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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1874
Page
3
Round Town item list with local names, events, visits, business changes, and social notes. Includes resignations, weddings, lectures, church activities, school opening, road conditions, and upcoming publications.
The Observer announces a limited time price reduction to seven dollars and fifty cents for readers who wish to subscribe by February first. The paper emphasizes it is not giving itself away yet aims to raise a substantial sum soon.
A fragmentary 19th century notice page records multiple marriages in Elkhart and surrounding towns. Entries include unions at Edwardsburg and Mechanicsburg with reverends named, plus a postmaster marriage in our city. The item closes with a hopeful postscript about stamps and lifelong partnership.
The Jonesville Independent reports the death of Gen Henry Baxter at age 52 after a Christmas illness of pneumonia. A Civil War hero, Baxter served as Captain and Brigadier General, wounded at Fredericksburg and the Wilderness, later Brevet Major General. He held posts in California and Honduras, then returned to run a mill and lumber business. He leaves a wife, three daughters, a son, and many mourners. Funeral at the Presbyterian Church set for Friday at 10 a.m.
The Elk Hart Indiana post office advertises letters held at the office dated January 1874. Among names listed are Archer Charley Mishler E B Armstrong Cora Murphy Alice Adriance Mayers Jacob Burton Thomas Parker Sarah Ber Dr M , Soper Asker Cunningham Spann Margaret Carpenter Hettie Jane Cameron Smith Mary Crotherad Levit Chapman John Tallman Mary A Camers Jennie Wilson Teas Lucy Williams Jennie Hapner Fred Warner Thomas Huber James Warner Kimbel Charley Wolverton Merry Williams Norah Moutan Frank Zeigler. Applicants must request by presenting “Advertised Letters” and state the date of the bet. letters are not released until one week in the office.
Local notice advertises a seven room house for rent with inquiry at Bucklen's drug store. The page also features an old promotional line claiming Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cures coughs, promising time, comfort and health savings.
In these days of adulteration of food it is well that every person should pay attention to family supplies. Hackathorn & Co at 96 Main Street employ a first class baker and use only the best materials for bread cakes pies. Neatness and cleanliness are assured in dealings with Hackathorn & Co.
The Flag Boot and Shoe Store advertises men’s Kip boots at two dollars and fifty cents per pair and women’s Serge shoes at one dollar, highlighting affordable footwear options.
Advertisements claim Wilthoft’s Great Chill Cure treats chills fevers agues and congestive chills caused by miasmatic air. The tonic allegedly contains no poison and restores strength. Also promoting Caswell Hazard Juniper Tar Soap for skin ailments and a carriage painting service by Samuel Smith near Butterfield’s livery.
A grand gift sale will be held Wednesday January 24 in Elkhart under Mrs C J Hogue. Prizes include a 7 octave piano, piano stool and cover, bureau, side saddle, silver watch, washstand, grain cradle, steel plate engraving, cord stove wood. Tickets $2 at local merchants and the office. Subscribers paying in advance or arrears qualify for chromes. Also advertisements for rental, Hayward’s Black Salve, Dodge’s Drug Store, and real estate offerings in the city.
A fragmentary OCR line notes twenty two acres of land and a corporate sanction. The text is incomplete but indicates a land allotment or sale tied to corporate activity. No clear dates or parties are legible.
My old book accounts must be settled before January 10 1874 or they will be left with an officer for collection. W J Meaper.
Authorized sale of Allen Pinkerton's farm 21 2 miles west of Elhart on Mishawaka road. 122 1 2 acres, 80 acres improved and well fenced, balance heavy timber. Priced at 4500 dollars with terms 2000 cash and balance in five years at 8 percent interest. Described as cheapest and most desirable in the county. M. F. Suvey.
In olden times farmers carried their lunches to town but Hackathorn and Co keeps a well stocked lunch counter at their grocery and bakery. It offers substantial food at reasonable prices for country friends and anyone may be served at No. 96 Main Street. Try it once for yourself.
Many suffer from lung diseases coughs colds or consumption while some refuse to pay 75 cents for a bottle that could cure them Dr A Boschees German Syrup has long been known for its remarkable cures Sample bottles are available free at Bucklen Son Elkhart or a regular size for 75 cents Manufactured by G G Green Woodbury N J
Claims Dr Wilhoft s Anti Periodic cures chills and fevers and avoids arsenic strychnine and quinine. Promotes Missouri Pacific routes to the West with strong equipment and easy terms for land purchases in Missouri via Atlantic and Pacific lines. Includes contact details for agents and land commissioner.
A gentleman cured of nervous debility and youthful indiscretion offers to mail free the receipt and directions for his simple remedy. Sufferers can write in perfect confidence to John B. Ogden at 42 Cedar Street, New York. 218m6
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