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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1896
Page
17
Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St L line timetable corrected to February 9 1896 lists northbound Nos 102 103 105 passengers and southbound 101 passenger with times 1126 a m 701 a m 240 p m. Agent J E Campbell Carthage Indiana available for details.
Society directory notices list Cartuace Lance No 255 I O O F meeting at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesdays at 7 30. Visiting members invited. Friends Church calendar includes Sunday services 11 00 am prayer Thursday 7 50 pm Sabbath school 9 45 am Christian Endeavor 6 00 pm Junior Endeavor 3 00 pm singing Friday 7 30 pm teachers meeting Wednesday 7 00 pm monthly meeting first Thursday after first Saturday 10 00 am.
Indiana notes tell of Hill & Gear promotions with new hats and straw goods while Richmond expands services with a new garbage crematory and a prison medicine presence. Posts, churches, and schools populate the landscape with deaths, forgeries, fires, and several local business updates from Marion to Logansport and beyond.
An unnamed man was arrested, pleaded guilty, and is now serving his sentence in the state penitentiary. The brief notice confirms the conviction and current incarceration status.
John Winslow was in Indianapolis on business last Saturday. Heavy rain last Monday revived vegetation. Mrs Dill, sick for months, has recovered enough to ride out. Stewart Noble of Ohio visits Lindly Gray and preached a splendid sermon last Sabbath. He will soon go to Colorado to stay with his sister.
In Lynn Creek Valley the recent rain improves crop outlook, though several farmers replanted corn. Mr and Mrs James McFatridge and Mr and Mrs Hooker Conaway visited friends at Knightstown Tuesday. Robert Arnett owns a gold watch once given to his mother by the late Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks.
George Price improves slowly while wheat prospects are weak. D H Bitner bought a new buggy last week. Farmers replant corn as Oma Willis visits Carthage and Ed Shaffer with family visit Irvin Price. N G Price and D G Whitton were in Knightstown. Irvin Price tests a tongueless riding cultivator. Prospects improve for peaches and cherries, apples are scarce. A wheat and flour exchange is discussed. Sellers are urged to advertise sweet potato plants in the Record. John Leisure and Albert Leisure visit Sallie Price family.
A London Daily Mail correspondent reports that Colonel Francis Rhoades John Hays Hammond Lionel Phillips and George Farrar, once sentenced to death, will each pay £25 000 and face ten years of banishment. A Pretoria dispatch says the Johannesburg Times published a facsimile of Dr Jameson plans for Pretoria seizure found after his surrender.
In Geneva 1891 Judge T J Mackey of South Carolina was chosen to give a Fourth of July oration at a banquet for the day. The Austrian Hungary consul general shared an anecdote and confirmed its authenticity about Americans in Vienna inviting Emperor Francis I to Washington’s birthday. Francis replied in writing that Washington scorned a crown and he could not attend, saying he is a king by trade.
The largest photographs ever made decorated the Columbus life scenes float in Baltimore’s 1892 Columbian parade. A 9 by 6 foot copy of Gribayedoff’s Columbus Before Ferdinand and Isabella led the display, created by photographer W. H. Weaver of Baltimore, per St. Louis Republic.
A playful exchange quoted from London Tit-Bits features two fair Neapolitan figures. Jeannetta asks if her laundry basket is straight while the other questions its alignment, reflecting lighthearted period humor.
The account details victors receiving palm branches before judges, followed by a grand procession of religious and civic leaders and guests. Crowns carved from olive branches crown athletes at Zeus temple, with statues, portraits, and public feasting rewarding triumphs. Pindar’s verse cements the serene glory of conquest.
The piece asserts that Republican protectionism is thriving as the German tariff tightens its grip, noting broad national impact with few places spared the pinch and championing protection as a cause prospering across the country.
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