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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1899
Page
6
A reflective verse from Leisure Hours about growing tall and wise to seek life’s hidden gold behind the hill. It traces a child’s home in a vale to an old woman who climbs to discover meaning and the higher will. The poem emphasizes patience, hope, and the reward of perseverance.
Ardick, newly grown, signs on as second mate aboard Industry bound for Havana. A pursuing stranger is disabled by Industry guns. a crewman dies and Hoathwick falls. Sellinger seizes control, a British ship carries warning of a mutiny led by Pradey, and a raid aboard ends with a partially sunk vessel and raft escape. A Spaniard rescues the survivors to be sold as slaves near Panama.
The narrator describes a dim low deck crowded with old hammocks and rough bulkheads aboard a vessel. The cook, a short pipe and light hair, emerges from behind his furnace, speaks a mix of Spanish and Scots as the crew greets him, and hints at cautious harmony among sailors.
The crew, hiding fatigue, share food and pipes as Donald Mac Ivrach and Tym learn of the governor and his guests aboard a Havana bound merchant ship. A buccaneer sighting triggers plans for a nighttime raft escape with the cook’s reluctant aid. The plan focuses on a dark voyage tactic to flee toward safety while the ship confronts a pirate threat.
The chronicler notes nothing noteworthy occurred during the watch as activity remained minimal and the Spaniards showed marked laziness, signaling a tranquil period with few events to record.
The report details multiple historic gemstone discoveries across Wisconsin including a 6% carat diamond near Saukville, an 21-16 carat gem in Burlington, and a 21 carat stone near KohISville, plus finds in Idaho, Montana and nationwide sites such as North Carolina and Maryland. It notes stones carried by glacial action in the Kettle Moraine and lists various minerals including rubies garnets sapphires beryls emeralds opal turquoise tourmaline and amethysts.
An officer of the Bengal lancers is seized by a tigress who shakes him unconscious. Waking, he hears sneezing nearby and discovers the tigress has her snuffbox contents spilled on her face from his coat pocket. The curious accident explains the escape in a humorous, sensational tale.
A wry exchange in a newspaper clipping notes that a rich man tried for murder escaped hanging as his lawyers allegedly “succeeded in hanging the jury.” Uncle Abner comments on the oddity while his wife asks about the verdict, per the judge’s quip.
A Detroit Journal item notes a wife sobbing to Reginald that he has no heart. He tenderly embraces her and recounts his life, revealing a past spent without the usual route to the heart after a stomach amputation in earlier years.
Mabel notes Maud is in mourning and suspects a near relation has died. Ethel asks who was lost, and Mabel hints the change of color in Maud’s pet, a tabby cat replaced by a black one, signals the sorrow.
A child describes magical pillow fairies visiting at night leaving small gifts like a penny a dolly a picture book and a cake The verses note the fairies come when the child is good or not thinking and depart by morning light as told in St Nicholas by Annie W McCulloch
Dan Rice recounts the elephant Romeo who killed several men before arriving in the United States. In Dutchess County a 12 year old boy Arthur Searles rode Romeo in a street parade after agreeing to five dollars. Romeo proved uncontrollable. ultimately he was killed to end the danger.
A St Nicholas feature profiles Frau Zehner known as the Rabbit Woman, selling rabbits from a sidewalk stand on Broadway near Twenty-third Street. The Saxony native turned toy seller drew crowds, moved stalls, and now operates between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, with Easter peak sales and a homely east side tenement home.
In a Massachusetts town an eccentric pork butcher uses a math trick to charge a yard of pork. After a student pays one dollar, he delivers three pig's feet and quips that three feet make one yard. The students depart in silence.
An American Soldier recounts life in the Philippines with a tale of a guard relief party encountering a giant boa constrictor in Manila. The snake was shot and measured nine feet seven inches long and ten inches around at its thickest point.
A child riding with her father along a country road asks about sheep and says Is them sheeps yours a remark noted as highly ungrammatical. The four word query captures a typical misstep in grammar while pointing to language learning stages.
A London woman grieving her pet poodle has commissioned special la Memoriam cards to honor the dog’s virtues. The cards reflect a formal farewell and memorial gesture in a restrained 19th century style.
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