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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1880
Page
3
A collage of short sayings and captions from New Orleans Picayune and other papers. It includes remarks on signs and prosperity, a tongue in cheek on lawyers and honesty, notes about Texas crafts, and assorted witticisms about youth, aging, temperance, love, and everyday life.
Count Telfener, reputed Italy’s wealthiest, has resigned his Foligno deputy seat and plans to live in Paris where he will open a bank. He already owns the Maccao Palace and the Royal Villa renamed Villa Ada, with holdings and royal properties rumored to be sold.
In western Kansas regions prone to drought a grain called Egyptian or rice corn is tested as a corn substitute for stock feed. Seed from a Egyptian government display, it grows like sorghum, yields 60-75 bushels per acre first year and 40-45 in a dry second year. It tolerates wet and dry seasons and may reduce eastern shipping of fattened stock.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a tent cider vendor bested by a rival who sold the same drink outside for half price by tapping the barrel. The tale links to a larger warning about Germany and American petroleum interests, ending with a poem fragment about rain and sun.
A New York woman helps a dissolute ex-convict beguile his hunger by offering a meal. The man, Jim Floyd, sees a resemblance to his child, pleads for mercy, and recalls his prison past. Six months later he writes from Pottsville, saying his daughter saved him from relapse and he died returning home.
In Burlington Hawkeye a writer mocks the abolition of Georgia's State Geologic Department noting a taxed householder knocked down may not know if the blow came from an aerolite or basalt, suggesting this harms the victim's cross examination.
The city’s population is about twenty five thousand comprising Mohammedans Christians and Jews with Jews forming the largest community.
New Mexico reports a major gold find in Las Placitas. The street pavements allegedly contain rich ore on a rock ledge yielding 3 500 to 5 000 dollars per ton. The vein runs eighty four feet wide for 9 000 feet length, suggesting a potentially enormous gold output once processed.
In a village scene Deacon Descon Wilder praises Hop Litters for keeping his family well with low doctor bills. A New York physician claims a kidney disorder patient was cured by Prof. Guiltette's French Kidney Pads. A Niles Michigan murder case ends with a fourteen year old boy confessing after years of suspicion.
For thirty years the Balsam of Wild Cherry has been sold widely with no complaints. It is praised as the best remedy for coughs colds consumption bronchitis asthma and lung diseases by druggists and the public alike. A separate note mentions George Walker facing prosecution in Philadelphia for marrying his niece under the Pennsylvania law about marriages within a family. No decision yet.
The ad endorses Dr Guysett's Yer Dock and Sarsaparilla to heal skin diseases by improving blood and liver health. It argues external treatments are temporary and promotes a thorough internal remedy for lasting cure. It also reports a Shelbyville Kentucky murder, describing the convicted ex convict killer and the victim as a young girl in a particularly atrocious crime.
An ad urges immediate use of Dr. Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla to cure blood and skin diseases and liver and urinary troubles. In Jefferson Wisconsin Mrs. Mack faces murder trial as a bouquet praising her innocence is removed from the courtroom after a judge rules it must be taken away despite a lawyer protest.
Many people assume 25 cent cough balsams are best but Dr Wistar s Balsam of Wild Cherry offers eight times the quantity and often a single dose cures a cold. It is touted as the quickest cure for deep seated colds and consumption with real estate ads and a note about Port Grape Wine used for invalids.
A vintage ad notes Reed's gilt edge tonic marketed as a malaria preventer. It promotes a complete stock of Queensware and Glassware at low prices from George Wyso ngs at the northwest Public Square corner.
To all who are suffering from the er rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c., I will send a recipe that will cure you, Free of Charge. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a self-addressed envel ope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman,tation New York City, l950
Charles Schneider once trusted by John Grossius marries his daughter and gains a 10 percent share. He becomes cruel and embezzles funds, while family safety grows at risk. The piece also advertises Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and cites mortality statistics comparing prosperous and poor people.
An 1860s advertisement touts pure four-year-old port wine by Speer as a medical tonic aiding digestion diuresis skin health and nervous debility while denying alcohol content. It notes hospital and physician use and lists Allen's Drug Store as a retailer.
An 19th century ad promotes Herman's Prickly Ash Bitters as a remedy for indigestion. The copy claims years of public use, thorough testing, and full satisfaction when taken as directed.
John T. Craig, proprietor on Main Street opposite Howe and Vermilion's, South Greenenette, advertises a stock of the choicest fresh and cured meats and promises delivery at all hours to any part of the city free of charge.
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