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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1898
Page
2
Lorenzo Snow, born in Ohio and educated at Oberlin College, is chosen president of the Mormon church. He is 84 years old, in good health, and retains sharp mental faculties essential for leadership.
A French doctor asserts that a person beheaded by the guillotine retains sight smell and hearing for three hours and that death by this method is among the most prolonged forms of capital punishment.
Last spring Typographical Union No. 6 acquired land near New York as an experiment. A number of unemployed men were given parcels to cultivate. They have succeeded admirably and some are considering farming as a lifelong pursuit.
In France large quantities of Horsh flesh and ass and mule flesh are consumed, unsettling regular butchers of beef and mutton. In dingy Rome Florence and Naples restaurants, a harmless wood serpent flesh dish is noted as a dainty.
The Danish harvest of fruits and vegetables is reported a total failure, while crops in the United States are excellent. This gap creates bright prospects for American canners, with many inquiries and some good orders already coming in. Prices are expected to stay favorable through the winter.
The case of Henry Washington a colored man of 1828 Philip Street Philadelphia operated on for appendicitis by Prof Da Place at St Agnes hospital is noted as very rare. Statistics show appendicitis is uncommon in colored people and typically occurs before age 25, yet Washington is 51.
Leipzig University will not count time at the University of Freiburg in Sees or recognize the Freiburg degree terms. The decision affects an Ehammple et fellow and the overall credit recognition for this exchange.
Additional experiments by Prof. Dewar show liquid hydrogen is far lighter than all known liquids with a density one fourteenth that of water. This matches the gaseous hydrogen to air density ratio, contrasting with previously light liquid marsh gas at about two fifths the density of water.
California farmers on the San Joaquin river islands report an extraordinary season with a second bloom of peaches, pears, and cherries. The trees of these fruit types are in full bloom for the second time this year, adding to the soil’s famed productivity.
The Chicago post office will hire a physician at 1700 dollars yearly to station at the main office. His duties include examining employees who report illness to verify incapacity and reduce government salary costs by stopping fraudulent sick reports.
A French railway company has painted its passenger coaches with large vivid images such as stars fishes and birds and poetic devices to help travelers identify their carriages and class when alighting for refreshments. Passengers recognize their car by visual cues like the fish or swallow.
Meriden Mississippi passes a curfew for adults allowing street presence only before 8 pm on Sundays through Fridays and 10 pm on Saturdays. The city bell signals turning in, with a $25 fine for violations and eight taps indicating curfew time.
Frank A. Vanderlip reports Treasury records show 29,973,274 of 50,000,000 set aside for the president’s war efforts allocated to the navy 29,000,000 enabling the department to double its vessels. Twenty seven yachts were converted 26 tugs 6 colliers 8 cruisers and torpedo boats repurposed for naval use.
A preacher extols continental irrigation turning deserts to orchards and fields. He links irrigation to divine signs across the Pacific coast, Yellowstone and Yosemite, praising rock cross symbolism and the nation’s potential under boundless waters and nature’s grandeur.
A historical note extols generous treatment of defeated Spaniards and shifts to advertisements for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and St Jacobs Oil. The piece blends praise for humane conduct with claims of medical cures for stomach and liver disorders and aid for lame backs.
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