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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
2
A Kansas tale notes a seventeen foot rat tangle and a saloon dynamiting, while headlines warn of auto danger and a cross eyed servant protects homes. Miscellaneous remarks include Taft meets empress dowager, Russia’s parliament, and George Gould in poultry business with thin finance.
The text suggests Sultan Kitan’s bid to Miss Roosevelt was largely ceremonial. It notes oriental princes often offer proposals as polite courtesies and mentions complaints about cosmetic facial surgeries harming more than helping. The Washington Star comments that silent martyrs’ names are legion.
The New York Tribune reports an unusually high share of American women married to Englishmen of rank giving birth to twins. The Cleveland Plain Dealer questions whether the Tribune intends to disrupt these international matrimonial alliances.
Professor Wilder of Cornell says the world’s most beautiful thing is a snake’s brain and children should play with one. The Hartford Courant notes large trolley construction across intertown lines faces prosecution or protection this year, predicting limited street rail access within five miles of the state. While Yale cheered Rockefeller’s million, Roosevelt condemned criminal philanthropists, stressing decency over surplus philanthropy.
The St. Louis Republic muses on railroads as broad, progressive, intelligent ventures with risks and profits. It notes high financiers resemble ordinary humans, reacting passionately to public scrutiny and conflicts, where money remains an incidental factor to personal honor and ego. Sanctification is salvation from self.
The piece extols corn’s vigor and outlines Practical Farming on twenty acres or less. It argues a small farm can surpass wage income, detailing dairying with six cows, alfalfa and clover feeding, sweet corn fodder, early potatoes, sorghum, poultry, and marketing strategies to achieve independence and faster land payoff.
A historical note argues that sprinkling fine lime in poultry houses and yards weekly can curb roup by killing germs and keeping areas deodorized. The writer acknowledges uncertainty about lime sterilizing germs but confirms its deodorizing and cleaning benefits.
The best butter comes from daily churning but limited cream on many farms. If churning only twice weekly, good butter is possible with cool ripened cream. With two or three cows churning once a week, keep cream near fifty degrees F to avoid old or bitter flavors. temperatures above or below spoil quality.
Massachusetts Plowman notes barley sown early should be harvest ready by season end and can be sown again after cutting. After cutting it should rest in cracks to cure for several days, improving handling for barn storage. Barley praised as a top feed for grass and stock including fattening pigs.
Growers clash over staking and tying vines with advocates arguing earlier ripening larger fruit and better flavor from improved sunlight and air. Some say plants can be closer together while opponents cite extra cost and shortened fruiting period.
Washington Mirror notes Miss Alice Roosevelt relished the cakewalk at a St Louis ball during her visit to the exposition last year. A prominent hostess refused the idea, but the young White House daughter preferred gaiety over formal entertainments, reflecting social tensions among aristocrats.
In Hogwallow Kentucky the town reels from odd misadventures. A fedita slips into a slop bucket near a hound crew. Dick Somebody from Calf Ribs plans a moonshine still but faces a shot. Sid Hocks, heartbroken by Rosyola Mosely, contemplates suicide but is diverted by Miss Fritzi’s invitation to Hog Ford.
The twelfth census shows forest products worth 575 million dollars annually, with additional value from firewood and farm materials. Forests stand second only to farms among wealth sources, and offer future supply and watershed protection. Sustainable forestry, careful cutting, and reforestation can sustain wealth, aligning lumbermen’s self interest with conservation.
American and French chemists in a makeshift city lab claim a lab produced ruby rivaling nature. University of Washington workers say rubies can be made for ten cents each, with Dr. H. G. Byers overseeing the breakthrough and preserving secrecy amid cautious commentary from summer students.
The article warns that sleeping with the mouth open harms health and signals like a dry mouth and snoring indicate this habit. It urges keeping the mouth closed except while eating, drinking, or speaking, and breathing through the nose with determination to conquer the habit.
Sir Walter Raleigh casts a cloak aside as Queen Elizabeth smiles, noting the charm but longing for a different display. The scene hints at a playful tension between ardent display and royal restraint.
A long analysis discusses death by own action as a social problem, citing Prof. William B Bailey and 29 344 cases from 1897 to 1901. It notes gender and age patterns, weekday timing, marital status effects, and reasons such as business losses and domestic troubles. It also mentions times of day and the surprising link to congress gaiters as an unexplained curiosity.
A Kansas City Journal report from New Caledonia describes a Kanaka man who refuses to leave a crying child behind on a ship bound for Australia. He grabs the youngster by the heels and swings her into a tree before tossing the girl’s body into the scrub and boarding with the man.
The passage lauds Rockefeller as a versatile though contradictory emblem in a magazine space filler. It notes his appeal for Chautauqua lectures, enthusiasm for golf, and role in tainted money discourse, while claiming a deep link to his father’s mystery and noting a new wig and Funny Fellows society ties.
A letter recounts a minister's son who, for misbehavior at the table, was banished to a small table to eat alone until he repented. He could not join in family grace and was told to say grace at his own table, choosing a psalm of gratitude for a table before enemies.
Two men argue about box party chatter and deception as the opera scene intersects with schemes to meet Jeffries. A man in fishy clothes dismisses the pretenders while another labels the chatter as empty.
A playful Washington Star quip contrasts rising diamond costs with a remark about playing cards. Mrs. Torkins notes that, as Charley says, hearts, clubs and spades are also becoming more costly in value and appeal.
A cryptic excerpt recalls lines about life’s sublimity and the lingering smells left by our actions. The text evokes foggy shores and the fragility of existence through fragmented poetry.
Fletcher M E Church lists Sunday School at 9 30 Preaching at 10 80 Junior League at 2 30 Epworth Preaching at 7 Mid week Prayer Meeting on Thursday at 7 Choir practice Friday at 7 Sunday events include regular services and youth activities.
Bible School at 9:45, worship at 11:00, Junior C. E. at 2:00, Y P C E at 6:30, Gospel Service at 7:30. Mid week meeting Thursday ten a.m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. You are always welcome, Chas Whitely, Pastor.
A church notice announces service times at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on the alternate Sunday each month, choir practice Fridays at 7 p.m., and extends cordial invitation from Pastor Omar Hufford.
Wesleyan Methodist notices announce Sunday School at 9 45 a m and preaching at 10 30 a m with services at 7 00 p m on every alternate Sunday Prayer Meeting occurs Tuesday evening at unspecified time.
The Mount Pleasant A M E church announces preaching on the first and third Sundays each month. Sabbath School starts at 2 PM each Sabbath with a midweek prayer meeting Thursday nights. You are cordially invited to attend all meetings.
The church schedules Sunday School at 9:00 AM and preaching at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM. A prayer meeting is held Thursday evenings at 7:00 o'clock. Pastor Philander Weaver leads the church.
Carthage Lodge No 255 I C O F holds Tuesday evening meetings at their East Mill street ball.
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