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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1880
Page
2
Tom Griggs runs a country printing office amid bad omens as a flood of copy arrives. Vendors, a church committee, a gem salesman, poets, a death notice, a cactus article, hotel praise, and strawberry growers converge, threatening a late issue and testing the editor’s patience.
The Star of 1880 sets the annual price at one dollar in advance and promises a more entertaining local family newspaper. Premiums for agents include an Early Breakfast Stove, an Advance Cultivator, an eight day clock, a cameo ring, and George Bicknell double shovel plows, awarded to top club builders, with details at J. D. Stevenson & Son hardware and F. A. Arnold in Stan Urencastle Indiana.
Owner offers 744 acres near Bainbridge for sale. Property lies along the east west state road, well watered by springs, with limestone and cultivated land good for stock raising. Can sell all or in lots. Inquiries to John R. Gordon in Bainbridge or at Greencastle business office of the undersigned. Greencastle Indiana. December 8, 18TY.
The article notes the planned 560 foot towers of the Forth Bridge on Inchgarvie island as the tallest ongoing engineering feat, with 150 foot clearance above high water. It compares heights of St Pauls, St Peters, the pyramids, and other bridges to claim the Forth Bridge will dwarf many precedents upon completion. It also cites construction methods of masonry and iron pilings and references other long spans like Niagara, Allegheny, Covington Cincinnati, and East River bridges.
A poetic reminiscence titled Home Memories recalls humble life, porch shade, and visiting fields. The speaker reflects on simple moments, bees, birds, and a playful bee sting, in a rustic nostalgic voice attributed to Jacob Strauss.
A humorous portrait from the Indianapolis Herald observes a woman scanning a newspaper. She rushes through pages, ignores headlines, craves local news, and savors marriages, deaths, ads, and quotation marks. She values facts over editorials, reads poetry as duty, and ends convinced she could craft the perfect paper.
A New York Post summary notes England would have twelve million workers if land were as evenly distributed as in France, but actual subsistence counts three million. The piece links low trade and misery to land distribution and contrasts the vulnerability of workers with German farmers, urging reform while questioning the poorer classes' resolve and landholders' willingness.
Horace Means Windham Iowa a young lawyer faced public exposure as a forger before marriage plans could proceed. The startled bride fled as word spread and Means disappeared after hiring a horse and riding away. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised as a universal healer with a money back guarantee available from Jerome Allen.
An old advertisement praises Dr Kings New Discovery as a universal cough and lung remedy. It claims over a million bottles used in a year and offers trial bottles for ten cents and regular bottles for a dollar, with endorsements from Jerome Allen of Greencastle and a second note for Piso's Cure.
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