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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1899
Page
2
The largest watermelon grown in Georgia was sent to Stanley Little of Peekskill New York. The Atlanta raised fruit weighed 149 pounds and set a state record.
Women aiming for work with the Working Girls of New York compile lists of unhealthy employment, highlighting petrl button making as a hazardous option and reflecting broader concerns about safe labor.
Report asserts liquid air is thirty times as explosive as dynamite. In Vienna experiments a cannon was fired with liquid air exploded by an electric spark, yielding highly satisfactory results with no heat in the guns and greatly increased projectile range.
Manitou Colorado promotes itself as home to 15 percent exiles from their homes who have found health and strength there. The town highlights its high altitude ozone sun shine and mineral waters as its proudest possessions. Among its adopted residents are people from nearly every state and territory.
The text compares durations for global travel by walking, an express train, a round trip, and other phenomena. It notes 428 days walking, 40 days by train, 324 hours by round trip, and subsecond times for a cannon ball, light, and electricity over copper, highlighting vast differences in speed and duration.
Col John Sobieskei of Neosho Missouri traces himself as the sixth lineal descendant of King Sobieski of Poland the national hero who defended Vienna. He crossed to New York at 12, served in the Civil War and earned his current rank in the Mexican army. His father headed the 1846 revolt.
Over 70,000,000 tons of poultry and nearly 36,000,000 dozen ergs were moved by Missouri transportation firms last year, yielding cash returns of 8,298,252 dollars. The shipment value surpassed combined wheat, corn, oats and hay, and also exceeded lumber, logs, cross ties, piling, cooperage and cord wood shipments.
It is now only a matter of time when all the principal countries of Europe will be connected by telephone. Arrangements were completed for building two separate lines between Berlin and Paris, and steps have been taken to unite the French and Italian systems and construct lines between Genoa, Nice, Turin and Lyons.
Philadelphia can boast the longest asphalted street in the world. Broad Street is described as the strongest and the only street that remains even width for eleven miles, the greatest such stretch, and the straightest from League Island to the county line with only one slight deviation.
Native lore links stones in a crocodile’s stomach to age, with 12 foot specimens said to carry up to 15 stones. Mr Voltkow, years of study behind the claim, notes younger crocs show four to eight stones.
Nine bronze tablets marking town historic sites were dedicated in Boscawen New Hampshire. They cover the birthplaces of Gen John A Dix William Pitt Fessenden ex Gov Moody Currier and Charles Sargent Coffin the first Webster law office and related residences the old fort for Indian protection the first church and the first pastor's residence.
In Great Britain about ten labor bureaus provided free employment to nearly 15 000 people in 1895. Paris shows 26 370 finding work without cost in 1898. In the United States, agencies, some fully equipped, others skeletal, have been of great service to the unemployed. Five sections exist in Ohio, plus others in various states.
Revered preacher cites Dewey's Manila and Santiago victories to honor naval heroes. He links the 1898 triumphs with ancient sea battles, urges veterans to seek Christ as their flagship, and calls for enduring national gratitude and public recognition.
The piece honors Civil War and later naval heroes, recalling Admiral Foote and Rear Admiral Farragut as Christian leaders. It lauds Dewey and Manila Bay victory, urges national unity, and invites veterans and citizens to honor navy deeds while pondering faith, duty, and devotion aboard a historic ship in a ceremonial tone.
Washington reports a tentative general schedule for the census. Statistician Powers outlines an early form including animals on hand as of June 1, 1900. Directors urge open books and careful record keeping to aid rapid, accurate enumeration.
The United States consumes about 21 million pounds of almonds annually with California supplying roughly two thirds. Import sources include Spain Italy Greece and Portugal with 7 million pounds imported in 1898. Coconuts worth about 600 thousand dollars a year are imported, mainly from foreign regions, with Cuba former supplier before the war. Florida and California production contrasts noted.
A Chicago Tribune reader quotes a friend and an orator debating the phrases pulling and hauling in discussions of corruption. The orator argues the terms are related but not identical, noting stronger pull yields bigger haul.
The article notes the pigeon titled as a bird of war defies the mild image while Yale reflects two centuries of presidential devotional duties, now diverging under President Hadley. It cites Luigi Bodio reporting on Italian railways in 1897 carrying about 12.6 million foreigners with 6.22 million first class, 5.64 million second, and 389 thousand other travelers.
A London Telegraph note on a golf enthusiast who moves from frustration to calm, then shatters his clubs after a wayward tee shot. The piece treats golf as a genuine test of character, highlighting a temperamental arc from indulgent enjoyment to reckless anger and final restraint by breaking the equipment.
Four men lounge on a sidewalk recounting stories and puns about criminals. A nasal voiced man riffs on a pickpocket and a forger while others link sensations to hazards, noting openings in a mercantile world and a calm pause before a clever remark.
Sir Thomas Lipton recalls aboard the Shamrock at Southampton when bargemen neared the yacht’s sides. A clumsy rower asked what the vessel was, Lipton replied courteously that it was the yacht Shamrock, prompting a bemused exchange about the craft’s name.
A heated crowd debates trusts with a theatrical orator railing that trusts must be frozen out. A mocked microbe quips about science, claiming resilience to 312 degrees below zero, reflecting a satirical exchange in Chicago Tribune style.
A fragment from Stray Stories remarked in Chicago Daily News about self discipline and temptation. It features a boy named Johnny and a stray line about taking cough medicine, with a quip on inner watchfulness and personal choice.
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