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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
2
The text notes that insufficient brain blood flow often causes headaches and presents symptoms like top head ache dizziness and ear noises. It recommends mild stimulants such as tea coffee or hot soup to boost circulation and advises sufferers to sleep with their heads lowered.
John Hay, the incoming secretary of state and British ambassador, is better known as a poet for works like Jim Bludsoe and Little Breeches. He blushes at being introduced as the author of Little Breeches and would rather not be identified by his poetry.
In New York City a prescription for hydrobromate of hyoscine caused shock when 12 tablets weighed 1.1 grains each and were sold at 1.50 dollars. At 12.50 per grain the implied value would yield an extraordinary price per pound.
A famed brigand was executed in Belgrade and the crowd, including the Black Mousquetaire, was startled to see a second body beside him. The second man was a newspaper correspondent who had ventured close to secure a lifelike account.
The piece traces how Navy ranks like ensign and commander originated from Iberian maritime traditions. It notes the term ensign survives in naval usage while land forces dropped it, linking titles to Spanish and Portuguese influence despite centuries of reform. The analysis highlights the two highest naval ranks drawn from Iberian heritage.
A postage stamp map of England and Wales by D. M. Murrow of Wood Green London took two months to draw and affix 2139 unique stamps. The collection begun at age seven is valued at 200 guineas and features coast and inland regions in contrasting colors.
A statement from the director of internal revenue shows July average daily shipments of stamps at 22 775, totaling 614 939 120 for 27 days. It highlights the bureau workload from the Spanish American War and the war revenue act driving higher stamp use.
Bertin offers new guides who are partly elderly and middle aged with worldly knowledge and pleasant manners. They attract trust from lone female travelers and traveling parties from Scandinavia and America. Many are Russians or Austrians and they also handle shopping and other tasks for townspeople away from the city.
A calculator shows that one day’s internal revenue stamps, if in a single sheet, would cover 28 560 square yards nearly six acres. A line end to end would stretch 617 miles. At ten hours daily and one stamp every half minute, one worker would take 52 years to attach that day’s issues.
The text argues sun exposure benefits for skin and offers a tan removal paste recipe. It prescribes half a pound almond meal mixed with lemon juice to form a stiff paste, with a few drops of eau de cologne, to be used morning and night as a wash for neck and arms.
Secretary Alger described Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point as an admirable, healthful site. The president personally checked wards and cots, noting well care for ill and well troops amid a somber atmosphere from sickness and death after the Santiago campaign. He left convinced conditions matched needs though the strain of war lingered.
S Munsch a noted Pittsburgh architect was found dead early Saturday in a Cleveland American hotel toilet room. He had heart trouble and the heat is believed to have caused the death. He was years old and traveling with Rev J G Amschler of Latrona Lutheran church and Rev Ek Barner of Kittaning Lutheran church of Allegheny, Pa, bound for Mt Clements Mich.
Depuam Massachusetts Sept 5 The condition of Thomas I Bayard former ambassador to England who is at Karlsstein home of his daughter Mrs Warren was critical Sunday So pronounced has been the change in the past two or three days that it was thought the patient would not survive many days.
Gen Lawton reports health status of American troops in Santiago. Total sick 238, fever 184, new fever 20, returned to duty 92. Two deaths listed: George Braer private company I first Illinois typhoid fever and Eugene Munger private company C first cavalry pernicious malarial fever. Lawton commands.
The War Department prepared orders to abandon Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point. Volunteers will return home with furloughs. regulars will be assigned to prewar posts such as Fort Ethan Allen, Fort Myer, Fort Snelling, and others across the country. Some regiments may stay for Cuban service.
A fierce windstorm swept Sunday at noon, uprooting trees and blowing down houses. Thunder and lightning struck several homes including Dr Willis residence where he was unconscious for an hour. Knights of Pythias hall unroofed. lodge furniture and rank properties ruined. Loss expected to be heavy.
The War Department ordered the 1st Ohio Infantry to be mustered out at its Cincinnati armory the 1st Ohio Cavalry and 5th Ohio Infantry at Cleveland central armory and the 3rd 7th and 8th Ohio regiments at Columbus. Regiments will move from camps directly to their muster out points. Newark New Jersey sees a celluloid works fire Sunday night causing $200000 loss and 14 injuries with hospital care.
Prixerton Ey Sept 5 Rev Wm Gregston died at his home near White Sulphur in this county He was one of the most widely known elders in the Little River association.
Cincinnati readies for the thirty-second Grand Army of the Republic encampment with festive lighting on Fourth Street to Race and Central Avenue. Veterans arrive from across the nation and mingle with relatives as preparations, arches, and campfires at Music Hall mark the week. Maj. John W. O'Hara provides a gavel carved from the Georgetown Grant homestead door for the encampment opening.
In Pago Pago Dalmatia Commander Z Tanner in charge invites contracts for a new coaling station. The work will be substantial and take at least a year to complete. Lieutenant Chambers of the navy civil engineering department will supervise the wharf coal sheds water supply and harbor survey. Fortifications are not planned.
Jackson Mississippi dispatch reports nine new yellow fever cases in Orwood with Water Valley adding one case and one death. Twenty two cases total at Orwood and health officials call the situation serious as Captain Carter departs for Taylor's station. Omdurman falls to British Egyptian forces.
A collection of pointed observations on marriage money ego and society from the Chicago Evening News. Sharp quips note how art status finances and pride shape behavior with humorous bluntness and Victorian tone. A few lines lampoon ministers and military service while others target lovers debt and habit.
A man in Indiana has not slept an hour for five years and now resembles a skeleton as he wanders restlessly. The piece notes thousands suffer insomnia from nervousness and fatigue and promotes Hoster's Stomach Bitters as a remedy sold by all druggists.
A nurse begins reading the report of Cervera's fleet destruction at Chickamauga hospital. A fever patient cries out asking who pitched for Brooklyn as the Brooklyn was said to have been hit 45 times, reflecting wartime sentiment.
An advertisement touts William Simpson's Sons fabrics as durable and colorfast. It claims Simpson's Prints will outwear three inferior calicoes and remain vibrant after washing, promising the highest standard of quality and complete satisfaction.
Dialogue shows Captain seeking a strong pitcher for the nine but the manager rejects a timber framed or wooden leg suspect, deciding against using a useless timber on the team.
A Chicago Evening News quip notes Simperling as a dull presence yet unlikely to leave a significant impact upon removal, reflecting a sardonic take on a minor public figure.
A collage of old ad lines and quack cures appears with claims like Cure a Cold in One Day and Hale's Honey of Horehound. Testimonials mix with satirical quotations about ambition and welcome felt in shops. The clip includes Pike's Toothache Drops and Pike's Cure for Consumption praising life-saving effects.
An advertisement-like snippet claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional remedy sold for seven cents. The note adds a proverb about people seeking their own kind, attributed to Washington Democrat.
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