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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
2
A New York Herald piece recounts a young naturalist’s notes on snakes. It covers catching rattlers with care, anti venom kits, first aid for bites, and behaviors of constrictors, vipers, and water snakes with details on fangs digestion and hibernation.
The Guernsey Wyoming Gazette comments on gossip as a powerful force described as a humming bird with eagle wings and a voice like a fog horn. The piece humorously asserts gossip causes more trouble than diverse pests and disasters, across the United States and into cosmic finalities.
A Houston Post quip notes a man fretting that his girlfriend may return to another, after she had her younger sister recite a line in the parlor last night, prompting his suspicions.
A fragmentary overheard exchange hints at a planned departure from a news office as Miss Cutter teases Mr. Dubber with gossip about Miss Clipper who allegedly wishes to end her association soon. The dialogue suggests intrigue rather than a confirmed event.
The source lists the Big Four time table corrected to November 3, 1901, detailing Going North passenger numbers 3 and 26 at 11 27 a m and 5 15 p m and Going South passenger numbers 1 and 33 at 11 27 a m and 5 15 p m, along with a note about a dove of peace in Portsmouth and a shift in Tokyo.
The Minneapolis Journal ponders the burden of wealth where funds and salaries strain the workforce, asking whether generous pay scales are sustainable for those carrying heavy workloads. The piece argues for balanced compensation aligned with performance.
An Indiana farmer tending a county fair reports his wife and pocketbook were lost. He offers a liberal reward for the recovery of the pocketbook, while noting no further details about the wife are provided.
Readers note that several Southern editors react with discomfort as Booker T. Washington eats a meal in the North. The item highlights regional tensions in press commentary and the uneasy reception of a leading African American figure dining away from the South.
The Lansing Journal complains about the artistic design of the new twenty dollar bills. It notes no fault is found with that feature when they appear in the area.
An Ohio prison houses more bankers than clerical work allows, forcing some inmates to perform hard labor as their sentence. The situation highlights the mismatch between skilled detainees and available labor tasks.
An advising note explains that yellow fever is spread by mosquitoes and that hot weather increases mosquito activity similar to its effect on people. The text reflects early public health observations in the Muscogee Indian Territory.
A North Carolina girl answered a Florida ad and married a man who died after seven months. The suitor, bought for $38 including a wedding outfit, left his widow a $10 000 life insurance policy. The item quips that advertising pays.
The furrow under the nose in children marks two upper lips historically joined into one. It argues against descent from catarrhines and supports ancestry from platyrhines or lemur-like forebears. This nineteenth century view notes partial fusion leaves the middle scar.
Long Lines, Dumas pere boasted of being the best paid writer, claiming 30 sous a line. A bystander countered with £5,000 per line, prompting Dumas to admit the joke, explaining the high rate was for constructing railways.
Jack Irwin recovers from a fever dream to find his blue eyed love is real though bound by duty to delay marriage. Mrs Irwin fears scandal as the nurse and doctor confirm the kiss was a nurse’s touch, not a lover’s consent, but the couple vow to await a suitable outcome.
Irwin, a thoughtful supervisor, tends an injured engineer Cassidy after an accident. He courts nurse Edna Clintock during her daily rounds, quietly pursuing her amid work duties. A pivotal walk to the gate ends with Irwin slipping her arm through hers, signaling his claim and complicating fragile relationships.
A Chicago antiquary describes 5000 year old tomb paintings showing drunkards carried home by drunken men and women. He recalls Promachus winning a gold cup by drinking fourteen quarts of wine and notes Romans tasting hundred year old blends often tainted with resin and sea water. He recounts a 200 year old wine so thick it required a spoon.
A fragment from an 1834 Boston publication quotes a fanciful beauty recipe and notes pious tones in a satire of magazines. It mentions amber, Cleopatra, and a mysterious Goliban while questioning moralizing cooking clauses in period beauty papers.
In London Truth the author argues a young man with capital should enter the art market as a dealer. He claims auction prices are inflated by dealer competition and wealthy buyers, with dealers acting as middlemen to profit. He questions whether collusion raises prices and whether the seller always receives the hammer price.
A rich Roman who married was seen as a fool while the unmarried without heirs drew crowds seeking gifts or legacies. Romans flaunted wealth with lavish feasts and grand villas. Nero’s golden house gleamed with pearls and priceless adornments, epitomizing the era’s pursuit of display.
The West Mill Street meat market changes hands as the buyer promises continued service. The new owner expresses commitment to maintain the same level of customer satisfaction and business focus.
An advertisement claims Dr King’s New Life Pills offer a quick pleasant and certain cure for headache and constipation after implying a person has avoided arrest by feeling unwell. It promotes 25 cents at M A McClain’s drug store with a guaranteed remedy claim.
Like Finding Money. Health is money, says W. C. Barber of Sandy Level Va. He tells how a chest trouble from smoke and coal dust was cured by Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. Greatest sale of any cough or lung medicine in the world. At M A McClain's drug store 50e and $1.00 guaranteed Trial bottle free.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt, Sauntering Sam, a veteran tramp, is asked by the farmer's wife if he has considered going to work. He replies he did once but was too drunk at the time, reflecting a humorous rural exchange.
A note from T. P.’s Weekly describes Schiller’s habit of loving the scent of apples. He quartered an apple and kept pieces in the drawer of his writing table.
A London house decorators firm dating to 1695 is noted by eminent English writers including Jane Austen, Thackeray, and Lord Lytton as having furnished rooms for their heroes and heroines. The New York Tribune comments on this as classic advertising.
A comic dialogue from Somerville Journal where a man asks a girl how old she thinks she should marry and she replies she cannot set the day before October, when she will be twenty nine. The exchange underlines marriage expectations with wit.
John G. Bolcher of Gillam claims fifteen years of lame back pain ended after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The advertisement asserts the liniment also helps sprains and bruises.
Notes and Queries mentions superstitions among dressmakers and milliners. Dressmakers avoid fitting with black pins and consider green cotton tacking unlucky. Milliners view a hat marked by a drop of blood from a pricked finger as a sign of good luck.
Love Wonderful Figures. The sun emits vast heat and light. Astronomers estimate Earth intercepts about two billion three hundred millionth of it. Each second the sun’s total output equals burning 11,600,000,000,000 tons of coal. A sun spot the size of Earth would release heat like burning 1,000,000,000 tons of anthracite per second.
An in brief quote from Life pithily notes a dilemma in romance. The jab about long-time affection follows a question about love, with the punchline revealing the speaker’s response after a rejection. The exchange mirrors society’s light humor on relationships.
A Cleveland Leader quip questions Shakespeare's immortality by noting he "still survives after having been murdered by bum actors for 300 years." The line uses dark humor to imply enduring reputation beyond mortal fade.
A fragment quotes a Pittsburg Post line about quarrel and making up with a focus on the speaker worrying about the internity. It adds a wry comment about some people making themselves at home anywhere except at home.
Are You Enraged is a tipsy ad urging married couples to keep digestion healthy with Electric Bitters. A Bennettsville, S C resident praises the remedy after years of severe dyspepsia and liver trouble, noting her improved strength and health. Local druggist M A McClain sells and guarantees the product at 50 cents a bottle.
An ad claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy aids nature by soothing the cough, relieving the lungs, aiding elimination, and opening secretions to restore health, sold by St. A. McLain.
A compact meditation on custom as a controlling force in human behavior and governance. It argues that even ancient customs lack truth, yet can shape good habits if aligned with virtue, while warning that custom wields sovereign power over mortals and gods alike.
The text traces bell use across ancient Egypt and Isis rituals, Jewish high priests, Greek camps, and Roman bathing bells, noting copper tin as the traditional bell metal, steel trials failing, glass bells fragile, and suggesting silver as the preferred bell material.
A garbled OCR fragment references medical terms and names in a partial notice context but lacks clear facts, dates, places, or identifiable entities to summarize a coherent item. The readable bits do not yield a concrete event or action.
In 1429 near Orleans an English force of 1,500 men fought a French detachment of 6,000 while transporting a large convoy of herrings for the besieged army. The English repelled the French and saved the supplies, giving the clash its humorous title.
A garbled exchange mocks Lancashire and dense population. The speakers dispute an idea about a location’s smartness, with a quip about a book and a mispronounced place name. The dialogue highlights regional stereotypes and playful banter.
Luchetou cayal quotes a wry observation on virtue and perception, suggesting critics fail to grasp skill and artistry when they lack merit themselves.
A fragmentary cartoon caption presents a humorous exchange where one speaker jokes about fools and affection. The dialogue hints at a domestic scene with playful banter and a remark about appearance in a stylized, illustrated Bits page.
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