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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
2
A new shop announces its opening offering groceries and canned goods with promotional signs praising the store as the best place to buy. The brief mentions a 1920s style stock and a festive launch atmosphere.
A fragmented OCR snippet mentions bans and a street name but is largely unreadable with missing context and unclear subjects. The readable bits hint at an administrative action affecting a location and date, but details are not provided.
Readers report grocery deals at Over ton s and Taggart s oysters. Miscellany items include stray clothing marks, lost shirts and collars labeled 417. Several scattered names and places appear, with uncertain spellings and garbled phrases from a locally sourced page.
A poetic meditation on aging cities and forgotten crowds. The speaker laments a city decayed by time where no pilgrims come, no audiences wait, and weary watchers fear undisclosed disasters as hours drag on. Arthur Simous in Athenanumn.
Fragmentary report details a political convention and precinct activity with names such as McPherson Cooter and Abe Pherscdp. The text mentions votes, vetoes, and local precinct concerns, with scattered references to town and phase events and individuals.
A post office inspector recounts uncovering a mail theft scheme at Shelby led by the three staff members, focusing on a father and his two daughters. After weeks of covert work the inspector exposes the two daughters as the culprits using clandestine letters, revealing a hidden romance and indirect access to bags and boxes. The case ends with public belief in the daughters’ innocence after a contrite confession and reconciliation.
A medical critique warns that handshakes spread microbes from tubercle bacilli to scarlet fever and diphtheria, arguing clean hands still risk transmitting disease. It cites Breiter and multiple bacteria, urging caution and possible modification of the custom.
A child named Freddy frets over choosing the largest cake at dessert. He hesitates, then begins to cry as his mother asks why, and he fears scolding for selecting the biggest portion.
A Berlin gown features a mouse gray reception toilet with figured embroidery and openwork rosettes. The waist uses satin plaits over a jabot of yellow guipure lace, with a garland neck and braided silver accents, while the sleeves flare into a spiral form.
A fragment references a Boston newspaper, the Boston Courier, noting curiosity about its past. The line hints at time passage and interest in what idt may mean in era-specific contexts.
An Exchange column argues that young children raised in America lose the allure of Europe and that faster steamers erode European glamour. It suggests that bringing up children domestically yields stronger American identity and that the appeal of travel fades as speed improves.
Miss Sharpleigh retorts to a young man who stole a kiss. He asks why she wouldn’t box his ears and she replies she has no box large enough. Chicago News.
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