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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1863
Page
2
An advertised subscription offer claims three months of the Commercial newspaper for twenty five cents. The text presents a simple price deal with emphasis on affordability and value. No additional details or dates are provided in the fragment.
Authorized agents listed include John Dillsborough Jones Station Aurora Toll Gate Cochran Farmer s Retreat E Haymond P Shutts John Hays A S Bush J A Emrie and John Upp with receipt rights for subscriptions in Moore s Hill area.
Agricultural readers are urged to consult the fourth page article titled Cutting Grass Early for practical, value rich suggestions on lawn and pasture maintenance. The piece offers timely tips likely to aid crop and pasture efficiency.
Reports from Indiana describe Morgan’s men as a small raiding party near New Albany with about 75 to 80 rebels crossing the Ohio in a wood boat at Leavenworth. Home Guards captured fifty. the rest were killed or drowned as the leader swam the river by a horse’s tail. A second claimed rebel raid of 990 men was a mistaken crossing by Kentucky Home Guards pursuing Hines. The issue also covers local events: Rising Sun Normal Academy exercises on June 26. a Chicago accident where a man’s tongue was split by firecrackers. Hart’s New Beater Hay Press advertisement. Carr. Lewis Prosser’s death after wounding in Brown County. Decatur County lenders to the governor. Indiana State Fair dates. requests for agricultural statistics. Indiana Fire Insurance ad. and talk of forming a new bank in Lawrenceburg under the national banking law with $50,000 already subscribed.
Field letter from Convalescent Hospital at Youngs Point describes rebel threat and medics clinging to gunboats, with opposition to Surgeon General Hammond and praise for Union actions. Also reports a Sparta township Union meeting with speeches by Rev McRea and Alex Connelly praising loyalty and democracy. Fourth of July notices urge reflection, unity, and gratitude for independence.
Indiana Adjutant General Laz. Nante issues a six month volunteer call to raise regiments from each congressional district. Companies of forty two men with officers to be formed, rolls filed, and transport to Camp Morton provided. Recruiting officers may subsist recruits away from rendezvous up to one week.
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