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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1870
Page
3
The Kokomo Journal notes ongoing street cleaning and Sabbath school attendance, new businesses and property activity, a planned Democratic paper by Turpen, and religious revivals. It reports floor-level civic concerns, building projects, repairs, and community events including baptisms and lectures with local leaders and merchants referenced.
Noblesville preserves a City Wall while Indiana counts 92 counties. New York City items drop 25 percent. Peru hosts temperance meetings weekly. Anna Dickinson to lecture in Logansport in May. An elderly man named Marshall drowned near Peru last week. The Indiana House of Refuge holds 105 inmates. Erie Canal delayed to May 15. Methodist State Convention set for Oct 18 19 20. A Good Templar lodge aids Westfield. Mishawaka plagued by burglars. Kinnan makes speeches in Richmond defending himself. Clay county miners earn 3 to 5 dollars daily. Two men races at Niles with a 2000 dollar swing. Indianapolis papers publish aging local items. Under 21 barred from billiards in Richmond.KK Kokomo inquiries. Hon G P Morton thanks for Congress speech copy. Gen Brinkerhoff of Ohio lectures on Land Reform in north Indiana. New Castle Court House cost 116000, higher than others. Rumor Brick Pomeroy to seek Congress in Morrissey district. Methodist Episcopal South General Conference set for Memphis May 4.
Readable fragments show church communion figures, charitable thanks, and a flurry of ads. Items include medical and temperance praise, shop pitches from Davis Co and Coate Teague, lectures by Miss Dickinson and Kraus Rosenthal, eclipse preparations, Simon Stern clothing offers, a soda fountain for sale, and a jewelry dealer hawking Seth Thomas items. Tax figures note P F W C R paid 1451.44 to Kosciusko county.
Local items include a wanted 50 pieces rag carpet for Chase of Ohio and Jenkins of Georgia, a jail burning in Googhe Eye Gulch Nevada prompting prisoner removal, grocery price drop at J. M. Leeds, gardening goods at Dryden & Co, and a Me kden hall photograph offer. Also mentions Dr Wonder not detailed and Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy offered by R V Pierce Buffalo NY with $500 reward for cure.
The piece notes that the Dest Sewing Machine uses one thread, avoiding complex gear for two threads. It sews directly from the spool, removing the need to re-wind thread and adjust a shuttle, and lists thirty-three other reasons why Wilcox & Gibbs is superior according to the published Grand Trial report.
John Nelson announces the Y T S Tus Livre Converan for May with bright content for children and families. Sewell and Miller of Chicago offer the magazine at one dollar a year, promising charm and new features for young readers.
John Welson's C V T S and The Indianapolis Penn and Chicago Railway Co reduce their Local Passenger Tariff effective May 1 1870. A ten cent discount applies to ticket purchases. See notice and Passengers Tariff J at the Depot. J C Twomorgson Asst Superintendent
John Nelson reports the Rice divorce case in Boston, alleging fraud by a 22 year old groom who says his bride aged 87 deceived him with Magnolia Balm. The piece flirts with indulgent satire, questions indicting Hagan, and mocks cosmetic claims while praising beauty products and horses and the gendered charm of pearly complexions.
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