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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1881
Page
8
A local advertisement promotes C. J. Kimble & Son as the county’s exclusive furniture and picture frame dealer. It touts low prices and urges readers to visit Hathaway Block for good furniture.
The Spar idly records holiday greetings and weather with scattered notices. Potatoes 20 cents a bushel in Wisconsin. keg prices up twenty-five cents. editors and residents visit relatives in Danville Indiana and Brazil and Putnamville. A Grand Central Christmas Eve hop hosts over a hundred guests in lively celebration.
Lewis Arnold died December 13 1880 at Albia Iowa at his son in law George W Stamm residence Born March 28 1812 in Franklin County Kentucky He lived a pioneer life moving from Kentucky to Indiana then Illinois and finally Urba na Township in Iowa He married Margaret Robinson January 18 1831 Six of eight children survived him His long illness began with eye loss earlier this year and he endured with fortitude His death leaves a void among his widow and children and friends with the hope of immortal reward.
Keokuk ad praises St Jacobs Oil as a reliable pain reliminent used by Jones Cook Co Boston and their workers. The firm endorses its effectiveness “every time” for relief and recommends it as a trusted remedy.
Jay Rial presents a lavish pantomime with a new variety show by the Novelty Company and Dog Circus. The Opera House is crowded until the pit and dome with hundreds turned away. An audience notes a big return if the show comes again.
The famed Pike's Peak hunter Catamount Charley visited Aikin & Blunt's museum in Colorado Springs and described a dramatic hunt behind the Peak. He sold four skins, three mountain lions and a bison, after a tense negotiation with owner Mr. Hunt.
Cairo Illinois dispatch notes reader question about St Jacobs On seeking a reliable answer. A gentleman from that city who suffered rheumatism spent much to seek relief and calls a remedy the best heard of. D Whiting Riverside California plans to add 1500 acres of land and import 100 ostriches from South Africa with high breeding and feather value prospects.
A Bay City reader praises Hop Bitters as a reliable remedy amid patent medicines. The piece notes a San Luis Cal play inspired a girl to self-harm with arsenic, and cites Toledo Ohio resident W A Titus endorsing the Excelsior Kidney Pad for his wife’s renewed health.
Large cotton factories planned for Charleston Vicksburg and Louisville. Southern capitalists grow confident they can manufacture as well as grow cotton. An NM resident touts cures from an advertised pad and Dr Sellers' Syrup boasts miraculous results. A Canton Ohio breakfast ends with a woman shooting a tramp who stole forks and spoons.
A noisy collage of advertisements and notices touts Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound and Hop Bitters as cures for coughs female complaints and nervous weakness. It also mentions a nurse’s dramatic fall from a tree at an insane asylum and a novelty about grape wine for invalids.
Six miles west of Bowawe station a cluster of forty geysers vents up a hillside on the Central Pacific line. The tallest spouts about twenty five feet every thirty minutes, with many others erupting over a forty acre area. In Philadelphia Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup is praised as a top remedy. A drowned man, thought dead, reappears alive, then vanishes again with threats of suicide. A congressman elect and a state senator clash in Lynchburg over a threat, a duel proposed but not fought. Sellers Liver Pills are advertised as the key to health and happiness.
Grapes and wine gain prominence in New Jersey as the Speers vineyard in Passaic projects higher output and cuts Port Grape Wine price to one dollar per bottle. The wine is marketed as medicinal and suitable for communion, claimed non intoxicating.
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