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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1905
Page
4
The Diamond Ring Contest gains momentum as leaders top the vote list and several players hold thousands of votes. Carthage merchants offer rock bottom prices to boost purchases while strict rules guard against forged ballots. Final five weeks promise shifts and potential prize winners as vote tallies are tracked.
Low rates via Big Four routes offer Portland to Lewis and Clark Centennial trips and Winona Lake returns. Tickets on sale until Sept 30, 1905 for both fifteen day excursions and season passes. Daily sales during the 1905 tourist season.
In Gur Colored Circle Mrs Fowler Newsom and daughter visited friends at Rushville Sunday. Missella Archey of the Peech sent last Sunday with her sister Mrs Wyche Watkins at Rushville. Miss Jennie Terry entertained many young friends at her home northwest of town last Sunday night. Mrs Geneva Newsom, once ill, is much better. Miss Clara Archey attended the State Fair and visited in the city last week. Tina and Fairest Hol singer visited cousin Miss Goldie Wetkins in the country. Randall Hill teaching in Rushville visited home over Sunday. Geo Winslow visiting in Shelbyville this week. Mrs Tom Weaver visiting her daughter in Cincinnati this week. Word arrived Wednesday of the death of Dudley Roberts of Noblesville, a brother of Mrs Tom Weaver.
A C Jones faced a threatened appendicitis attack at the start of the week. For sale items and local social notes appear as Durves items and visits are mentioned with Mrs L R MacClarnon guesting of Mrs Violet Addison in Carthage and Greenfield Indiana.
Advertises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a medicine that aids nature by easing coughs, relieving lungs, aiding expectoration, and restoring the system to health, sold by M A McClain.
Notice announces settlement for all indebted to the undersigned and requests immediate contact to settle accounts with Joseru L. The fragmentary text indicates a debt collection or settlement action requiring repayment. No other details are readable due to truncation.
Mr and Mrs Harry Hudson of Greenfield were guests of Micarth Jessup Thursday. Mrs Hudson will remain for a few days visit. Also the speaker notes having no gross income and modest net income in the fish business.
W. R. Zike offers at auction his entire herd minus two cows for family use and two herd bulls, totaling 37 cows and heifers in milk. Fifteen years as a dairyman and breeder endorse the sale. Horses and other stock also on offer. Sale under cover with no reserve or bids. Catalogue via Jersey Bulletin Indianapolis. Free day transport from rail cars to farm and back.
Thrifty strawberry plants of various varieties available. Contact B F Stenger Charlottesville Ind or leave orders at this office for prompt delivery.
A Chicago streetcar conductor, beaten in a labor riot, covered his sores with Bucklen's Amiga Salve and soon was sound and well. G. J. Welch of Tekonsha Michigan endorses it as perfect for his family. Great for cuts and burns, available at McClain's drug store.
Seed wheat for sale described as Fine Budy yielding about 30 bushels per acre at one dollar per bushel. Samples available at W N Sharer s Hardware Store. Ev N Hiawe.
The 52nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry held its 17th annual reunion in Indianapolis last Wednesday with Col Wolfe re-elected president Chas B Johnson vice president and Drury Holt secretary for the year. The piece outlines the regiment’s Rush County origins at Rushville and its notable Civil War service from Donelson to Fort Blakely, highlighting long campaigns, battles, and hardships endured by its members.
The article recounts the 52nd Regiment formation after consolidating with the 50th Ind at Montgomery, garrison duty in Alabama, muster out dates in 1865, and 3 years 7 months of service under Maj Gen A J Smith. It notes recruitment, musterings, battles from Fort Pillow to Red River, and a postwar reunion with surviving veterans reflecting on loss and memory. The piece highlights a reunion attended by 50+ veterans, some with wives, and a tribute to Capt M C Howard’s daughter presenting relics and a sword memory of Fat Pillow and Garnett’s epitaph.
Those present recalled Col Wolfe, late at the Denver Grand Encampment, as the sole surviving Field Officer. He warned the veterans their ranks thin, and paid tribute to the Union soldiers who saved the nation, urging lasting honor and memory.
Mr G W Fowler of Lightower Aln recounts serving on a petit murder jury at Kuwardoville in Clebourne county Alabama. After eating fresh meat he suffered severe cholera morbus and diarrhea. A druggist substituted Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, giving one dose to two fellow jurors. He reports improvement within five minutes and total cure after two doses, with all three jurors healed after one bottle. Sold by M A McClain.
A Sandy Level Virginia resident recounts coughing chest trouble and relief after using Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. The ad touts the medicine as the greatest sale of cough or lung medicine in the world and offers a trial bottle free at M A McClain's drug store with a $1.00 guarantee.
JTP Kite of Edna Maine touts Chamberlain's tablets as superior for stomach disorders biliousness and constipation. M A Mc Clain offers the remedy for ease of purchase.
Notice requests all persons indebted to the firm of Lill and Gear to call and settle at once, urging immediate payment of outstanding balances.
A damaged notice notes insomnia disrupts rest and links stomach and liver issues to sleeplessness. It states many cases have been permanently treated by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, for sale by M. A. McClain.
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