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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1899
Page
6
Paris city council plans yearly prizes for architects and builders of six handsomest houses erected each year. Winners' owners will be exempt from half the betterment assessments. Fifty two plans were submitted for the first competition for houses built last year.
A proposed Michigan legislation would deny forfeiture after a single premium payment and hold life insurance companies responsible for all agent representations, even if contrary language exists in the policy contract signed by the insured.
In the South Carolina legislature a push to cut state aid for higher education from 27500 to 20000 failed to pass, with the house reducing the recommended amount only to 25000. The annual appropriation has fluctuated between 25000 and 30000 for nine years.
The article explains ships rarely suffer lightning damage because rigging wires act as a conductor and ship hulls are iron or steel, directing electricity into the ocean harmlessly. This continuous metal path prevents serious harm by quickly dissipating the charge.
The piece notes rings are a new fashion trend with large costly pieces worn on the index finger. It highlights a ruby and diamond ring and an emerald version, and mentions antique rings covering three fingers like the one worn by Mrs Mackey with a $27 000 ring.
A U S Department of Agriculture experiment shows a growing pumpkin can lift two and a half tons when weight is positioned to avoid hindering growth. In London a 500 pound paving stone wedged by others was lifted by a mushroom. A large gum tree in Cinemas Honduras moved church walls three feet in 17 years.
George Gould is urged to accept the colonelcy of the 7th Regiment New Jersey National Guard to replace Col Charles Y Bamford who has resigned to Adjt Gen Stryker. Bamford likely to retire as brigadier general with Maj Gen Plume’s resignation prompting reorganization. Gen Steward of the 2d Brigade to be promoted to general command.
Four states plan to adopt New Jersey style corporation and trust laws after weeks of reviews by agents from New York Pennsylvania and Maine. Delaware already passed a corporate law aimed at enhancing attractiveness to corporations and trusts.
The match industry announces that matches are no longer considered deadly for small children to ingest. A child would need to eat about 6,000 match ends to cause death, and French government efforts have replaced yellow phosphorus with a safer mixture of phosphorus sesqui sulfide and chloride of potash.
The private imperial train has nine carriages costing 10 000 to 15 000 dollars each. Painted blue, cream, and gold, it includes a saloon for the emperor and empress, kitchen, dining, luggage cars, a suite saloon, and a servants’ car. A tools and workmen carriage enables on route repairs as needed.
A sermon argues that home life reveals true character and shapes virtue more than public acts. It urges prayer and Christian principle at home, warning that a bad domestic sphere breeds ruin while a godly home anchors the nation and points toward heaven.
A wild rush of excited miners gathers at Nalingne Western Australia after dia discoveries in tnes oe a trigger the rush to riches. Despite the fervor many collapse from heat fatigue and exhaustion while nervou sness insomnia and loss of appetite plague the crowd. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is advertised as a remedy.
Two friends chat in the street when a donkey brays loudly. One jokes about the animal's cold and asks the other about his cough, recalling a light moment from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications that fail to reach the disease seat. Internal remedies are claimed necessary. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, advertised to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Promoters cite a physician’s endorsement, tonics, blood purifiers, and direct surface action with claimed cures. Testimonials offered, contact CHENEY & CO, Toledo, for free samples and pricing listed.
Fragmented text shows dialog about diamonds and dirt with garbled phrasing and inconsistent names. The readable elements mention a weekly context and a vague exchange without clear events, dates, or identifiable persons.
An advertisement offers a free Allen’s Foot-Ease sample from Alien 8 Olmsted Le Roy New York claiming it relieves chilblains sweating damp swollen feet and makes tight shoes fit Also touts St Jacobs Oil cures for sprains bruises and backache and notes Florida resorts open for travel promotion.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a health aid for all classes. Testimonials claim scrofula and erysipelas recovery in a boy after sixteen months and three weeks of treatment, weight gain in a Washington mother, and eczema relief for a Paterson child.
A Chicago Evening News cartoon line questions Beatrice crying over her husband’s appendicitis while noting the laughable reason. Alley Sloper references a new coal and coke trust name, The Coal Trust on Coke Dust Cindercate.
Letters of congratulation flood Dr. Hartman praising Pe-ru-na as the era’s catarrh cure and preventive. Governors and diverse workers from laborers to editors endorse it, claiming catarrh remains universal and that cold prevention blocks further ailments. A Maine or Oregon reference notes cordial household use and a free book, Winter Catarrh, offered by Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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