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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
2
The Mooresville Guide reports weekly community items from Mooresville including residents visiting relatives, church and social events, and political club renewals. Notables: Mrs. Elizabeth Swope hosts visitors, Gov. Dresslar’s wife plans Tennessee trip, and McKinley club reorganization with about 80 members.
Dan Hadley of Monrovia visited Mooresville Tuesday. Many Indianapolis guests such as Messrs Lewis Randall George Butler Cas Carter and Miss Archer stayed with local families. A large Indianapolis picnic attended by 26 cars went to Bethany. Community events included Children’s Day at the Christian church and a visit to attend a relative’s funeral.
About a dozen shoppers paid one dollar each Saturday afternoon for a so called electric belt said to cure all ills. They received a present and a printed guarantee but the vendor left town with the silver dollars, heading for the train back to Indianapolis.
A Brownstown I nd letter urges support for J Fr Bishop for Representative. Local Republicans push his nomination and plan political canvassing to energize the ticket. Signatories include Robt Rosceatr J E Overton F B Carlisle and others. The note ends by promoting Jersey Underwear and a local store.
The writer recalls Cascade Falls and wet farming delays while recounting Mooresville memories. He mentions Mrs Mary Carter widow of Amos Carter in decline and living with her brother HB Heiner, recalling old residents such as Mrs Peaply Neel Moore and Samuel Moore, founder of Mooresville. The letter closes with LL E Ballard signing.
An old advert claims a single Minute Cough Cure prevents consumption by curing throat and lung troubles. It touts immediate results and harmlessness, saying children like it and mothers endorse it. G W Bass.
Special Notices list several items lost such as a gold hooch pin with teal and vine design and an opal surround. a lady's back hair comb. Rewards offered for information or return. Also multiple sale offers for a residence in Mooreville and various farm loans and real estate offers. Names include GUIDE Ginn office Carter V. Carter Hubbard Mendenhall Thomas. Mooresville Indiana listed.
Passenger trains on the Pennsylvania Lines from Mooresville are listed with daily and Sunday schedules for east and west routes. Local ads promote sale items, groceries, gasoline stores, and medicines including One Minute Cough Cure and Dr King s New Life Pills. Also urged are Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and kidney remedies with claims of digestion and health benefits.
A traveler from Wallahoma writes of departing Indianapolis for Louisville then Nashville. He describes sleeping aboard, hearing a gospel hymn from a fourth floor hotel, viewing the state house and Polk’s tomb, and noting Nashville’s narrow streets and horse cabs run by Black drivers. He rides the train toward Murfreesboro, recalls the Nashville battlefields and a Union cemetery, and observes a desolate timbered countryside with few homes or cultivated fields.
Arrangements set for a special Indiana contingent train to Kansas City for the Democratic Convention. The Indiana Special departs Indianapolis at 3 30 p m Monday July 2 and arrives July 3 in time for the July 4 opening. Tickets on sale via Pennsylvania Lines with agents and W W Richardson in Indianapolis.
Notice announces the dissolution by mutual consent of the Almond & Hubbard partnership. Almond will continue the grocery business. Cons J Husparp. J H Arwond. The firm promoted Dresslar's and Stout's steaks as a feature, emphasizing first class goods and low prices.
Under the new schedule taking effect Monday June 18 train No 3 leaving Fort Wayne at 415 p m on weekdays will have a Sleeping Car from Fort Wayne to Petoskey and Harbor Springs. Train No 9 on the Fort Wayne Route gains a Sleeping Car connection at Fort Wayne for Northern Michigan resorts with reservations by letter or wire through Ticket Agent John F Ross Fort Wayne Ind.
A vintage ad claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve clears pimples eczema tetter erysipelas salt rheum and similar eruptions. It also purportedly cures cuts bruises burns boils felons ulcers and severe piles. Sold by G W Bass, Drogist, for 25 cents a box with a cure guaranteed.
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