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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1876
Page
3
Local issue sheet from Wakarusa Indiana lists market prices for lard eggs butter flour wheat corn and other staples. Mentions bustling activity including speeches by Gen Milo S Hascall and a schoolhouse singing event while detailing local calls and promotions.
Next Monday night Hon J E Thomson Republican candidate for State Representative Hon John Gilmore candidate for sheriff and Hon Theo Garvin candidate for treasurer will attend the Olive Township Hayes and Wheeler Club at Wakarusa to meet the township voters and discuss political issues The notice urges every township voter to attend and decide whom to support Also mentions local ads and a hospital band serenade and a doctor’s brush with praise plus an advertisement for Dr Herring Veronica Lung Extract and a druggist circular
A letter from Kansas warns readers about the Kansas Land and Immigrant Association lottery offering prizes totaling 770,800 dollars. Two drawings are planned with thousands of prizes, including 50 to 75,000 dollar main prizes and 1 to 10,000 dollar special prizes. Tickets cost 5 dollars. two main shares plus a free special ticket offered.
The item notes Locke men organizing a brass band and a baseball club. Obituaries tell of Mrs. Brookmeyer’s July 29 death, leaving a husband and three children. Reports include old mail carrier Lew Winder back on duty, a Mitchell Indiana mob incident injuring Abe J Jones, and local business pitches. Other items mention jurist Benj Truax and Dora Pippinger marriage, plus Mr Pontius killed in an accident and physician warnings.
Report from Walkerton describing a large scale wartime like market at the whortleberry marsh with about two hundred tents and beard shanties. The scene features boarding vans grocery stores a doctor’s office millinery tin and basket peddlers feed stables a dancing floor and refreshment stands. About one thousand pickers are believed to be present and cash payments reach around seven hundred to a thousand dollars daily.
Wyman Fisher relocates his boot and shoe shop to the corner of Waterford and Elkhart Streets above Werntz and Sellers drug store, offering sewing and pegged work with fair dealings. The Wakarusa Silver Cornet Band reports purchasing instruments and appeals for donations to keep them in town. Additional items warn against unsafe practices and promote Dr. Herring's Compound, sold by Werntz & Sellers, with local anecdotes and references to town life.
Wakarusa Lodge No. 48 F and A M holds regular sessions on the island at their hall on Saturdays each month. Visiting brethren are invited to attend. Jostan W. Kronn W M WyMan Fisher, Secy.
Hine and Stephenson claim sole rights to drive wells in Olive and Locke townships and warn against using an American or Driven Well by others. A ten dollar royalty is due to them and suits will be filed in U S Courts if not paid. S C Harrington of Wakarusa is authorized to receipt for royalties. July 13 1876.
An advertisement touts Dr Herring's compound Extracts as the great tonic and restorative for illness business wear and anxiety. It notes sale by Werntz & Sellers in Wakarusa Indiana dated n6 21. A letter claims Newark New Jersey supplies the best domestics, called the Light-Running Domestic, via the Domestic Sewing Machine Company offices or agencies.
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