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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1874
Page
2
The Wakarusa Sun reports that the People's Ticket won most county offices except County Clerk Thomas Daily, with Olive Township voting strongly Democratic. The piece contrasts reformist tax worries with Jacksonian democracy and notes Studebaker wagon works rebuilding after a fatal fire, detailing new facilities and fireproofing plans.
A stingy old man lives in a log house with a single carpeted room. Despite wealth rumors, he never spends, and beggars mourn at his funeral. A remembered act of charity by a dead benefactor exposes the old man’s true poverty and the world’s shifting view of riches. An incident in Fort Wayne ends with a jealous assault on a neighbor’s servant girl.
An advertisement promises top Granger prices for butter eggs and all farm goods with flexible payment options in kind or cash to sellers.
Ladies fine gaiters boys and men's shoes and more advertised for sale at John Wire's building on Waterford Street. The notice promotes ready pay terms and invites families to come see the stock, dated Wakarusa July 2, 1874.
An advertisement for Wagon and Carriage Shop on Waterford Street announces a broad assortment of drugs medicines chemicals patent medicines Teas coffee sugar spices canned fruit and grocery items. It claims to undercut rivals and offer the highest market price for produce at No North Elkhart St Wakarusa Indiana with physicians prescriptions carefully compounded.
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