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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1874
Page
4
An elderly speaker muses on lightning and immortality, arguing death clears the wicked and improves the good, while yearning for the next world’s perfection. A younger listener is urged to accept mortality as a shaping force in life and habit.
An promising young horse trainer Virgil, age about ten, was thrown when a pig hidden near the track startled the colt. The elder Smith urged the boy to ride again, and the colt was mounted amid a staged pig bluff to prove the animal can be ridden around the track.
An item list from a furniture store features cane chairs priced 4.50 to 6.00, English Cottage pieces, 15.00 Cain Chairs, large rockers, bedsteads, bureaus with carved handles and moulded drawers, projected fronts, and walnut and ash finishes. Prices range from 5.00 to 46.00 across various standards and glass options.
In a small town the proprietor announces reduced prices to prevent being undersold. The ad emphasizes specialization in furniture.
All sizes of burial cases on hand for infants to adults with prices from 3.50 to 25 plus extra silver trimmed cases at 40. Cases are O G Cove Tops with rosewood imitation and can be used with or without glass.
All kinds of tinware repaired promptly. He has a fine stock of crockery for sale at low rates.
A local Wakarusa ad promotes a broad hardware stock kept on hand including nails, sash, glass, paints, oils, saws, augers and other items. The notice urges customers to examine the stock before purchasing elsewhere and is dated June 18.
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