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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
3
A short clipping notes concerns over Chinese place names versus South African ones, claims oleomargarine is 32 percent lard with under 1 percent real butter, and reports 83 million pounds sold in the U S last year. It also mentions Russian scientists asserting seeds exposed to an electric current germinate faster. The piece closes with a remark on modern haste.
The postmaster general amended postal rules to permit the sender of a registered letter to recall it after dispatch. This change promises convenience, especially for women who wish to add an afterthought or postscript.
Six presidents Jefferson Madison Monroe John Quincy Adams Van Buren and Buchanan served as secretary of state. General Grant acted as secretary of war ad interim and performed the duties of that office for five months.
A large prehistoric city spanning several hundred acres has been uncovered in Mexico. Earth covering the ruins has been removed as excavations proceed, revealing a site of major archaeological significance.
Frederick Fraley, once 13 helping lay the Philadelphia arsenal cornerstone with President Monroe, is now 86 and the aging head of a savings bank. He still goes to his office daily as president, marking a long career in the city’s business life.
The German government after extensive observations reports the oak tree is most liable to lightning strikes. Beech trees are most exempt from such visits of the electric fluid, with other species showing varying probabilities.
Frank Reglid, a young New York actor aged three by fate, inherits a fortune from his late wife who married him in 1894 at seven and twenty four. She gave him a $75,000 cash wedding gift, and now he receives a million, a stark symbol of their romance.
Japan now has about 150 daily papers and nearly 600 other periodicals, a growth from a time when no regular daily publication existed. Printing with regular metallic types became common around 1874, marking a turning point in Japanese journalism.
Speakers at the charities conference agree that lack of employment causes most distress among the laboring classes. They also note that absence of food leads to starvation and lack of breath causes high mortality.
Immigration to the United States shows unusually high monthly gains this year with May at 56812. Experts predict Florida orange crop near 1,900,600 boxes at about two dollars per box, a contrast to earlier forecasts of grove fires and failure.
California nears completion of gathering the orange crop with an estimated 14 500 car loads up from 9 000 last year. The fruit is valued at 4 600 600 dollars and the Los Angeles Express reports 44 090 000 dollars of capital tied to orange growing, signaling a prosperous industry in the state.
The state plans a monument at Antietam to honor Union and Confederate soldiers. A Canadian memory, Wolfe and Montcalm, was once commemorated in Quebec’s public garden.
New Jersey creates state board of guardians to relocate pauper children from almshouses into homes or boarding places. After years of debate the board reports about 225 pauper children in poorhouses with most already placed, in line with a law from the last legislature.
A preacher argues the Bible yields good fruit and cannot be a cruel or impure work. He cites missionaries and reformers, defends prophecy, miracles, and Genesis, and urges reading the Bible at home and in heaven, insisting its unity endures amid centuries of skepticism.
A short inspirational line urging perseverance by looking upward for guidance and strength as a path through challenges.
Generals and prominent revolutionists meet in Manila to press for amnesty and civil government. They propose seven clauses including amnesty, return of confiscated property, civilian administrations, and expulsion of the friars, with Aguinaldo’s sanction hoped to halt hostilities.
Adm. Remey at Cavite cables the navy department with an urgent demand for additional officers. He asks for three commanders four lieutenant commanders ten lieutenants twenty cadets and a fleet paymaster.
The deascritic convention in Jacksonville Florida on June 24 nominated state officers Francis E. Carter for justice of the supreme court John L. Crawford for secretary of state W H Reynolkis for controller and W B Lamar for attorney general.
After Rough Riders. Kansas City, Mo., June 24. The war department will maintain a recruiting station at Oklahoma City during the Rough Riders' reunion in hopes of getting men to enlist.
A world ending prophecy is reported though few take it seriously. The notice promotes Hostetters Stomach Bitters as the remedy for dyspepsia indigestion constipation biliousness and liver and kidney troubles urging a fair trial to prove its value.
Porashe, a respectful young woman, notes T Errnbleigh Swell asks a friend to dine al fresco at his home tomorrow evening. The scene features a playful exchange about scenery and a Libby novel sighting in the Baltimore American fragment.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into your shoes. Allen's Foot-Easy powder makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures corns, itching, swollen hot, callous, sweating feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 1 shilling 2 pence. Free sample available from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
The Indianapolis Press quotes a Cornfed philosopher arguing that women cannot win equal pay for equal work. He claims the path to parity is through demanding more pay for less work.
An ad promotes Gnove's Taste Less Crip Voxre as a simple iron and quinine formula for chills and fever. It promises no cure no pay and lists a price of 50 cents.
A brief collage of quotes from World and Town Topics, featuring a purist who corrects slang, a marriage consent exchange with Gilfoyte, and a cryptic remark about events unfolding suddenly. Also includes a witticism on pride from Somervile Journal.
Mrs Annie Tuoxupson of South Hot Springs Arkansas says ten years of female weakness including leucorrhoea womb inflammation and heavy periods ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Ranative Wash. She reports weight gain energy and ability to do housework and sleep well and urges other women to follow directions for a cure.
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