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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1881
Page
6
Local ad proclaims C J Kimble and Son as the county’s exclusive furniture and picture frame dealers. It urges customers to visit their Hathaway Block location for low prices on quality goods.
The Star reports Greencastle court adjourning today amid various local items. Notable notes include illnesses, travels, rentals, and community updates, with court actions and civil cases listed alongside livestock racing results and weather impacts on crops.
Shannon Kibbe y a 23 year old farmer from near Clinton Indiana died after falling from a train near Roachville while returning from the State Fair. He was intoxicated, was run over by an opposite train, and died within minutes. Five dollars and self photographs were found on him. Mr James C Smith and wife from Utica New York visited their son Frank Smith manager of the When for two weeks then returned home Wednesday.
Mrs. dom Craig nee Kistner known as Mary Powers died in Danville from fatty heart degeneration. Daughter of Hendricks county family she spent years as a traveling curiosity with circuses and sideshows before Barnum hired her for his museum in New York City. She and husband Craig once weighed about 1150 pounds combined. In Wausau Wisconsin an oil remedy claim is noted as successfully curing many supposedly incurable cases.
A scattered NCR-style digest recounts a fugitive Byron Wisconsin man who died by poison after surrender. notes on David Walk touring with Charles Spurgeon, a duel in New Mexico, and vivid vignettes including camels in the American Southwest, medical quackery, and local oddities across towns such as Maquoketa and Detroit.
Many people wrongly believe hops strengthen them and drink beer freely. The piece warns of a rebound weakness after temporary relief and promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a temperance tonic restoring health, with over 1,000,000 bottles sold in the United States this year.
Forty six year old remedy Marshall's Catarrh Snuff is praised for curing catarrh headaches and head congestion. The ad urges persistence for a permanent cure and warns of counterfeits, signed by F. C. Keith as general agent in Cleveland Ohio.
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