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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1896
Page
2
The gypsy moth has cost the commonwealth of Massachusetts 525000 in the past and is dominant in its pest trade. State officials propose expending 200000 during 1896 to intensify eradication efforts.
British Columbia authorities fret over female scarcity while unmarried men favor migration. Efforts to move Eastern Canadian women to the West promise incentives, with claims that 40,000 females will take advantage of the opportunities offered.
Ongoing reports claim the ailing statesman Mr Gladstone is forbidden by his physician from giving public speeches for the year. The same sources say his routine includes twelve-hour writing days and tree chopping on his estate for exercise.
British capitalists press American investments as signals calm over Venezuela dispute. North Georgia reports plan to develop long known gold deposits using a new chlorinarian process. Old methods failed to yield rich ore, but supporters claim high profitability with the new technique. The Georgia gold boom is foreseen by multiple routes.
The Cuban government plans to issue 10 million dollars of 6 percent gold bonds led by Salvad or Cisneros, a Cuban noble and wealth holder, now in Washington. Brokers in New York and Boston reportedly expect to sell them at a fair price, with principal and interest due ten years after Spain leaves Cuba and revenues pledged for redemption.
The Big Four system strengthens its western lead with a new fast freight line connected to eastern routes. A Indianapolis wholesale firm received a New York shipment via this line from April 11, delivering to Meridian street on April 23. Express firms reportedly fear the innovation.
A Cedar Rapids telegraphed story claims farmer and Columbia College graduate Mr Johnson tested X rays and accidentally created gold worth 153 dollars at 50 cents cost using a 68 percent gold alloy. The tale suggests a pound of the composition was decomposed in three hours, cost 13 1 3 cents.
A new method claims to produce gold at a cost of less than 50 cents, with earnings of 153 dollars per hour at current rates. The process has advanced to preliminary patenting steps.
Professors Pratt and Wightman of Chicago announce that germs of diphtheria and typhoid fever are absolutely killed by Roentgen or X rays. They state no more important announcement has ever been made by scientists. If tests prove this method infallible, it could transform medical practice and save countless lives.
Miss Blanche Work of La Porte proves foot fits a size two and a half double A Trilby slipper in a contest held by a theater company in Baltimore. The item prizes elegance with Hoosier pride noting Harrison, Wallace, and Riley as notable Hoosier figures.
The article notes how visitors, including international travelers, routinely visit Grant's Tomb at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It describes reverent behavior with uncovered heads and quiet reflection, especially on Sundays and holidays, and predicts that future visitors to New York will be drawn to the tomb much as travelers go to Mount Vernon for Washington.
Oxford University grants Rev. R F Clarke of Trinity College a license to open a private hall for university students under the Jesuit Order. The plan marks a return of a religious order to Oxford's academic scene, suggesting more Catholic students may follow to Oxford and Cambridge, with Benedictines rumored to pursue similar houses at Cambridge. Father Clarke, formerly St John's fellow and tutor, joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1869 after resigning as a Church of England member.
The true breed of Manx cats resembles the Lalay with a natural tail absence. Hind legs appear relatively long in both specimens, indicating a normal physical trait rather than an anomaly.
Rumford Falls Times describes risks in logging areas from flying limbs and kicking trees and the dangers faced by teamsters hauling long logs down steep mountain grades. It notes lumber methods evolved with railroads and pulp mills, speeding production from forest to mill to paper, and contrasts recent efficiency with older, lengthy transit times.
A Rehoboth Herald account notes Charles Monselet's comic dictionary for children prompted a severe rebuke from a science editor who mocked his misdefinitions of sardine and parrot. In Adelaide, Australia a bootmaker was fined for idleness after playing draughts with a constable in his shop.
Readers share humor and gossip from a small town, including a new boarder whose habits raise questions, a punchy exchange about a blind woman in the window, and a farcical fall on a slippery stair ending with a laughing girl and a chaotic scene told in brief anecdotes from the Old Colony Chronicle.
Senator Davis of Minnesota, a noted Shakespearean authority in Congress, pursues a hobby of rare editions. He authored Shakespeare and the Law, a volume of interest to scholars and lawmakers alike.
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