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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1880
Page
7
A group of youths camping by the Eel River faced a fruitless fishing night and a staged scare from rivals. Morning found the campers leaving at 7 as planned while Mrs. Gunnells family battles illness after a morphia tragedy. A handwriting note claimed self harm to destroy all.
The Greencastle Union mourns the loss of Lillie and Eva Stanley with resolutions praising their bright dispositions. They note God gathers the young and express sympathy to the stricken family while placing copies with the family, union records, and county papers.
In Americus, Georgia, Woodson L. Gunnells returns home to find his wife and nine of his ten children unconscious from morphine-laced lemonade. Authorities say the mother prepared the fatal beverage and drank it herself with fatal intent. Gunnells, a farmer, has four children with his second wife and six with a previous wife. Medical aid was summoned immediately.
Ex convict Andy Long once pardoned by Governor Thayer tried a ghostly scare at a Clackamas county home. A resident fired from the back door, wounding Long in the leg as he fled. The piece also advertises the Sells Brothers World Fair on Friday August 20 featuring the Aquarium and Hippopotami Den.
A newspaper piece mocks numerous so called remedies while praising Dr Bouw’s Coven Syrup as a genuine medicine. It highlights dubious advertising, mentions a Japanese circus show in Greencastle, a Cincinnati prison case, and Iowa burglary guilt shifts. It also promotes Johnston's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla as a pleasant cure.
Tue Stan presents a schedule of 1820 agricultural fairs with start dates in September for Ind State fair Greencastle Brick Chapel Floyd Township Jusselville Union Crawfordsville Lafayette Terre Haute New Ross Thorntown. The notice warns against peddling and gambling at Greencastle tents and promises fairgoers they will not be swindled.
A humorous New York Herald piece reports Lettie Davis accusing Peterson Knapp of stealing her laundry on South Fifth Avenue. The courtroom scene includes witty exchanges with a judge and counsel about the defendant’s look and intent, ending with the witness delivering sharp retorts.
A Derry correspondent recalls Michael Kelly a strong wheeler and dealer of a sprawling Concord area farm. The boastful boxer hires workers by challenging them to combat until a young job seeker proves his worth and wins Kelly’s daughter’s hand and the farm.
A newlywed couple visits an apartment house hoping for a rental and hears a boastful janitor describe past tenants and their children in a mock healthy setting. The bride and groom decide to move on, preferring a farther north location. The piece ends with a poem about lonely love and nature imagery.
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