Multiple Ohio and national political notes and incidents
A compilation of brief items: the Bellaire St Clairsville railroad incorporation. BisHop Simpson denial. debates over the Executive Mansion site. Postmaster appointments. John Q. Smith named to Indian Affairs commissionership. debate on Southern Pacific aid. postage cut bills. state advertising cost for constitutional amendments. the Mossel detonator disaster in Breslau. Fred D. Massey’s clerkship regarded as foregone. Fitzhugh’s Texan background. Sargent suicide. Chillicothe Advertiser change of ownership. Alabama free school tax clause. tramp nuisance convention actions. remarks on Jones and upright incumbents. St Louis Whisky Ring indictment of Gen Babcock. administration vows no guilty man escapes.
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St. Louis
United States
Gen. Babcock
Egotists and political squabbles roil Athens press
The Athens non-partisan Democratic Journal condemns a rival editor Col R W Jones as a boastful crony who uses personal attacks. The Marietta Register notes intraparty feuds over Congress appointments and jokes about boot black offices. Other items cover Democrats backing Union veterans, Moody and Sankey revivals in Philadelphia, Grant’s non-reelection stance, L G Delano as railroad commissioner, and Wheat prospects with Clay McLean’s holiday goods show.
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Democratic Journal
Athens
Jehosaphat
Cresar
Jones
Marietta
Detroit shopper counts thirty ingredients for mince pie
A Detroit woman laments losing memory as Harvey Roach & Bros. showcases a vast holiday catalogue of Foreign and American goods. Donnan & Pickering boast stock and low prices. A man explains Ezrag Walker’s shoe store price reductions draw crowds near the Court House.
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Detroit
Harvey Roach & Bros
Court House
Ezrag Walker
Holiday bargains fill Kurtz Norris and Streicher shops
In Athens a flurry of holiday goods decorates Kurtz Norris with a wide Silverware line and Miss Anna C Streicher offers fashionable millinery two doors north of the Warren House. Pioneer Drug Store expands perfume and toiletry selections while M Selig & Co promotes mink sets at half price and 100 pairs of white blankets are marked down. Asa Love urges citizens to prepare for holiday trade with a broad toy and candy assortment and Mrs K K Golen lists California grapes and jellies as part of a Town Hall Fair next Thursday evening.
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Anna C. Streicher
Warren House
Asa Love
Athens
County
South Court Street
California
K. K. Golen
Holiday shopping jams at Kurtz and Norris and Armitage and Davis
An aversion to crowded holiday shopping urges customers to visit Kurtz and Norris early to have goods laid by. Armitage and Davis advertise their large stock of seasonable supplies at a slight advance of cost for Christmas dinners and culinary needs.
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Kurtz & Norris
Armitage’ & Davis
Clothing marked down to cost at One Price Store
Bargain alert as M. Se LIG & CG.'s One Price Store slashes prices to cost across apparel and accessories. Shoppers can expect significant discounts on remaining stock with limited quantities reported.
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M. Selig & CG
Court House
Local markets offer drugs spices dyes and perfumery at low prices
Advertisements note large stock of pure drugs spices dyes and perfumery sold as low as possible. Also promote A Love’s Confectionary and Bakery oysters for holidays, daily press updates, and new solid silver and plated table service at Clay McLear’s with D Zenner & Co.
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YAN & Pickering
A. Love's Confectionary
Clay McLear’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Messenger
C. Re. M. Jennings
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ohio
Stewart L. Woodford
New York
Ohio State Journal
Messenger
Boss Tweed
Charley Ross
Bellaire
St. Clairsville
Simpson
Broad Street
Columbus
Congress
John Q. Smith
Indian Affairs
Southern Pacific Railroad
Bremephhaven
Fred. D. Massey
The
Cincinnati Times
Ohio House of Representatives
House of Representatives
S. H. Fitzhugh
Confederate Congress
Harry Sargent
Madden and Sargent
Urbana, O
Chillicothe Advertiser
W. R. Brownlee
Coshocton Democrat and
Mahoning Valley News
Brownlee
Alabama
Capitol
F. F
John D. Young
Kentucky
House
Fort
Messrs. Moody and
Sankey
Philadelphia
New York Tribune
Cincinnati Gazette
Grant
the Gazette
L. G. Delano
Gov. Allen
John G. Thompson
Clay McLean
Clay
Messenger Office
Little Rebel
Donnan & Pickering
E. R. Lash
Pioneer Drug Store
First Door
Court Square
M. Selig & CO
Kurtz @ Norris
M.selig & CO
Selig’s
Santa Claus
Town Hall
Ordere
Bozman Brothers
Bozman
East Side
Kretail
Warren
Dee
M. Sel G & Coo
Great One Price Store
W. B. Vorhes & Sons
D, Zenner & Co
F. K. Fosture
J.B. Allen
Underwear, &c
M. Selig
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