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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1880
Page
6
A collage of humorous notes and brief facts from various papers. Items mention German statistics on women and trains, global libraries, and odd quotes about manners, weather, and misfortune. The tone is brisk and picaresque with multiple named sources and scattered observations.
A reflection on luck versus hard work, urging integrity and continuous learning as the sure path to success. It cites patent counts across nations and notes the U S patent office workload while ending with a comical World War I era miscue about a private mistaken for cavalry in Petersburg.
A Stockton Mail report describes a twelve year old boy and a fourteen year old girl who ride all day among untamed cattle and hogs along the Stanislaus River. They rope calves and hogs, tie feet, pen the hogs, and redirect markets. They have ridden since infancy and along Tulare Lake bed remnant irrigation ditches grow wheat.
An ad touts Hill's Compound extract of Buchu and Cubebs as a permanent cure for lame back caused by kidney trouble, claiming three to four doses relieve severe cases. A separate brief notes an Illinois youth frightened by a new locomotive with a red smoke stack, running home crying claiming it is going to bust.
A sequence of property transfers, detailing buyers and sellers across townships such as Greencastle Washington Marion Jefferson and Franklin. Prices range from 170 to 8000 dollars for parcels including lots, acres, and fractional parts. Names include Prevance, Malinda Humphreys, Nancy Fisk, Harriett Easter, Alfred Pratt, Rollings, Samuel Stone, Alexander Bryan, George Quinnett, Robert Lockridge, D W Layman and others.
An advertisement touts Dr Kings New Discovery as a cure for coughs throat and lung ailments with claims of over one million bottles used last year. It also offers a free youth cure recipe from Rev Joseph Inman to men suffering nervous weakness and early decay.
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