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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1873
Page
3
A stream of items reports burglaries in South Bend and Goshen areas, new business openings, visits, and social events. Notes on schools, churches, weather, health, and local commerce fill the page, with references to Barnum shows, Put-in-Bay trips, and upcoming meetings and licenses.
Officers for the spring year were chosen with two positions filled by Mrs. Brodrick and an assistant noted for the Titular Basket Picnic. The Ladies of Association appoint forthcoming duties and a social event calendar for the season.
A notice lists a dance featuring the Mystery Wilsey Band at Conley's Hall. Tickets are priced at $1. The fragment mentions attendees and timing details but is incomplete.
The traveling World's Fair will not visit our town this year but appears in South Bend on Tuesday August 26, offering three showings. Highlights include Prof Faber's talking machine, triple aerial act, sea lions, Fiji cannibals, a rhinoceros, 100 life size portraits of presidents, automata, moving statues, water fountains, and a wild animal menagerie for fifty cents admission.
A slate of local sales and notices includes Hoke & Kirk selling shawls, rag carpets, cook stoves, and bedsprings. J F Curtiss & Co offering white goods and mercantile printing at low prices.Observer office promoting business cards and carpets. Also ads for farmer lunch at Hackathorn Co and Missouri PacificRailroad excursion tips to Denver with routes via Sedalia and Texas via Missouri.
Various classifieds announce Harvey’s Old Cure Syrup by I Bucklen Son of Elkhart Indiana, demand for six months of overdue accounts, sale of building lots and lumber wagons, furniture stock offered at low prices, Allen Pink farm for sale near Elkhart Mishawaka line, and a Cassopolis grist mill with farm and orchard opportunities, all promoting quick purchase or sale.
In an era of food adulteration the piece highlights Hackathorn & Co. at No. 96 Main Street with a first class bakery and insists on quality materials for bread cakes and pies. It also notes the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad offering 1 200 000 acres in Missouri from $3 to $12 per acre with seven year terms and free transport from St. Louis to buyers inviting emigrants.
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