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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
6
Paris city council will award prizes annually to architects and builders of six handsomest houses erected during the year with owners exempted from half the betterment assessments. Fifty two plans were submitted for the first competition for houses built last year.
A bill introduced in the Michigan legislature provides for non forfeiture of life insurance policies after one premium is paid. It holds life insurance companies responsible for all representations by their agents and states the company remains liable regardless of policy contract terms signed by the insured.
In the South Carolina legislature opponents aimed to trim state aid for higher education. They sought to reduce the recommended college appropriation from 27500 to 20000 but achieved only a reduction to 25000, with the annual appropriation fluctuating between 25000 and 50000 for nine years.
The article explains ships resist lightning because their rigging uses wire rope and hulls are iron or steel. This makes the vessel a continuous conductor that channels electricity into the ocean, preventing serious damage.
The latest fashion shows rings on the index finger, often large and costly with rubies and diamonds. Emeralds in the same style are popular, while some women wear ancient rings covering three fingers, exemplified by Mrs Mackey and her $27,000 ring.
The U S department of agriculture notes pumpkins can lift two and a half tons when grown undisturbed. In London a 500 pound paving stone was lifted by a mushroom. A Honduras gum tree reportedly moved walls of a three foot thick concrete church over 17 years.
George Gould is to be urged to accept the colonelcy of the 7th regiment New Jersey national guard succeeding Col. Charles Y. Bamford who has resigned to Adjt Gen Stryker Bamford likely to retire as brigadier general Maj Gen Plume's resignation as commander will trigger a reorganization Gen Steward commander of the 2d brigade to be promoted to general command
Four states prepare to compete with New Jersey in corporate and trust incorporation. Agents from New York, Pennsylvania and Maine study New Jersey laws to attract capital. Delaware already passed a more attractive corporate law.
Mothers of small children are told matches will no longer be treated as poisonous. To cause death one would need to eat about 6000 matches. A phosphorus substitute of sesqui sulfide and chloride of potash replaces the poisonous yellow phosphorus thanks to French government efforts.
The article details the imperial train used by the German emperor traveling on state rails. It has nine carriages costing 10 000 to 15 000 each, painted blue cream and gold, with a saloon carriage for the emperor and empress, plus kitchen dining luggage and servant cars. A workmen carriage holds tools for on route repairs.
The sermon centers on home as the first duty and moral ground for Christians, urging faithful private virtue over public display. It argues private character reveals true faith, describes home as a shelter and school, and warns that lacking Christian principle at home imperils families and the state.
A wild rush of miners gathers at Nullagine in Western Australia after diamonds are discovered in large quantities. The crowd fears for lives amid the mad struggle for riches as nervousness sleeplessness and debility spread among workers. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is advertised as a cure.
Two friends talk in the street when a donkey brays and wheezes in distress. One notes the animal’s cold and the moment prompts a joke about a cough, reflecting a light, everyday scene from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications. cure requires internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Presented as a regular prescription by F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo. sold by all druggists at 75 cents. Also touts Hall's Family Pills as best.
A humorous remark from Jewelers Weekly about diamonds and dust. Mrs Flyer-Harry asks about the dirt diamonds come from and Mr Flyer replies the man who pays for the dust is the one who ends up putting it up.
Advertises a free sample of Allen’s Foot-Ease for foot ailments and mentions its benefits for corns bunions and ingrowing nails. Also cites other ads and quotes from Chicago publications, with additional product and resort notices.
Advertised testimonials claim Hood’s Sarsaparilla restores health for children with scrofula and erysipelas, a mother’s weight gain after chronic weakness, and eczema relief for a toddler. Endorsers include Megs David Largo of Ottawa Kansas and Mrs M A Waters of Washington DC.
A collection of fragmented humor and satire from 19th century newspapers shows lines about Beatrice and her husband, a dramatic scene at a wedding, and a quip about a coal and coke trust named The Coal Trust and Coke Dust Cindercate.
Letters of praise pour in from every state for Pe-ru-na as a catarrh remedy praised by Dr. Hartman. The Governor of Oregon attests to its value for cold prevention, urging households to keep Pe-ru-na for coughs colds and grippe and to read Dr Hartman’s Winter Catarrh.
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