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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1875
Page
2
Local notices describe advertising rates per month and a flood of small items. Promotions for groceries and hard goods mix with personal notices, jokes, poems, and a weather watcher noting an historic snow depth of 101 inches this winter.
Local items report spring fever and low spirits despite bright faces. Individuals named include Uncle Joe Pippinger, Dr. Smith, John A. Waiter, Wilt Kidman, and William Knepple with notes on work, convalescence, and a planned residence on Waterford Street. A garden critic praises scent of onion and cabbage at St Clairs.
A vacancy for the Naval Academy in Goshen Indiana will be filled by a board on May 18 1875. Applicants must reside in the district be 18 or older at least five feet tall of good moral character and sound constitution. They will be examined in reading writing spelling arithmetic geography and English grammar. Further information from J H Baker M C.
An OCR fragment lists assorted grocery items and prices from a dollar store, including coffee, sugar, peaches, oysters, soap, white fish, cigars, and baking powder, with varied quantities and markdowns.
Publication proposes a detailed atlas of Indiana with county maps, sections, roads, streams, schools, churches and terrain, plus six maps showing geography and climate and sixteen US maps grading crops and population. It includes death/disease statistics, nationalities, and portraits, with subscriber details and biographical notes.
Governor Carpenter endorses Capt. A. T. Andreas Minnesota Illustrated Historical Atlas. He praises its merit and urges public support, noting Andreas plans a town atlas with improvements. Carpenter has known Andreas well and believes the public will find the work worthy.
The Wakarusa Grist Mill announces it will operate regularly for custom on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays after this date. The notice promises steady availability of corn meal and chopped grain, with on hand stock and continued exchange and sale services as of June 6th 1874.
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