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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
2
A local retailer promotes Mishawaka felt boots as the best value in footwear. The sale also advertises jackets and capes with a large stock available for customers looking to save money.
Fragmentary OCR shows an eastbound timetable with odd numbers and times around 1.38 p.m. and 2.15 a.m. The readable items mention trains East Bound and scattered numbers daily but lack complete details.
A miscellany in a nineteenth century style column offering frugal living advice. Notes urge buying locally to support home stores, teach values to children, and share humorous anecdotes about a Michigan girl emailing her mother. It ends by highlighting the Indiana Horticultural Society meeting in Indianapolis on December 6 to 8.
Dr Dupoury in a Paris journal classifies fruits into five types acid sweet astringent oily and mealy noting high value for certain fruits. He touts the grape cure urging a days long diet of grapes up to ten pounds to aid anaemic dyspeptic and consumptive patients and liver and gout disorders.
Local papers report unprecedented drunkenness on election day as long standing methods of influence resurface. Wire pulling and alcohol are cited as tactics to sway voters with limited access to ballots. The Thorntown Argus notes business leaders allowed tastings at their venues leading drunks past polling sites.
Marshall Faust of Whitesville, afflicted with typhoid fever, received a swift community aid as sixty friends with twenty teams husked and cribbed his 600 bushels of corn in about two hours. The Ladoga Leader praises neighborliness and the help as a blessing to the community. It reflects on the Bible question who is my neighbor and answers with deeds of timely assistance.
The Thorntown Argus notes the election is over and reports several hundred dollars will be spent on improving the office and building. The paper asks readers how they obtained the remaining funds and invites schemes that might help.
The text warns that teaching without a license is illegal and licensing requires examining written papers. It urges lawfulness and condemns undermining neighbors. It cautions businesspeople against harming others and advises silence when hearing criticism, noting consequences may rebound.
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