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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1880
Page
6
A moral sermon condemns a woman who renounces virtue, imagining her inner agony and ruined life. It contrasts despair with Christ's mercy and warns that divine justice follows sin and sorrow, urging repentance and self-examination.
The piece mockingly discusses blackberries once seen as brambles, praising a hardy Schneider variety bred from a green persimmon and dogwood, while noting downsides such as pests, cholera-like dangers, and a drastic, impractical method to thin vines. It ends with a joke about the blueberry color confusion.
A Quincy man wearing a wig for church was embarrassed when his two boys dabbed the inside of his hat with mucilage. Upon entering the church the hat came off with the wig, exposing his bald head as he walked down the aisle. The boys hid their laughter by stuffing caps in their mouths and bursting into giggles.
A short, clipped verse fragment mentions dowers books billing cops comin and going. It describes attendees going to church and voicing a vow, ending the note with a final line.
The wife of a wealthy Boston sugar refiner was caught stealing a lace shawl in a store. Her wallet was crammed with money, and her husband permitted her to spend freely.
A health pitch extols Dr Guycott’s ren Dock and Sarsaparilla for skin diseases, claiming temporary relief from outward treatments. It notes a Loganville Wisconsin marriage and a stabbing incident at the ceremony, plus Reed’s Gilt Edge Tonic to restore appetite. Also mentions Port Grape Wine touted by doctors for invalids and the aged.
A fragment lists Reed's Gilt edge Tonic as a fever and ague cure and sells Buckiem's Arnica Salve for skin injuries with a satisfaction guarantee. It mentions Jerome Allen as seller and includes stray ad-like lines about cheap hack fare and Hall's Balsam claiming to cure hacking coughs and colds.
Advertisement touts De Kixa's New Discovery as a speedy cure for consumption and related lung diseases. It claims wide doctor endorsement and journal approval, urging trial bottles for ten cents or a full bottle for one dollar, sold at Allen's Drug Store.
Undertaking specialists advertise a complete line of coffins caskets and burial robes in all sizes and styles with a guarantee of satisfaction.
A humorous collage of quips and anecdotes on tea and coffee as poisons, Fontenelle’s longevity claim, a milk donation scam, lost boys, underground telegraph wires, and moral exhortations for young men to earn bread. It blends witty exchanges with moralizing notes from period newspapers.
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