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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
2
The Parisian police issue a warning to the public and visitors about a surge of counterfeit fifty franc notes circulating in Paris and major French towns. The fake notes are finely engraved on special paper resembling Bank of France currency and could fool the unwary.
A new German market innovation is artificial stone steps pressed with carpets of any color while soft. Designs or figures penetrate deeply and endure as long as the steps. Beautiful patterns suit fine residences and add lasting decorative value.
Frederick W. Atkinson has been appointed superintendent of education in the Philippines. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall, broad in proportion, and of immense strength. A Harvard graduate like Mr. Frye of Cuba, he is 35 years old and formerly principal of Springfield High School in Massachusetts.
Queen Victoria possessed a historic walking stick that once belonged to Charles II. Presented by a Worcester citizen, the staff originates from a Boscobel tree branch used by Charles I. The stick bears a plain gold handle plus a small Indian idol from Seringapatam added by the queen.
The model village of Biltmore, N C, built and run by George Vanderbilt, features electric street and house lighting and provisions for residents, with amenities including heated ad tre heats and meat. John Ruskin’s net value is reported at 50,900, and a £1 daily income is noted from an old bequest. He left unpublished works to Johanna Severin and Prof. C E Norton of Cambridge, MA, revoking a Bodleian library bequest of his and Turner's books portraits and drawings.
Bishop William Taylor, now on the superannuated list of the Methodist Episcopal church, had a career of fifty three years of continuous preaching before retiring four years ago. He began as a street preacher in California and later served in foreign missions across Africa, Australia, India, South America, Asia and many Pacific islands.
The woodcock nears the end of its season, not shot in spring but hunted in July in many states. Floods drown its young, yet unlike quail the woodcock is easily found and nesting ends. The bird commands a high price in markets as hunters flock, paying about $1.50 per head for the birds to fill tables of paying households.
Mrs Albertina Kleinsmith sues Michael Kleinsmith in Clinton Ja claiming he kissed her after smearing his lips with a subtle deadly poison causing her near death. He denies the charge and marriage dissolution is sought.
Norman E Lees of the National Domestic Association in London arrived aboard the St Louis to recruit an unlimited number of house servants from New York and other centers. The association guarantees good positions in top families abroad with passage paid. Ladies’ maids there receive up to seventy pounds a year.
A preacher extols ordinary sufferers and workers as unseen heroes who endure illness and toil with faith. He honors sickroom patients, laborers, women in detainment, and those who give charity in poverty, arguing they inherit heavenly crowns. He contrasts earthly fame with eternal reward for humble service.
In Germany policemen in Hamburg closely observe streetcars for overcapacity violations. If a car carries more than the legal limit by even two passengers, the conductor is filmed and fined 72 cents.
The report covers Senate and House activity including sundry civil appropriations and bills on the industrial commission life extension to 1901. It notes approvals such as the Alaskan civil government bill, personnel changes in the signal corps and war subsistence bureau, and tribal land actions. It also records Louisiana purchase exposition funding, post office pneumatic tubes, and early trust regulation discussions.
The United States transport Hancock reached Manila on June 4 carrying the Philippine commission. Elite MacArthur staff welcomed the group, who later met at the palace with General MacArthur. Judge Taft spoke, and the commissioners prepared to select dwellings or land while officials, editors, and merchants visited the ship.
Mainz or Magdeburg report that the German sugar trust has started operations. Refiners have withdrawn all offers from markets and there will be no further sales for twelve days before the trust fixes prices for home trade.
Washington June 3 The president commutes to ten years the life sentence of Jefferson Harrison for robbing a mail car in Alabama in 1893 and threatening to kill the postal clerk.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a pure blood maker that can cure tired feeling pimples sores salt rheum scrofula and catarrh. It urges readers to buy a bottle and begin treatment immediately to elevate blood to a Good Health point.
A historical advertisement proclaims Head's Sarsaparilia as America's greatest blood medicine, highlighting claims of restoring vitality and cleansing the blood. The copy emphasizes health benefits and features testimonials and branding typical of patent medicines of the era.
Comedian Daly, known for folding early at the tables, is teased in a Chicago Chronicle tale about a telephone call with his tailor. The cartoon bout features Daly avoiding nerves as the tailor attempts a sales pitch, with Daly jokingly telling him to back off the line before ending the call.
A long advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages by a constitutional internal treatment. The firm offers One Hundred dollars if it fails and invites testimonials. The notice also contains assorted unrelated quotes about teeth powder dyes and jokes from various papers.
Letters from readers describe relief after using Lydia E Pinkham remedies. Drak Mrs Pinkham cites cure of long standing pains and nervous symptoms. One Rockport woman recalls four years of treatment with little help, another praises her vegetable compound and its guidance.
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