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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1879
Page
3
A dense list of local items including sales reports, upcoming lectures, church notices, and business advertisements. References to Dr Wiley lecture, Rob erts Chapel services, Hog market updates, Pinafore at Opera House, and several community notices. Mentions of land sales, insurance settlements, and a call to fix sidewalks with multiple names and places.
A quarterly meeting scheduled for Locust Street Church was postponed for two weeks. The issue follows a long list of local notices including railroad development, agricultural society officers, and various court and civic actions in Putnamville and surrounding towns.
The Register notes Cole Bros. and Johnson, Kansas City transplants, head a leading Sherman business with 21 teams and 30 to 35 workers, selling 80 000 to 100 000 feet of rod annually. They back up contracts with indemnity guarantees totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and recently paraded their outfit for the spring campaign.
A board of eminent physicians and chemists announced a discovery claiming a medicine produced by combining known remedies would cure a wide range of diseases. Skeptics were convinced after trial, and Hop Bitters is now honored as a benefactor. Brat tin's received a carload of clocks and new silverware at reduced prices, plus a note about the alligator in winter sleep.
Advertisement notes a free nearly 100 page octavo book for the sick from Murray Hill Pub Co. The tract covers Scrofula breathing diseases heart troubles and other illnesses. It claims many cases are curable and invites requests for one stamp. Address No 120 B 2th Street New York City.
The page notes the Opera House show on Saturday March 16 and praises the opera for its refined entertainment. It also lists local ads for Lake Salt from Abrams Wysong, carpet shipments at Talaurt’s, and Dr Price’s Flavoring Extracts. Franklin Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis reports strong local business prospects and prompt loss payments.
Dr. Price is portrayed as an expert in Culinary Chemistry and Steele & Price as his research results. The Cream Baking Powder is highlighted as a key discovery enabling light, sweet biscuits and cakes with certainty.
The Fifth Avenue company presents Her Majesty’s Ship Pinafore at the Grand Opera House next Monday evening with a famed New York musical director Alfred Simpson leading a 30 strong chorus. Reserved seats available at Benham’s and the libretto for sale there at 15 cents.
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