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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1898
Page
8
The sermon contrasts wholesome sport with dangerous, alcohol fueled club life. Rev Talmage warns that elegant clubs and gambling dens tempt men away from home and faith, risking wives, children, and fortunes. He urges vigilance and three tests to judge legitimate clubs.
The speaker condemns dissipating clubhouses and urges moral limits on social drinking gambling and late hours. He warns of ruined health and souls from club culture, contrasts righteous living with worldly indulgence, and urges prayers church attendance and reverence at death. He questions the legitimacy of clubs by impact on business morals and religious obligations.
Indiana state finances and tax data for the year ending October 31 1897 are summarized. The report covers revenues disbursements school and benevolent tax funds, state debt, valuations of land personal property and improvements, and tax rates. It notes deficits in birth and death reporting, multiple state institutions costs, and the overall economic picture across banks railways oil production and insurance.
In Louisville Kentucky on a Tuesday night Joe Zipfel of 1925 Crop Street attempted suicide by ingesting quinine after a druggist gave him a ten cent paper labeled poison. At Cresilius store he asked for arsenic but was refused and handed quinine instead. Zipfel later told friends goodbye at a saloon and tried to drink the contents, but his plan was foiled when friends intervened and learned of the ruse.
Deputy U S Marshal Shannon and Captain Webb of the secret service brought Henry Luce and Dr. Alexander Thompson to Toledo for a hearing. They are accused of passing counterfeit half dollars made as plaster casts lacking weight and ring. Officials suspect two gang members are among them. Blank society membership certificates were found on Luce.
A New York City widow writes to Cleveland detective Jacob Mintz describing herself as 25, attractive, wealthy with $1.5 million, seeking a trustworthy husband and father for her child. She offers to pay his fare to New York to meet and arrange matters.
A Liver pool syndicate plans to build a large tobacco factory in Louisville Kentucky with work to start when weather allows and by early spring at latest. Kelk represents the syndicate and outlines preparations to expand from re handling to full scale tobacco manufacture for the Liverpool market. The London Times urges a gold basis for Indian currency to avoid mint reopenings.
The Jan 6 1900 Senate and House discussions on civil service generate sharp exchanges. Senators Cullom Allen Cockrell Davis spar over enforcement and 12th century bureau plans while House members split into pro law, repeal, and modification camps amid lively floor clashes.
William Gipp, who killed his mother and wounded his father three years and two months ago, lay in a coma at a state hospital. Saturday he arose from his bed and walked across the room and began to improve with speech gradually returning, signaling a path to recovery.
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