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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1875
Page
3
Community items from Goshen report rail freight, fires, and sickness. Highlights include Mrs. Benj. Clouse ill with pneumonia Ed Willard recovering from pneumonia logs arriving for sawmills and a near fire at the Olive House. a local fight over a jury case is recounted with verses and editor’s commentary.
The text notes Dan Vorazes withdraws his name from the Indiana Senatorial race. It recalls a past departure toward Canada and contrasts Independents in the Indiana Legislature with Texas steers, suggesting a political season of upheaval and reform.
Carl Schurz argues national safety would come if young men marry and settle down. He predicts widespread female support for the sentiment and notes the social impact of domestic stability.
A reader defends free press and criticizes moralizing in a community paper. The letter from W. H. Knepple condemns sympathetic storytelling by stores and manufacturers and defends the author’s own journalistic stance as a critic.
A local Wakarusa merchant laments railroad delays and reads as anxious for railway privileges. The speaker argues roads hamper trade and anticipates summer engines near Wakaruia, noting ongoing trials and obstacles from a meddling individual.
A speaker praises railroad labor and business sparked by Fire Kindlers in Wakarusa, noting ten to fifteen workers would idle without them. He doubts the Canada Southern Railroad will be built this summer and urges citizens to seek greater benefit from railroad privileges than from the new invention.
EOR SALE. One Sixty Horse Power Engine for sale cheap and on good terms. It is capable to run three hundred hands and there can be any kind of machinery attached to the power, together with 20 feet of Line Shaft and Belt 14 inches by 70 feet long. Drive Wheel 9 feet in diameter and 20 in face. Call at its office at Wakarusa Ind. C S Huzr. dispatch from Madrid proclaims Prince Alfonso king of Spain. The Toledo Herald jokes Kala kaua selling his kingdom to the United States for a suit of clothes. A Rhode Island man carries $200 000 life insurance. three to four doctors rush to feel his pulse if he takes a cold. Mr. Quinby purchases stock of Henry W Walker. Quinby takes control of Detroit Free Press editorials. A Williamsburg New York man awoke his wife saying he swallowed strychnine. She asks if it will come up.
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