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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
1
A dense column of retail notes covers department store offerings. It lists fabrics, dresses, curtains, and novelties with prices, special items like new dresses, babies clothing, and undergarments, plus notices on moving stock and reorganizations.
Farmers in the area are urged to insure their barns and livestock with competitive rates. The service promises reliable coverage and suggests contacting regional providers for details on policies and payments.
The notice promotes a sale offering nice clean goods at low prices, claiming items were bought with tariff protection and that customers can save compared with future years. It emphasizes unseasonable, unsaleable stock cleared out.
An OCR fragment shows a local shop advertising women’s and men’s clothing and home textiles with prices such as 34 cents for women’s items, 81.08 for men’s wool shirts, 81.25 for bed blankets, and 25 cents for undergarments. The note mentions new cloaks and capes arriving soon and invites customers to view them before days end.
In a chaotic city dispatch a panic storm caused injuries and property damage. A horse kicked Adjutant General's son after horses spooked. exhibited goods suffered thousands in losses. Local residents, vendors, and shoppers endured the event while relief efforts began and the fair continued.
A Chicago Journal recounts a professor at a western university who analyzes suspected poisonings. He observes elderly husbands bring foods for testing to trap suspected wives, yet he almost never finds poison. The men fear discovery and leave quietly, convinced a cheap lab test reveals the crime.
Buklen's Arnica Salve offered as the best salve for cuts bruises ulcers sores and all skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price set at 25 cents per box and advertised for sale by Geo. W. Bass.
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