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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
3
The rher's chair witness a rher's chair scene as a ratorial artist comments on a customer's hair. A flustered senator protests publicly, exclaiming about deadlocks being raised, in a Chicago Tribune style vignette.
At the shore Molly and Jack report a light theft witnessed during a boat viewing. Dolly asks what was taken, while the incident is noted in the Somerville Journal with a playful tone and local color.
The noted stage historian Joseph Norton Ireland died December 29 in Bridgeport Conn. His main work Records of the New York Stage from 1750 to 1860 is highly valued by collectors, yet publishers will not back the completed history due to limited public interest. Ireland born April 24 1817 in New York, studied locally, retired 1853 to Bridgeport to finish his life’s work, and left an illustrated edition with over 2 500 portraits.
A writer recalls obsolete printing tools such as the sheepskin ink balls and a wooden galley with clamps, an angled universal stereotype block, and the fading use of the sheepsfoot. The piece notes these devices vanished as steam presses and newer methods emerged in a long-ago trade.
A playful, period style exchange features a ardent suitor praising eyes and tresses while the maiden remains unmoved. The dialogue veers from romantic to anachronistic when he compliments a bicycle, highlighting comic tone in the Detroit Journal excerpt.
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes its syrup as a superior, gentle laxative manufactured with care. It emphasizes genuine product only, avoids imitations, and claims benefits for kidneys liver and bowels without irritation or nausea. The ad notes the company’s locations in San Francisco Louisville and New York.
A Washington Star quote contrasts a wild night wind with people. The speaker prefers wind to humans, noting wind does not threaten bill payment or dog tagging or cause public disgrace. The passage highlights a wish for more wind and less people in life.
Salzer promises grass seed yields 4 to 7 tons more hay than timothy in dry regions and says it performs well in Ohio and across the United States. The notice invites readers to send 10 cents postage to LaCrosse Wisconsin for a seed catalogue and samples, with a brief unrelated ad line about a girl wearin g a glove in Washington Iowa.
The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs Arkansas opens February 23 offering a delightful climate and unequaled medicinal waters. Through sleepers available on the Frisco Line with excursion rates. Manager J O Plank lists contacts in the Century Building and Frisco Ticket Office. The ad ends with a joke about over-knowledge. Also notes a cold remedy Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets for 25 cents.
In a Chicago Journal recounting, a man with rheumatism, crippled arms, and long neglect is allegedly cured not by medicine but through a forceful accident of belief. A stranger with a pistol commands the subject to raise his hands, and the arms function instantly, prompting debate on faith cures versus coercive psychiatric influence.
A Michigan pol recalls a congress candidate who attended a horticulture meeting years before his bid. The farcical exchange sparked jokes about literary laurels and growing pumpkins in cities, but the rural crowd remembered him come election time.
The California Fig Syrup Co markets Syrup of Figs as a world renowned laxative. It claims lasting health benefits, urges trials for constipation and related ailments, and notes its ads appear in leading publications to inform the public.
A collage of brief quotes and testimonials from various U.S. newspapers. Snippets praise products like Piso’s Cure, St Jacobs Oil, and humorous mottes on creeds, crankiness, and the income of gas company presidents, reflecting late 19th century ad style and public notices.
A Galveston woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing backache headaches whites and menstrual pain after using two bottles of the compound three Sanative Wash packages and one Liver Pills. She praises the remedy and urges others to try it, asserting it has saved many women from hospital operations. The advertisement stresses women’s health and the soothing action of Pinkham’s preparation.
The piece blends humorous maxims from The Sage of Sawhaow with an advertisement for Plant System claiming the fastest route from the Northwest and Chicago to Florida East Coast resorts. It mentions A Bell at 205 Clark St Chicago for train particulars.
A garbled OCR mix references jokes from the Indianapolis Journal and Chicago Daily News about appearances and behavior, quoting a critic called the Savage Bachelor, plus sample ad lines for St. Jacobs Oil claims and a riddle from Mr. Figg. The text blends jokes on photography, joints, and misused remedies with crude one liners.
The advertisement touts Alabastine as a unique wall coating not like Kuisomine preparations. It is sold as a dry five pound powder that mixes with cold water and comes with directions. It claims to replace sealing, wallpaper, and plaster for walls and can be applied to brick, wood, or canvas with a brush.
A fragmented passage describes Kalsomines made from chalk and clay with animal glue. mentions Ala ine as a rock cement that sets and can be recoated. notes packaging and dealer pricing around four to five pounds to customers.
The message urges use of Alabastine on church interiors schoolhouses and public halls. It claims the durable pure coating resists rubbing and scaling and lasts a long time. Builders are advised to consult paint dealers or druggists for tint cards and request a free copy of the Alabastine Era from the Grand Rapids Michigan company.
The notice warns consumers and dealers against selling or using substitutes claiming to be the same or just as good as Alabastine. It cautions about potential legal risk for dealers and damages for consumers, stating Alabastine Co. owns the rights to water mix wall coatings.
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