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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1873
Page
3
Community tidbits from South Bend area newspapers report brisk lumber trade, poetry and lectures, theater plans, fires, police notes, and upcoming Decoration ceremonies. Highlights include Mrs Bosley moving rooms, Forepaugh entertainment praise, a big bigamy case, and local businesses advertising goods and services.
At the last meeting the Board accepted L. Converse as marshal after he tendered his bond. He will gather poll tax, appoint an assistant, begin bridge abutment work on Jackson street, and enforce stock impounding. The County Surveyor is to survey and mark Franklin street lines.
A local notice catalogs numerous Elkhart shops and offices where women hold key roles. It highlights Mrs Truby, Mrs Babb, Mrs Knox, Mrs Willard, and many others across bookselling, tailoring, telegraph, millinery, dressmaking, photography, publishing, and office work. The piece lauds the adept female workforce and asserts Elkhart’s premier tally of enterprising women in Northern Indiana.
Severe tornadoes struck Illinois and Iowa last week causing damage and alerts across multiple towns. Gen Canby was buried in Indianapolis on Friday. George Francis Train has finally been declared insane.
A shift in French leadership sees Thiers offer resignation accepted by the National Assembly which then selects Marshal McMahon as his successor.
Walley and Carter push city and country furniture sales with the best stock and lowest prices. James Miller touts a Carryall buggy from Iler's as ideal family use. Freedman’s at 108 Main St offers plated jewelry and cheap hosiery while Reinhard & Berolzhime’s sell groceries and linens with low prices. Curtiss & Co dress goods praised, Meader announces a vast boot and shoe line arriving in Elkhart.
Meader’s offers new goods with a prompt call and examination option. Hoke and Kirk report a large stock of clothing arriving to be sold cheap with guaranteed prices at the lowest level.
An antique note promotes Hackathorn & Co at 96 Main Street with a claim of a first class bakery using top materials. It also advertises Ferro-Phosperated Elixir de Calisaya from Caswell Hazard & Co New York as a tonic for loss of appetite indigestion low spirits and debility. It also suggests use during fever season to prevent fever and intermittent fevers.
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