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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1896
Page
2
A Carthage Indiana column notes a Boston firm selling five hundred campaign buttons and badges, predicts a strong campaign start, mentions a new African lake discovery, and comments on Russian peasant exodus and exile policy as authorities seek sterner punishments for Nihilist conspirators.
The Aug. 24 wedding at Breakers Newport Rhode Island joined Tar Whitney and Vanderbilt in a lavish ceremony. The Breakers, famed residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, marked a rare American royal style. Queen Victoria’s reign and abdication rumors appear in context with a Crown message noting sixty years on the throne.
Patients are treated for insomnia and nervous complaints with harmony and soothing surroundings. The new plan aims to tailor treatments to each patient, suggesting music as a curative agent may appeal to wealthier patients, though its adoption at deaf and dumb institutions is doubtful.
In several great cities the curbside debates on money questions draw large crowds blocking sidewalks and streets. Indianapolis saw arrests, but judges declined fines and discharged the men. Judge Cox rebuked officers and warned against further similar cases after a repeat offender was released.
The piece recalls Siberia long viewed as barren and cruel, noting extensive emigration along the expanding Siberian railway to cheaper lands. It cautions the government over-mischaracterization while acknowledging the climate and isolation have been overstated in some depictions.
An August incident near Lawrence Eas shows how heat harms judgment. Two steam threshers clashed while attempting to pass a farmer gate, causing one fireman to die after engines collided and toppled. The accident follows widespread jail escape concerns prompting talk of water- filled prison conduits to flood routes and trigger alarms.
Texas claims the largest hog in the United States, weighing 1,430 pounds and eight feet three inches long. Owned by T Ratigan, the animal eats 40 to 50 ears at a time and could reach 2,200 pounds, with a $5,000 fire policy and a recent bid of $1,500.
A painting from Lord Leighton's sale of his effects, the Orpheus and Eurydice scene dubbed the Triumph of Music, reemerges after decades. Once met with hostile press reviews, the work vanished after its 1856 Academy showing and was recently found rolled in a cellar, then mounted with little wear.
A London club card session turns deadly as a stranger abducts a man to a remote room for a game of cards with a pistol and a staged murder. After tying him, planning to blow out his brains with gunpowder, a candle, roped fate, and a moth’s spark save him. he escapes, tracks the assailant to Paris, and learns the killer later died in Germany. The mad Englishman claimed estates were stolen, a tale debunked by investigators.
Detroit Free Press reprints a slice of the Arizona Kicker. A Western editor jokes about decline of a lieutenant governor nomination, mocks Judge Gridley, and recounts a violent confrontation with Piute Joe and Steve Springer. The piece ends with humorous notes on asthma and local whisky culture shaping a visitor’s mood.
The Foudroyant, once Nelsons flagship, will be displayed with 50 crew aboard after outfitting with donkey engines to stay hidden. The ship, famed for capturing the Genereux and hosting Abercrombie, will tour British ports then cross the Atlantic to delight American visitors. It will honor old sailors in Nelson era uniforms.
Amos D. Smith of Dublin Indiana, 74, a Civil War veteran, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring vitality after rheumatism piles and general debility from war injuries. He describes a successful course and urges others to try the remedy, noting its availability through Dr Williams Medical Co. at Schenectady New York.
A narration on social attitudes notes that wealth signals luxury in modern times and fashionable friendships test loyalty. It argues that women in tasteful dress are often the best looking and that hired help remains a hurdle to domestic happiness.
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