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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1898
Page
6
A New York City facility houses a three year old bear kept in cold storage along with a wide range of wild game. The exhibit aims to show readers how large quantities of game are kept for study and display.
Reports Mrs Phoebe A Hearst widow of the late Senator Hearst has donated two million dollars to charity in five years. Most of the funds supported the University of California for professorships and education initiatives in the state.
France now allows dissolution of marriages at no cost to applicants. The Paris divorce court holds Thursday sessions for gratuitous decrees, recently divorcing 294 couples in four hours at more than one per minute. The working class, once least likely to divorce, dominates the applicants.
The Guards played on Windsor Castle terrace during a recent dejeuner. The queen asked a maid of honor to identify a pretty march. she blushes as she returns and reports the tune titled Come Where the Booze Is Cheaper.
William E Grapstone, England's Grand Old Man, popularized speaking from railway trains. He delivered political principles from tunnels, mountain tops, pit mouths, and shipboard settings, with notable trips including Midlothian. His speeches spanned chapels and churches as part of his diverse venues.
Queen Victora and all adult royal ladies now carry walking sticks with gold mounted handles. Her majesty uses hers for support. Military ladies also adopt walking sticks. Walking umbrellas appear, and the Princess of Wales has a collapsible one as slim as a walking stick.
A peculiar species called couti inhabits DeEvil's Isisip, the Dreyfus prison site. Described as a mammiferous plantigrade about the size of a cat, it has a pyramidal head, a long alligator-like jaw, and a striking nose. It uses its fore paws to move food to its mouth, similar to monkeys and squirrels.
Four months after British forces shattered Ahmed al Hargez and seized Omdurman, Gordon Memorial College begins in Khartoum with Lond Cromer laying the foundation stone. The college will teach agriculture and engineering in Arabic, backed by half a million dollars from England prompted by Gen. Kitchener.
The article praises a Moscow riding school as the finest, noting its 560 by 146 by 44 feet size and the largest pillarless roof, surpassing all but Welbeck Abbey’s subterranean riding school which measures 385 feet long and 138 feet wide with a glass roof nine feet higher.
A Glasgow journalist unveils a simple device using strips of colored paper placed beside the ink to ease eye strain and supposedly improve vision. He claims the invention relieved his own blurred sight after overwork. The patent owners tout the device as beneficial.
A sermon on the phrase bundle of life uses Abigail's plea to David and treats life as a precious bundle bound by God. It extols human faculties, memories, and hopes, warns against misdirections, and envisions heavenly reception when the earthly journey ends, bound to God through Jesus Christ.
Terrible cyclone and high winds sweep Madisonville Athens and surrounding towns causing deaths and injuries. Several houses destroyed and telegraph lines down as residents report miraculous escapes and widespread property damage across multiple counties and cities.
Wasiixnerox March 6 The house has approved 1635 bills and resolutions this Congress and 1200 in the 54th 951 in the 53d and 892 in the 59d Congresses. A three session recap with an appendix of over 50 pages lists the status of every bill reported to the house in the last two years. The army section shows 42 measures. Wakefield prepared the appendix and index.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as Spring medicine that cleanses nature’s house of winter and purifies the blood. It claims to strengthen the weak, cure blood diseases, and cites testimonials from Mrs Louisa Mason, Mrs Kate E Thomas, and Matilda Bridgewater about cures and lasting health after using the product.
New York reports that Rudyard Kipling is far advanced toward recovery. Physicians note favorable conditions through Saturday night and Sunday morning, with Kipling sleeping soundly and making strong progress toward health.
Mrs. Sarah Stevenson, mother of former vice president Adlai E. Stevenson, died at 2 50 Sunday morning after several weeks illness. She was 90 years old.
William A Athy aged 91 of Fondon Ohio died Sunday at the Masonic Home in Springfield Ohio. Athy was among the best known masons in the state and his death occurred on March 6.
A board of trade member recalls Blank’s quarrel over a troublesome cow. Blank offered twenty dollars to remove it, then found the neighbor sold the cow to the other side for thirty, netting fifty for a twenty five dollar beast, leaving Blank furious and vowing revenge.
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