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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1881
Page
7
The notice invites Greencastle residents to request full lines of samples by letter and have orders filled and mailed free of charge. Prices match in-store costs in Indianapolis. Terms require a postoffice order or COD.
Advertisement proclaims Burnett's at the Opera House building offers the largest stock of boots and shoes in the city. Highlights Richardson's Boots Ide Wilson French and American Kip Boots Hartford Boots and fashionable ladies and misses footwear from Burnett's Reynold's Cloyes Goodger Armstrong and others with daily arrivals and bottom prices. Boys and girls school shoes newly received. English Grain and French Kip Boots available in Putnam County.
The piece reports on a Baptist church deacon faction pressing pastor I B Mahan to resign in Champaign Illinois amid alleged improprieties with women and plans for a church tribunal. It also recounts a Canton Newfoundland coal mine incident where a fire sparked a staged rescue prioritizing workers with dependents and husbands with no children.
Jennie Smith and Addie Sherwood host a revival at Waugh Methodist Church in Washington. Johnny Noogle the Converted Sailor Boy charms crowds with fervent exhortation, praising Harrison the Boy Preacher and a notorious life as an example. The piece touts Swayne's ointment and Pond's Extract as cures, notes on medical progress, and includes stray items about Brown's Iron Bitters, Cuticura remedies, English farming pupils at Le Mars, and a proposed witness protection idea in court.
A collage of advertisements tout remedies for catarrh and insomnia including Sandford’s Radical Cure with Catar rhhal Solvent and Inhaler, Brown’s Iron Bitters for dreamless sleep, Parker’s Ginger Tonic for health, and travel inducements by the Burlington route. A Wesleyan University incident notes a race-based denial of membership.
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