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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1896
Page
3
A Hibernian gentleman jokes he hopes to hear a friend preach his funeral sermon while another expresses a wish to live to eat the chicken that scratches over his grave. A physician remarks that the murdered man was so ill that without murder he would have died half an hour earlier.
Mrs W L Elliott of Liscomb Iowa shares her long battle with chronic ailments and describes how Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier restored her health after years of treatment and expense. She urges publication to help other women benefit from her experience.
A party on a Sundarbans trip witnesses a tiger attack an alligator in shallow water. The tiger leaps and clings to the alligator, ruling the fight until the beast retreats. The alligator drags off wounded but alive, proving hunger did not drive fatal ferocity. London Globe reports the encounter as a curious natural duel.
A reminiscence from the Epoch recalls Mrs Hallet Emily Schomberg the era’s famed society woman. Her beauty and accomplishments drew attention as cosmetics were rare. At a Seventh Regiment ball at Cape May she used cologne on her brow and cheeks to demonstrate her genuine bloom and composure.
The piece details Balzac's eccentric writing method, sending 200 scribbled sheets to printers, then revising as proofs multiply and margins expand. It likens his process to a map or railway network with frenetic, luminous revisions, culminating in Cesar Birotteau after 20 days of fevered work.
A Forum piece extols the U S Supreme Court as uniquely powerful in forming and restraining government. It asserts the court can make or unmake constitutional law, shaping relations between the nation and states and surpassing other branches in authority.
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe's last longtime love, cherished his memory for over thirty years after his death. She defended him steadfastly, sharing friendship with his circle and enemies alike, worshipping him as an idol in her heart while living a quiet, ritual life in later years.
A traveler at a Mexican ball scene is startled when a senorita with raven hair trips to the bench and smashes an egg over a visitor’s head. The act is explained as a playful invite to dance, a social custom noted by the Philadelphia Times.
A Georgia Confederate general escaped a fatal shot when a minie bullet struck his chest and pierced a packing of pins his wife had sewn into his shirt. The pins repelled the blade of fate, leaving the officer alive though bristling with pin-head wounds.
In a quirky Atlanta Constitution read, Walter de Wolf’s dog tale impresses with intelligence and wit. A Salem Oregon boxcar tale arrives. a Detroit to Salem journey carries people, cows, horses, sheep, and household goods in a crowded rail car. A humorous misorder ends with oysters two.
A reader describes Miss De Frivolous sweeping down the avenue with regal air, noting it as the first notable display observed from the girl in some time.
An old advertisement fragment urges using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to guard against rheumatism and lists cures for dyspepsia liver trouble fever and ague and debility. It laments typographical quirks and includes a brief testimonial from Mrs Lucy Wallace of Maranette Kansas dated December 12 95. A stray quip about strawberries contrasts price and size.
An oldAdvertisement lists Hal’s Catarrh Cure from F. I. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. It warns against mercury laden nostrums and promotes genuine Hal’s Catarrh Cure. Also mentions Winslow’s Syrup for children and a Louisville humor piece about a man returning home asking a policeman about his ball club.
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