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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1898
Page
2
W E Henley a prominent London journalist and poet received a pension of 1000 dollars a year from Mr Balfour. The same amount was given to Tennyson in 1845 and the poet drew it 47 times before his death.
In Spain country girls rarely wear hats or bonnets and in smaller towns they skip mantillas, preferring floral hair adornments. The custom of brides wearing orange blossoms originated in Spain.
An Indian inventor built a solar cooker with a wooden box lined by mirrors and a copper boiler at the base covered with glass to trap heat. The design concentrates sun rays to quickly cook any food.
Scraping the lining of Wall Street's assay office chimney is described as an unconventional mining method. The 200 foot tall chimney has a new fire brick lining replacing the old 40 year old one. Scrapings contained 52 ounces of gold and 860 ounces of silver, with the old lining having yielded about 1500 dollars.
A fragment notes a pink or rosy arc appearing on the horizon opposite the setting sun during clear summer evenings, a subtle optical phenomenon rarely noticed by many.
A Windsor chapel incident reports choir boys collecting five shillings from a military officer wearing spurs during divine service. The officer, entering the church in his spurs, was approached by choristers who insisted on the customary fine as he prepared to leave the chapel.
An American hunting party on Minora Island experiences a brutal attack as thousands of humming birds swarm a hunter who wanders from his group. He is rescued badly wounded with many wounds across his face and neck. The scene is described with vivid, though non-graphic, detail.
A listing shows J. M. Toucey earned $50,000 as Vanderbilt railroads manager before his resignation. E. W. Bok received $25,000 as editor of Ladies' Home Journal. Frank Thompson headed the Pennsylvania Railroad with $650,000. John A. McCall, head of New York Life Insurance, got $50,000. Conrad H. Mathieson led Chicago Sugar Refinery at $75,000. Dr. John Hall, noted New York clergyman, earned $30,000.
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co plans to operate chartered cars from Milwaukee to Waukesha Beach on a 62 mile line claimed as the world’s longest electric railway. Commutation tickets and other inducements are offered to attract heavy traffic.
The 84 by 34 foot Tintoretto painting Paradise decorates the Doge’s Palace in Venice. Thornhill’s ceiling at Greenwich Hospital surpasses it with 112 by 56 feet showing William III and Queen Mary amid symbols of prosperity.
Immense fortunes are built on bananas with revenue from leaves used for packing ink from tannin juice and shoe blacking. Manila hemp comes from stems to craft mats and lace, while the fruit yields banana flour. The ripe dessert fruit remains unpaved by heat from gas jets.
Descriptions from off Santiago de Cuba detail Adm. Cervera s squadron wrecks along the coast. The Reina Mercedes lies sunk at midnight July 3 while Infanta Maria Teresa Almirante Oquendo and Vizcaya lie ruined on rocks. Bodies, burned arms and melted metals litter the sites as buzzards feed and sharks circle. Over 100 enemy sailors buried on the beach by order of Adm. Sampson.
The Times reviews the war and the naval battle of Santiago de Cuba. It concludes that either Spanish gunnery afloat is hopelessly incompetent or their ammunition nearly worthless.
Washington July 11 An electric car carrying passengers collided with a horse car on the Anacosta line Sunday night. One man is dead and from 25 to 80 people are reported injured, several fatally. Both cars were demolished and horses on the Anacosta car were killed.
The Journal reports Cornelius Vanderbilt and J Pierpont Morgan leading a syndicate to consolidate the Big Four C H D and Chicago Indianapolis Louisville railroads. Additional lines including Lake Erie and Western Wheeling and Lake Erie and other Ohio coal roads are said to join under common management.
The report claims Commodore Howell warned Blanco four days to haul down the Spanish flag in Havana or face bombardment. Navy department comment unclear while intensifying blockades near Havana includes monitor Miantonomo and ram Katahdin. The siege follows a wider pattern of pressure and potential sea assault described by observers.
The S S crew and Adm Cervera spoke with reporters aboard the St Louis after surrendering to the American fleet off Santis Sunday. He praised his men and explained the duty to fight for Spain while noting many friends in America. Reports say 6 prisoners and 40 officers were captured. Also updates from Santiago indicate Pando’s reinforcements are at Manzanillo and not yet in the city. Columbus editor and longtime columnist Stephen B K Porter dies after two days of illness from a cancerous growth in his vocal cords.
Admiral Sampson cables the navy department with a hopeful assessment that three Spanish ships may be saved. The Colon is in good condition, with Maria Teresa and Vizcayé thought salvageable. Reports note interrupted or poor cables. General Livares resumes command at Santiago.
United States forces tighten siege of Santiago Cuba as General Corbin predicts capitulation after heavy shelling. Shafter reports Col Toral refused unconditional surrender and 28,000 troops prepare for assault near the first fortified Cuban town.
A physician urges a run down patient to travel for months for relief while the patient recalls a decade of constant sales travel across the country. The humorous exchange ends with the doctor offering rest for one dollar.
A late rumor about a major bicycle company aiming to produce first class wheels at ten dollars is noted. The article asserts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a top stomach liver and blood remedy, affordable for all and effective for fever and vague ailments.
The city editor compares a large task to raising a brood, noting a challenge of covering sixteen ggs. Weeks later she feeds a column of chicks into the editor's garden, signaling completion of the ambitious assignment.
The New York Central & Hudson River Railroad promotes travel in the Adirondack region with a book titled in the Adirondack Mountains detailing resorts and a colored map of hotels camps and lakes. A folder with a map and reach information is also available. Send two 2-cent stamps for the book or one for the folder to George H. Daniels at Grand Central Station New York.
An exchange from Ewelers' Weekly shows a rude customer refusing a price while an optician pitches glasses worth eighteen dollars. The gruff tone highlights a comic contrast between bargaining and luxury eyewear.
A Chicago Daily News quote extols No-To-Bac as a tuning key for nervous systems, claiming it tightens nerves and quickens emotional responses. The ad asserts No-To-Bac guarantees habit care and strengthens weak men, urging tobacco users to take it.
An advertisement promotes sending a 25 cent package of Allen's Foot-Ease to soldiers or lovers in the army or navy to relieve foot discomfort. Separately, railroad lake shipping routes for Baltimore and Ohio are outlined for the year, with freight routes to Lake Superior, trans-lake Erie, and Detroit area connections. The note ends with a proverb about baseball outcomes and buckwheat cakes.
Salzer Seed Company promotes winter wheat rye oats and clovers with claims of 80 bushels per acre and costs as low as 4 cents postage. The ad mentions Salzer’s Red Cross seeds from La Crosse Wisconsin and includes a noted quip about a neighbor’s gossip attributed to a Chicago Daily News item.
The president named Senator Cullom of Illinois Senator Morgan of Alabama Representative Hitt of Illinois Sanford Dole president of the Hawaiian Republic and W F Frear of Hawaii as commissioners under the Hawaiian annexation resolution.
London July 11 The Pall Mall Gazette reports that King Leopold of Belgium will visit the United States this fall.
A London naval officer famed in society for years of service and now gray and bald explains a junior’s curious question about his hair. He retorts that decades of men stepping over his head in duty left him with his notable baldness.
Try Allen's Foot-Ease powder in shoes to cool hot tired feet. It relieves swelling burning sweating blisters and callouses and eases walking. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial package free. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
A puck cartoon mocks Irish and Spanish ties with humorous line about Ireland belonging to Spain. The caption reflects playful clash of national identities in a sports or cultural humor panel.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming a cure for colds in one day with a money back guarantee from druggists. It also quips about a wife-murderer and calls him a lady-killer in a sensational line.
An old bulletin promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 7c and touts Bike chlorides of sunshine as a good spring medicine.
A Denmark Iowa woman writes of long pelvic pain and systemic illness and credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health. She describes relief from womb and ovarian inflammation, backache, headaches, breathlessness, irregular painful menses, and fatigue after two bottles.
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