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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1875
Page
3
Mrs. M. C. Crane is ill. Various local trades, meetings, and social events are reported, including weddings, concerts by the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, auctions, drainage troubles, thefts, and court notices. Notable names include Gen. Gleason, J. Mish, and Miss Hendricks with detailed briefs on entertainments, meetings, and local incidents.
A traditional spelling school organized by the Sabbath school will convene Friday evening in the Chapel North Elkhart. Admission is ten cents with free fun. a prize will be awarded to the best speller and attendees can test knowledge of McGuffey's readers while contributing to charity.
A public notice announces Madam Halfmann a clairvoyant seer who claims the power to tell past present and future. She has taken rooms at the corner of Second and High streets opposite the schoolhouse for a short stay and offers dress cutting and fancy work training with stamped clothing services for ladies and children.
The Weekly Observer stands as Elkhart's largest newspaper, shaping local coverage and community conversation with extensive reporting, editorials, and regional updates.
The fragment recalls Charles Lamb calling all strong spirits a Wet Damnation and argues against alcohol curealls while promoting Walker's California Vinegar Bitters as a non alcohol tonic and alterative. The note labels Lamb as an essayist and cites his views to favor a non alcoholic remedy.
The item reports train departures from Milford junction 12 miles south of Goshen at 1 30 pm arriving in Washington at 8 50 pm without changing cars and another at 12 34 am arriving 7 30 am the next morning, a 31 hour trip. It also mentions Web Knickerbocker, longtime assistant postmaster, now with Luckay Platt & Co. of Poughkeepsie, and Henry J Knickerbocker, formerly with Alexander Pope, now in Stamfordville New York business succession to A M Carroll Esq.
Last month saw many emigrants with nearly half being foreigners who had prior residence in the country.
The Austin Democratic Statesman laments cruelty to dogs and notes the high costs of sheep consumption and dog keeping. It argues against killing dogs and reflects on social discomfort, rising mutton prices, and wool costs as a contrast to domestic attachment.
Inquire of Rev. J. H. Hutchison in Elkhart or Mrs. A. Mow in Hastings Nebraska Adams County for rental of two houses on Rail Road Street.
A man in Eldorado escaped harm after a lighted pipe ignited in his pocket but was saved by rolling in snow. A San Francisco locomotive disaster has claimed thirteen lives, with scrap heap locomotives continuing to threaten. Textile markets show ginghams in demand while woolen goods and cotton hosiery rise. linen goods improve. A Canadian official’s re
The Natchez Democrat comments that Grant will have an extra day of power in 1877 with March 4 falling on a Sunday and inaugurations legally shifting to March 5. It questions how the new president might use the surplus day.
On a winter night Deacon Stiles urged his wife to heed the divine chariot wheels. She dismissed the claim, joking that the Lord would not be around on wheels when the sleighing was so good.
A promotional notice extolling Dr Pierce’s The People’s Medical Adviser published by the World’s Dispensary in Buffalo. It argues the book’s low price at one dollar fifty and explains the author’s no middleman plan, rough cost comparisons, and wide accessible medical guidance for all ages and both sexes.
An advertisement urges buying the Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine for fifty dollars with easy installments and home delivery from Cleveland. It claims the machine handles family sewing, reduces workload, and is suitable for children to operate. Also promotes Johnson's Anodyne Liniment and Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders as remedies.
Graduates from the Telegraph College at Kalamazoo and Jackson Michigan are listed in a brief notice. The item records names and locations of the graduates in a local education update from the region.
Advertises reduced price chromes for pre miums and cheap building lots with long-time terms. Encourages calling before buying and mentions houses and lots for sale on reasonable terms. Includes seller note Ent Contry.
The National Copying Company of Philadelphia will deliver photograph copying in Chinese color oil color and India ink near January 1 in Elkhart and vicinity. Citizens’ pictures can be viewed then. Orders should be sent to Mrs. L. L. Rolland at 271 South Clark Street Chicago.
Lumber and wagon repair notices appear for Maxon Parmater Co and J D Rush at Jefferson and Main. Bucklen & Son advertise drugs chemicals and patent medicines at Main and Jackson, with Dr King's New Discovery for consumption. Mrs Jaycox is advised to keep advertising to boost patronage.
A historical notice touts a Missouri Texas rail corridor from Hannibal and St. Louis to Houston with Pullman cars and modern travel comforts. It highlights land sales along the Neosho Valley, offering over one million acres of farming, fruit, and stock lands on ten year credit, plus special 1875 colonization rates.
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