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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1904
Page
3
The piece notes a Big Four timetable corrected to November 3 1901 and discusses federal support for infrastructure. It highlights the federal rivers and harbors spending about 30 million dollars yearly and pensions totaling 140 million. It argues the farmer seeks road funding and mentions the Brownlow Bill proposing 24 million dollars for national road aid.
Indiana plans for the St Louis exposition include a strong Indiana building with magnetic springs display and magnetic water transport issues. Women’s department displays are praised by Mrs Berryman while Chairman Stevens notes top agricultural exhibits from county agents. The Bobbs Merrill firm will display original manuscripts and drawings from Riley, Mayo, Wallace and others. A jury of artists will inspect interior decoration plans and livestock exhibitors pledge support from major breeders across the state.
The Whittier California Register records the death of Dr Samuel Dwiggins Coffin at his Fast College street home, aged 78, after a long heart illness. Born in New Garden NC, he stemmed from famed Nantucket families and aided the Underground Railroad with his Quaker kin. His widow Mary Ann Newlin and sons Dr W. W. Coffin and John E. Coffin mourn his loss, with a large funeral at Friends church noting his life of service and revivalist faith.
Mrs Murray Parker visited Keights town Monday while Frank Pusey and wife spent Sunday at Center. Isaiah Fricker did business in Farmer's Station Monday and J T Chappell returned from Indianapolis Tuesday. Chappell works on a mission in the City. Binford and F E Chappell attended Farmer's Institute in Greenfield Monday. E E Hunt did business in Knightstown Tuesday. Mrs John M Binford slipped on ice early Monday causing a severe scalp wound. she is improving. Myrtle Binford, Westland High teacher, visited Ridge school Wednesday as Westland School observes vacation due to smallpox. Carl Heywood, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Heywood, has been sick but is better.
For sale. Good dry wood available by order. Telephone to orders No 11 Bell Line.
The Advisory Board of Ripley Township Rush County Indiana presents the annual financial statement for the year ending January 1 1907 compiled under the supervision of Township Trustee Jesse Henley. It covers receipts, expenditures, balances, and transfers detailing public funds and municipal accounts.
Signed January 5 1904 by the Advisory Board examined and approved. Receipts show a balance from 1902 of 38478 dollars with detailed expenditures including gravel costs and supplies. John C Blacklidge is listed as treasurer with tax and expenditure items for 1903 and 1904 alongside James Moore and Joan Calloway.
Advertisement seeks a special representative to represent an old established wealthy business house. Salary 21 weekly with expenses paid each Monday by check from headquarters. Expenses advanced and horse and buggy furnished when necessary. Address The oo 630 Monon.
The St Helena Guardian notes bleak outlook after 6000 Boer captives depart, hurting local markets for vegetables and petty commerce. Visitors to St Helena become rarer as the island grows dull with little amusement beyond occasional cricket matches, leaving residents discouraged.
An account from a Chicago settlement area details rat catching with a chief catcher in heavy boots, assistants, gas light, and long pinchers. Ninety six rats were captured and placed in sacks, with the odd suggestion of skinning alive for pelts. The piece also notes Serbia’s furniture bid for King Alexander’s effects and a Brazilian quartz glass process for making lab apparatus.
A brief notice states prices have been adjusted for services. No specific entities or dates are provided.
A fragment notes low rate second class colonist tickets from all Big Four points to southwest and southeast points via Rhonte Tuesday December Island. The schedule covers the first and third Tuesdays of each month through April 1904.
A 11 day rail journey through eight states to Florida and New Orleans with brief stops in 14 cities. Organized by Pig Roar and Louisville and Nashville Rail way, leaving Indianapolis February 8 1904 aboard vestibuled Pullmans via Big Four Railway. Details and booklet available from H M Bronson A A R A BIG FOUR RAILWAY Indianapolis.
A collection of rustic vignettes about a vain rooster with a wooden leg and false teeth, a boy boasting about his new dark blue overcoat, and a playful party game involving flour sacks. The pieces convey rural humor, childhood pride, and simple mischief in a bygone era.
Before spring the world's greatest clock will near completion in Milwaukee for the St. Louis exposition. A 120 foot dial sits in a flower bed circle with twelve hourly beds and a 2000 lamp glow, the hands and blooms both indicating time. A minister's child chat ends a local vignette.
A sensitive hound tracks a man wearing his master's boots while rejecting any trace of his actual master if the boots differ. The canine nose navigates a puzzling trail caused by shoes that do not belong to the man pursued.
Announcement promotes a home seekers excursion offering very low rates to numerous 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 the accompanying Big Four Route. Selling dates are December 15 and January 19 with limited departure points and dates.
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