24 Dec 1888
Page 1
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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1888
Page
1
The Elkhart Review notes the South Bend Times as a strong local paper offering quality matters. It discusses organized crime, truancy, and education, urging stricter evening curfews and an officer to curb youth roaming to reduce vice and crime.
The piece speaks of Christmas renewing the heart from youth to old age. It urges making someone happy and brightening one’s day, promising renewed hope and artistic pleasure as Christmas spirit spreads.
Miss Grace Hunt visits the city as KH Bucklen and Col A M Tucker spend Sunday here. Many locals, including Lee Barney, Clarence Horton, Wes Heck, and Carl Barney, plan holidays in Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois. Ed Helms travels to Erie while others, like J R Daly and George Nichols, stay near Goshen for Christmas.
The text lists residents departing for holidays to places like Battle Creek and Toledo, visits by Mrs. Hopper and others, and a notable wedding of Willard E. Livengood to Martha A. Reamer at the Reamer home. It notes social events, local movers, and a humorous anecdote about a farmer’s son and a political future.
The piece notes Miss Jeannie Wolfe and her sister venturing into dairy farming in New Orleans with large facilities and many cows. It highlights other city women in dairies and a store worker becoming a pig farmer, detailing low costs and Christmas sales expectations. It also surveys broader religious and educational church statistics and a retired minister joining a union card, reflecting diverse women's work and church activity.
In Brooklyn Tabernacle Rev. T De Witt Talmage preaches on miraculous healing and the power of prayer versus modern skepticism. He cites Hezekiah, Jonah, and New Testament verses, urges combining prayer with means, and pledges prayer’s efficacy while stressing personal faith and public devotion.
Local ads urge shoppers to buy at cost from Mrs C A Staples and F J Goneman Co. Druggists, with hats toboggans fine furniture oysters and Christmas treats from Walley Sons Sykes Yourt Hoffmans and Leininger Cone. Auctions and rentals noted at 207 Main Street and Brodrick Opera House.
A garbled 19th century ad fragment promises cheap meat and holiday furniture. It mentions J Mr Shelley the druggist offering a pleasing line, Crowley Ball as a price leader, and a store post office block No. 404 Heverree. The text is a rough catalog of local shopping options.
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