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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1875
Page
3
A bustling Elkhart page reports robberies, births, lectures, church notices, court actions, and social events. Items include a safe theft, Aggie Pratt’s Auburn trip, lecture receipts for charity, an infant death in difficult circumstances, saloon openings, weather mishaps, arrests, dances, school maladies, and community news from Feb and surrounding days.
Hon J J Talbott spoke to a large Bristol audience at the M E church using his noted eloquence. He closed by organizing a Good Templars lodge of sixty five members and announced lodge night on Wednesday with expected Bristol Lodge visits.
In Elkhart on February 7 1875 Lorenzo Upson sen died of lung fever aged 73. His funeral services will be held as scheduled with details to follow.
The National Copying Company of Philadelphia will deliver photograph copying in Chinese color oil color and India ink in Elkhart and vicinity by January first. Citizens may have their pictures taken. orders can be sent to Mrs. L. L. Rolland at 271 South Clark Street, Chicago.
The Great American Thoroughfare line from Hannibal Missouri to Houston Texas offers through trains with Pullman cars and modern conveniences. It promotes over one million acres of land along the Neosho Valley on ten year credit and invites colonies to settle, with special 1875 transport rates and maps from Sedalia Missouri.
The article argues that bad blood causes most diseases and promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood cleanser. It claims the remedy can cure skin diseases, glandular swellings, and scrofulous bone diseases, while noting it won’t cure cancer. A fragment mentions a lip joint disease being cured.
A letter dated July 16 1873 praises a medical discovery describing a wife bedridden for a week before using the product. After a year with twenty bottles she regained strength and can do most of her work, labeled a miracle by the husband who credits the medicine as a blood purifier and strength restorer.
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