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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
4
The Carthage publication titled Friday Morning Record comes from William G Allan and is issued each Friday morning. The issue dated July 16 1897 reflects the newspaper’s weekly release schedule and its provenance.
A Chicago Record correspondent reports a novel crowd-control method at the White House daily receptions. Tourists arrive between 1 and 2, view east room decorations, and pass through a two-foot passage between two sofas as the president, with aides, greets them. The president offers greetings and kind words to brides, elderly ladies, young men, and maidens, making the event a bright Washington moment.
In Liberty Kokomo county Henry and wife Foreman wearily kept their vows for 80 years. They married on their 400 acre Greentown area farm after the stepmother who tied the knot with promises passed away. The wedding was officiated by a minister from a later generation.
Peter Peters, 85, of Union Hill New Jersey has spent 21 years in bed after a leg fracture failed to knit. His bones are described as calcareous with animal portions disappeared and movements cause breaks. His stepmother, 65 year old Mrs Wilhelmina Peters, disappeared recently and is being sought by police. Doctors differ on diagnosis calling it arthritis deformans or osteomalacia.
Pope Leo reopened the Borgia rooms after a four year restoration costing about 100000. Whitewash was removed from frescoes and pavements restored in majolica tiles matching original designs. Decorations had been damaged in the sack of Rome and replaced by Raphael pupil works during earlier repairs.
Mrs Horace Riggs of Matteawan New York aged ninety eight still shops daily and attends Sunday School and church. She walks about half a mile to the first church usually reaching in time for the morning session. Native of Putnam county. Her husband passed away many years ago.
Captain Andrew Curtin Quay son of Senator Quay has been promoted through the cavalry and staff ranks since West Point graduation in 1888. Critics say he jumped dozens of lieutenants, and his father’s influence reportedly shaped his ascent boosting his chances for rapid promotions and favored postings.
A 350 foot tall steel and iron umbrella with 40 rails and 16 cars will be opened three times an hour at the Omaha Exposition. R E Sherman designs a 40 foot diameter monster mounted on a 80 by 75 foot stone foundation overlooking the Missouri River. Electric machinery will raise and lower the moving platforms bearing 40 passenger cars.
The text notes teapots serve the poor in China while the wealthy brew tea by placing leaves in each teapot and pouring water over them, highlighting class-based tea customs.
John Howard Bryant brother of William Cullen Bryant and oldest survivor of the family, will celebrate his ninetieth birthday on July 22 in Princeton Illinois. He has lived there 66 years a quiet life. A large New England family gathering and banquet are planned as kin from the west welcome the elderly man who faced years with vigor. He once left teaching for the west traveling from Plainfield Massachusetts to Jacksonville and finally Princeton where his cabin once served as a station on the Underground Railroad aiding escape to freedom. He is known as a poet among friends with a mind still clear at an advanced age.
Governor Atkinson of West Virginia stands firm on marrying his fiancée Mrs Myra Camden despite a forgery indictment against her. She is a Clarksburg native, a social leader, and twice widowed with a fortune once tied to Judge Camden. The Camden family dispute over the will faded into compromise, leaving lingering hostility as Atkinson aims for U S Senate.
An advertisement extols Foley’s Colic Cure as essential after water changes, claiming it prevents and cures bowel derangements. The copy emphasizes its necessity for readers and is attributed to Coffin & Co.
A 1837 medallion bearing Queen Victoria’s likeness was unearthed by Mrs Chessire G Rawlins in a Brooklyn yard while gardening. A jeweler cleaned and affirmed the piece as fine silver, with clear, well preserved features of the young queen.
A cabinet decree in Prussia forbids using names of reigning or former monarchs as cafe signs. In Berlin a public house had to change its sign from Kaiser Friedrich, after the decree took effect a few days ago.
An Orlando resident, famed as a local inventor, describes a device using suction to transfer grain from island fields to river craft over several hundred miles, asserting practical reach and potential for widespread use.
A man with a severe attack of colic heads toward Coffin s drug store seeking Foley s Colic Cure priced at 50 cents and 250 cents, illustrating a hurried medical aid request in a street scene.
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