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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1900
Page
2
Frederick Fraley assisted President Monroe by laying the cornerstone of a Philadelphia arsenal at age thirteen. Now aged ninety six he remains active in business, serving daily as president of a savings bank.
A Washington jeweler showcases horn rimmed eye glasses once worn by Lord Cardigan during the Light Brigade at Balaklava. The glasses served as a monocle substitute and were sold as part of a relative of the officer who kept them after the battle.
A reader notes that no reigning European family truly belongs to the nation it rules. The Hapsburgs are Swiss, the Helenzollerns are also Swiss, Emperor William’s family is Swiss, the Danish king is German, Belgium’s king is Saxon, Alfonso of Spain is Bourbon, Humbert of Italy is Savoyan, and George of Greece is German.
The mother of the Mafeking hero is described as a remarkable woman. As a girl she excelled in mathematics and at ten loved astronomy so much she crept from her father’s observatory to use the telescope. She grew to be an accomplished linguist and translated foreign works for her father.
A versatile table designed for invalid use converts into a reading desk. Spring clips hold the reading matter in place and the mechanism operates easily enough for an invalid to work it without help.
The article describes a monumental timepiece to be built for the 1903 St Louis fair. It will be a polished metal display on its back with roomy galleries inside for visitors to walk among moving wheels. The clock is said to be about seventy five feet in diameter and over forty feet tall.
Over twenty years fish numbers in the Great Lakes have fallen, requiring about twice as many workers boats and nets to catch the same amount as ten years ago. Government stations have raised vast propagations yet supply keeps decreasing.
The text suggests China dislikes Europeans and relies on Japan to keep Europe out of the Far East. It notes Japan wants Europe excluded and will aid China. It mentions 400 Chinese students in Japan will return home, implying China must share influence or risk collapse.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court rejected the challenge to paying for funeral flowers. Administrators resisted the bill but the court affirmed the expenditure, noting the near universal custom of having flowers at funerals.
In a large American building with hundreds of workers on multiple floors, overcrowding on stairs and elevators at shift changes caused delays. To ease this, clocks were set at staggered times up the building, starting with a correct ground floor clock and a slightly slow first floor clock, so each floor cleared at a distinct time.
Dr. Talmage frames the Cana wedding as a divine festivity and Christ’s abundance. He asserts Jesus respects household joys, provides lavishly, and guides believers through extremity to heavenly feasting, contrasting earthly and eternal banquets with vivid biblical imagery.
London reports ongoing Boer activity in the Senekal area amid war weariness. British deportations of Dutch to the Netherlands rise for neutrality violations. Milner demands loan interest payment with no further liability while Kruger stays at Machadodorp. Lord Roberts' dispatch to Lindsey details engagements near Lindley and Ficksburg with casualties and loot, including 8,000 sheep and 500 cattle seized.
In Cleveland, the National Founders' Association rejected a 25 cent per day wage increase request. The Fourth district covering Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee includes many big firms, with thousands affected as a strike seems likely to begin next Monday. Nearly 1000 Cleveland molders would be impacted.
Granite City Illinois June 29 William Jackson bit a fever thermometer in two while delirious from chills and fever. The bulb and section of the tube were swallowed and doctors fear mercurial poisoning will prove fatal.
Parkersburg West Virginia June 29 The employes of the Parkersburg Mill Co were notified that their pay has been increased 10 per cent The increase was voluntary upon the part of the company and the scale is now higher than at any time since 1892 A large number of men are interested.
Washington June 30 The department of state is advised by Minister Powell at Port au Prince that he has been informed the government at Haiti has adopted the gold standard and that the unit of value is the American gold dollar.
A well-dressed woman leaped from the Bay liner Georgia off Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk on June 30, taking with her all identification. She had boarded the vessel at Baltimore.
A woman recounts years of illness with two city doctors providing no relief until she tried Pinkham remedies, asserting them as the turning point in her health. She emphasizes relief after prolonged ineffective treatment and endorses the product as life changing.
Congressman Hank Smith of Michigan plays a joke on the pension committee by proposing a $12 monthly widow pension for Mrs. Hixon of Clinton, near her 100th birthday, while the panel mocks the rule limiting widow pensions to eight dollars a month for veterans of older wars. The committee advances the bill.
A New York barkeeper vacationing in Maine shelters in a Portland hotel as a severe storm hails "almost as big as eggs." The bartender sighs he cannot bear to see so much cracked ice wasted in a prohibition state, a quip noted by the hotel keeper.
A wry remark attributed to Tit Tits about a learned man who mastered ten languages yet is silenced at home by a wife who never lets him speak. The line reflects on communication, study, and domestic life.
A Philadelphia Press note quotes a first nighter praising the show as fine while an amateur angler dismisses the comic fisherman as too catchy in lines. The exchange captures light theater chatter surrounding the new comic opera.
In spite of the fact that the varieties of stamps now current in the world number 13 811 every man and then another small boy starts in to make a compete collection.
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