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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1881
Page
8
An advertisement urges parents to buy good shoes for children rather than for themselves. It promotes Christie's Shoe Store on Washington street as offering the best custom made footwear in the country and suggests bringing children for the best fit.
Community notices report Governor Porter visiting Greencastle on Wednesday and a lively Commencement Hop planned. Reports include horse shipments, social visits, a grand festival by the Good Templars, and a mayoral push to enforce tax laws. Occasional accidents and minor thefts accompany routine updates on crops, schooling, and local commerce.
Old Nell Giles a reputed Augusta fortune teller is described as a witch by local African Americans. A man named Joe Stevens seeks a cure for rheumatism, is told his illness comes from a blood curse, and travels to church where he fatally stabs Ray Richardson after following Nell’s handed‑shake instruction. The tale shifts to a convict in Kentucky amputating his own right hand and notes a Georgia family’s multiple twins and triplets.
An item listing notes exterminator supplies are discounted at Landes Drug Store, highlighting potato buy as a sale example.
An old advertising clipping touts New Domestic and Imported Williams items including laces ruchings ties fichues collars cuffs and handkerchiefs at Langdon's Bazaar. It promotes Bargains in Black Grass Grain Silks at the Cheap Corner Store and invites ladies to call at the Fancy Bazar for dress goods silks satins while praising Beck's designer and popular clerk.
The list shows W. A. Proctor Jacob Huffman Mrs Jane Ragan John Hammond James Tomilson Edward Browning James Matthews G H Cooper Mrs Mary Lucas W M C Blake each buying one Bent Wood Churn from F A Hiays. The entry notes buyers by name.
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