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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1879
Page
4
The Star reports debate over city gas works and feared high rates from a gas contract. It argues against a city obligation to buy fixed gas quantities and favors private enterprise or coal oil lighting as a cheaper alternative, noting potential early electric lighting.
The article extols Edison electric light as perfected and ready for public use, contrasts gas lighting, and touches on diverse topics from taxation on land to a mass convention in Putnam County on January 10 1880. It also covers greenback taxation, a telephonic marriage notion, and census of hogs in Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis.
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