston Courier quote describes a grim ritual in Servia where a murderer is executed at the crime scene. The condemned is blindfolded in a dug pit, shot by a firing party, then finished with a revolver if needed, and buried. The piece contrasts poetic justice with this method and references a joke about a hunter named Badger and his wife.
Report notes early theories that Asiatic cholera arose from eating unsound rice and was termed the white disease, reflecting historical medical speculation.
Excerpts from Bismarck and the American in Lowe's Bis marck's Table Talk discuss etiquette shifts and satire. A New York Evening piece notes the change from “the lady of the house” to addressing by name as more refined, with examples of circulars left at doors.
A fragment discusses early tobacco in the Americas and traces the White House design to James Hoban. It notes a 1792 contest for a president’s house in Washington with Hoban’s plan winning amid claims of copying from Dublin’s Duke of Leinster palace.
A London reminiscence notes Sydney Smith and Henry Reeve recalling Macaulay, with quips about his memory and his misused eloquence. The piece then describes a Philadelphian’s economical 85 cent daily fare of soupy meals, baked potatoes, cowpeas, rice, stale bread, cabbage, and cheese scraps, all served with thrift and no indigestion for two decades.
The article surveys views on meeting eyebrows as a sign of deceit or fortune across cultures. Kingsley, Tennyson, Turks, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and others are cited with varying claims and superstitions about facial hair and fate.
The excerpt contrasts England's social strata, detailing a rising middle class of traders, manufacturers, and artisans gaining power and ignoring old hierarchies. It notes tolerance of ecclesiastics only within fixed roles, with period commentary on wealth, politics, and social shifts. A Maidstone brewery vane and a divorce anecdote from Cincinnati Enquirer are also mentioned as curiosities.
In a lunchtime scene on Frankfort Street Plaza, a dime is dropped amid a quarrel among Frankfort street vendors and Park Row newsboys. A Bowery youth brokers a quick two way bargain before a patrolman arrives to arrest the disorderly conduct. Separately, Porto Rican shave customs described with soap from coconut oil and improvised glass razors as men wash at mountain pools due to lack of mirrors.
Chambers' Journal notes the larynx resembles a wind reed or violin and that vocal cords form the main features. It argues that vocal tone stems from learned vocal control rather than physiology and that voice training teaches how to adjust tension without scientific knowledge.
Mrs. C. A. Merrill of Chetopa Kansas suffered a painful nervous trouble that resisted specialists in Cincinnati and Kansas City. She credits Dr Miles Nervine with prompt relief and a permanent cure. The Dr Miles product is sold by druggists with a guarantee
A story about Mr Scott of Exeter famed for punctuality. His habit made innkeepers in Cornwall and Devon know his exact arrival time. On a journey a guest demanded a duck at Port Isaac inn and learned it was reserved for Mr Scott at 2 oclock, whom the traveler soon saw arriving minutes early.
In a London Tit-Bits anecdote a well known professor, often late with lectures, is surprised by students who place a noon alarm clock on his desk. When it rings they applaud, and the professor says the gift was for his birthday and that an alarm clock is just what his wife has needed for their servant, then resumes the demonstration.
A humorous tale about M Lamany who awoke in fright claiming he dreamed he was speaking and heard himself utter a grammatically incorrect sentence. The anecdote mocks pedantic language exactness noted by a French grammarian.
A humorous exchange shows editors up at dawn over a huge lockout as Wife dismisses the late office news. Uncle Eben quips that men who know a lot alarm women with their blunt delivery, provoking laughter and a lively street scene.
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