Wakarusa Sun notes crops and town life in 1875
The Wak arusa Sun reports on tobacco and corn conditions, measles in families, new store changes by Werntz and Sellers, schools improving amid illnesses, weather effects from June style conditions, hail storms near Elkhart, local businesses Brubaker Eyer clay and wire, a pump peddler fraud, prominent locals like Stoner and Borders, and a humorous local legal note about grass widow watchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werntz & Sellers
Kansas
Merchants urge payment to avoid bankrupt state
Brubaker & Hyer warn customers who bought goods on ten days to pay promptly or risk financial failure. They state most customers are good and will pay, but urge immediate settlement to prevent a fate many merchants have endured. An awkward aside references a thin man and an insulted boy.
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Elkhart Street
Gorner
Brubaker
Hyer
Circuit Court
Elkhart County
Indiana
Court House
Oshen
Mary Harrington
John ©. Harrington
Theodore J. Nter
Samuel R. Miller
Goshen
Ind
Salisbury Widow Clarisa J Salsbury Funeral Note
Clarisa J wife of Luther Salsbury of Locke Township aged thirty two years two months died after a pulmonary illness leaving a growing family. The community and ministers attended the funeral with Rev J W Seaman presiding expressing sympathy for the bereaved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salsbury
Clarisa J
Luther Salsburys
Locke Township
Pulmonary
Child County
Bro. Salsbury
J. W. Seaman
Biliard Table and Saloon Fixtures For Sale
A gentleman returns home with a mysterious false curl on his cap after a night out. Also advertised is a full billiard table pigeonhole table creocan bar and ice beer fixtures for a first class saloon in Wakarusa Indiana offered by A Stonebreake on reasonable terms.
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Germany
William Borders
A. B. Woolverton
Biliard
Stonebreake
Wakarusa
Ind
Notice on State Atlas publication and canvassing practices
Citizens subscribed to a Philadelphia publication misled by a sample prospectus. The Minnesota State Atlas sample shows each county with a page, totaling about 500 pages, weighing 13 to 17 pounds and sized 15x18 inches. Anpareas, Baskin & Burr.
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Philadelphia
Minnesota
Wakarusa Store invites patrons to shop with discount appeal
The letter promotes wholesale pricing to benefit customers and asks the public to try the store. It urges all to visit and give Wakarusa a chance to redeem its standing with consumers.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wakarusa,ind
Eyer
John Pittman
Messrs Stonex & Johnson
Sun Office
Squire Bennett
Christian Church
Elias W. Robinson
Posible
D. Squires
Clay and Wire
Elkhart
St. Joseph Valley
Mary Hughs
Grandma
St. Clairs Yard
Brubaker & Eyer
Levi
Stoner
Zenhorn
Wakarusa Sun
St. Joe
Vatley Register
Printers Union Protective Society
Shleriefe
Baskin & Burr
Samuel Neusham
O S. Hyer
NevsnAum
John Brubaker
C. S. Byer
Co. O. D
J.l.wolf & Steiner
Proprietors of the
Boot and Shoe Store
Elkhart, Ind
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