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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1880
Page
3
A dramatic vignette from London Society depicting unspoken longing and a faded life. A woman remembers a lost youth as a cynical man derides love and the memory of a jasmine wreath echoes through the scene.
In Thurman New York a widow Kate Stevens and Herbert Halstead marry after a tangle with family friends Nellie the child prompts a leap year proposal. The couple wed with Dr S conducting the ceremony and return home to a surprised household as Julia watches.
William Smoak, a 97 year old German patriarch in Orangeburg County South Carolina, has 13 children 189 grandchildren and 79 great grandchildren totaling 691 descendants with 575 living. His wife died years ago but saw her youngest child become a grandmother.
A nostalgic reflection contrasts past and present habits across weddings farming careers medical skill and transportation. It notes changes in fashion, injuries from mowing machines, sewing concerns, job ambitions, balloon dangers, washboard use, medical expectations, grain transport, and value judgments in promotions.
Henry Krause and George Augustus Depenton, both under sixteen, fought with pistols in Chicago over nationality. The quarrel ended with both wounded in a yard behind a saloon in a formal duel. Ayer's Hair Vigor promotes color growth and beauty with a harmless formula and lasting perfume. In Hillsboro Kentucky, a handsome man and a flirtatious woman at a window began a note only courtship and eloped, with the wife of Rev James A Caywood involved in the affair.
The article touts Day's Kidney Pad as a superior remedy for kidney disease and cites physician confidence and patient success. It includes assorted anecdotes about health cures, a suicide by starvation, a fraudster dine-and-dish incident, a fatal ram attack, and claims Hill's Buchy as the best kidney medicine.
The text notes Gen. Grant allegedly accepted the presidency of the San Pedro Mining Company, then reportedly withdrew. George William Ballou, promoter of the enterprise, presents Chant's acceptance letter to the Boston Herald.
A crowded page promotes Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry as a superior 25 cent cough remedy claiming higher potency and quicker cure. It also touts Thermaline for malaria at 25 cents per box and Dundas Dick Co medicines praised as pure and reliable. An ad for Reed's Giltbridge Tonic claims malaria prevention, plus a self help card offering a youth cure recipe from Rev. Joseph T. Inman.
A winter of 1846 drove prairie wolves from Southern Iowa into Missouri. A Ohio minister named Stephenson, visiting Adair County, became lost in a blizzard. He climbed a walnut tree as wolves closed in, endured three days watched by the pack, until a rescue party arrived. He later settled on the same land with prosperity, and his tale remains a family memory.
The Red Front Meat Market on Main Street opposite Trone Vermilion’s store in South Greencastle advertises fresh and cured meats with delivery around the clock in the city. No charge for wood delivery.
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