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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
12
Mary Forses Coss of New London Indiana, daughter of a living Revolutionary War soldier, marked her 95th birthday recently. The milestone was noted in The Garbage Record of Indiana.
TuHaThhe Canadian Pacific Railroad Co. shows confidence in coastal traffic by buying and chartering a large fleet of steamers. The move aims to meet expected demand over the next ninety days and surpasses any previous coastal fleet.
Among 17 recently elected Massachusetts mayors only three are lawyers, two are physicians, and one is a civil engineer. Others include a marketman, a pork dealer, a druggist, a fish dealer, and a shoemaker, with most born outside the state and two moving from New York.
An advance notice from Hawaii by ex Queen Liloukalani lauds Mr Cleve land for his splendid ability rare judgment and lofty standards of right. She also dismisses President McKin ley as the most agreeable gentleman in manner and words.
William M. Singerly, president of the Chestnut street national bank of Philadelphia which recently failed, is 64 years old. He long served as owner editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Record for 20 years with a 1896 income from that property of 310000 dollars.
Mr. C. W. Post of Michigan devises the Post cheque a paper slip like fractional currency sold at the post office stamped with a two cent stamp signed by sender mailed to payee who signs it and redeems it at any post office in a simple small order transfer system.
Lorp Sanpuur RsT, governor of the Bombay presidency, praised women physicians at a hospital launch led by a woman in charge. He said those who mocked women entering medicine could not grasp the blessing they bring to their sex.
The present court season at Berlin is expected to lack its usual gaiety and splendor as health concerns loom. It is uncertain whether balls or even a grand duke of Baden, uncle of the emperor, lie near death, while the empress also suffers ill health.
Massachusetts reports a stable male birth excess of about 1,053 per 1,000 female births over 20 years, near 1,055 in recent years. Europe averaging 1,060 males per 1,000 girls shows England at 1,038 and Italy at 1,071 in ten‑year data.
Carved leather design traced on dampened hide is created with small iron tools and mallet strikes. Natural tints prevail though dyes imitate Russia or other colors. Belts chatelaine bags purses boxes and traveling bags are adorned. Mexican artisans skilled in this decoration.
Thomas A Edison Jr claims a sea wave power machine 20 miles offshore using giant air pumps to drive dynamos. He offers a $25,000,000 plant that could deliver 1,000,000 horsepower to meet New York State needs and says a powerful syndicate is considering immediate construction.
The League of American Municipalities bureau gathers statistics from cities over 5000 residents on rights costs under private and municipal ownership. Data will cover plant cost, capacity, operating expenses, interest, depreciation, repairs, and more to compare ownership forms.
A new glove material appears as frog skin joins kid dog rat and lizard in glove manufacture. The skin is praised for fineness and toughness and is recommended for cyclists though frog demand has previously been limited to culinary use. Frog farms may spread across the country as the novelty rises.
Inter Ocean relays Robt. Lattimer claim that H. H. Holmes was not executed but smuggled away in a substituted cadaver to New York and Paraguay. He allegedly arranged escape through Philadelphia prison, transported Holmes in a coffin to Mt Moriah Cemetery, then to South America.
Indianapolis will host the monetary convention next week with delegates named from several cities. Governor Shaw of Iowa will preside, and a Des Moines delegation of 12 prominent businessmen arrives Monday for the deliberations.
A movement by prominent G A R men in Hartford aims to erect a monument over the unmarked grave of Henry Clay Work author of Marching Through Georgia and Nicodemus. The project seeks a lasting tribute to the Civil War lyricist.
Three youths assaulted a servant girl near Severac De Chateau and laid her unconscious on a railway track ahead of an oncoming train. Her legs were severed. Bystanders aided, and the three assailants are in custody.
January 21 report from Chicago states Jacob Schaefer defeated George Sutton 400 to 10 in the 18-inch balk line tournament.
Washington dispatch says representatives of the president and U S government will host President Dole in Washington. A dinner is planned for Tuesday February 1, the first open date after Dole arrives next Wednesday. Also noted is Senate irrigation committee's favorable report on Warren's amendment reviving the irrigation division under a practical irrigation engineer.
The House committee favors bills for a Yukon revenue cutter and for mineral land segregation in Oregon and California railroad grants. The Senate confirms Attorney General McKenna as Supreme Court justice after a partisan debate, while Columbus, Ohio eyes an armor plate plant with a $500,000 cash bonus and 150 acre site.
Paris reports say 50 people were arrested on suspicion amid a quiet Latin Quarter. Three handwriting experts linked to Emile Zola and the Esterhazy court martial threat to sue the novelist for 100000 francs in damages. President Dole traveled via Ogden from Utah to San Francisco then east aboard Union Pacific train No. 2.
President Sanford B. Dole travels by train to explain Hawaii's annexation prospects. He says he will not lobby for the treaty but will aid annexation commissioners and meet the Senate committee. wary of Cuban concerns and U S. sentiment. Dole notes leprosy figures and hopes for US support.
A barn owned by William Fowler, eleven miles northeast of Elizabethtown, Ky, was burned, with fine cattle and hogs and 7000 bushels of corn destroyed. Nearby whisky warehouse fire at Nasuville Tenn inflames losses to about 75000 dollars with nearly one thousand barrels of whisky ruined.
A Pittsburgh firm prospecting near Blaine in Louisa County strikes a rich flow of lubricating oil in the first well. Work begins on another well immediately as preparations start.
A list of maxims and quips interspersed with advertisements for Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer and St Jacobs Oil. The text mocks moral sayings while promoting a nerve remedy and a neuralgia cure with a free trial offer and address. It reflects early 20th century newspaper filler and patent medicine marketing.
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