Bargain Prices in Market Highlight Best Goods
Bargain prices drive shoppers to the market as merchants offer top goods at reduced rates. Local vendors emphasize quality and value, attracting crowds seeking deals on everyday items and specials.
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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1898
Page
8
Bargain prices drive shoppers to the market as merchants offer top goods at reduced rates. Local vendors emphasize quality and value, attracting crowds seeking deals on everyday items and specials.
Several brief items report Ed Gary's grip, a cattle sale, and spirited talk over a township trustee dispute about school transport and funding. Mentions include a chair factory, a beef shop seeking location, a temperance talk, a Bible meeting, and a general sense of community activity in Henderson and surrounding areas.
Grace Stinger and aunt Lillie Mason with Greenfield family visit Steiner kin in Knights Town. School children plan cantata and closing exercises to fund a new organ. Daisy Barr of South Milan and others to attend friends church events at month end. Dr Mitchell of Spring Green arrives to join wife and daughter visiting Mrs Mitchell’s mother. Lorenzo Forbes and family guests of Robert Gilbreath.
Unclaimed letters listed at Carthage post office include Joseph Enright Supt of Light Plant John F Weaver and D Pedro Walls with pending delivery notices.
Samuel O McCarty and wife transfer to trustees of Carthage M E Church lots 3 and 4 in RH Hills addition Carthage for 375 dollars. Samuel L Newsom and wife transfer to John Julian and wife lot 19 in Rose Hill addition Carthage for 100 dollars.
Senator Cregor introduced his bill to extend a portion of the Carthage pike and allocate $1000 for the project. He argued the move would save the state money by reducing tolls paid by the Soldiers' Orphans' Home trustees at Knightstown and lessen inconvenience to travelers. The measure was sent to the finance committee.
A new song titled Don't Tell Them Where You Found Me is announced by The Greene Music Publishing Co. It recounts a dying convict's last request to a state penitentiary chaplain and notes the manuscript is available for 20 cents in silver or stamps, regular 50 cents.
Senator Davis told the President Gowdy, Indiana’s Consul General in Paris, is the most popular American there. Davis praised Gowdy for prompt efficient service, courteous manners, and generous hospitality to Americans in one of Europe’s key consulates.
The union records appreciation for Nancy H. Hill’s years of service as president. They note her good counsel and service, mourn the loss to the community, and express sympathy. A copy of the resolutions will be placed in the minutes, sent to the Record, and presented to the family.
A late literary notice heralds Count Tolstoy’s new novel intended to fund transport for three thousand Russian Quakers to Canada. It predicts the work may end Tolstoy’s career and attract worldwide attention for its study of human life and the three stages of love.
The annual Board of State Charities report lists Rush County as providing aid to 3582 people and 11 families receiving aid from Ripley township. Aid was dispensed 1741 times with 666.60 dollars distributed in Ripley township. The text notes race diversity and causes like unemployment illness and widowhood while comparing county aid to state averages.
An authorized guarantee offers refunds after two thirds content used if not satisfied for Chamberlains Cough Remedy. Claims it treats la grippe cold and whooping cough and promises recovery with proper at home use. Sold by O S Coffin & Co and V O Coffin with 25 and 50 cent prices per bottle.
J B Thompson partner of the Chittick brothers reports from Flora Indiana that miners and explorers intend to return with money after striking three promising mining claims. The update comes as part of a business visit tied to their operations in the region.
Revival services continue at the Ridge. Several local updates include Jesse L Phelps estate acquisition by William Dill and Hadley Hill in poor condition. Knightstown report notes Paul Jones likely lost in Gulf storm. Funeral for Mrs Nancy Hill held at Friends church with wide attendance and Riverside cemetery interment.
Mrs. A A Stowe of San Jose California writes that she was pronounced gone twice due to valvular heart trouble and sluggish circulation. After using Miles Heart Cure she says her life was saved and describes her recovery as miraculous and satisfying.
Dr Miles Heart Cure sold by all druggists with guarantee. First bottle benefits or money back. Free book on heart and nerves. Dr Miles Medical Company, Elkhart Indiana.
The article asserts pneumonia follows colds or grippe. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is claimed to prevent this, counteracting the progression. It says the remedy is the best for bad colds and grippe, with every bottle warranted and sold by S. Coffin & Co.
Indianapolis Jan 17 Both branches met for busy sessions with 110 bills in the House and 135 minutes of debate in the Senate. A sympathy resolution for Mrs Nelson Dingley was read in the House. Major measures include park land sales, a new asylum for the deaf near Evansville, and trust suppression.
Horace L. Kent of Battery L First Artillery, visiting from Kentland, took an overdose of morphine in a Indianapolis hotel thinking it was quinine. After a struggle he was saved and declared out of danger. He is on furlough with wealthy parents. Secretaries of state change: Union B. Hunt appointed, with George Gonser as chief deputy and R. L. Barrel as clerk. Grace Davall to stenography. Grace White moves to the clerk of the supreme court office.
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