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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1899
Page
2
The article lists daily salaries: Derney $87.50. President McKinley $131. cabinet officers, vice president and speaker $22.22. senators and congressmen $13.90. chief justice $29.00. The figures reflect a historical government pay scale reported by J. D. Dennis.
Ezra F. Scartercoop, instructor of mathematics electricity and physics at Rutgers College, has accepted the chair of physics at the Atlantic School of Technology. He returns from a year in Europe where he studied on a Yale fellowship.
Col. Sweet of the Army Medical Museum Washington reports a shadowy vapor from smokeless powder is visible only when seen through a violet glass disk placed in a field glass. The finding highlights a perceptible optical effect linked to the powder.
In Paris and other large towns in France the number of female bootblacks is increasing. They wear a garb resembling Sisters of Mercy, giving a neat, attractive appearance, and many perform their work with gloved hands.
Five hundred Lithuanian horsewomen petition to form the sole guard of honor for the German emperor during this hunting season. The group, noted for a Jagellon era reputation, was provisionally accepted for the role.
In extreme cold, men grow full beards with shaved upper lips to shield the throat and face. Moist breath freezes quickly, causing any mustache to become ice and the face to freeze in moments.
Governor Johnson pardons John Boston of Russell County who was serving a chicken theft sentence. The pardon imposes a 12 month condition that he must not buy steal or eat any chicken or any part thereof.
The outlook for deer hunting is strong with over 100000 deer roaming the Maine woods this fall, more than in all New England and the Middle States combined. Large herds of 60 to 100 deer emerge from the hills to clearings, feeding on gardens and fields as flies disappear.
Mayor Price of Macon Georgia has held office for 14 years and personally financed newspaper subscriptions for many residents unable to pay. He arranged deliveries to homes and believes the program has produced substantial good in the community.
The inventor of a new fire-hose nozzle designed with side openings plus a rear end jet and a shutter to close them. This allows firefighters to direct a smaller stream at a flare up on the side while sending the main jet to the central fire point.
Britain dispatches troops from Bombay to Berbera on the Somali coast protectorate amid unrest led by a Mahdi claiming authority in the region. The empire controls 400 miles of coast and 200 miles inland from the 1884 occupation.
A thief posing as a patient gains access to a doctor's office by giving an address of a sick patient. After the doctor leaves, the impostor waits, is mistaken for a regular patient by the servant, and he selects valuables before fleeing.
The article notes a Peru social rule banning women from funerals and limiting their presence at weddings to intimate friends. It describes a funeral procession with pallbearers, an empty hearse drawn by two to six horses, followed by male relatives on foot and a line of empty carriages, reflecting display and mourning customs.
A Paris inspired method colors dresses with watercolor designs on hand painted mousselines. A white mousseline gown features a vine of scarlet trumpet flowers along the over-skirt, with artificial blooms on the left shoulder and arm to create a dainty, elegant ensemble.
A preacher likens Christian consolation to a hunted hart seeking water. David and hunters illustrate fleeing troubles, finding divine mercy as lakes of refreshment. Readers urged to shed fret and rely on God through trials, using the deer as a vivid symbol of spiritual endurance and renewal.
A Brooklyn Eagle fragment recounts a ministers club gathering where inappropriate remarks about a funeral and an unconscious figure are noted. The speaker recalls a man who had been a milkman in the community for 25 years and questions moral eloquence amid the scene.
The text presents fragmented dialogue about insomnia and literary concerns. It contrasts foolhardy queries with a skeptical trustee remark on time and money, noting riches are elusive and poverty painful.
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