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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1892
Page
2
A Iowa court decision held that signing another man's name on a railroad mileage book is not forged. The piece notes how this could boost marketability and suggests Eastern lines like Boston & Maine use wholesale-style mileage books that cover all family travel and remain valid until contents are exhausted.
A historical survey traces American labor strife from the 1790s bootmakers to 1887, detailing key strikes, outcomes, and legal reprisals. It highlights early Philadelphia, New York, and Pittsburgh actions, the rise of unions, and the high costs to workers and employers alike.
The President's new order limits punishment of soldiers in peacetime and argues that kindness and firmness reduce desertion and dissipation. The author compares handling soldiers to training children or animals, saying humane treatment yields better results and that moral stamina can exceed public opinion.
Prominent Philadelphia women face label of prudes as debate over nude pictures in a recent academy show intensifies. Defenders argue European ideas justify selection, while critics point to propriety and public sentiment tests. Kenyon Cox notes New York’s neutral response, challenging Philadelphia’s stance amid Quaker City ridicule.
Hollow Horn Bear returns to the agency after reports in Washington that he asked the Indian Commissioner for a private interview and opposed placing Indians under War Department control. He denies making such statements and reads a Sioux paper to show his remarks. He says no soldiers have engaged in mock marriages or led camp women astray since last fall.
Geologists in the West hope to discover a vein of lithograph stone, a rare material with high value. Only one quarry exists in the United States, likely in the northeast, while Germany supplies the finest stone. A new vein could make a finder exceedingly wealthy, comparable to a gold mine.
Grim reports describe expedited mortality on quarantine ships with cholera spreading among steerage passengers and crew. Passengers beg humane relief, asking to land or move to safer shores while officials struggle to find space and care. Meanwhile a Big Four wreck blocks freight traffic, causing substantial losses.
A fragment recounts a playful exchange about a delivery man and weight, with the narrator warning of consequences for short measures. The passage then shifts to a group of boys throwing Pepper into the eyes of non union workers as they left the Homestead mills.
A hodgepodge of curiosities from nine hundred year hotel lore in Switzerland to a Berlin plan to educate about horse meat. Findings include Matrium a new element from an ancient river bed and a central Idaho glacial field rivaling Alpine scales.
A snapshot lists innovations and labor facts: electric heater patents, a new electric twisting machine, 3,000 women composers in America, rising wooden heel production, 1,803,406 domestic servants in England, a woman-run Dunkirk engine works, a machine making 30,000 cork screws daily, gold mined in Egypt and the eastern empire, Germany selling 10 million dollars of toys in England yearly, two Austrian works for cast or rolled glass, a Knights of Labor band leading a Montreal Labor Day parade, Dennis H. Dunn worth $20,000 in Detroit real estate, and North Carolina Alliance duties to crop neighbors. It notes 1,000 Baltimore tailors pushing fixed wages for a ten-hour day, French railroad workers seeking half-salary pensions after twenty years and an eight-hour day at $1.25 minimum. Also mentions light humor and social quips from periodicals Puck and Hostog Transcript.
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