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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
3
Thomas Carroll an agent for the Terre Haute Brewing Company at Martinsville and manager of a local ice plant was arrested in Chicago after returning from the Dakotas recently. He faced several thousand dollars in indebtedness from months earlier.
A fragmented historical ad text promotes Dr Kay's Lung Balm for la grippe with testimonials from Miss Nellie Penoyer of Omaha and Rev J F Wehlfarth, plus a note on Dr Kay's Renovator for dyspepsia and constipation. It claims quick relief and advocates buying from the Dr. B J Kay Medical Co Omaha Nebraska. A Thomaston citizen is described painting his house in patriotic colors.
The passenger department reports resumed operations with double daily solid trains from Cincinnati Chicago Louisville Evansville and St Louis to Nashville Memphis Birmingham Montgomery Mobile Pensacola and New Orleans. Also double daily Pullman Buffet sleeping car service from northern cities to Jacksonville Florida.
The piece notes soft velvet turbans with side plumes and all fur muffs as fashionable this season. It says coats are longer and feature very high collars, with Medici styles influencing both dress and mantles.
Three boys Fred Jones Roy Willits and Jesse Williams climbed the Indiana State Capitol, reached the roof and tried to pry copper sheets before custodian staff contained them. They were arrested for malicious trespass and turned over to police.
Patents granted to Kerr Barnett of Manchester for a washing machine. John Burton of Anderson for a machine to clean and polish metal plates. Forest Gauntt of Fort Wayne for keeping bolting cloth meshes clean. Humphrey Harrington of Indianapolis for bicycle chains. James W. Jacobs of Jeffersonville for a bicycle brake. John W. Merry of Mount Ayr for a drip trough. James B. Schuman of Columbia for a pneumatic straw stacker.
A Tuesday special election approved a twelve mile stone ballast road project in four sections centered in this township by a WL majority. The plan will connect local routes and improve transportation once completed.
In the Indiana field producers fear Chicago interests will retire the Standard Oil branch and form a single local company. An estimated value of property changed hands accompanies talk of a practical monopoly, with Standard paying 41 cents per barrel and pressure to steam crude before shipping.
President Smart told the governor that Purdue University researchers found beets at Hamiet in Starke county Indiana yield 22 percent sugar in the juice. He noted higher than the 12 to 13 percent typical in France and Germany and said 42 experiments are underway with a forthcoming sugar beet bulletin detailing results.
Ernest P. Bicknell resigns as secretary of the State Board of Charities after 30 years to become general superintendent of Associated Charities of Chicago. The move leaves a vacancy and prompts new Indiana and Chicago charity leadership considerations.
The township outlines a complete macadamized road system with an estimated cost of 29,767 dollars 28 cents. The proposal covers rebuilding and widening streets to improve transportation and accessibility within the municipality.
Charles E Clark of this city is recovering at Knightstown after a railroad accident. As a brakeman on a Pennsylvanian fast freight he found a hot box and attempted to grease the journal. He slipped from the car and held to a handrail as the train climbed a hill, nearly toppling but saved from serious injury. No bones were broken. Indiana's New Chief Justice James McCabe leaves after reorganization and Timothy E Howard named chief justice of the Supreme Court. W D Robinson becomes chief judge of the appellate court. Anderson report notes Pete McConville and Frank Merritt, Indiana glassworkers, earned about 15440 each from a Juneau strike.
The Greensburg court convicted Harry, alias Shandy Hawkins, of attempted murder. A Warsaw dispatch claiming a North Manchester strike was false. Elkhart resident William Corner was attacked by highwaymen and robbed of $57. Pendleton glass-works workers resumed after an agreement favoring senior employees. Brownstown grand jury indicts Frank Corye for murder linked to Mrs. Eben Banks’s October death. venue change to Bartholomew county has been granted.
An advertisement urges women to seek early repair for ovarian trouble. It touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as restoring normal function and cites a testimonial from Mrs. E. L. Myrrs of Quakake, Pa. Readers are invited to write to Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Mass for free advice.
An article compares the human body to a machine and urges rest after overwork. It touts St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for neuralgia, claiming many testimonials support its efficacy. The piece ends with a misprinted line about Crete's population in 18 percent era.
An editorial bundle extols Cascarets as missionary medicine to purify body and mind, linking cleanliness to spiritual virtue and charity. It warns that a sinner’s constipation and sour stomach separate him from God and suggest using the laxative to restore grace. A stray stat notes Chicago public school attendance at 13,400, up from last year.
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease and offers One Hundred Dollars for any case it fails to cure. It notes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and urges sending for testimonials while promoting Hall's Family Pills.
In this item the wife and secretary of a renowned violinist assists with his affairs and money matters amid a discussion of misery from inactivity and bile affecting health, recommending Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for various ailments. The Shah of Persia is noted with a jeweled tobacco pipe.
An ad promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains. It claims safety for children and adults, a mocha like color, and a price of 15 cents per package. Sold by all grocers.
An old advertisement promises Kemp's Balsam will stop a cough immediately with a free sample bottle from a druggist. The ad notes bottles priced at five and ten cents. A separate brief reports John Rollings Jr of Cicero, aged twenty five, killed by cars while returning from Indianapolis.
A collage of advertisements and notices notes British soldiers marching pace, a kneejerk cure claim for nerve restoration, a Vermont farmer defrauded of berries, cold remedies and patent cures, consumer goods claims, weathered price tags, and speculative debts in Austria and Japan. The text mixes medical, commercial, and geopolitical snippets with dates and locales.
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