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Fragmentary OCR note with scattered price codes and acronyms. Reads like a catalog or advertisement fragment listing numbers and cents for various items or licenses. No clear event or person identified.
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Newspaper
New Ross Mail
Location
New Ross, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1899
Page
13
Fragmentary OCR note with scattered price codes and acronyms. Reads like a catalog or advertisement fragment listing numbers and cents for various items or licenses. No clear event or person identified.
The Marion Chronicle condemns local building and loan societies as thieving institutions. It says Indianapolis has nurtured numerous swindles that robbed the borrowing classes of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The paper also criticizes fire and life insurers and fraternal groups for similar collapses and pitiful losses to the poor.
North Salem readers recounts of Brownsburg fiddlers contest with old favorites like Fisher's Hornpipe and The Girl I Left Behind. J. W. F. recalls two players Bill Henry and Ross Kyle delivering soulful bow work that stirred memories of home, family, and boyhood.
A Sarcastic sketch recalls a flashy advance man selling wild entertainment in Jamestown, followed by a humorous tale of a millinery auction where men bid on corsets and face powder. The piece catalogs travel fare offerings from Indianapolis to Philadelphia events and fraternal conventions, noting bargain round trips and various dates.
Aaron H. Culbertson and Aquillah Dill married Wednesday evening November 8 at 7:30 with Esquire Ferguson officiating. The couple will live on a Jamestown area farm. A Crawfordsville Journal correspondent praised Jamestown progress but claims misstate local needs fire protection takes priority over electric lights and water works. Rushed wording leads to confusion about the town’s church capacity and schools.
The Hendricks County Gazette chides Jas. D. White for planning a Danville saloon. It suggests he should instead open a drug store, detailing license costs and fewer restrictions, noting he could sell liquor at all hours and avoid opposition. It urges reconsideration and hints at a bitter fight over a saloon license.
Henry Thompson, about a mile east of Jamestown, was seriously hurt last Friday when his wagon with high sideboards toppled after wheels hit a railroad rail. He fell head first from the load, suffered a seven inch scalp wound and a fractured right rib, and remained unconscious briefly before medical aid arrived.
A man was dangerously hurt and carried home that evening by his son George. He suffered through the night and, by account, was improving rapidly.
A pitch requests names and addresses of three music teachers or performers on piano or organ and twenty five cents for full sheet music. It promises new pieces like The flower that won my Heart Mamie O Rourke March Manila and Dewey s march Two Step, played by the U S marine band, plus five other pages of popular music from Popular Music Co Indianapolis Indiana.
The piece by J W Lerman, author of Kaya Kaya Dance, is praised as highly catchy and irresistible like Georgia Camp Meeting. Regular price is 0e per copy, but readers can get a copy for 20e by mentioning this paper and sending payment to Union Mutual Music Co. at 20 Eldth Street, New i.
A rustic man calls on farmers offering giant corn ears five to eight times normal size. He claims the seed came from his brother abroad and offers to sell a whole ear for $2. Buyers later find ordinary corn. ears are glued from cut sections to appear huge.
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