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Newspaper
Boonville Enquirer
Location
Boonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1884
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription options including one year, six months, and three months with varying prices. It states the publisher may continue delivery after the paid period unless subscribers notify the county or official in writing to stop. It mentions job work and services performed with promptness.
The note calls for temperate conditions as cold winds from Bismarck, D T and Germany suggest, praising Mr Davie A Gage for aiding a miner who became wealthy and left him $250000. It advises kindness to the downtrodden and imagines a traveling hobo as a forest restorer carrying hickory nuts for Ohio headwaters.
The piece notes spring’s approach in Flatbush with hammock plans near budding trees. It mentions a special L and N train carrying Cincinnatians to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, covering 921 miles in twenty eight hours, and critiques shipbuilding and Greely relief funding. It also reports a House bill by Mr Stockslater to replace pensions with 1000 dollars monthly for wounded veterans.
Mr Stevens of Kentucky attempted to play Enoch Arden but erred by leaving his wife and hiding his absence. He let her believe he was dead and remarried. He later returned and embraced her, provoking the second husband to kill the two lovers and himself, in a tale echoing the dangers of Arden business.
Reverend Josefh Emery, a veteran Cincinnati minister, delivered the funeral sermon for three people killed near Avondale last week. He urged swift citizen punishment and called for punishing the criminals without court proceedings, prompting vocal acclaim from the crowd.
A Texas woman, Mrs. McCoy, prepared poisoned biscuits for a suspected mistress of her husband. The mistress shared the morsel with Mrs. McCoy’s two children, resulting in the death of one child. The piece notes a grim, sensational tone about violent acts in Texas.
A February meeting of the county Superintendents Association committee in Indianapolis resolved to exhibit district schools by county at the national educational exposition in Madison Wisconsin on July 15 and 3. The exhibits must be sent to Superintendent Holcombe in Indianapolis before June 10.
Dr. N N Shipman notes the society aims to emphasize health preservation over cure and relief. Organizers expect state wide associations with a first Seymour convention on the 12th and 13th next month. Topics include sewerage ventilation almshouses foods adulteration ice purity insanity contagion and waste water disposal.
The text announces the next National Democratic Convention to be held in Chicago on July 8. It argues the timing after the Republican convention will reveal strengths and rally points, while predicting a demoralized Republican side and a Vigorous Democratic campaign led by a figure like Trancock. It emphasizes strategic campaigning and victory under warlike rhetoric.
A dated national oration argues that nineteen agrarian states, though producing most exports and housing half the population and representation, remain under minority rule. It accuses vested interests of perpetuating high taxes rooted in the Morrill tariff and urges bold reform rather than intensified burdens during wartime.
A proposal to levy a tax on pistols argues it could curb violence and accidents. The piece notes widespread pistol use, incidents from farm to court day, and questions why laws exist yet fail to deter. It suggests a $1 to $5 tax per pistol to encourage disarmament and protect citizens.
A fragment notes skepticism toward Mormon evangelists traveling the Atlantic States collecting converts, reflecting tension between civilization boasting and religious outreach in the region.
W A Peelle presents the annual report to the Governor detailing economic, agricultural, criminal, mineral and manufacturing statistics. He notes 30 percent more information furnished than before, with 1883 seven month bureau expenses at 1 54664. Wheat and corn yields are reported by county, Posey leading in wheat and corn, with total state agricultural value at 156 862 322 and manufacturing at 160 527 282. The report lists state area 386 119 square miles and population 2 056 262, with totals for taxes, debts and new public works.
Mrs James P Caldwell rode a lifelong free pass from Mexico Missouri to California and back learned from North Missouri railroad company after declining a ten thousand dollar gift. In 1861 Confederate bushwhackers burned Young's Creek bridge. Caldwell fought flames, then warned a train at Centralia while his wife braved the cold with blankets for their children.
The Century Illustrated Magazine opens with Von Moltke as the March issue arrives with The New Washington and Henry Irving pictorially featured. Lippincott's March number includes Berlin Today, Across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on Horseback, Winter Campaign in the Black Hills, and profiles of An American Father Mathew and Dr Oswalds Healthy Homes.
A reflective statement on friendship defining a friend as a person whose understanding and virtue are trustworthy and whose opinion is valued for its justness and sincerity. It emphasizes mutual confidence and moral alignment in choosing friends.
A sampling of religious and educational items: Ceserua AWD Cisco malls in Brooklyn gained seven new members while Brooklyn Eagle notes. The Baptists completed a 100,609 endowment at Morgan Park Seminary in Alabama per Chicago Journal. Connecticut Governor Waller cites weaker country schools than 30 years ago. De Pauw University in Indiana to add eight buildings including a law and medical college. California kindergarten debate and missionary Mrs. Neilsen praised for elocution and gospel conviction. Rankin of a Congregational Church rejects racial counts among members. Harvard Botanic Garden expands to illustrate Gray’s Plant Manual with a mini country landscape. The Critical Recorder recalls 1741 North Berne Baptist whippings, contrasting today’s 200,000 Baptists in North Carolina with 4,000 Episcopalians who whipped then.
A miscellaneous paste of quotes and jokes from various papers includes a Frenchman boasting of incombustible paper, a mock society in New York, a Toronto man delaying marriage until eighty three, gas-jet notices from Philadelphia hotelkeepers, a boy’s diary, and humorous observations on marriage and life from diverse print sources.
A Saturday Gazette excerpt mocks Boston society, praising and parodying the eighteen-carat crowd. It notes women’s uniform appearance and attire, the uniformity of speech and behavior, and a paradoxical tie to virtue and cosmopolitan pretensions through a sharp caricature of Bostonese as a symbol of social equality.
Languid, draining sensations and periodical pain are claimed to vanish with Hop Bitters. The ad asserts cures for neuralgia nervous prostration and digestive issues, touting testimonials from women in Providence Bradford and Mrs Fannie Green, plus a claim of cure for a nursing baby’s constipation via Ton Biders.
In August 1882 the Dover Newfoundland veteran Elijah Sharp recalls his sunstroke disability from war days and how Parker's Ginger Tonic restored health. He notes improved appetite and strength, but warns of counterfeit “ginger” tonics sold under the same name. The genuine bottle bears the Hiscox & Co. signature.
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