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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1897
Page
4
Carthage record of Emma R. Clark presenting a paper on the cultivation and value of flowers at a horticultural meeting. The essay blends practical gardening advice with moral education, urging children to learn care, patience, and beauty through gardening and stressing proper plant placement, weed control, and shared neighbor exchanges.
A Moorestown New Jersey clerk forgot to start the bank safe time lock at closing. An emergency team used a timber jack to jar the door until the clock could be wound and run. The bank’s operations were largely halted for four days amid anxious officials.
Contemplation of a royal Garter chapter at Windsor Castle on June 26 or 28 includes a banquet for Knights of the Order in St George s Hall. The last Windsor chapter was 1855 when Louis Napoleon was invested by the queen. Attendance follows summons. in 1855 the Duke of Buckingham appeared uninvited and was snubbed at dinner.
Home Magazine reviews Dr. Max Nordau's new erotic drama The Right to Love featuring Mme Bertha Wahrmund, her husband Joseph Wahrmund, and lover Otto Bardenholm. The piece notes degeneracy themes and parallels to Ibsen while critiquing Nordau's treatment and his favorable mention of Ibsen in De Generation.
Charles O. Stickney in Washington Post profiles Hon John D Long secretary of the navy as a poet of note. The piece traces his literary lineage to Zadoc Long of Buckfield Maine and quotes poems from Long and his father’s sentimental song My Old Violin. It notes Long’s ties to Buckfield and the local sign reading John D Long counselor at law still visible at Hotel Long.
A Susquehanna County veterinarian performed a historic operation on a horse with a broken lower jaw from a kick. The jaw was encased in pliable copper to stabilize the fracture for about four weeks, with feeding via spoon using gruel milk and eggs.
The Indianapolis News asserts its independence and broad reach as the state’s leading daily. It explains why its readership and advertising revenue outpace rivals, noting its 2 cent price, large telegraphic content, and widespread circulation estimated at 150 900 readers daily. It also invites readers to place Want Ads with easy payment.
A fragment notes the Posey county poor house contains 65 paupers. The text contrasts inferior preparations promoted by unscrupulous dealers with Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Syrup, implying a superior remedy.
A collage of short notices and advertisements from 1895 cover health cures such as Foley's Honey and Tar and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, local commerce like 25 cent potatoes at Petersburg and 10 cent packages of Putnam Fadeless Dyes, plus plans for a 18 ton ice plant in Princeton and an Elkhart Goshen electric railroad line, with letters praising medicines and local civic chatter.
The piece warns La Grippe can lead to pneumonia but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is promoted as a preventive and cure. It cites many users with no pneumonia cases and advertises 25 and 50 cent sizes by O S Coffin & Co. Druggists. It also reports the Lackey horse sale at Cambridge City where 97 horses sold for $12,000 and a $1,250 reward brought in.
Cynthiana seeks eight thousand dollars from Ames to fund a new school building project. The notice indicates a local petition or request for municipal support. No further details on follow up or deadlines are provided.
An old advertisement extols DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a safe small pill that banishes sicknesses including headache constipation and sour stomach. Coffin & Co. markets the product with brisk, confident claims.
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