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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1898
Page
4
Western capitalists reportedly consider forming a company to produce first class bicycles at low prices. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised as a first class remedy for the stomach liver and kidneys. The note ends with a quip about advice from a lady writer and male folly.
Three young men in Paris propose a song writing scheme with Alfred de Musset as author Hippolyte Maupon as composer and Gilbert Duprez as singer. They pitch a song to a music store, are paid fifteen francs, and the piece Connaissez-vous dans Barcelone becomes a hit earning the publisher about forty thousand francs.
A garbled OCR style list presents quirky terms and mismatched definitions. The items feature odd spellings and partial phrases such as Divorce as a pun on matrimony and antimony, with references to memory, theater, roads, and a social show figure description.
In Detroit, Max Ro Davies of Co bh 1st sergeant details his four year battle with chronic dyspepsia. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for relief after trying many remedies and hot water treatment. Pills sold by dealers or by mail for 50 cents a box, six for 2.50 from Dr. Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.regon has re elected Congressman Tongue.
Indiana oil fields report eight more operations in June with increased production and 54 wells drilling. Broad Ripple led in completions and output, Wabash County ranked second. price trends eye 73 cents to a dollar as operators await July. Missionary notes from Huntington report Wilberforce family freed after ransom payment following West Africa massacres.
Patents were issued to several Indianians including Alice R. Bishop of Atlanta for a tablecloth support and John H. Harting of Indianapolis for a railway turntable. Others listed include Thomas A. Cole Indianapolis cigar tip cutter Ensley H. Cumins Bluffton wrapper covering Edwin Finn Elk Hart scale fulcrum and bearing Frederick Grote Huntingburg dirt scraper Anna A. Youngs Williamsport hammock frame and more. Terre Haute special. A funeral for Private Charles Caton of the One Hundred fifty ninth Indiana drew civic groups and veterans from two G R posts and many organizations to the service.
Maud confesses she married out of spite. Clarice notes Maud said if no other man would propose she would bind herself to no other girl. Philadelphia North American notes the unconventional motive in a social anecdote.
An advertisement claims catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease best treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure is said to act on blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials offered. Sold by Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio at 75 cents.
An old newspaper snippet advocates blood cleaning as essential in daily life. It praises Cascarets Candy Cathartic as the best purifier and urges readers to use them, linking general housekeeping to blood health. The piece concludes with an unrelated remark about straw hats indicating wind direction.
The Man hattan Oil Company's activity on the Templeton farm began with 200 barrels, alongside another farm starting at 259 barrels. The readings suggest a field of notable size in that region.
Hiram Starr of Bartlettsville was shot and killed eight miles east of here near Heltonville on Tuesday afternoon. Starr had twice attempted to assault Mrs. Covey at her home while Perry Covey was away, and he was shot during the arrest attempt after resisting. Deputized men, including Perry Covey and nine others, pursued Starr. He died soon after from the wound.
James Cortes and James Winslow added a new item to their menu Tuesday a five foot rattlesnake killed near town. They dressed cooked and tasted the meat calling it excellent and claiming it tastes like fish despite being a cold blooded reptile.
A group of New York capitalists plans an electric street railway from Elwood through Tipton and Noblesville to Indianapolis. Much right of way is secured and surveys start next week for grade plans. The forty mile line would run parallel to the Lake Erie and Western Railroad with electric traction and an expected speed of twenty miles per hour. The Elwood segment is already built and projectors aim to complete extensions before winter.
The will of the late Luther Benson has been admitted to probate in Indianapolis. His entire estate was left to his wife Anna Benson who was named executrix and qualified. Estimated value of the estate is about 30008 with realty at Woodruff Place and farm property in Rush County.
Milton Thomas a well known farmer from near Morton was seriously injured Monday when a folding bed he occupied collapsed. He was found unconscious and may have sustained paralysis from the diaphragm down with serious spinal trouble feared.
Advertisement touts Grain-O as a grain based drink for children replacing tea or coffee. It claims Grain-O tastes like coffee yet costs about a quarter and is sold by all grocers. Also notes China holds rich quicksilver deposits.
George Isley of Tippecanoe County cut down a large oak and found three huge blacksnakes sixty feet up in a limb. He killed all of them. The snakes measured twenty feet in total.
News arrives in Noblesville that Dr J C Joliff and his son, traveling from Sheridan with eight others toward the Kiondike gold region, perished when a large ice cake crushed their boat on a swift mountain stream. Only six survivors. Dr Joliff aged 36 had long practiced dentistry in Sheridan. His son French had just graduated from Sheridan High School. Mrs Joliff was visiting Roanoke, Virginia. New church in Geneva dedicated.
An ad-style snippet touts Kemp's Balsam as stopping a cough instantly with an offer of a free sample bottle. It notes availability in 2 and 50 cent sizes and warns that delays are dangerous. A separate line suggests a youth courting a tall girl with lofty ambitions.
A sequence of terse notes reports an alligator captured in the St Joseph River, petitions by Vincennes residents for a curfew law, the Bedford based Southern Indiana Express Company organizing, locusts appearing in Southern Indiana, a wounded 8S. Fister from La Luisana Cuba linked to Jefferson-Wile, former Laporte teacher Helen Blythe to wed a full-blooded Indian in Sacaton Arizona, Wesley Chapel in New Albany set to mark eighty seven years on July 17, Arthur Jones and Abe Morris stealing a livery rig at Reynolds, and E K Burkett of Jamestown Press arrested and purchasing the New Ross Mall to merge with the Press.
Advertisement invites farmers to sell or buy farms using the Cuas M Cross & Co address in Indianapolis. The rest of the clippings feature quotes and patent medicine lines without coherent news content.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen nervous hot feet, tight shoes, blistered skin, and bunions. It claims quick cooling relief, rest and comfort, and lists trials and testimonials with a 25 cent price and free trial.
A short health note claims Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels daily and aids liver and kidneys for health. It asserts it cures headaches and mentions price Ze and We. It also remarks on laws made by men who have "barely escaped" the law's clutches.
Offers routes Twest to West South and Southwest with connections to Kansas City Omaha and Los Angeles. Describes Pullman vestibuled sleepers and chairs and round trip excursions. Travel agent G A A Deane Jr in Indianapolis provides rates maps and pamphlets. A concluding quip notes women credit others with judgment when they share dislike for the same person.
All Monon Route trains now halt at the Forty-seventh street station in Chicago. Tickets will be sold and baggage checked to that point, with rapid connections to the southern portion of the city and quick access to the Union Stock Yards in seven minutes.
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