Christmas Folio Notes and Local Incidents in Indiana
The Greencastle Star reports a Christmas edition with holiday greetings and notes. It covers a Washington item thanking General Weaver for flowers, shop incidents in Anderson including a teacher knifing, a Clinton boy vomiting a fishlike object, and early presidential vote tallies. It also highlights oleomargarine concerns in Indianapolis, Mormon tithes, a Salt Lake City ring rumor, and an advertisement for the Excelsior Kidney Pad.
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Colorado
Brigham Young, Jr
Tweed
Salt Lake City
Midnight Cheese Tale On a Moonlit Creek
A narrator recalls walking home after a party when eight to ten men on the far bank of a creek plot to reach a moonlit cheese gleaming in the water. The plan involves Dick hanging from a tree limb to swing the others to the cheese, but the group slips and falls into the water. They emerge unharmed and flee laughing, ending the night in amusement at the “non amphibians.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Stokes
Tales of Mice and Mirth and a Newhouse Tragedy
A mixed set of anecdotes describes a sugar tainted trap catching mice in a house pantry, a Boston gas chief facing a wife with a marriage certificate, and a Cleveland wedding prank ending with an insane groom. Also noted are Hop Bitters endorsements and Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup as common remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
A Comedic Sabbath Tale And City News Snapshots
A verbose comic about a boy using snuff to trigger a sneezing fit from an African man ends with the family abandoning the Sunday Journal. The article then covers the Rev. James W. Cole trial in Charlemont Mass, accusations of domestic abuse, and a courtroom outcome. Additional notes include Juliet’s age on stage, Ida Aubrey in San Francisco, a Denver tramp shoe purchase anecdote, a city fine, and an Indianapolis school heating report.
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Indiana Journal
Ryan Block
Indiana Avenue
Indiana
Board of Health
Sunday Journal
Prometheus
Sam
Wicked Sunday Journal
James W. Cole
Charlemont Mass
Mr. Cole
Cole
Charlemont
Greenfield Gazette
Shakspeare
Juliet
San Francisco
Ida Aubrey
Cause and Effect Health Ad for Upp Bitters
An 1870s adv promotes Upp Bitters linking nervousness to indigestion and stomach weakness. Includes a notice for Greencastle Indiana, Putnam Lodge election on December 28 at 7 PM to elect three trustees, signed by N. G. M. Currienves, Sec. KE. A. Hinnirt.
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Putnam Lodge
Greencastle
Indiana
KE. A. Hinnirt
N. G
Canton family tragedy ends in morphine homicide scheme
A Canton household tale reveals Simon and Joseph Kline and their four brothers planning to seize an estate via a housekeeper and a morphine fueled death. The scheme aimed to deprive their father of his property with preferred claims and violent means. Police investigate the mechanism and motive behind the alleged murder plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon
Joseph Kline
Canton
Waites
Joseph
Gett
Growth of the Pan Alliance movement and critiques
The piece reviews a new farming movement tracting attention across the nation, advocating measures to prevent adulteration of food products. It cites a Western Rural appeal for free copies, notes aims to unite farmers, and discusses religious persecution, social shifts, and John Fiske's analysis in the American Review. It also lists other articles and reviews in the issue.
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Wrsreny
Anj
Chicago
Buckle
American Review
John Fiske
Pacific Industrial P
George F. Edmunds
Athen Colleges
John
Central America
Iire Charnay
William D. le Sueur
John F. W
Ninali Is
Demo Party
William A. Wal
F. A. March
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Tzpress
Pere Au Fre
M. Ohadalem, Sone
James Gillespy
New York
Public Square
Ind
Caliuat Butlers Drug Store
Reelsville
Eagle Machine Ni Works
Castle Mills
Gage
Hallin
Stleeney
Deraule Sodckap
Seotby Mail
Proleston Thugs CO
Roberts
Arais Remedy CO
Greencastle Ind
Crawfordsville
Axp
Hill
Representative Belford
Secretary of the Treasury
Te Svak
Weaver
Washington
General Weaver
Anderson
Bd.n. Berg
Second Ward
Joseph Malone
Malone
Charley Teguardan
Clinton
D. Kell
Louisville Courier-Journal
Panodgi
Garfield
Woodton
Pias
W. R. Tappan
Toledo, Ohio
Adv
Otal Garfield
Hancock
Danville Union
Danville (Ill
John Stein, Esq
St. Jacobs
Mt Acquaintances
Cairo Bulletin
James E.*brown
Kittaning
Penn
Cleveland
Dr. Bull
Indianapolis Review
Denver
School Board of
Indianapolis
Medical College
Ayer
Dee
Wysong's
Northwest Warner Public Square
South America
Joseph T
Inman
Staton D
New York City
Speer
Hammond’s
Darnall Bros. & Co
Siord
Lang Riutters
Pad
Detroit
Mich
Pan Alliance
Henry Johnston
Earle
W. W. Jones
Aris
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