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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1874
Page
3
The Observer claims the largest town circulation among Elkhart papers. It touts top printing in town with new metal and wood type and emphasizes its modern equipment and leadership in local press.
The Elkhart segment lists moving doctors, a new parish house plan, business openings, club dances, and street extension ideas to connect avenues with the railway. It notes a savings bank query, a lecture, hotel profits, and a housing fire in Cassopolis with a distressed family, plus local civic commentary on roads and hydraulics.
Alonzo J. Winters and Charity B. Price. Jacob R. Cripe and Barbara A. Vrisbaum. Elias Gortner and Phoebe A. Stroup. Lorenzo D. Rodebaugh and Lydia A. Lower. George S. Martin and Malinda Hest. Benjamin Dunbar and Salama Miller.
The passage advertises repair services at a Rush in Elkhart, the Gem Dining Saloon by Mrs. Jaycox on Jackson street for tea or oyster stew, Hill & Kelley prescriptions, Spicer’s 90 Main street spicy photographs, Meader & Sage price revolution, Doty’s steam laundry, E A Sherwood stationery, and Charley Green’s always open grocery with ample market stock.
Members of Guiding Star Lodge No 871 South Bend visited Good Samaritan Lodge on the 7th. The group included Theo A Wilks W A Ashe Miss Sarah Webster and many others. They were hosted hospitably with refreshments and a feast of reason and flow of soul before departing on the early morning train. Job printing done on short notice at this office.
Local notices advertise immediate employment for two or three seamstresses. Interested applicants should call the OssERVER Office without delay to secure positions.
Hank Clark and Mons Faber who own major stakes in the Review allied with Hammond Warner Dug Beardsley and Nel Upham to buy the remaining shares and turn the paper into a city organ. Their plan aimed to defeat the measure, and the city charter was rejected by 37 votes. The notice also notes a post office hour change to 7:30 p.m. to aid shop workers.
The undersigned plans to organize classes in music drawing and painting and will teach oil and water color painting. For details contact 31w3 Jennie Scutt. Meader and Sage report a large new stock of boots and shoes.
There is no person living but what suffers more or less with lung diseases coughs colds or consumption yet some would die rather than pay 75 cents for a bottle of medicine that would cure them. Dr A Boschee's German Syrup has lately been introduced in this country from Germany and its wonderful cures astonishes every one that try it. If you doubt what we say in print cut this out and take it to your Druggist Bucklen Son Elkhart and get a sample bottle free of charge or a regular size for 75 cents. G G Green Woodbury N J
No stranger visiting Chicago should miss The Advance claim that Jansen McClarg & Co at 117 and 119 State Street offer the finest in the West or on the continent. They extended their business and facilities to meet growing demand, becoming a leading local firm in the field.
A collage of classified snippets: real estate bargains offered by P Chapman in St Joseph street, an insurance office seeking a local agent via Ed Turnod, endorsed purgatives and Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs with Bucklen’s drug store selling them, boots and gaiters prices from Meader & Sage, a fire insurance bylaw change notice from Elkhart Co. Fire Insurance Co. Secretary Micuart Spangler cites changes for the annual meeting, plus Meader & C. North offering dry stove wood and coal delivery.
Dissolution of Walley and Carter by mutual consent. Charles Walley will settle all accounts and continue the business at the former location. Groce H. Carter signs. Elkhart Indiana. February 28 1874.
A periodical advertisement extols Dr Wilhoff s Anti Periodic as a cheap, effective remedy for chills fevers enlarged spleen and other malarial conditions. It claims rapid cures with small doses, endorsements by physicians, and urges trial with sample offers and 75 cent bottles. Also promotes Missouri Pacific travel and cheap western lands with agents listed.
A clergyman living in South America claims a safe simple remedy cures nervous weakness and urinary and seminal disorders from vice. He says many have been cured and offers to mail the receipt and preparation instructions to anyone in need from New York City at Bible House Station D.
An advertisement offers Bucklin's Drug Store and a Cleveland township farm for sale. The farm at the old Layton place near Elkhart County spans 116 acres at 65 dollars per acre with 35 acres timber, a brick house, large barn, outbuildings, orchard, and ample water. terms: quarter cash, balance annually at 200 dollars. Caroline H. Hanna seeks inquiries.
Classified list enumerates diverse clothing categories for men youths boys and various professions and groups including clergy doctors lawyers merchants mechanics farmers railroad workers and social orders. It markets garments for weddings parties church business and general use with a playful tone.
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