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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1864
Page
3
Official notice lists westbound and eastbound passenger trains with departure times for St Louis Express Tallis St Louis Accn Rast freight trains and notes that train No 22 does not stop at Aurora when going east.
City readers are informed of a new paper carrier who may miss some subscribers. Readers with missed deliveries are urged to write to the office so the matter can be corrected promptly.
Local notices announce an Ice Cream and Strawberry Festival for the Soldiers' Aid Society at Moore's Hill on Friday night June 17 chaired by a committee including Mrs H P Adams and Prof Robert Kidd. Other items note misers names, a new Union Press paper in Lawrenceburg, a court session, a soldier’s body interred with military honors, a cornucopia of donations, rail fare to Greensburg for the Union Convention, and school exam programs.
A detailed schedule lists Monday through Thursday activities for secondary and grammar schools, with room assignments, teachers, and times. The document notes German class, entertainments in Schulze's Hall, Declamation and Singing performances, and a grand Dramatical representation of The Rebellion. Admission charges apply and excursions by steamship are planned with a brass band. Public support urged to cover deficits.
Regular meeting notes show members Siemantel Lamkin Hubbard and Wood with Wood as chair. Board of Equalization to meet June 13 1864 and clerk authorized to print handbills. Later called meeting lists Kemf Wood Siemantel Backman with Mayor Sutton presiding. $500 paid to D Lincoln of Cincinnati for counsel in West & Torrence v City of Aurora. Adjournment recorded. Notice dated June 1 1864 mentions Board of Equalization and June 23 1864 council meeting.
A damaged OCR market page shows scattered goods and prices including hay pork lard apples peaches beans flour wheat corn meal rye oats barley cheese butter feathers potatoes chickens and tallow. The text lists unit prices and quantities in an incomplete format, reflecting a rural trade inventory.
A historical inventory lists staples and assorted wares available for sale. Items include sugars spices soap coffee starch candies tea indigo blacking rice baking powder shoe rushes molasses soda sorghum cheese curry combs steel pens raisins note paper dried currants fuelsoap paper citron lead pencils writing fluid vinegar coal oil and related goods.
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