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Newspaper
Chippewa Current
Location
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
2
Local notices outline subscription terms for mail and carrier editions, display matter deadlines, and 10 center per line rates for adverts. The page also blends editorials on municipal reform, editor exchanges, and community notices plus a bakery, jewelry and rental promotions and upcoming lectures.
The Chippewa Falls post office announces that unclaimed letters dated Jun 29 1895 will be sent to the dead letter office in one week if not claimed. Recipients urged to say advertised when calling for their mail. Also promoting SBucklin's Amica Salve for skin issues with a money back guarantee and price 25 cents per box sold by Goddard and Watson.
A westbound Southern Pacific special train was held up near Wilcox by five masked men who separated the express car, blew it open with dynamite, and stole $30,000 to $75,000 in Mexican money and other coins. Five bandits took horses and fled south after detouring the train two miles to a culvert. Six shots were fired, and the engineer and fireman were forced to detach and move cars.
An 1890s advertisement promotes Dr. King’s New Life Pills with a free sample offer sent to H. E. Bucklen & Co. The note lists benefits for constipation liver troubles and malaria and markets them as vegetable and non-addictive. It also mentions excursion tickets at one fare plus two dollars to many western states, valid twenty days, with agent D. A. Calpius. A separate rental notice advertises Thellen Homestead for rent in part or whole on Columbia Street.
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