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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1896
Page
5
An item notes annual production of glass eyes in Germany and Switzerland reaching two million. Additional notices advertise employment abroad with modest salary, a convent fact about St Catherine on Mount Sinai, a medical testimonial for De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, Cape Colony ordering trees from California, and a Boys' Brigade membership figure. Electric Bitters touted for bowel and kidney support with tonic claims and retail price details.
An advertisement claims piles can be cured quickly without surgery by applying DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, distributed by O. L. Coffin & Co.
Historical note recalls the laying of the first telephone wire over three miles between Boston and Somerville in 1877. The ad copy mentions medical salves, cough remedies, and generic business contact lines from Owen S. Hill and O. S. Coffin & Co.
Mr and Mrs Durgin, a 102 year old and a 99 year old couple, are described as hale and hearty residents living near Portland Maine. The notice highlights their advanced ages and well being.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City Ill was told she had consumption but two bottles of Dr Kings New Discovery cured her entirely and saved her life Thomas Eggers of 139 Florida St San Francisco also recovered from a dreadful cold turning toward consumption after trying everything else and one bottle brought a two week cure Such testimonials support the medicine for coughs and colds Free trial bottles at Owen S Hills Drug Store Regular sizes 50c and 1 O S Coffin Co advertise Colic cure and one minute cough cure as preventives and remedies Theosophists grow in number across the US and Britain De Witt’s Little Early Risers are praised for gentle relief The brain size remark is noted as a curiosity
A terse notice directs recipients to enclose a reference for the Dominion Company located on the Third Floor of the Omaha Building, with emphasis on secure handling and proper labeling for processing.
London has less than three miles of mechanically worked tramways while the total street length of tramways is only 136 miles and all are horse powered. Also an ad offers travel positions in Indiana with salary and expenses, referencing The Dominion Company in Omaha and Chicago addresses.
A collage of old-world dueling lore, from Europe to Ireland and England, recounts famous and infamous clashes, outcomes, and a satirical note on a poetic English chimney duel. Interwoven is a Chesapeake terrapin trade tale with prices, uses, and a portrait of Maryland’s crabbed markets.
The quote contrasts two routes to achievement. Force is scarce and reserved for the privileged, while austere sustained perseverance can be practiced by the least significant. Its silent power becomes irresistible with time, attributed to Mme Swetchine.
A compact meditation on infancy notes that a newborn is helpless and fearful when left alone, and slowly gains self protection. Mothers call the salvation of a young child's life and health a perpetual miracle, echoing Emerson’s reflection on fragile beginnings.
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