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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
4
The Indiana Republican Editorial Association holds its annual meeting today at the Denison Hotel in Indianapolis. Other items note a possible pension for Oliver Morton and debates on expansion and foreign policy, with references to Dewey, the Nicaragua Canal, and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
The speaker argues that pledges should be fulfilled and that party gains from impulse should become law for public good. Trustees and commissioners are urged to adopt more businesslike methods, and opponents must present stronger reasons if they resist cần.
Testimony in the Stoner Dreger contest prompts senators to push election law reform. A floater scheme let buyers have a clerk mark ballots and signal outside for payment. Senator Stroup proposes affidavits and perjury penalties when voters claim inability to mark their ballot.
A collage of brief witticisms and light observations from various papers. The snippets wink at marriage, aging, self perception, calendars, prediction, and social foibles, each framed as a short humorous thought or society remark.
Philadelphia expert James Toughill alone among locals handles stacking 1000 silver dollar bags to form a vault wall. The craft, shared with one other unnamed master, is dangerous for improvised learners and has long been the exclusive knowledge of two men.
The London Standard reports a rare phenomenon called snowball showers where spherical snowballs, about the size of a hen's egg, fell in north London during a March night in 1859. Observers noted the balls were denser than usual snow, appearing handcrafted and dense, with no clear cause aside from a possible electrical factor.
Professor Flinders Petrie reports at Deshasheh south of Cairo finding tombs with complete skeletons where flesh was removed before burial. Coffins of sycamore show fine preservation after 5,000 years in the sand. It remains to be proven if mutilation was a ceremonial rite or evidence of cannibalism.
An Austrian prince Louis Esterhazy travels alone in an English train when a woman accuses him of insult. She shouts for help as the train stops, but the prince remains calm and points to his long gray ash. The station master, noting the ash, arrests the accuser.
In San Francisco on December 13 Raymond Sellinger, a German national, shot and killed his wife before turning the same weapon on himself. He is reported to be dying. Sellinger had recently been unable to find employment.
A Memphis auction tale shows a woman negotiate four dollars then bid five as the item goes to the final bidder. The scene shifts to Joseph Jefferson’s lodging where a hotel clerk and a laughing Irish helper Pat reveal the early morning wakeup over a quirky misunderstanding.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt features a dialogue about proof and encouragement. The speaker asserts financial borrowing from another, prompting a debate on what counts as proof. The exchange hints at trust and familial authority without detailing broader context.
An Indianap olis Journal report notes a loophole where a night watchman warned the gas company after a caretaker left the gas on for days. In Malta, fowls are reportedly plucked alive in the open market.
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