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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1905
Page
4
A mother swears her son Jim is born to be a lawyer and should start early. In a western law office Colonel Bob Ingersoll recalls a petite, sharp faced countrywoman presenting a freckled ten year old boy as destined for the bar. The boy’s lifelong eagerness and stubborn work ethic are described with humor.
The Romans left marks in Eng and Britons owe the first light house to the Pha ros watch tower south of Dover castle. It is the only remaining Roman work in the castle and the earliest regular masonry in Great Britain. An octagonal exterior with a square inner room, fourte en feet and ten foot thick walls. Repaired over time, it once served as a government storehouse.
The passage urges maintaining serenity amid inner conflicts over temper, nerves, selfishness, ambitions, and desires. It contrasts emotional battles with cool headed, self sacrificing types and links ill health and discontent to inner turmoil. A cheerfully philosophical stance is proposed as the path to well being.
A fragment from London Outlook notes a quip about consolation and self sacrifice, comparing solace to a wife drowning and an Irishman seeking ground at the river’s bottom. It also jibes at claret and a butler’s reply, and closes with Blessington on religion converting despair into resignation.
A Kansas City art dealer cites a landscape plus a human nature painting as the attractor. He recalls boys gathered around a grim scene of two cowboys at a freshly made grave with a dog standing above it. The crowd lingered, then agreed to return tomorrow to view it again.
General Trepoff, then Moscow police chief, was ordered to suppress popular resort orgies before the state liquor monopoly. After raids on top restaurants, he sought orders to prosecute a member of the imperial family, high court judges, a mayor, generals, and many prominent Moscow women, but the issue ended there.
The village Baiersdorf in Bavaria, famed for its horseradish, grows on 1335 acres by the Regnitz valley yielding about 6,000,600 pounds annually. Other items note local illness, an executor's obituary in Greenfield, teaching positions at DePauw, a new furniture wagon, and a power house accident.
A fragment describes preparing soil and packing upper stems in barrels for shipment, mentioning cut stems and bar rels for transport.
A noted astronomer described freaks of lightning and their causes as still unknown. He claimed lightning can kill injure or act playfully. He cited a case in Romaines France where a struck man regained the use of his legs after the shock, suggesting a dictated by electricity hypothesis.
Why Touch-me-not, columbine, geranium and lark spur share bird names and meanings. Geranium means crane's bill and its seed pods resemble a crane's long bill. Touch-me-not is named for its pod that bursts when touched, releasing seeds, per St Nicholas.
A giant earthworm species in South Africa is described as bloodsucking and related to the common angleworm. Two forms exist, one dark red and the other nearly black, measuring three to four inches long and larger than a finger.
Dialogue centers on a mother warning that marriage to her chosen spouse ends visits, and the daughter asks for a written guarantee to give to Fred as a wedding present. The exchange hints at familial tension and planned nuptials without broader context.
A poetically inclined young man compliments a girl as he speaks of a thousand stars overhead. She unconsciously lifts her hands to adjust her hat, listening to the compliment in a quiet, intimate moment.
ARLOTTESVILLE Ed Roberts was called to Greenfield by telephone Saturday. Florence Stinger of Indianapolis spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs. B. F. Stinger. Isaac Hatfield and family were entertained by W.C. White and family. Numerous visits and family gatherings noted across Greenfield Spiceland and nearby towns. The Newcastle Tribune will move to Spiceland and be renamed the Henry County Tribune, reviving a local paper after forty years.
E I Lewis of the Indianapolis News reports on John K Gowdy United States Consul General at Paris who still calls Rushville home He plans to sail for America in October and resume farming in Rushville Ind He owns land in Rush county and keeps a modest life while serving in Paris noted by Rushville Star and French press
A country exchange asks about the boy in patches and replies he works 16 hours daily on the farm hopping clods. He will later run banks and stores and become a lawyer preacher and physician. The piece warns that the real danger is the well dressed lad who may vanish through a sidewalk crack.
Mr Will Ainshaw takes a position with the Prudential Insurance Co. reporting details of his new role and the company he has joined.
W R Jinnette lectured on the Passion Play with moving pictures and scenes from Oberammergau Bavaria. The program mixed sacred imagery with a quality lecture and included musical selections by C Shoemaker. Jinnette owns the traveling company, praised as a credit to the M E school class 8 for bringing the attraction.
The I and E plans through cars from Indianapolis to Richmond starting around July first. Limited trains will stop only at Greenfield Dunreith Cambridge City and perhaps Cumberland Charlottesville and similar towns with a 2 hour 45 minute run. A new freight and express depot at Ohio Street and Capitol Avenue is under construction with shipments expected from there.
Gertrude Pearl Butts wed Horce S. Newsom of Chicago at six oclock Wednesday evening in a ceremony led by Rev HI Clare with piano by Mrs W W Power. About fifty guests attended. After dinner the couple traveled to Cowridge Springs then Conneaut Lake and a Great Lakes trip, returning to Chicago in July to live at Hotel Holland. Attendees included D W Newsom of Carthage Indiana and Mrs R Kingsley of Chicago among others from Meadville and Pittsburgh.
For sale a first class pair airways cars described as good as new and suitable for loin use, weight about 200 pounds. Price stated as very low. Interested buyers may call at Henley’s Grocery.
Nathan C Binford of Hancock County, a Capital State Bank figure and major landowner, is improving his Charlottesville area farm with drainage tile and inoculated alfalfa sowing. He uses Kansas soil and lime, aims to inoculate Indiana soil, and expects strong alfalfa hay yields. He also raises about forty young males, breaking them at two years old for light farm work.
Cards announce big running races at Anderson on July at 2 p.m. on a four mile track four miles from city center. Prizes vary by distance from 60 to 100 dollars with purses split 50 30 and 20. No entrance fee. Five percent of purse deducted from winners. Races may be declared off for weather or if fewer than four starters.
A fragment from the Washington Star ponders why a woman cries at matinees and questions why a man enjoys ball games with no real impact on his choices. The exchange highlights gender perspectives and emotional investment in events.
The U S Board and Paper Co mill is closed for repairs this Saturday night. The stock room and pit are being surrounded by a substantial guick guilding, and workmen are busy in the boiler room preparing for changes. The mill will resume full operation at the earliest possible date.
Thompson Lineback died Wednesday night at 10 o’clock after an eight year illness. Funeral services set for this afternoon at Zaordock Church with Rev. J.P. Scull officiating. Chas. OL Whately will conduct the exercises. lay Johnson in charge. Obituaries continue next week with Furnas Ice Cream at Archey’s.
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