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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1899
Page
1
Entered at the James Town Indiana post office as second class matter. Published weekly on Friday with subscription rates: one year fifty cents, six months at twenty five cents. Rates require strict cash in advance with no credit and a stop when time paid for expires.
Jamestown merchants push discounts on glassware watches clothing and footwear. Houk Bros Camplin’s and D C Smith advertise shoes blankets dressers and ready wear while Jamestown Roller Mills offers premium for wheat. Belfield cloaks and capes featured with New York store dress goods.
The page catalogs discounts at multiple stores from New York overcoats to millinery, clothing, and groceries with a health warning about traveling quacks and scammers. It notes a community pie social, school events, and a looming dedication for a new school building while urging readers to protect themselves from sharpers and fake doctors.
Wheat looks well and sick regain strength while whooping cough runs high in the area. Higgins Bros. build double cribs for Frank Beck. Baptists plan to reroof Pisgah church on Thursday. M. O. Love and family attend Wells reunion at Advance. Mrs. Farlow and son visit Sam Lasley. Swisher seeks return of a borrowed razor. J. W. Stone, finger partially amputated, improves after mistreatment. Mrs. Charles Martin returns from Lebanon visit.
A terrible explosion occurred in a Brownsburg mill yesterday, instantly killing four men and seriously injuring others. Details were not learned. Previous notes show visits and relatives in nearby towns including Crawfordsville Marion New Ross and Winchester as scattered mentions.
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