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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
3
Women seek compassionate care from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for symptoms labeled female diseases. Many write to Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance, and secretaries answer daily, aiming to help with backache nervousness fatigue whites irregular menstruation and related distress.
An advertisement promotes Mosler patent screw door bank safes and offers a full range of bank vault, safety, fire and burglar proof work. It details specifications and estimates provided to customers.
In New York World reporting, Deputy Collector Thomas J. Dunn of the Marine Division leads a luncheon at Delmonico's with Deputy Haggerty and Special Deputy Naval Officer Harrison Gourley. The group crafts a joke riddle about why a mouse spins, provoking laughter and widespread amusement across the Cotton Exchange, Produce Exchange, and Stock Exchange as brokers and officials chase the puzzling line. The anecdote extends to Col. Kilbreth, Law Officer Phelps, and Senator Wolcott, whose poker-faced reaction adds to the joke’s banter.
Washington Special recounts a Senate exchange between Guyed Allison of Colorado and Josiah Wolcott as they discuss the post office appropriation bill. Wolcott interrupts repeatedly, Allison grows testy, and the chamber amuses itself at the back‑and‑forth over distance and a bottle of wine comment.
A Harper’s Weekly critique warns that rapid lumbering via logging railroads endangers remaining forests in Minnesota and across the lumber states. It describes how spurs and direct river dumping accelerate deforestation, risking vast timber reserves and Indian reservations. The piece also recounts Kanoga and Red Jacket legends, and ends with a dying editor and a delinquent subscriber joke.
London reports a new illuminant using sulphate of zinc that absorbs sunlight and releases glow in the dark. The luminous powder brightens fabrics and faces, resists moisture and acids, and a Parisian house uses it to cast moonlit rooms. A New York note recalls Mrs. Astor hosting young guests at lunch where a five year old complains the peas were not cooked enough.
China ships hundreds of tons of human hair to Europe annually. Last year the trade value reached about 400 million dollars.
A scrambled mix of patent medicine pitches and quirky quotes. Claims of a cancer cure by oils from Dr D M Bye of Indianapolis, catarrh cures from Cheney,Bits about life choices between a yacht and a Baron, plus testimonials and wit.
Better Than Refined Gold is bodily comfort. This unspeakable boon is many unfortunates for whose ailments Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a promptly helpful remedy. The dyspeptic, the rheumatic, the nervous, persons troubled with dress or chills and fever, should lose no time in availing themselves of this comprehensive and genial medicine. It promotes appetite and sound slumber.
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