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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
2
The Philadelphia North American describes a grave in Germantown beside a schoolhouse site that appears ordinary until a hidden inscription on its headstone is revealed, shocking visitors who read timeworn letters.
A mock epitaph recounts Adam Shisler who died December 22, 177 and ages misrecorded as 960 years. The stonecutter miswrote his age as 69 and etched a 96 by cement later altered by time. A ghoulish wag finished the joke with a pocket knife.
The article explains egg laying among quadrupeds and highlights the duck mole Platy pus, a warm blooded Australian creature with a duck bill and birdlike reproductive parts. Young hatch before birth, are born blind, and are suckled by the mother, challenging initial beliefs of fraud.
The Philadelphia Ledger lauds Julian Ralph as a famed newspaper man whose Transvaal reporting left him physically scarred. It notes his heroism and compares the pen’s sacrifice to soldierly valor, while also mentioning England’s use of carrier pigeons and war-era dispatches.
Correspondent notes visits from Lizzie Beott Grandma Hart and Grace Jorman to Fred Truslers last Wednesday. Dr Swith dies from urinal poison. funeral Friday with Rev Hedges. Local figures attend Pearl Stevens funeral in Rushville. Crops look strong with cherries raspberries and blackberries forthcoming.
Correspondent reports a variety of small town events at Tumble Creek. Grandma Jones suffered a head injury after a dizzy spell. Baptismal rites at Falta drew many witnesses with thirteen young men and two ladies baptized.
It is strange that some people who say they never read patent medicine ads are found logging home with a bottle of their favorite remedy. We invite you to try a free trial bottle of Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for constipation indigestion and stomach troubles 0c and $1.00 sizes at Warp Jem SON.
Correspondents report visits by Mrs. Gladys Walters of Cincinnati to her parents in Metamora and by Earl Coulter and others to local friends. News notes include a new baby, Epworth League activities with a patriotic service and ice cream social, church repairs at the M E Church, and several residents traveling to Laurel Shelbyville and Brookville.
Free of charge offer for adults with cold settled in the breast bronchitis throat or lung troubles. Call at McNenans worths to receive a sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup free, limited to one bottle per person and no bottles to children without parental order.
Miss Viola Ewers returned from Indianapolis hospital. Mrs. Sarah Michael of Earlham College visited friends. David Nugent bought Mrs. Kinsey’s brick Main street residence. George Moore and family from Rushville visited Aaron Crawford. Lula Ferguson hosted Ady Ina Ferguson and Will Hoffmann Ed Manlove and Frank Cummings. Lufe Devlin, once Cambridge City’s noted resident now of Traverse City, Mich., died last Saturday and funeral held Tuesday. Aaron Crawford went to Arkansas seeking a saw mill site. Washington township Sunday Schools plan an all day picnic at Mrs. Alice Gresh’s woods on July 4. Charles Stewart of Hamilton visited his wife here Sunday. Mrs. Halstead of Richmond visits her daughter H L Camby. Monroe Devlin, formerly Connersville, now Chicago, attended Lafe’s funeral in Cambridge City.
Dick Rowe helps Emory Pike with hay harvest as harvesters begin cutting wheat. Mrs Richard Rowe and children spent Thursday west of Alpine. Mrs Elsie Pike received word that her brother-in-law killed his sister and himself. Pike family left Thursday for a double funeral. Wm Pike assisted with hay Wednesday. Miss Carrie Stevens was out west Saturday. Oscar Chance visited his uncle E J Chance and wife on Sunday.
An Indianapolis notice from November 1, 1897, features a patient praising a medicine received from A. Kiefer Drug Co. The letter requests two bottles by express and offers payment, noting the remedy has helped significantly and may relieve the reader’s illness.
A Waterloo Indiana reader notes two decades of stomach trouble improved by Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, claiming substantial benefit after using nearly one bottle. The Courier sponsor is Warp Emison.
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