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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1900
Page
8
The notice urges readers to check the paper opposite their name to verify status and payment details. It states any errors will be corrected as a courtesy and directs examination of the dyte opposite each name. FRIDAY AUGUST 17 1900.
Millhousen and B Zapfe return from Kokomo after a week with son Joe. Louis Scheichler mourns a new baby girl. B Zapfe sells 7000 pounds of wool bought this spring and summer. Lena Huegel dies at Joseph Miller's home after months ill with consumption and is buried with Rev J P Giilig officiating. Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner his firm will pay one hundred dollars for cure of catarrh. Public notice ends with notary and patent medicine ads.
Westport news details residents traveling to Bedford Kentucky and Bent Harbor, visits by Anna Nicely and Mrs. Glasscock, typhoid illness in Hamilton and Smanley households, Dr. Joe Chrisler’s extended stay, a marriage of John McCullough and Effie De Lappe, the death of Delilah Redington from injuries, and a Grain-O testimonial from Genessee Pure Food Co. in Le Roy New York.
A sequence of titles shows transfers from C Castor to John Castor in Saltererk township for 300 dollars and numerous other property sales. Transactions include parcels in Clinton Rhin city Adairy Barney and Washington and Fugit townships with prices ranging from 150 to 4 000 dollars.
Readers hear J. W. Gardner of Shawneetown claim Electric Bitters restore strength and appetite after stomach liver and kidney troubles. He reports renewed vigor and appetite, ending with a warning that the product is available at Grover Bonner's for fifty cents per bottle with a guarantee.
The column lists residents visiting and traveling activities including J G Davis at the Capital, Ed Samuels buying a rubber tire buggy, John Simmons hauling logs for Bower sawmill, Robison & Davis shipping stock to Queen City, and various visits and farm movements. Also mentions church, cattle trade in Chicago, a sermon by Rev Blocker, plan to attend Vernon association, and local sales of Schilling's Best baking powder by Marsh & West.
A mother recounts how Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved her dysentery stricken daughter last summer. She urges other mothers to know of the medicine and notes it would have reduced suffering had it been available earlier. Also announces a Republican mass convention at McKelvey school house in Jackson township on August 25 1900 to nominate local officials.
Civil war veteran G B Stead of Newark Michigan suffered ulcers for twenty years until Bucklen’s Archica Salve cured him. The ad touts Bucklen’s Salve for wounds and skin ailments and its pile cure, with Grover and Bonner druggists selling it for twenty five cents a box.
Notices show trustees from Clay Clinton Washington and other townships listing weekly locations and days to conduct township business. Various offices and residences are named with trustees such as Oscar B Trimble W A Williams Cassius Lowe A F Eubane and W G Updieke. some entries mention Saturdays and midweek sessions.
A new time card for the Big Four rail line becomes effective Sunday April 29 1900 with changes to the going east schedule. The notice outlines adjustment to departure times and service alignment for eastbound travelers.
Fragmentary lines show partial train or tram notation with numbers and accommodation terms. The readable items include times 9:35 am and reference to numbers 7230 401 6405 404 and the word accommodation. The text is garbled and lacks clear route names or locality.
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