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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1873
Page
3
Local tidbits report turntable breakdown, upcoming The Coming Girl lecture at the Opera House, and Mrs Stanton engagement. Goshen visitors, dressmaking moves, and charity drives noted. Auction, lectures, and society meetings fill December calendar with weather humor and business updates.
Miss Edgarton led a Monday evening lecture on suffrage arguing for the ballot while noting tensions with male opinion. The orator, praised for writing and delivery, traced the path from Lucretia Mott to Stanton Stone and Dickinson as pioneers of platform speaking.
The next lecture in South Bend on January 23 will be delivered by Edward Eggleston, former Hearth and Home editor and author of The Hoosier Schoolmaster. His topic is Western Sketches and Dialect Readings. Admission is 25 cents.
The M and B Union Ball drew a large crowd to Conleys Hall at 11 o’clock with Wilsey's Quadrille Band playing lively music that kept dancers in motion. The hall was well decorated and orderly as guests enjoyed supper by Mrs. Jaycox of the Gem Dining Saloon.
F W Miller of Cass County Michigan died at his Mason township residence on Monday November 24 from kidney disease in his 69th year. Born in New Jersey he moved to Rochester New York where he married in 1832 and settled in Michigan in 1835 on the farm where he died. A farmer he helped organize Cass County and held township offices. a long time Baptist, he lived a full life with surviving children grown to manhood. He rests in quiet expectation, his work complete.
Local notices advertise seven room house for rent inquire at Buckley’s drugstore Go to Meader & Sage for sandals over-shoes and rubber boots Johnny Richley offers one of the roomiest dwellings in the city near the depot for rent cheap to first class tenants A good gaiter for 31 at Meader & Sage’s
Elkhart property offers three adjoining lots with outhouses a well cistern and fruit trees. Ideal home buyers should inspect this residence. Inquire of O H Mann. Also bargain notices include boot price at Meader Sage and publisher club offers for OBSERVER and Weekly Inter Ocean. Juniper Tar Soap from Caswell Hazard improves skin condition.
Public notice requests all persons knowing themselves indebted to W. J. Meaver to call and settle at once by cash or note. The brief item provides no dates or locations beyond the name and action.
Meader and Sage announce the opening of a new prints collection this week featuring 10 000 yards of fresh styles. The event highlights a substantial expansion of their fabric offerings and signals a new design direction for the shop.
To friends and patrons I will not keep books after January 1 1874 and will sell goods for cash only. I promise better bargains on the cash system and request all debts settled on or before January 1 1874. Framed pictures must be picked up and paid for by the same date at 124 Main Street.
Advertising copy touts Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic Tonic as a cure for chills fever and malaria sequelae such as bloated faces enlarged spleen and shaky nerves. It claims no arsenic strychnine or dangerous drugs and asserts safety for all ages with a guaranteed cure.
Jos Berolzhime announces retirement from Rein hard & Berolzhime and thanks friends for patronage over the last three years. He shifts to Insurance Passage and Foreign Exchange business and invites calls at 116 Conley's Block.
A notice states that Jacob Slaughterbeck will not pay debts contracted by his wife who has left his bed. The publisher mentions local merchants J F Hunt & Co for dry goods and Samuel Smith for signs, painting, graining, and marbleing services near Jackson Street.
Strange but True notes widespread lung ailments yet many refuse 75 cents for a medicine that could cure. Dr A Boschee's German Syrup touted. free sample at I Bucklen Son Elkhart or 75 cents for regular bottle. Also ads for kerosine oil 25 cents per gallon, cedar posts and fencing, boots and shoes, and a 122 1 2 acre farm near Mishawaka road offered at 4500 with terms.
Hoke and Kirk list a full line of fall carpets in all grades and prices from 35 cents to 1.50 per yard. Call to examine. The goods will show for themselves. Men’s Kip boots priced at 2.50 per pair.
Twenty two acres of land located one mile west of the corporation will be divided into five acre lots if desired and must be sold at once. Terms reasonable. Also two lumber wagons one light wagon four sets of harness as well as plows harrows etc. M F Saury
The notice highlights Hackathorn & Co at 96 Main Street as a first class bakery using quality ingredients for bread cakes and pies. It also promotes Dodge's Drug Store for pure drugs and fine liquors and Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer as a hair conditioner.
E H Keene and Son present at the Elkhart Exposition with a large furniture stock. Parlor and chamber sets lounges bedsteads chairs and more offered at low Elkhart prices. Visit one door north of Marvin's grocery to compare stock and prices. Men’s rip boots and rap boots priced at 2.50 per pair.
Hackathorn & Co at 96 Main Street offer a well stocked lunch counter with substantial food at reasonable prices aimed at farmers. Hoke & Milk announce a full line of fall men and boys clothing including pants vests suits coats and overcoats with prices to fit current times.
The Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway completes the Hannibal to Sedalia extension and runs its elegant trains from Hannibal to Denison. Passengers from Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota the Upper Mississippi region Chicago Central Northern Illinois Michigan and the Great North East gain the shortest and cheapest route to South West Missouri Kansas Indian Nation and Texas. Through trains with Pullman sleeping cars and day coaches continue from St. Louis to line points via Sedalia. For schedules and maps contact James D. Brown Sedalia Mo or Tos. Dorwin St Louis Mo.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railway Co offers 1 200 000 acres in Central and South-west Missouri from 3 to 12 dollars per acre with seven years credit and free transport from St Louis to buyers. Climate soil timber mineral wealth schools churches law abiding society invite emigrants to a land of fruits and flowers. Address A Tuck Land Commissioner St Louis Mo.
The advertisement extols thousands already gone and predicts many more heading to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Oregon or California via St. Louis. It touts Missouri Pacific Railroad Day Coaches and Pullman Sleepers with direct routes west and strong connections, plus a new Texas link via Sedalia or Vinitia. Contact J. F. Thompson or E. A. Ford for maps, schedules, and rates.
The Missouri Kansas Texas Railway and connections offer the shortest quickest direct freight route from Chicago St Louis Quincy Hannibal and other northern eastern cities to Southwest Missouri Kansas Texas Indian Nation and Texas. All claims for loss damage or overcharges promptly fail. Mark goods care M K T Ry. D A Freer General Eastern Agent 349 Broadway New York D A Williams Agent 48 Clark Street Chicago Gro W Laittey Contracting Agent 404 Walnut St St Louis W Gace Agent Hannibal Mo Gro B Hart Contracting Freight Agent Dallas W P Rostasox Genl Freight Agt Sedalia Mo
An 18th century style medical ad promotes a cod liver oil substitute claiming cures for asthma bronchitis consumption laryngitis and various coughs in days. Also marketed Dr S D Howes Arabian Tonic Blood Purifier claims liver kidney and blood cleansing benefits, vitality restoration and constipation relief. Sold by Isaac Bucklen & Co and S D Howe at 16 Chambers Street New York.
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