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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1898
Page
4
Fragmentary notes recount debates over expansion and the Philippines policy, Indiana suffrage, and legislative maneuvers. Mentions General Eag a, Beveridge, and Senatorial races in Montana and California. Observations touch on Tammany influence, Gr ant, and local museum curiosities amid unsettled times.
Chicago political economists propose municipal pawn shops to curb extortionate interest on personal property. The measure, ready for introduction, aims to force out shmocks who flood the city with high priced loans on furniture and other items.
Prospective 1900 Republican gubernatorial candidates include Congressman Watson of Rushville and Senator Newby of Knightstown. The Stoner-Drego contest testimony reveals corrupt practices in Madison and Hancock counties with witnesses from Greenfield naming purchases. Henry county figures prominently as local political activity draws attention as Elliot of New Castle becomes Porto Rico mail superintendent at 3700 dollars yearly.
The excerpt poses a string of paradoxes and moral riddles about value truth and cause and effect. It questions why natural phenomena and social roles defy simple explanation and why clever solutions remain elusive in human affairs.
A proverb style passage presents contrasting mottoes on wealth and conduct. It contrasts a vain person who keeps gold, a generous person who shares, a profligate who spends, a fool who squanders, a gambler who loses, and a wise person who uses wealth wisely.
A fragment from Longman's Magazine notes Walpole as a passionate dog lover with Patapan Tonton and Rosette guiding his life. It cites his touching epitaph for Rosette and the image of a humane, child-friendly figure amid his battles with loyalty and memory.
A Ch Journal writer recalls a shoemaker long ago who kept books by a painted wall board. He fixed hob nails and rivets to denote boot work, leather patches marked soles, chalk drawings for new boots, and glyphs for customers. Sturdy accounts avoided challenges through this quaint system.
Dr H R Lemen of Alton Illinois explains fears about seeds causing appendicitis are unfounded noting most cases stem from other causes. He advises people to eat fruit freely while acknowledging many cases arise from factors outside the appendix. An old anecdote about Sam Hodgkins and a quirky will is recounted, followed by a remark on Bismarck’s view of the French and a polite hanging remark from an Exchange item.
Bilkins sits in an easy chair reading as his wife works. Bobby the four year old plays with tin soldiers and asks for a fairy story. She declines and suggests asking papa who was detained downtown late last night.
A gushing suitor and his wife attend a reception where he lavishes praise on the handsome Miss Blank. He then quips to his spouse that meeting her before marriage would have changed everything, prompting a lighthearted retort from the wife who congratulates Miss Blank.
A rural relative asks about the senator's pay. Sorgi hesitates and notes he cannot easily compute the figure on the spot. He suggests the question is being stirred for another purpose.
Story describes vast subterranean Paris extending about twenty miles beneath the city. Access is perilous, entering through a circular shaft with a hanging ladder. Mushrooms thrive in the caves alongside a stark bone-filled catacomb area.
A Liverpool Mercury anecdote recalls a policyholder ignored by a wife who refuses weekly premiums. The wife jokes she will enroll her own husband in the same policy, mocking the agent’s persistence.
In a humorous note from the Syracuse Herald, Papa Mc Swatters awakens Johnny by claiming the furnace is fixed and chores are done. He declares breakfast nearly over with only three pancakes left, prompting Johnny to rush and forget his ablutions.
A witty exchange unfolds between Miss Flyppe and Mr Wellup in a Chicago Tribune snippet. The calm beauty dismisses romance as a flinty heart proves impervious to Cupid’s arrows, even with an old beau as the shooter.
A classroom exchange on tautology with a boy defining it as repetition. The boy mentions a future dinner with sheep's head and his sister Elsie's young man joining, then the teacher redirects to the top of the page.
An exchange in a classroom scene shows a teacher pressing a boy to name a culprit behind a writing incident. The boy refuses to be a telltale, finally accusing Bob Buster of involvement in a cors nor ceat mischief.
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