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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1874
Page
3
Local notes from Locke Indiana recount turkey humor for Thanksgiving, gun smithy for turkey guns, and village business. Mentions John A Walters Drug Store, Wilson Simmons Garnet insurance loans, and Wiman Fisher moving a boot shop. Also reports railroad plans and a marsh fire with town water scarce. President Grant proclaims Thanksgiving Day.
July 30 187. Fragmentary notice from Goshen about Walk Bro's. Details incomplete but records indicate a local business or event listing in the 187 period.
Glass offers a full drug store and grocery selection at cash prices with prescriptions filled. Also notes high quality teas coffee sugar spices canned fruit and produce accepted at market value. Grist mill operates for custom on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays with flour corn meal and chop on hand. Oct 1874.
Having sold my stock of dry goods and groceries to John Wire, I purchase tools from W. E. Pidge and hire Isaac Ritsmond as a first class tinner to install and repair eave troughs. Warranted work and competitive pricing in the county.
I keep a stock of Queens Ware and various earthen goods and repair stoves neatly and promptly. V Sever invites public patronage from Wakarusa with July 23, 1874.
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