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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
2
A Wells county landowner boasts a well that struts a surprising mix of oil gas and two waters. Despite his pride he won’t display the spouter publicly, while locals joke about the gas belt tale. A modest man finds the “four in hand” a dream beyond reach for a clean shirt. The strange borehole story spurs chatter as another oil fable returns.
A Houghton Michigan brewer tried to drown himself in a 60 barrel beer tank last week. He was rescued but the beer was a total loss.
New York City issued four million dollars in gold bonds at 3 percent in London, with the sale oversubscribed. Massachusetts followed with two million dollars of 3 percent gold bonds in the same market, also oversubscribed.
There is a rising movement for good roads in Connecticut with substantial highway spending. Projects follow scientific plans and aim to ensure solid roadbeds. Costs are shared among the State, counties, and townships or municipalities.
Telegraph poles are now made from wood pulp mixed with borax tallow and other ingredients. The molded hollow tubes have a central core for strength and are claimed to be lighter and tougher than wood and unaffected by wet weather.
The article foresees a rapid round the world journey once the Siberian railway opens. It claims travel from London to St. Petersburg in 45 hours, then eleven days by rail to Port Arthur and further by steamer to San Francisco, costing about 400 dollars. It envisions a booming excursion business with vast possibilities.
The late L. S. Ayres of Indianapolis left an estimated $700,000 fortune. His wife is the sole legatee and executor. Ayres was a respected merchant and philanthropist known for kindness to employees and discreet charitable giving.
The piece contrasts Barnum era shows with imperial Russian spectacle. It argues monarchs use lavish processions to distract the masses from revolution, noting Americans accept circus displays as spectacle and cost. It mocks royal parades as hollow in comparison to the tent show.
Regals crowns may be matched at the Kokomo glass works at a trifling expense and will glint and glisten in sunlight as dazzling and as gay as their hoarded jewels stored away for ages.
Prof. Dyche of Kansas University shares Greenland travel lore noting enduring explorer appeal and a nonblubber diet for Esquimaux. He describes married women with blue ribbons, single women red, widows black, and white for those who wish to remarry, citing a place with eleven widows always in white.
Public interest in forest preservation grows though action is overdue. Senator Dubois Idaho proposes a bill guiding reservations to protect water flow and timber supply, permitting prospecting on forest lands and Interior control of dead timber and sales of unfit timber. The measure remains unpassed and viewed as a rare nonpartisan effort.
Philanthropists and benefactors show simple acts of kindness. Zucca brothers, fruit importers in New York, were poor yet charitable, offering free haircuts to every boy who visits their shop between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sundays. This practical benevolence highlights accessible generosity across social lines.
Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, not a college woman, secretly gave provisional 100000 to Barnard College. The gift, aimed to benefit New York, enriched Barnard by double its amount under her conditions. Barnard, sole women’s higher education institution in New York, stands to gain from her support.
Secretaries Olney and Carlisle consented to be photographed seated at their desks for the first time since taking office. The images were taken at the request of Ladies Home Journal to illustrate former President Harrison's article on the State Department for the July issue.
Dr Talmage in Washington May 31 speaks on the nations dead and a national observance. He frames churches as armories with memories of fallen heroes and urges honoring courage self sacrifice and future defense while warning of foreign threats and urging unity across North and South.
Alice sits beside a prairie sod house whistling and watching a jackrabbit near a cornfield. Her tunes draw the timid animal closer as he peeks from behind stalks and finally sits entranced, ears up, until a final cautious leap back to the field ends the encounter.
Practical guidance covers tar removal with lard and soap, loosening paint from windows with a penny, salting and starching shaker mix, lemonade preparation from many lemons, and a method to preserve boots by treating moisture with coal oil oats and vaseline.
A collage of items on bridal veils used as shrouds, a New York dentist’s door to door tooth cleaning for fifty cents, and quaker Ellen Richardson’s role in Frederick Douglass’s manumission. Also notes on theater hats, a Boston family’s donation for a chapel, Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poems, Harriet Beecher Stowe on women’s domestic labor, and Paris balloon racing with postal card prizes.
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