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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1881
Page
7
A collection of short notices and announcements from The Star featuring health, visits, legislative activity, local events, and household news. Included are sick lists, travel to Indianapolis and Florida, marriages, frost injuries, a fire alarm, a spelling match, and a family reunion with a bountiful repast.
The piece notes Mr. Conrad Cook and wife visiting W. W. Alles for the anniversary of Mr. Cook's marriage, and reports that new L N A C R locomotives do not reach Greencastle due to bridge weight. It mentions bridge rebuilds planned in spring and a holiday advertising question from an exchange.
Last Sunday night the William Ferrand residence on the A. J. Ruark farm five miles east of town was entirely burned, along with a smoke house. The blaze started in a box of ashes in the smoke house. Contents saved except flour and meat. Loss about 400 dollars with no insurance.
The Journal reports C C C & I controls the 1. & St. L. under which the Pennsylvania Company remains a stockholder but loses daily management. The CCC&I assumes liabilities, shares surplus with Pennsylvania, and gains roadbed improvements and equipment expansion. Rates stay fixed without mutual agreement, Erie aligns with CCC&I to boost freight, aiming for economical operation and revived profitability.
Theodore D Layman, longtime treasurer and market editor of the Indianapolis Farmer Company, died December 25 1840 after a three month battle with malaria fever and complications from a leg ailment. Born June 1, 178? he leaves a wife and two daughters and spent his career merchandising in Putnamville, Paragon and Quincy. He joined the Farmer Company in 1875 and helped lead business, editing the market page and contributing editorials with notable style.
The article recalls a man known for his thoughtful calm and selfless care for family and friends. His letters from a Florida trip are noted, and colleagues describe his devotion as guiding through illness and life. They honor his humility, generosity, and quiet strength.
A wealthy father's strict challenge tests his daughter Cecil as she pleads to marry a poorer suitor. He offers a $200 check and a chance to win a lacque by placing her lover in the wheat pit on the Board of Trade, forcing a stark choice between wealth and love. The scene unfolds with tense emotion and a dramatic ultimatum.
An old woman Caroline Kuhn died at 84 in Patterson on Christmas without medical attendance. Coroner Hurd investigates and finds natural causes. Her 90 year old husband, once set to find perpetual motion with a $30,000 fortune, spent his life on wheels and pulleys, failing to progress and now poor. A China missionary notes swine in boots to ease long markets.
The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel notes St Jacobs Oil has become the common tea party topic replacing the prior staple-free gossip as a measure of wisdom and benefit in public discussion.
A Lyon physician poisoned two men before his illness was found. An anxious buyer is urged to purchase Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a remedy for coughing. A Boston grocer leaves funds for his dog's care, leading to lavish meals for the animal. Also noted are remedies from Sellers' Liver Pills and Day's Kidney Pad, court rumors about Benedict Arnold's wife, a suicide attempt thwarted by a doctor, and a traveling show license incident in Atkinson Kansas.
The article extols various patent medicines and tonics including Hop bitters Fellow’s Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites Hill’s Buchu and Prickly Ash Bitters. It argues their proven benefits for dyspepsia constipation digestion and general health and urges readers to try them rather than ignore medicine.
A Toledo man admitted fabricating a robbery tale to justify a missing sealskin sacque for his sweetheart. He confessed under cross examination as W. A. Titus of 62 Ashland Avenue. The column also promotes patent medicines and ads for health tonics and cures, including Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and other nostrums.
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