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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
2
Local Mooresville Guide weekly column lists residents events attendees and social notes. Names include Miss Cooley Carter Calvert West Indiana and Bloomington visitors. mentions fairs reunions club meetings and parish guests with several Indianapolis trips and town socials.
Martinsville and nearby towns report a string of visits and travels. Residents including Cosand, Robbins, Day, Spencer and Morrison move between Indianapolis, Martinsville, Danville and other localities. A horse theft is investigated, retail ads push sales, and church and social events tie into weekly schedules.
Lawyer E B Monday of Henrietta Texas touts Electric Bitters as a life saving cure after his brother recovered from malaria and jaundice. The advertisement claims the remedy purges disease germs purifies blood aids digestion and regulates organs. Only 29 cents at Bass Drug Store.
For sale five wood milk cans and a buck board wagon with harness. An advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure claiming it digests all foods and relieves stomach troubles. Names included are Bo Mendenhall and J T Thornbursh. G W Bass endorses the product claim.
Professor Houton cites ten years of travels showing Green's August Flower widely used for dyspepsia liver stomach and constipation. He claims it helps tourists and salespeople with headaches and irregular habits and notes it does not harm the system with frequent use. Free sample bottles at Bass Drug Store. Sold by dealers worldwide.
Classified notice reports a demand for 5 000 hides at Kay’s tannery. Mentions K Earnest and emergency supplies sent by a church society to soldiers in the Philippines. Also cites DeWit Witch Hazel Salve as a remedy and references to ice cream at Taggart’s.
Poisonous toadstools resembling mushrooms have caused deaths this year. Advertisements urge choosing genuine DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. The ad promotes safety and cures for piles belching sour stomach and bowel regulation, with Hornaday selling the products.
Dr A Wellett of Williford Ark reports a railroad laborer with a crushed foot was quickly cured by Bucklen’s Arnica salve. The ad touts it as excellent for burns boils piles and all skin eruptions with cars guaranteed, 25 cents, sold by G W Poses.
Excursion tickets at a low rate will take visitors to the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis via Pennsylvania Lines from September 17 through 22. Highlights include horse races corn show short horn cattle show and fruit and vegetable displays. Return coupons valid to September 26 with a peak return from Spencer and nearby stations.
Special Notices outline free four line notices in this column with charges for longer lines. The page lists numerous ads: for sale items such as a patent rocker oak crib and baby walker, a house and lot on East Hash Street, a Jersey cow, a new up to date binary, and rental rooms. Also listed are loans on improved farms, money to loan at low rates, and notices about real estate trades and farm equipment.
Under the Grand Rapids Indiana Railway schedule effective Monday June 16 Train No 3 will run a Sleeping Car from Fort Wayne to Petoskey and Harbor Springs. Train No 9 will offer a Sleeping Car connection at Fort Wayne for Northern Michigan resorts, with reservations via Ticket Agent John E. Ross in Fort Wayne Indiana.
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