How Can We Please this Man in Elkhart
The Elkhart Union editor, called a difficult man to please, is lampooned for resisting criticism. A Pacific tone in Indianapolis Journal quotes reveal mock sympathy and a joke about editors paying for Gen Giles’ hat while subduing a quarrel over a newspaper title.
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The
Union
Rising
Crawfish Institution
Jackson Street
David
Elkhart Union
Indianapolis Journal
Judge Stanfield Visits South Bend Car Talk Prompts Jubilant Editor
The Jackson street Illuminator editor recounts riding with Judge Stanfield from Laporte to South Bend. He teases details about Studebaker Brothers purchasing Hall property and a new carriage works. The piece hints at a large scale project but withholds exact dimensions, noting OnsERVER influence.
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Jackson Street
Onserver
Public meeting notice omitted in Ossrr vER
A local paper defends publishing notices from Ossrr vER and condemns the refusal to print a public meeting notice as ungenerous and heartless while praising its own efforts to provide selected items to readers.
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Ossrrver
Veterinary surgeon promises cure if horse survives four hours
Dr Brown of Jim Butterfield's stables pledges to cure any live horse of any disease if the horse can endure four hours. Hank Chapman sports a new hat and the writer, along with Gen Giles, note the fashion on December 17.
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Hank Chapman
Gen. Giles
Tape-worm discovery and editor’s reptile notes
The light weight editor of the Review digs into tape-worm stories with sharp relish. He reports a specimen 19 feet long and nine years old in his chronology. Hope he preserves the tail as the Collins’ reptile plan might succeed. Now for a lizard.
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Review
Collins
Questioning the same man behind river power praise
The piece contrasts grand claims of prosperity from railroad shops and stream power with a past warning to rural residents to keep their hands on their pockets. It questions whether the same author who lauded artisans also labeled workers as thieves a year earlier.
Undertaker seeks reports on suspected gang on the move
A 1873 letter from Bert A Bri Undertaker asks if movers matching a rough description have passed near Napoleon Ohio in the last weeks. He offers 25 dollars for information leading to arrest or recovery of property and asks local officers to investigate and report. The note ends with a nondescript sales plug for J F Curtiss & Co.
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Bridge
Napoleon
Mr. Postaaster
Copland
Bert A. Bri
Femiceres
Court records from Gosuen May term reveal varied rulings
Indiana cases include Pleas Eldridge guilty with two years in prison, Harmon Van Dorstan fined for assault, James Kurtz three months in jail, Mary Rinard acquitted, Thomas Edgar not guilty, Richard Hitchcock guilty three years and $100 fine plus disfranchisement, plus Damages awarded to Deardoff vs Wabash line at $800. Three prisoners escaped, Glasgow from LaGrange prosecutes criminal cases, and liquor law violations conducted in Middlebury with mixed outcomes.
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Gosuen
State of Indiana Vs
Eldridge
State of Indiana
Harmon van Dorstan
James Kurtz
Lewis Logan
Geo. P. Allen
James D. Cary
Mary Rinard
Thomas Edgar
John Heminger
John Gill
Richard Hitchcock
Richard Flora
Adam Hartman
Deardoff
the Wabash
Cincinnati
White Pigeon R. A
John Long
Wm. Ogle
Big Jim
Ogle
Glasgow
LaGrange
Judicial Circuit
Temple of Justice
Middlebury
Textile Patterns and Fabrics in Vintage Catalog Snippet
Fragmentary catalog text lists cotton admés striped plaid plain heavy double twist striped it af plaid plain and plaid Nankoenk tined drills and ducks. Reads like an early textile product listing with varied fabric descriptions and patterns.
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Elkhart Observer
Molloy & Bru Sti
Mare Alexander
Miss Shuey
Geneva
Grant
Gen. Phil. Sheridan
West
Evening Review
Daily Review
Giles
J. F. Curtiss & Co's
Hoke & Kirk
Silks, &c
Lyons
Alma
Paris
Bradford
White Goods
Victoria
India
Marseilles
Valenciennes
Childrens
Shetland
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