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Newspaper
Sullivan Times
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1884
Page
1
J C Bartlett announces yearly rates for The Times. In county mail readers pay one dollar in advance. Noncounty or non prepaid subscribers pay one dollar fifty cents yearly, eighty cents for six months, or fifty cents for four months.
A barroom tale recalls a shambling elder in the liquor trade who counts daily receipts and speaks of gathering drinkers into his den of death. He claims to lead both old and young toward ruin as gin, rum, and whiskey lure them to scaffold, grave, or prison.
In an April Century piece Rev. Dr. Charles S. Robinson recalls an Easter service scene where a pastor, after a stirring sermon, asks for immediate offerings to clear debt. A German tenor’s comic declamation distracts from the solemnity, leaving townspeople amused and the event remembered for humor rather than devotion.
Paul Everson and May Brooks grow up united by family plans yet a forced separation over a fortune tests their bond. After years of sorrow May’s health and hope fade in Europe, until Paul, delayed by fate, finally arrives to reunite them in Switzerland where their wedding proceeds in a sunlit dawn.
Special Correspondent describes Mexico City from the Mexican Central RR last spike celebration to daily life. He notes climate, geography, architecture, canals and aqueducts, social classes, strict etiquette for women, and the dominance of Roman Catholicism with vast church wealth and state church taxes.
The article argues Emerson and Carlyle share a heroic sentiment and similar mental effects, both fostering courage self reliance and character. It contrasts their temperaments, noting Carlyle's wrath and melancholy against Emerson's serenity and hopefulness. It also warns readers against quack remedies and promotes Dr Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry as a lung remedy.
An agricultural audience complains of fatigue before spring work and is urged to buy five dollars worth of Ayer's Sarsaparilla for six bottles. The ad claims the medicine will refresh laborers and "pay compound interest on the investment."
John Mitchell of Meadow Brook Farm six miles from Newburgh N Y owns two three year old Holstein heifers Jamaica and Ethelka with calves that beat the milk records for the breed One animal has yielded 103 pounds of milk in a day and Jamaica produced 26 pounds 3 ounces of butter in a week Jamaica reportedly nearly twice the previous daily record and both cows show rich flavorful milk and high prolificity after their second calf sale offers include 15000 for Jamaica and her calf with Mitchell a retired New York merchant and former W J Sloan associate owning the pair.
The piece notes a spring surge of new doctors with 202 graduates on a single day at two New York colleges. Of these 202, 149 are allopathic and 53 homeopathic. It contrasts medical oversupply with the limited top opportunities, recalling Daniel Webster on legal room at the top and suggesting doctors and lawyers may be increasing as sickness and conflict rise.
A nineteen year old girl describes feeling head and stomach aches before using Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. The remedy is said to restore health with a clear complexion and bright eyes and is claimed to relieve ailments peculiar to female life.
The local Burlington Free Press hails a Western town lecture on the Ten Commandments as a novel and brilliantly original moral code. It suggests the talk will cause a wide stir once more broadly known.
The source states that hogs should lose around 15 percent of live weight in slaughtering, meaning the net dead weight should be about 5 percent of live weight, reflecting expected processing yields.
The document lists various commodity prices from Sullivan Inc dated March 25 1384. Tiny per ton at 36.00 Flour best family per barrel 5.60 Beef cattle fat per lb 3 to 4 cts. Cattle stock per lb 34 cts. Hogs fat per lb 6 cts. Hogs stock per lb 5 cts. Sheep per lb 3 4 cts. Corn per bushel 40 cts. Butter per lb 15 cts. Eggs per dozen 15 cts. Hens per lb 83 cts. Roosters per lb cts. Turkeys per lb 9 10 cts. Feathers per lb 20 40 cts. Ducks per dozen 3.00. Geese per dozen 5.50. Dried peaches per lb 4 cts. Dried apples per lb 44 cts. New potatoes per bushel 55 40 cts.
Market notes March to May show cattle lower in March and April with varying dairy prices. Hogs range for heavy and light, with steadier buren. butter and creamery dairy products quoted.</s>
The session shows uneven activity as New York stocks open with modest gains in select sectors. Traders note cautious sentiment ahead of earnings and economic data, with small caps and tech names showing mixed results in light trading.
Market notes show steady quotes for No. 2 wheat at 515/¢ and rye and barley prices with 65e for No. 2. April and May figures appear in a mixed Milwaukee listing, with symbols indicating futures or market codes and fragmented textual OCR.
Market notes show mixed bids with wheat firm at around 8.108, corn strong after a period, oats steady near 9.60, rye steady, and provisions steady at 18.60. Beef and pork futures display limited movement with cent values recorded for specific items.
In St Louis markets prices show mixed moves for grains and meats. Corn higher and lower lines shift with April and May figures. oats and rye steady to light. pork and bacon strong while dry salted meats stay quiet. steel and iron prices listed with small totals.
Fragmentary OCR data shows mixed spot and March entries with April figures, oars and western White listing prices and times. Mentions higher pace readings and a live higher at a 6S 71 time, with unclear affiliations or event names.
Fragmentary text record mentions regions and prices with garbled spelling. No coherent event or names to identify a clear news item or outcome.
D D Royce of Williams town Vermont argues that New England offers equal farming prospects. He claims land costs ten to twenty dollars per acre with homes sheds and woods. He notes Vermont raises sheep cows and horses valued at two thousand dollars each and milk production of five hundred pounds of butter annually.
The Indiana list reports patents granted to Theodore Hudnot Terre Haute for homing mill. Norman B Huffman Grant for gate. John B Hasendhr Terre Haute for gate latch. Horatio N Land and Howard Campbell Richmond for cylinder for clover hullers. Olaf R Olsen Indianapolis for pulley. Geo. W Pagett Oxford for speculum. Marrion Wallack and Jacob B Rohrer Cambridge City for railway crossing. Wm. McIvor Rochester for car coupling.
Burlington Slawkeye reports Mrs. Blake argues for expanded access, claiming half of the streetcar and sidewalk could meet her requests, highlighting ongoing discussions over public transit accommodations.
This article describes the James Ross method of making watch cases begun in 1854. It notes the process is patented and the James Ross Gold Watch Case is solid gold where worn parts are. The piece portrays the case as the STANDARD and invites readers to bend a 3 cent stamp to Keystone Watch Case Factories for a pamphlet.
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