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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1898
Page
8
Best Goods and lowest prices touted for a mid-summer clearance. Highlights include 7ft and 8ft window shades at 29 cents each, extra good linen crash and unbleached muslin at 4 to 5 cents per yard, silk remnants from 4% to 4yd lengths at 50 cents per yard, wash silks 35 cents, and calicoes at 3 cents per yard with a 10 yard limit. Remnants across departments offered at 44 to 50 percent off regular prices.
Local notes report Deputy Prosecutor Will Sparks visiting town last Saturday along with Rolla Zorns of Girgs Station and John Buford of Ripley Township. A new meat shop and two barber shops arrive as a new schoolhouse rises. The Temperance Society attended a Manila meeting and plans a program here soon.
C H Parker and brother Oscar attend the Bible School Conference at Earlham this week. Rev Jared Binford and wife attended services Sunday. Miss Nellie Binford returned Friday from Chicago and the Northwest. George Kyser moved from Center to Dayton’s Mooresville property. J F Pitts leaves today for Anderson. Ithamer McCarty welcomes a baby girl last Friday. Rev Micajah Morris and daughter visited S C Pitts family. Barclay White visited Louisville during Sunday excursion. Rev W Ralston delivered a temperance address at church Sunday afternoon.
A distressed wife sought aid for her ailing husband, hoping for medical help from the celebrated poet. Goldsmith visited the man, promised help within an hour, and sent a box of 10 guineas with a note urging patience and good heart.
The article advises owners to teach talking birds in the evening with the cage covered in a dark room, the teacher enunciating words slowly and clearly. It notes that Indian natives believe a minor operation on the bird’s tongue helps it speak more easily.
An elderly veteran recalls wearing his worn military coat on Fourth of July celebrations and historic moments. He enjoys recounting battles, the aura of memory, and stories of Arnold's treason as he reflects on past loyalties and Mrs. Arnold’s devotion.
Henry C. Lea argues in The Atlantic that pride in labor in Spain was weak and indolent. Dormer notes Spaniards worked only a few hours daily, with many feast days reducing available work time. Navarrote estimates one third to one half of days lost to feast days, and Archbishop Carranza links debauchery to harvest seasons, undermining competitiveness against foreigners.
The United Kingdom drinks 600000 pounds of tea daily, an amount that would equal the total consumption of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Australia combined. A Front Royal log cabin once used by George Washington as a survey springhouse remains standing in fair condition.
In a McClure's Magazine account Swedish traveler Dr Hedin endures a brutal trek across the Takla Mamakan desert. He loses water and all support, crawls aided by a spade haft, and survives by discovering a dry river bed and a pool of fresh water. He then continues north to reach an ancient town, after crossing again.
A Liverpool tailor, famed for meeting odd requests, swears by improvisation. A customer asks for trousers made for one leg, so the merchant cuts off the right leg and offers the pair at one guinea. A month later the tailor recovers from illness and remains on the job.
Mrs. Walter hosted the eighth birthday celebration for Lucky Mr. Waiters with about 50 guests. A carriage, a gold watch, ten Holstein cows, and a tray carrying gold and silver totaling 3000 dollars were given by Mrs. Walter, funded by 15 years of thrift in their marriage.
A 19th century account describes horchata as a popular Madrid drink made from chufa nuts or almonds mixed with water to form a milky refreshment. It notes mixed tastes, regional variations, and a curious link between horchata and selling matting, with the origin of the combination left unexplained by the author.
The narrative recalls Captain Sigsbee in a West Indian port during a hurricane. As Blake drifted toward destruction in soft bottom waters his crew could not hold her. He ordered the vessel to dive and sink to avert a greater loss then later pumped out and refloated the ship.
Dialogue imagines a bright baby who cannot talk yet but is deemed destined for greatness. The father boasts about the child’s potential while others joke about his silence being a strategic strength. The exchange highlights playful parental pride and humorous urban banter.
A fragment discusses how a Burman mile equals two English miles in meaning, noting the linguistic use of the word mile and how it precedes or alters interpretation, highlighting confusion over garbled phrasing and translation.
A collection of professional notices lists physicians J A Sipe in Carthage Indiana and W M Edwards optician Knightstown with eye care ads, lawyers Stevens Titsworth Binford Guffin Watson in Rushville Greensfield Carthage, and George Osborne abstract titles plus notary and probate services. Also mentions offices near Main and Mill streets and a War Office with Dr Sipe.
Dr J H Jones physician and surgeon in Carriage Indiana offers prompt house calls and specializes in eye ear nose and throat care. Glasses fitted for refractive errors and failing sight with guaranteed satisfaction. Office located over R E Eenley’s Store.
Rushville Indiana advertises eye care focusing on rye ear nose and throat treatment. Spectacles adjusted for errors of refraction and failing light with office located first building south of the post office upstairs.
Rott bosom shirts at Newsom s New Stationary at Post Office no arrival of hats at Newsom s fince you seen the cheap glassware at Lovett s Sandwitches of all kind at 1 V Bupdy s We still have plenty of Binder Twine Bill Bros The famous Lewisville Cheese at Lov ett s Grocery Toys dolls building blocks and games for children at Cottin s Drug Store We pack and deliver Farnas Ice Cream in any quantity L V Bunny Thirty dares of land at Shively s Corner which you can get for fifteen dollars an acre or three crops for the haling Apply to Ww Hill Carthage Boom lot for sale Good high lot in Rose Hill graded one 3 yr old shade trees cement walks in front of lot Cost 120 will sell for 45 For Rent 7 Room House Corner Main and first street Sam L Newsom For Sale Room over Post Office Correcter by Henley & Dillman Wheat 626 Corn se Oats Tee kool 20c Cattle ole to die Calves 4403 Hogs 35 60
A Paris Monde description outlines a process to make wood solid and mirror like. Steps include alkaline lye immersion, calcium hydrosulphite bath, sulfur in caustic potash, then a lead acetate bath. After drying the wood takes on a brilliant metallic luster when burnished with hard wood and polished.
A dinner tale has Lord Lytton, then viceroy of India, joking about the Birches after a guest asks about their kinship. He quips that he knew several Birches intimately from Eton and, with his usual smile, says he’d like to kiss the red rid of embarrassment.
A comic dialogue on fatherhood ends with a wise warning as a boy gifts his father a circus ticket. The text shifts to a Philippine commerce snapshot noting annual trade around fifty million dollars with exports like sugar tobacco and Manila hemp. It cites Manila cigars and a large cigarette factory, plus imports from the United States and European nations and a Philippine steamship company with 27 vessels.
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