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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1899
Page
5
A mass meeting in Market Hones Hall for Sixth Ward politics drew old residents to the platform. An elderly hog trader was introduced and mocked by a heckler, ending the event with laughter and a disrupted conclusion. Separately in Chicago a druggist’s parrot mimics telephones, amusing customers until a patient shopper suspects endless calls.
A local sport called good snake shooting grows in Williamsport with many snakes along streams and the canal. Hunters use rifles to shoot copperheads and water snakes, depleting the reptile population along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A Hagerstown man reportedly killed over a hundred snakes in two days, including a four foot copperhead near the towpath below town.
Men from the Aquarium dragged a pond at Fifty-ninth Street and the lake in Central Park for goldfish and silver fish to stock city fountains and for Aquarium specimens. The large park fountain and the City Hall Park basin received goldfish and silver fish, plus white perch and sunfish in the latter. At the Department of Highways request, two Broadway fountains at Seventy-second Street were stocked with goldfish, while the Aquarium received roach sunfish and white and yellow perch.
Japanese copper ore will be refined into wire for home and export use. Furukawa Smelting Works will expand fourfold from electrolytic refining, increasing output from the past year. When complete the capacity may exceed domestic demand, allowing substantial exports, as the government already consumes several hundred tons annually.
A new plant at Niagara Falls will manufacture calcium carbide with a daily output of one hundred tons. The process uses moistening calcium carbide with water to produce acetylene gas, and the plant will require about 25 900 horsepower of electrical energy to operate.
Dr. Friedlander of Wiesbaden recommends galvanism to ease pain irritation and swelling from insect bites. Negative electroflox placed over the sting is advised as a relief method per Medica Record.
Adolph L. Millett of Manchester New Hampshire reports his wife cured of a nine year lame shoulder after one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The Sun also notes a charming wedding at Carl Foust home near Shiveleys Corner. Ida Foust married Jesse Gilson with Rev. Carson officiating and a large reception.
An advertorial pitch touts Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a universal cure for stomach derangements constipation and sick headache. The copy urges readers to buy and rely on the product, highlighting widespread sales at O S Hill & Co.
The item notes the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing issued 2.5 billion red two cent stamps in 1898, stacked would reach 150 miles, and could blanket Washington. It mentions LaGrippe cures, Minute Cough Cure, and Rocky Mountain Tea ads. Also reports fires in Kankakee valley and Michigan and Maryland Republican optimism.
New Castle Democrat reports a suit filed to appoint a receiver for the Equitable Mutual Life Association of Waterloo. An injunction blocks further business while the hearing proceeds. Attorney-General Remley alleges mismanagement and improper policies. the company had about 2,000,000 members. Correspondence shows mixed views on solvency. Iowa's Remley warns against further premiums with $90,000+ in preferred death claims and assets under one third of that by Oct 1899.
Williams of Manchester Michigan tells how his wife, long helpless for five years, regained strength after using two bottles of Electric Bitters. The tonic is advertised as a remedy for female diseases including nervousness insomnia melancholy headaches fainting and dizziness. Each bottle is guaranteed and priced at 50 cents, sold by O C Hill Co. Drugist.
The Hancock Democrat reports rapid progress on the Indianapolis and Greenfield rapid transit. The grade beyond the Sugarcreek bridge at Philadelphia is finished and much of the grade east of Cumberland completed. The Sugarcreek east bank power house site is prepared, an erection contract may be let this week, cross ties are being delivered, and grading is nearing Irvington.
Kansas man Barney Plumb calls doctors liars until using Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. He says a 50 cent bottle cured his stomach trouble and saved him hundreds in doctor bills, sold by O S Bill and Co.
Brick is being laid on East Street this week and should be finished by the first of the week. Dewey has declined the invitation to visit Chicago and Philadelphia.
A Coffin & Co notice offers a money back guarantee for Chamberlains Cough Remedy after two thirds usage. It claims to cure la grippe coughs colds croup and whooping cough and to be pleasant and safe to take. It states the remedy prevents a cold from developing pneumonia.
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