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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1879
Page
3
A local note highlights T. G. Bowman's specials and a joyous birth at Elmore, Mt. Meridian. The town prepares sermons at Roberts Chapel next Sunday with topics “What is a Man” and “Harvest Reward” amid community notices.
The column surveys a range of local items from sickness and convalescence to probate. Henry Bridges and Billy Fussler are mentioned as ill, while Jacob McVey song probate is noted. George Corwin buys a store at Carpentersville and administrations proceed for Katharine Benith and Edward Gainor estates.
Tim Murphy reports a terrible reads after a woods tramp. The pay car on the I S L visited boys last Wednesday. Miss Altice Wise of the National returns to Louisville. Mrs Cahill is a father’s girl. Miss Mary Lehey of Indianapolis visits relatives. Taxes bother schoolboys. The L N A C B W shows strong business. Mrs Kewley of Port Huron, Mich., confined five years in Kalamazoo asylum where she says patients were harmed and killed. She claims doctors dismissed her pleas. Kalamazoo asylum scrutiny urged. Dr Bulla Cough Byrep advertised 25 cents a bottle.
A woman found dead at Mrs. Crouch's Greencastle residence after a night of sheltering. Post mortem shows left lung abscess with a hair tuft and bone fragment. uterus with a four to five month fetus. Unknown name, likely 30s, German heritage, from St Louis. Coroner and jury investigate in a troubling case.
Hog receipts reach 28 000 head with 7 000 head shipped and prices up 10 to 15 cents. Choice heavy cattle range 3 65 to 3 75, light 3 50 to 3 65, mixed 3 30 to 3 50. Cattle receipts 4 500, shipments 1 200, prime heavy 4 70 to 5 75, fast shipping 8 80 to 4 30, others steady. Sheep receipts 1 700, shipments 1 500, market steady about 3 90 to 4 80.
A Denver grocery clerk with a sterling reputation stole provisions to help his owed workers in a mine. After pleading with the arresting officer to stay home till morning, he and his wife died by laudanum in a night of tragedy. The item also lists various local sale notices and ads.
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