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Newspaper

Elkhart Observer

Location

Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Sep 30, 1874

Page

3

Local notices from Elkhart press mention sales and events

Ads for Martyn's Egyptian Lustrine through Meader & Sage, Shuey & Mochelle, and updates on local sickness, burglaries, parades, and civic notices. Reports cover telegraph, theater, fire department, bridges, political talk, and residents traveling or moving, with brief anecdotes and community notices.

Shuey & Mochelle S. Meader & Sage Martyn Lillie Young Flag Store Shuey & Mochelle’s Meader & Sage’s

Property for sale in Elkhart County with house barn and water

A newly built house and lot on a prime street in Cleveland township near Edwardsburg road offers well and cistern, good fences and barn. The 116 acre Layton farm is offered at 65 dollars per acre with timber and brick house, water, orchards and out-buildings, terms one fourth cash and annual payments, inquire Caroline H Hanna. Also 35 acres timber and farm improvements. Long term lots for sale cheap via H P Chapman on St Joseph Street.

St. Joseph Benton Harbor Mich Cleveland Township Elkhart County Edwardsburg Road Layton Caroline H. Hanna H. P. Chapman St. Joseph Street South Elkhart

Observer Premium Offer Ties Book Deal For Readers

The publishers arrange a premium with the Observer offering a one year subscription for $2.75 plus a valuable book valued at $1.50. The offer combines annual Observer access with an accompanying volume at a reduced total price.

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Real estate agent offers varied properties for sale or lease

A farm one mile from LaGrange Center, valuable town property in Elkhart and South Bend, a lot in Chicago, 160 acres of land in Iowa. Title perfect in all. Reasonable terms. Will act as agent to sell or lease real estate. Atf J. HL Hurcursoy.

LaGrange Center Elkhart South Bend Chicago Iowa J. HL Hurcursoy

Local ads and notices from Elkhart area

Call at Jas Miller's 103 Main Street for millinery before purchasing elsewhere. Maxon Parmater & Co offer an immense lumber supply on hand and ready to sell on reasonable terms. Deacon Rush repairs wagons and buggies. Jaycox's on Jackson Street near the post office offers warm meals on short notice. Bucklen & Son provide prescriptions at all hours and run the best stocked drug store in Elkhart. Chamberlain Immediate Relief cures fever and ague colds sore throat catarrh sick headache and neuralgia.

Jas Miller’s Main Street Maxon, Parmater & Co Deacon Chamberlain

Remedies and tonics for common ailments and coughs

An old column touts Johnson's Anodyne Liniment for rheumatic complaints and Sheridan's Cavalry Powders for horse coughs. It also recommends Ayer's Sarsaparilla to purify blood and cleanse humors, pimples, boils, and sores as emblems of internal rottenness.

Sheridan Ayer

Burglary at Shaw Bros Confectionery Stolen Trunk Found

A 6 to 7 pm burglary at Shaw Bros confectionery, 196 Main, saw $150 and papers stolen. The trunk was recovered later in Mrs Hilton’s yard after warrants issued. robbers fled. The district notes political contention over expense cuts as the Morning Ozaller advertises.

Shaw Bros. Confectionery Store Main Street Colburn

Dr Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters Promoted in Japan

A brief health warning notes that alcoholic stimulants in blood accelerate heart rate and exhaust vital organs. It condemns tonics and renovators marketed as nostrums and touts Dr Walker’s Vegetable Vinegar Bitters as a non alcoholic invigorant replacing these products.

Renovators

Dr Wilhoff’s Anti-Periodic Fever and Ague Tonic

Advertises Wilbott’s Tonic as a universal cure for chills fever and malaria related illnesses. Claims prophylactic and curative powers with speedy decisive action and no adverse effects. Sold by all druggists with local availability likely priced at 484.

Wilhoff Wilbott

Boschee German Syrup Promises Immediate Relief

G G Green of Woodbury New York proclaims Boschee German Syrup provides immediate relief and cure for coughs colds and lung diseases. The firm has distributed over 250000 free sample bottles in the United States over three years and claims no other medicine maker has tested preparations so broadly. Druggist I Bucklen Son offer a bottle for five cents. two doses will relieve you.

Boschee United States I. Bucklen & Son G. G. Green Woodbury, N. Y Isaac Bucklen Elkhart Ind D. Howe Chambers St New York

Great Iron Bridge Opens New Rail Link to Southwest

With the completion of the iron bridge over the Missouri at Boonville the line offers enhanced facilities for northeast to Southwest business. Two daily Hannibal connections with Neosho valley and two between St. Louis and Southern Kansas, plus reduced rates and through Pullman sleeping cars from Chicago Quincy Hannibal and St. Louis to Galveston. potential travelers urged to contact Thomas Darwin in Sedalia for maps and timetables.

Missouri River Boonville Northeast Great Southwest Hannibal Points Great Neosho Valley St. Louis Kansas Texas Chicago Quincy Galveston Southwest Missouri Kanas

Elkhart Market Price Ledger

Market prices listed for provisions and stock including butter lard tallow poultry eggs hams apples beans honey potatoes cornmeal feathers geese hides cattle salt and other items. The page notes regular corrections by the Devil an old press line and incomplete figures with several entries showing per unit measures.

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The Meader & Sage Charley Strong J. M. Hughes Mr. Hughes Capt. Belnap Sturgis Coldwater Washington, National Republican Hal Kilbourn Wm. H. Lamb Commercial College Ed Shermandine Johnny Primly Brown N. W. Garman Moses McKissick Mason Township Cass County America Garman McKissick Harry Bunyan Fred Jordan Indianapolis Buckeye Broadaxe Mishawaka Lake Shore Railway Weekly Sam Lydia Ritter Constantine Elkhart Fire Company Elkhart Hook and Ladder Company Col. Tucker Goshen Clark Lane Mr. McGreggor M. F. Shuey M. F John Ellis Marvin John Martin F. L. Collins Charles Robinson Patsy McDonough McDonald McDonahue Proctor Kaskel Squire Fish County Medical Society Bristol Jackson Pigeon Second Main Streets John Cassler E. P. Elmer Charley Walley Mandana Foster Geo. W. Shipherd Illinois Wa. R. Smith Charles A B. Romaine Romaine Grand Traverse Bay Congress Charles H. Stewart Charles Dr. Davenport Dr. Allen J. F. Hunt Lou. Pratt W. B. Garman P. C. Messick F. B. Davenport Johnny Ridley the Dramatic Association Jas. Miller Carlton White E. D. Foster, Son & Co Oxserver J. F. Hunt & Co’s Adamson Eber Darling Geo. Jones Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Atlanta Georgia Rush South Bend Register Thom Bigelow Central Africa Olive Township Cornelius Terwilliger Ulster County E. P. Willard Jonesville Edward H. C. Howard Norman Fuller New Hampshire Fuller Boston Goshen Democrat Middlebury Melville Bonham Black Crook Academy of Music Toledo Pat McDonough Elkhart County Medical Piety Laporte Wabash, C C. D. Hinkle Frank Cheney Round House John Hack Long Pond Millers Station Ed Campbell Iler’s F. B. Pratt Willard Allen New Bedford Mass Sam Whitmyer John Brodrick Asa Dennison Air Line Ormal L. Wait O.E. White Arkansas R. J. Jordan Jordan Editorial Brevities Johnson People’s Party Republican Saratoga Springs Elkhart, Ind Isaac Bucklen & Son Excelsior Draughnt Saratoga Riverside Green House Prospect Bower Streets Lyne & Mareehf MES Im. C. Garvin C. A. Lambert Hill & Kelley Youne Hyson Japan Main St Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Elkhart Market Emt Enee D. Herbert Émé South America Oseph T. Inman Bible House New York City H. B. Carmackh FFICE Hoke & Kirk’s AGEN John W. Masary R. R J. H. Morley & CO White Lead & Oil.co Isaac Buellen & Son N.E. Cor Main & Jackson Streets Tin T. Bigelow apTer Copp Tronware General Ebbing Iames A Lawlor Evaller, Warren & CO Troy N. & Blansh Cleveland James. Miller Main-St Whitmyer Main Elkhart Paper Iba Joan Dersa Fahnestock St. Cor Washington H.W. Brazie M. Fence Fists of EB. Smith Hascall’s Market Streat Indiana ON. Hannaford Enat See Hee Senigenee Lg i Ioe R. K. Fellows Sherwood Croquet Papers & Magazines Pocket Books Hart
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