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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1881
Page
2
A patchwork of quotes and jests features advice to business men, witty quips on hiring and marriage, notes on a 1000-year-old Viking ship find in Norway, and satirical lines about education, cremation, and elocution. It includes a tale of a bigamist Philadelphia girl and humorous backcountry postings from several papers.
In this passage Pope declares he will give while living, saying he can afford to give a hundred pounds yearly and derive joy from others’ enjoyment. He argues he would be ashamed to leave only monuments when a friend remains in need. The line is cited to immortalize Pope beyond his verse.
Two Bridgeport boys opened a street letter found four dollars, $800 in railroad bonds inside, and returned the bonds to the owner. He paid them forty five cents and warned them they could have been arrested for opening the envelope. The ad section promotes Parker's Ginger Tonic and Hop Bitters while praising Speer's Port Grape Wine as a superior medicinal and table wine.
A Guilford Connecticut resident reports thirty five years of dyspepsia eased by the first dose of COE S Dyspepsia Cure. Another testimonial from Paducah Kentucky cites eleven months confinement in Libby Prison and two years of dyspepsia cured after using the same remedy.
The Letitia Street residence once built by William Penn for his daughter Letitia, now a saloon, has been sold to J A Janney who plans tearing it down to extend a neighboring warehouse. The Penn mansion, also a saloon, faces failed purchase efforts. The Pennsylvania Historical Society may receive the Letitia House with permission to raze and move it. Geo W Childs offers to fund its relocation to parkland in original style if identity is confirmed.
A Providence Journal excerpt condemns rampant advertising that mars scenery and cemeteries. It cites a Memorial day circus wagon intrusion and quotes Dr E Woodruff promoting home remedies for illnesses with sal soda baths and oil treatments, urging public caution and skepticism.
An article contrasts royal mail conveyances with a simple black Newfoundland dog used on Great Western trains. The dog, a dignified postal servant, retrieves mail from the platform and delivers it to the post office three or four blocks away. The piece ends with a quoted gloss on language and learning from Brooklyn Eagle.
Advertisement touts Ayer's Hair Vigor as restoring gray hair to natural vitality and color. It claims harmless, effective results with gloss and youth, thickening thin hair, curbing hair loss, and promoting new growth where glands remain healthy.
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