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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1898
Page
4
Mooresville notes a column by H Sage deriding chemists and praising liquid air. It discusses Ramsey's discovery of Neon and Metargon from liquefied argon, claiming air holds multiple known and unknown gases.
The Army and Navy Journal compares officer pay, noting naval officers earn less at each rank than their army counterparts. It argues Congress should raise naval salaries to match army pay, citing navy achievements in the current war and urging substantial increases.
The United States government seeks forty thousand or more dark colored horses for military use. Horses aged five to eight years and weighing one thousand to fifteen hundred pounds are preferred. Training and discipline will be emphasized, with electric railways and bicycles reducing domestic horse demand.
A survey of 300 farmers evaluates corn production costs. Average per acre in 1896: 10.1 cents, with 54 bushels per acre yield. At 29.8 cents per bushel, the typical farmer clearing over 300 dollars, including land rent and equipment depreciation.
A historical analysis notes the 1883 repeal and 1898 reimposition of stamp taxes on bank checks. It discusses who uses checks, implications for currency circulation, and potential boosts to deposits and rapid money movement through banks and households.
In a Chicago Record piece, BF Drummer describes an Indiana journey from the Illinois border to Indianapolis. He contrasts Indiana’s edges driven by neighbors with its interior showing strong education, honest governance, and a vibrant literary scene in South Bend and beyond.
A reflective line noting that deep familiarity with a person leads friends to reassess and often fail to recognize him as he reveals true character. The observation hints at shifts in perception once bonds deepen.
A Boston visitor questions Indiana pride while a speaker extols Posey County Hooppole Township noting a literate, book‑rich community with homes rather than trees. The exchange asserts Indiana's vitality and the speaker’s attachment to the state despite travel.
A compilation of curiosities and short notes: Manila stores run by Chinese merchants. aluminum utensils in French service. Judge Gaskill in Boston sentences a robber. meat cheap in Australia with mutton and fish inexpensive. great auk eggs highly valued in England with a 1804 price of £315. ancient canal between the Mediterranean and Red Sea existed 600 years before Christ. Peru’s servant tooth extraction signaling servitude. banyan trees in India with vast trunks. Portland man rejected from army for hammer toes. petrel naming from walking on water. San Juan negresses smoke cigars in market. Hanford church funds travel for pastor to Klondike. Tacoma harbor mistress May Fuller. Austrian balloon invention for crossing rivers. Rosa Zurlo bears four sons born same day. sailors in Hong Kong buy and eat candles. $50,000 lawsuit over 44 love letters to “dear darling”. Sir Henry Thompson abandons vegetarianism. Frostburg patriot reluctant to fight. English witness describes a man as a gentleman who loafs and frequents pubs.
The wife of Rev. A. R. Adams of Bedford Christian Church Blandinsville Ill describes years of illness with stomach pain swelling and nerve trouble. After trying ten doctors she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a full recovery after six boxes and says she now works hard and has a healthy appetite.
The notice advertises Missouri Pacific lines including Iros Mountain, Government Fast Mall, and Colorado Short Line routes to major western, southern, and southwestern destinations. It promotes Pullman cars and vestibuled services, round trips from home feeders, and a Sunset Limited California service with departures from Chicago and St. Louis on select days. Rates and pamphlets available via G. A. A. Deane Jr., Indianapolis contact.
All Monon Route trains now stop at the Forty seventh street station in Chicago. Tickets and baggage transfer available to that point. Passengers can reach any part of southern Chicago via the Forty seventh street electric line in minutes. The Union Stock Yards is seven minutes away. Tickets may be bought and baggage checked at Forty seventh street station.
The Pennsylvania Lines announce summer general excursions to ten Atlantic coast resorts. Round trip tickets from Indianapolis cost 15 dollars with eleven day return validity. Through sleeping cars from Philadelphia to Atlantic City via the Delaware River Bridge Route are included. For train times and details contact W. W. Richardson, P Agt, Indianapolis.
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