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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1899
Page
7
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt, two duelists Banishky and Von Kow sky exchange shots six times with no injuries. Their magnanimous lines and the crowd’s reactions satirize chivalry, endings, and the absurdities of honor. The scene shifts to an adjournment toward a gasthans.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and other papers presents a street car scene with two women joking about readers and plays. It hints at a vaudeville style skit with a nod to the play Sranny and a Chicago anecdote. The clippings mix humor and social references across newspapers.
The Senate ratified the Paris peace treaty with 17 ayes and 27 nays. The body then debated a joint resolution on a Philippine policy, considering a government with the people's consent versus imposing a government, before adjourning. The House pursued suspension day, passing the census bill and advancing several public building measures while continuing routine work.
Shopping tour highlights feature black lace wings embroidered with pearls, Swiss muslin with polka dots, Bagdad embroideries on light cotton, bright batistes, cut glass vinaigrettes with jewel tops, silk grenadines with floral sprays, beaded opera-glass bags, mousselines and chiffons with fringed ribbons, silk organdies with white satin stripes, linens and ginghams for boys, white silk petticoats with appliqued lace, organdies in polka dots, and cut-glass perfume bottles with sterling silver filigree, all in a dry goods iconography context.
In a Chicago Inter Ocean item a devout villager and, by local accounts, a sharp businessman is described as plotting near‑mishaps in trade. The grocer, living above his shop, is linked to a nightly ritual where his son checks the books and scales before prayers.
A 93 year old woman in Essex County England is described as possibly the oldest living bicyclist. The piece notes her evident riding skill and vitality while a separate paragraph praises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for digestive ailments and as a cure for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness and constipation. An unrelated quip from the Philadelphia North American is quoted about an expansion question.
Seni monthly excursions to the south west offer a great opportunity to visit Texas lauded as the Empire state of the Union with vast resources and productive soil. Descriptive pamphlets and excursion dates available from H. F. Bowsher in Cincinnati Ohio.
A collection of brief curiosities from the animal world. An ostrich’s voracious eating, bats killed by a clever church door net in Lincolnshire, and a Viennese monkey named Miss Maja who rides a Liegele and eyes spectators.
A fragmented newspaper snippet blends cynical humor with agricultural pitches. It cites Salzer seeds offering high corn and oat yields, beardless barley, and grasses. Interspersed are light social quips and notices about products like St Jacobs Oil and theater ads, all in a vintage, miscellany tone.
The cabbage palm grows to great heights up to 170 feet with an avenue in Cayenne, French Guiana. Its name comes from the heart being boiled like cabbage. Its wood is used for gutters and canes. The hollow footstalks serve as cradles and splints. The dried leaf inside forms vellum, and the footstalk skin yields writing paper.
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