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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1896
Page
2
Prospects for peaches in Connecticut are excellent and improving each year. The state cultivates 750,000 peach trees with 150,000 more to be planted this year. The peach crop is considered the most profitable produced in the land of wooden nutmegs.
Police officials warn that murders and shootings rise as old style fistfights vanish. Concealed weapons grow common and men fire at the slightest provocation, a troubling sign of modern civilization.
The cine matograph, born in France and raised in Paris, aims to project moving pictures to an audience on a life size screen. The at theatrograph English version, exhibited in London, both promise marvelous amusement. Waves on the shore and dancing figures have been successfully shown. the English machine is claimed the most practical.
Palisades opposite New York City, long sed by quarries, move toward protection with bills passed in New York and New Jersey legislatures and a Congressional appropriation of 500000 to buy private holdings, establish a park, and fortify. The region would transfer to U S jurisdiction and guard Hudson navigation, likened to Gibraltar for impregnable defense.
An Indianapolis jury acquitted Alonzo Rooker after a brutal September 9, 1894 attack on his wife leaving her dead and another woman badly injured. The report denounces the verdict as a miscarriage of justice and calls for rare public accountability amid ongoing debate over lynching.
A case notes an almost unparalleled atrocity yet ends in absolute acquittal for the commission accused. The report emphasizes the legal outcome and the shocking severity of the alleged crime.
The Goddess of Liberty, immortalized on coins since 1876, will marry a man unnamed, with Miss Annie Williams, a Philadelphia school marm, as the living model. English designer Mr Morgan crafted the die after five sittings, praising her profile as unmatched in England or America.
The Madrid press estimates Cuban war costs at 50,090,000 dollars, well below anticipated 75,000,000 for 1896. The piece argues Spain cannot win on Cuban soil and predicts bankruptcy or prolonged insurgent resistance. It critiques Spanish policy and Cuban leadership, noting fervent but fluctuating patriotism in the tropics.
A historical remark on national debt contrasts European and American finances. It cites total world debt at about 23.32 billion dollars, per capita figures for Portugal, France, England, and Switzerland, and argues wars and royal excess drive indebtedness while the United States remains solvent and prospering amid global fiscal strain.
Stephen Salisbury of Worcester Massachusetts has donated two hundred thousand dollars to build a museum of fine arts in the city. His wish to save the handsome Worcester common has led him to offer several sites for a new city hall to be built on the common by the authorities.
Dr. Talmage argues America is the earth’s destined nation in a sermon on Revelation and prophecy. He frames the country as a two-horned beast, urges a moral revival, and envisions churches and reformers marching to reclaim the nation for God. He cites slavery, polygamy, alcohol, communism, and infidelity as perils to conquer.
M E Chaix of the Geneva Society reports experiments in Jersey showing that 1000 liters of calm air passed through nitrate of silver solution remains clear, proving no sea salt in calm air. He notes sea salt enters air mainly when wind carries spray from waves, recommending windier coasts like Picardy and Normandy for beneficial saline air.
Charles Lamb, living apart from his era, sought antiquity and Shakespearean companionship. He proclaimed an affinity for old books, resisted contemporary taste, and styled himself the last of the Elizabethans while pursuing ancient authors. He read an old book with every new release.
An official statement places Kiel canal project cost at about 39 million dollars. The sixty one mile waterway reaches 61 miles with depths of 20 feet at low water and 229 feet width, widening to 428 feet in places to permit large vessels to pass. Embankments are stone lined to 6 feet below water. North Sea locks are among the largest after Bremerhaven. Two bridges span the canal at 137 feet above water with six opening bridges and sixteen ferries.
In Lewiston Maine the Somerset and Moosehead railroad was reportedly given to two young men who agreed to run it and pay bond interest. Their careful management funded operating costs and repairs, left a nest egg, and now they plan to extend the line. The piece previously earned little beyond running expenses.
A strange tale from Athens Ga recounts a well site five miles from Aiken South Carolina where a pitcher placed by a water-seeking woman remains untouched. Locals report a mysterious repugnance and a superstition surrounding the pitcher, with witnesses and even a whisky-fueled challenge failing to move it, as described by J B Toomer.
A San Francisco Alta editorial asserts work saved the human race by enabling clothing, sustenance, family duties, and civilization. It credits labor with forming marriage, parenthood, and both physical and intellectual needs, praising Mother Eve for her influence over mankind.
A Fulton Street butcher asks how to sharpen a carving knife and a guide outlines maintaining a twenty to twenty five degree angle on the steel. The piece also notes Gen Mahone reading speeches from printed copies and describes his clear enunciation and a joke about a hair part.
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