Club Agents Seek Energetic Agents After County
A call for live, energetic working agents after the county, with liberal emission time for clubs.
04 Dec 1880
Page 1
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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1880
Page
1
A call for live, energetic working agents after the county, with liberal emission time for clubs.
Readable fragments show market prices for eggs and corn, a sick list, a church temperance sermon, leap year proposals, and election bets. Reports mention Mrs J M Smith ill, Ben Durham in charge of the telegraph, and W S Mulholn selling his furniture business. Also notes on Sunday School groups, a county commissioners meeting, a marriage in Carpentersville, and a Rhode Island boxing crackdown with a secret purse.
Voters of varied ages and localities are recorded in election day antics and moments. The 96 year old John Foote was carried to the polls to vote, while Isaac Farwell at 103 voted his twenty first presidential ballot. A 97 year old ex congressman Artemus Ward cast his twentieth vote. A Brooklyn death at the polls ends a long party loyalty as Alby dies after voting.
Rechester Union Correspondence reports a crowded audience enjoyed Uncle Tom's Cabin by the Boston deal Un cle Tom's Cabin Company at Cornwell's Opera House last Saturday. Five year old Little Eva delivered her lines clearly and won praise. Uncle Tom's Cabin plays again at Opera House next Thursday evening.
Late Saturday evening a two year old boy, son of Dr. DeVoe, found a bottle of ether, pushed it near a base burner, and the bottle exploded. Flames scorched his head face arms and body, skin and flesh peeled from his fingers, and his eyesight may be lost. Recovery doubtful.
The L N A and C R R touted as the fastest popular north south line with winter traveler appeal. It highlights direct northern connects via Michigan City to Louisville and statements about superior coaches officers and routes through Indiana, Indianapolis vicinity, and connections to Baltimore and Ohio and Pittsburg lines for eastbound travel.
Wheat and corn prices show minor gains and declines with January futures at 1 06 and 42½ cents. Hog and beef cattle markets are described as firm to active with various price ranges, receipts tallied. The Rochester Herald highlights Uncle Tom's Cabin performances starring Blanche Slader and notes an Opera House engagement with praise for a young Eve actress.
A 33 year old stableman, Robert Carter, was bitten by several rats at his stable on Twenty fourth Street. He rushed to Bellevue Hospital as his hand and arm swelled and he showed signs of rat poisoning. Doctors fear infection and treated him in the surgical ward.
In mid November 1874 I joined Uncle RiMe for a coon hunt. We followed hounds Drom and Carlo to a swampy tree where Uncle climbed and shook the coon free. He fell into the mud during the descent, was Iinduced from the mud, and the coon was eventually captured with Aunt Sue turning the hide into a blanket.
The New York Star recounts Evangeline’s opening night at Haverly's Theatre drawing a large crowd. Louise Searle as Gabriel and Mile Jarbeau as Evangeline impressed with strong singing and refined stage presence. Cathy was comically portrayed, while Hardy Hunter and Ed Chapman provided lively support as Le Blanc and Lone Fisherman.
An advertisement touts PITCHER'S CASTORIA as non narcotic for children. It claims the remedy helps growth, is liked by mothers, recommended by physicians, regulates bowels, cures wind colic, calms feverishness, and destroys worms.
Advertisement touts WHEI DI MEYER'S CATARRH Care as a constitutional antidote for catarrh. Claims it cures at any stage before consumption, rivaling vaccination as a major discovery, with other remedies offering only relief.
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