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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1881
Page
4
A report notes an electric device by Prof Bell locating a ball in the President’s body and that removal is not planned now. It also mentions a fatal Indianapolis murder, post office money order reforms, a Richmond Va scam marriage, a wag car accident injuring Mrs Hubbard, and resignations and job moves in rail and nursery circuits.
Auctioneered by Col. J. W. Judy last Wednesday, the Short Horn cattle sale at the fair ground produced low averages. Cows and heifers averaged 106.25 dollars and bulls 84.78, totaling 101.5 per head. A long buyer list includes Newby Shanghai Indiana Elliott, Vincennes, Christian Indianapolis, Gordon New London, Folsom Indianapolis, Stockwell Cloverdale, Potts Jacksonville, Cooper Georgetown, Talbott Greencastle, and many others with prices from 20 to 310 dollars.
Indianapolis reports a strike by over 125 cigar makers demanding higher wages while employers resist major price disputes. The summary covers a string of local incidents including poisonings, suicides, accidents, a fatal horse accident, a murder attempt by a burglar, and a bankable robbery tied to a family near Indianapolis.
A collage of figures notes 101 starved in London in 1580, 70000 maples tapped in Glover Vermont producing 140000 pounds of sugar worth 11200, 25000 alligator hide boots made from 1900s hides, Pillow of Jacksonville shipped 30000 quarts strawberries netting 20000, taxes per head France 6.25 vs England 4.35, French debt interest higher, large cotton row in South Carolina 90760 yards, tobacco monopoly penalizes the poor, West Virginia metal output up to 157000 tons, oysters cultivated at Oyster Bay and Gig Harbor, social vignettes from Philadelphia and New York journals, jokes about music and bees, and a quip on tenets of courtship and sadness.
Demorest's Monthly reports the Hubert Home Club Association in New York has built five co op buildings with eighty families living there. Each family partially owns their apartment and can sell stock like property, offering ownership in a prime location at lower cost than buying a poor house.
The Star lists social notes from Greencastle area with Miss Kate Hammond visiting Rockville and other updates on residents traveling to Lake Maxinkucke and Illinois, church events, a temperance meeting, and a local public notice by City Engineer William Dagar detailing proposed water mains and fire plugs locations in Greencastle as of July 25, 1881.
Drought and grub worms threaten a 50 percent corn yield in Carpentersville township. W I Glover buys a large wheat shipment. Thos Young of Whitesville spent Sunday here and plans to move west of town from the Fosher farm. An M E Church buggy was damaged when a horse bolted during services. Mose Payne reports boils. Cardline Harris was home for Sunday. Char lie Moore leaves for Springfield Ill on the 20th. If you want a good newsy newspaper subscribe to THE Stan M.
License to marry issued to William M Smith and Amanda C Williams Campbell G Lee and Louise Thompson Henry F Herbert and Lizzie Garton Clinton F Modlin and Jane Tedlock John H Hughes and Elia King.
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