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Newspaper
Washington Telegraph
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1859
Page
3
Advertisements note Rivers Demons Circus coming to town and a death in St Louis. Godey for August praised as an essential fashion guide. Indiana and Missouri State Fairs set for September 26 at New Albany. Death of Mrs Edward Everett announced. Market house proposal urged. New potatoes sell for 1 per bushel. Wise buys a 62 lb catfish from White River. Ayres addition lots advertised for sheriff sale. Patriotic Fourth celebrations reported nationwide.
Report indicates an independent democratic ticket will be formed in Knox county. The town marshal plans to begin collecting corporation taxes soon. The week saw thermometers reach 1000 in the shade on several evenings. A Vincennes youth struck his father with an axe handle, a clear case of son stroke.
Local chatter reports bumper blackberry crops and cheap canned quantities. A notice mentions Mr E Hyatt receiving a large lot of cans from Peterson's Magazine. The Southern Miihoisan claims a soil discovery could ease ague issues in White County Illinois. A quirky Fourth of July memory recalls prisoners at a penitentiary reciting the Declaration of Independence with wardens.
The note discusses AF Arthur’s Home Magazine for July and offers a cheap, good book at $3 per year. It mentions a proposed move of Martin County seat and local interest from Memphis Shoals residents who would build a courthouse and jail if the seat moved there.
The Evansville ad urges country merchants to visit A. M. McGriff for groceries claiming equal value and potential savings to western markets. It suggests calling on him during their travels to Evansville for possible interest in purchasing groceries.
The Evansville firm WH, McShee & Co operates a vast dry goods and clothing shop with a New York resident partner. Preston Bros in Evansville advertise a broad stock of boots hats caps and notions and also handle groceries and liquor. A Knoxville paper reports a wife in the area bore three children at birth and her husband seeks a divorce. The Illinois Congregational Association, led by Rev. Patton, rules no aid to young men who use tobacco. Courtships are described as dreamy thresholds to unseen Edens.
The piece critiques modern social ritual where guests arrive in style, tread through family scenes, and admire, or ignore, domestic pretenses. It ponders whether polite smiles mask private pains from gout to college bills, arguing hypocrisy can mask truth and virtue.
A New York editor apologizes to readers for a near week of illness and jokes about the desire to be absent from sickness. A lazy lad answers a master about motion with a slow drawl. A wife taunts a husband about false teeth. A suggestion to name children after famous dead. An artist in Philadelphia reports a clock that runs a year on a single winding.
A condensed financial item lists several county expense categories including jurors fees, expenses of the poor, roads and highways, elections, public buildings, redemption of lands sold for taxes, insane asylum costs, bailiff fees, bridges, and interest on county orders. Totals show county expenses of 7,475 20 and township tax orders of 3,483 46, amounting to 10,958 76 in all.
A St Paul notice announces the marriage of Henry J. Mander and advises naming their first child Gerry or Sally. The Vermont editor comments on strong language and parodies a line about a sixpenny sandwich versus a dollar dinner, noting ease of breaking words.
The article notes Cincinnati burglars are disposed to climb and now carry two story ladders. They use them to effect entrances into upper stories of residences, signaling a rising threat to homeowners.
An advertisement touts Dr Easterly's Todine and Sarsaparilla as a universal remedy for blood impurities and chronic diseases including scrofula skin eruptions and rheumatism. It claims mercury elimination, relief for kidney and urinary disorders, and improved complexion, with Gridley's ointment for skin sores. Prices listed: $1 per bottle, six for $5, ointment 75 cents. Prepared in St. Louis and sold nationwide.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Easterly's Fever and Ague Killer as a universal cure for fever and ague including chills and remittent fevers. It claims rapid, permanent relief and notes prior success with over two hundred thousand cured cases in the west. Price listed at 1 per bottle or six for 5, with availability through Wilson Jones in Washington Indiana and other druggists.
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