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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1873
Page
3
The Elkhart Chronicle highlights blooming parasols croquet’s return, fresh fish at shilling per pound, promising cherry crops, market produce, and local social plans. It mentions Dean Swift, Elk heart Jubilee travelers, new postal cards, and upcoming sermons and church projects. It also covers residents’ movements, business notes, and a spring letter from Kansas.
A local report praises the Fifth Ward School House for its rapid brickwork and hive like density of labor. Contractor Win proctor and superintendent Silas DeCamp are spotlighted, with architect Cookingham credited for design and efficiency noted.
A historical listing shows prices for apples, beans, butter, cornmeal, wheat, flour, hams, honey, lard, poultry, potatoes, salt, tallow, and related grains and seeds. Including lumber rates for pine, fencing, joists, flooring, siding, shingles, lath, pickets, and finished timber products.
List of names awaiting mail including Boyd Moulton Barns Lena Martin Thomas Brooks Olmstead A C Bertah Thomas Phelps and others. Notices show letters held for postage with request to call for “Advertised Letters” after one week. R K Brush P M reports.
Freedman's at 108 Main St offers plated and jet jewelry from 10 to 75 cents, hosiery, silk fringes, guipure laces, parasols and fans. Ladies' Bazaar features cheap table linen and embroidery at 108 Main St. Reinhard & Berolzhime's at 116 Conley's Block touts staple and fancy groceries. Curtiss & Co announces cheap dress goods. Meader promotes boots and shoes for Elkheart. Hoke & Kirk restock shawls.
NEW GOODS at Meader's. Call and examine before you buy. We guarantee prices as low as the lowest. Hoke & Kirk have just received a large stock of clothing, which they will sell cheap. A beautiful line of shawls at Meader's. Go and see those beautiful French kid shoes at Meader's. "WHITTLESEY," the great appetizer. For Sale. The undersigned has some of the best kind of buildings and for sale. Delivered any place within the corporation, in large or small quantities. Orders left at this office. Wm. Ulrich.
J F Curtiss Co showcases five hundred new jewelry styles as a stylish option for windows and personal adornment. Hoke Kirk hold rag carpets while a call for business men to place job work orders at the Observer Office. Miller’s millinery offers hats to please wives. Jas Miller’s stock is always a highlight.
An 1873 ad promotes Harvey's Old Colony Ague Squip as a harmless universal remedy that cures ague when others fail. It claims a tonic effect, no poisons, family use, and a $1 refund if ineffective. Prepared by F C Mirror & Sox in New Philadelphia Ohio and sold by I Bucklen & Son Elk Hart Indiana.
An article extols Hackathorn & Co. bakery at 96 Main Street with a claim of using top materials and neat service. It promotes Ferro-Phosperated Elixir of Calisaya tonic and notes a broad Westward migration via Missouri Pacific Railroad routes from St Louis to states like Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Utah Wyoming Nevada Oregon and California with connections to Texas. It mentions maps timetables and routes from I. G. ent 72 Lloyd.
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