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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1897
Page
8
A Detroit Free Press snippet relays a wartime moment with humor as a man jokes about a black eye from a "pound party" with another man named Sammy Dix, reflecting wartime social banter and press culture.
A young man just out of college declares willingness to take any position that pays at least 2500 dollars, a stance noted by the Somerville Journal. He emphasizes determination to earn a living through suitable employment.
A sensational warning urges women to seek medical help for ovarian congestion seen as a fatal risk to the uterine system. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy and includes a Milwaukee reader testimony claiming recovery after two years of health decline and an operation avoidance.
An old ad style snippet extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as essential for health and back strength, linking digestion to spinal well being and recommending it for dyspepsia and biliousness. Also mentions Hall’s Hair Renewer for lustrous hair and notes Wyoming surveys costing $25,000.
Seldom has topographics art been used for business as in a peat booklet by Kohn Brothers, Chicago. A color sample titled From Feld to Salons dissects wool and clothes with bold worldy verse, from sheepfold to modern parlors, urging readers to request a free souvenir by mail. Champagne grapes are noted as small as red currants.
A promotional notice offers a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot treat. It lists F J Cheney Co Toledo as guarantors and cites testimonials and a 75 cent price per bottle. The piece switches to a whimsy about a Plymouth Rock hen with a double yolk legacy, club footed, two tails and an oversized head.
A testimonial touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as purifying blood and curing nervous prostration insanity. It recounts a Kalamazoo patient who recovered from severe illness and weight loss after six bottles, asserting the remedy saved her from the asylum and restored health. Includes a Kansas City shop sign reference.
Archibald Sloss narrates a grim Bermouda prison past and a Yellow Fever hospital ship tale. He recalls Walter Jack and Commander Jackson, a harsh warder, a four dozen punishment, and a dramatic turn of fate that leads to parole after nursing the sick and earning a royal pardon.
Miscellaneous items note Spain’s 4,530,000 goats as domestic substitutes for cows. Baltimore plans two summer playgrounds for kids as an experiment. Maine justice C W Walton nears forty years of service before retirement. Old Town Maine touts raft excursions as a fad. The U S Fish Commission plans to hatch Westers in Maine waters this season. A woman seeking hat trimming adds red flowers and feathers. A Maine man faces commitment after attempting to count passing bicycles. Vermont sturgeon season opens with a 94 pound fish near Winooski. A Washington letter claims the Vice President eats little lunch to avoid the restaurant. Two Chinese diplomats once studied in Hartford. A Maine householder finds five local insurance agents all away. Short wars existed long before now. Prussia joined the 1806 anti-France alliance, Napoleon won at Jena and Berlin entered. Berlin to get 250 cycle stands, 1 penny for twenty minutes by day, double at night.
A collage of antiquated notes mentions John Bright's diary forthcoming from his son, Queen Victoria’s vast state carriages at Buckingham Palace, Hindoo prince Ranjitsinhji’s cricket book, and Edinburgh peers Swinburne and Ian Maclaren. It also cites a Houston barber's chair linked to Hannibal Hamlin and McKinley, plus German expert Herr Cuffey’s plague research plans, Zola’s limited workday, and his growing frame with a weak high voice.
An 16th century tale notes coffee's European entry via Dr. Rauwolf from Abyssinia, condemning coffee as a nerve toxin and praising Grain-O made from pure grains as nourishing and non nerve affecting. Advert shows Grain-O price and grocer ask. Oregon flax premiums and Manitoba land offers appear in ad copy with Emilies on millions of grazing lands and low rates.
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