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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1904
Page
3
A brief travel item notes a midwinter outing taking travelers to Florida and New Orleans. It outlines plans, dates, and involved organizations, emphasizing transportation, lodging, and event details for participants.
Wanted advertisements seek a special representative to cover the county and adjoining areas for an established, financially solid business. Salary 21 dollars weekly with expenses paid weekly by check from headquarters. Expenses advanced and horse and buggy furnished when needed. Permanent position. Address The Columbia 630 Monon Ride Chicago Illinois.
Readers are offered a series of sale dates for travel along the Big Four Route across multiple territories including Alabama Arizona Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming with departures on December 1 and 15 1903 February 2 and 16 1904 and April 5 and 19 1904. The advertisement lists broad regional coverage and staggered sale dates for the excursion.
State educational exhibit will feature low grade school work and county histories by pupils. Furniture firms offer pieces for the Indiana building while wireless telegraphy lines and a Primitive telegraph station will allow visitors to send messages. Stone exhibit plans and wall work for mineral displays are underway with stone operators donating material. Oil industry exhibitors seek to showcase Indiana oil to attract capital. Poultry and pet stock plans aim for a select 1000 fowl display, prioritizing quality over quantity. County agents are to submit agricultural displays by March 1 for rapid shipment to St Louis via Indianapolis.
A Milwaukee Sentinel anecdote on how nicknames endure in a village and workplace. Examples include The Popcorn Ladies, The Chirper, Whont, Pink, Dotty Dimple, Bluebeard, The Boy, Viola, Chesty, General Butts, and Cheerful. The piece notes names spread socially and persist as identifiers long after the moment.
An aspiring youth asks how to gain social standing. Beaconsfield dodges the authorship question and offers a rule via his biographer Wilfrid Meynell. A member of parliament seeks a practical tip for his son and receives a concise directive. Beaconsfield finally counsels: be amusing, never tell unkind stories, and above all never tell long ones.
An English visitor asks about Lake Tahoe fishing and a native jokes that the lake sank a foot when the last trout was hauled out. The humor hinges on the fisherman’s claim of a huge catch while avoiding a weight, invoking the lake’s reaction rather than a precise measurement.
A Cincinnati Enquirer cartoon caption pairs a sentimental wife reading a romantic line from a novel with a practical husband predicting the hero’s fate in the next chapter. The exchange mixes mood and humor about character outcomes.
A Washington Star quote has Senator Sorghum remarking that the scroll of fame is not the book a bank cashier uses when certifying a check. He downplays fame as a factor in financial validation.
The quote notes that upright chest elevates posture while shoulders adjust automatically, contrasting old advice to throw back the shoulders. It emphasizes skeletal alignment over shoulder-thrown pose from a Maxwell's Talisman perspective.
A Cincinnati Times-Star note questions whether Slickan’s house burned from a defective flue and reports the answer was no an effective one. It states he had the house insured for twice its real value. The Lowell Citizen adds a sharp remark about contesting wills when the claimant is a woman.
Notice announces a book by the town’s book agent Thomas Weaver about Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre Disaster. Orders are to be sent by mail with a 400 page volume offered at a stated price.
On a 1903 southbound to New York journey, Dorothy Vernon loses all her money after a purse mishap and endures hunger for twenty four hours. Howard Monroe notices her plight, offers dinner and later breakfast, and their mutual attraction grows. A wreck delays the train, they share a meal, and a year later they marry while recalling their initial chance encounter.
A man who despises encyclopedic knowledge debates literature with a group of hard working men. He accepts a pick for Tess of the D Urbervilles, unaware a joke is being played, and remains oblivious as the plan unfolds. The London Post notes the incident.
Mrs Greening and Mr Eiska clash over a baby name in a humorous quarrel about the god of day. He objects to Phasbus and proposes Aurora as the proper mythic moniker, then storms out.
Indianapolis based Star Union Oil promotes a 1 0 stock with monthly dividends at 13 per month and 40 per year on par value. Claims 1000 acres in Limao field with 42 producing wells and 150 more to be drilled, asserts high future profits, cites past oil stock wins, and quotes several local business figures and banks endorsing the venture.
The article describes pearl divers working at depths often exceeding 100 feet, enduring extreme strain and repeated dives twice daily. It notes the hazards, including blood at the nose and mouth and even eye sockets, while divers recover shells for European employers. It mentions the risks and hardships in Mammy pearl fisheries and echoes a broader, critical view of colonial labor conditions.
The text argues that adults are often more fantastical than children and that grownups may be slightly insane due to imperfect human philosophies. It suggests children are sane and reliable while adults frequently exhibit eccentric or unsettling ideas across generations.
A speech by a young politician ends with a grand forecast that his candidacy will triumph after votes are counted. He envisions a succession riding on a tidal wave of glory sweeping before it like wildfire and a sunlit victory after a notably noble campaign.
At the Indiana Republican Editorial Association banquet Hon. Charles L. Henry urged support for Republican policies and state achievements. He credited Republican newspapers for Indiana’s progress, noted a $6,000,000 drop in state debt, and urged continued nonpartisan handling of state institutions and national policy aligned with Republican principles.
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