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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
2
First census returns show rapid ten year growth just outside city cores in border land beyond town centers. The trolley car is blamed for this development by enabling dense habitation of land once too far from urban work.
Reports describe a clever Boer tactic at Magersfontein where gas pipes filled with black powder were fired after a big gun with smokeless powder. The blasts allowed the Boers to keep firing while shells missed their positions, keeping them cool and unscathed a couple of hundred yards away.
Recent years reveal English discovery of rich tin deposits in the Malay Peninsula. The Chinese, long aware, built a 1000 mile road from China and established settlements around the mines. Today a Chinese community dominates the peninsula’s commerce and local economy.
During a Philadelphia stop on his tour, Ji-Hung Chang lost a silk jacket fragment torn by the crowd. The torn piece bore an embroidered number two, a personal gift from the equator or a notable figure in Mongolian circles, leaving Chang displeased with the loss.
Australian rabbit exporters condemn the colonial government's costly poisoning program. They argue trapping would be as effective and yield 100000 pounds in revenue. A large frozen rabbit trade exists, with exporters ready to pay reasonable prices, funds going to the extermination department.
Austria confines women in convents rather than prison blocks. A female criminal is sent to a convent for the term of her sentence, regardless of record, where a nun serves as porter, and the convent courtyard remains open all day, effectively a reforming cell rather than a traditional prison.
Mme Patti, turning fifty seven, long topped earnings for a woman with a twelve month total of 350000 dollars. Her London concerts reportedly income 2000 dollars per night while a single Buenos Aires performance brought 11000 dollars. She has written Confessions revealing Dickens as her favorite novelist and entertaining friends as a pastime.
The Rev. L J Coppin, colored, of Philadelphia, elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Transvaal, will sail for Africa next January. The denomination aims to raise $20,000 by then, and upon arrival a conference reorganization and college work will begin. Coppin, about 55, is a Philadelphia native and graduate of the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School.
The postmaster general of the British Central Africa Protectorate notes mails are mainly carried on native postmen, chiefly Yao and Atonga, who wear uniforms. About 300 mail bags are prepared monthly across post offices, totaling nearly 10 000 miles traveled each month, at a transit cost of less than a halfpenny per mile per bag.
Dr. Talmage views the Calvary scene as a study in humanity through the two malefactors and the middle cross. The right cross embodies unbelief, the left cross reveals faith and pardon, and the middle cross shows Christ’s redemptive work. He urges readers to repent, believe, and follow, accepting salvation and vowing to spread trophies for Jesus.
In a Harper's Magazine vignette John Paul praises quick wits and recalls a theater anecdote with J R dl about two young men who pretended to hold seats without checks. Osgood and the author faced the bluff and stayed seated, illustrating ready wit in a small social drama.
The rare jewels of the Philippines are now American property, but the rarer gem is health. Anyone can possess it by keeping digestion active and bowels regular with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a remedy for indigestion dyspepsia constipation biliousness belching heartburn and sleeplessness.
A Sunday school scene from the Chicago Times-Herald shows a teacher prompting children to explain Babylon's fall. A freckled boy, Percy, awkwardly suggests an answer about peeling a banana, revealing the humorous misunderstanding of the class.
Half rate round trips plus two dollars. Tickets on sale Tuesdays September 18 October 2 16 November 6 20 and December 4 18 1900. For full information and folders contact agents of the lines or H c Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Mo.
A colorful line from the Chicago Evening News recalls a peculiar sensation felt by a man when he pays five dollars for a ham and receives change from the grocer. Uncle Eben proclaims no feeling compares to that moment.
A Chicago Evening News snippet quotes Mae Olive of St. Louis exclaiming she has waited over an hour for someone to escort her to supper, reflecting a humorous social moment captured in the paper.
Mrs Jackson Why Mose began whistling a cake walk the other day and that’s the result. The child cannot be more than months old walking around like a full grown man. Puck notes the humorous birth of a child with a cake walk reference.
The Chicago Daily News notes how the desire for fame has driven many ambitious men to commit indiscretions that permanently tarnish their reputations.
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