City life tempts country youth and moral warns in Aurora
The Aurora Standard reflects on the allure of city life for farmers’ sons and daughters, contrasting wealth and ease with hard rural labor. It discusses Maine Law enforcement limits, temperance debates, and a warning about city temptations, while praising Aurora’s growth and future prospects with new roads and warehouses expanding toward Allensville and Cochran.
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Massachussett
Massachussetts
Maine
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Boston
Altensville
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Laughery
Allensville
Switzerland County
Aurora
Hertford
Ervil E Endt
Aberdeen
Ohio River
Cochran
Mississippi Rail
Trade and travel flourish in Dearborn County
The piece notes rising local trade, many wagons arriving from Manchester, and strong merchants Chambers Stevens & Co with large stock and favorable prices. It mentions railroad progress on bridges, opening of lines to Indianapolis, a camp-ground arson attempt near Hartford, and thanks to W T Dewnts for State Fair tickets.
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Manchester
Dearborn County
Messrs. Chambers, Stevens, & Co
Cincinnati
Lawrenceburgh
Indianapolis
Hartford
Jeffersonville
CCF
W. T. Dewnts
State Board of Agriculture
Lafayette
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Stevens & Co
RON and Steel
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Chambers, Stevens & Co
Difference in Goods Arrives as Cincinnati Trade Shifts
The piece notes how Central markets now stock dry goods groceries stoves and furniture locally, reducing trips to Cincinnati. It stresses improved access, lower prices, and local mills foundries and workshops busy, with educated publications and catalogs promoting educational material and fashionable goods.
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Cincinnati
Temperance meeting endorses prohibition and presses reform
The event records a temperance gathering with Rev James Crawford and Rev B P Crawford calling for a prohibitory liquor law. Resolutions condemn liquor ties, celebrate editor Chew, collect subscriptions, elect delegates, and plan reporting and further steps. Also notes city council actions in Aurora including bridge work and market site plans.
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James Crawford
Lawrenceburgh
P. Crawford
Greensburgh
Chew
Independent Press
Jes. Crawford
E. P. Bond
Madison
J. P. Chew
P. Bond
J.P. Milliken
Jas. Crawford
Dearborn County
J. Parker Chew
W. F. Stevens
Seth Platt
Consett Haut
Aurora
Dean
Green
McHenry
Carbaugh
Ox Moniox
Quigly & Degear
Hogan Creek
Quigly & Deagear
Washington Items
Washington dispatches report Russia Prussia and Austria protested at the State Department over Capt Ingham. Mr. Marcy's views on the matter are ready for cabinet. French and China Missions likely settled. appointees unnamed. The Union criticizes Mr Dickinson's letter strongly. A boy eight fell 63 feet into a mine shaft and was chased by a miner but escaped injury.
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Washington
Punapeionia
State Department
Ingham
Russia
Prussia
Austria
United States
Marcy
Union
Dickinson
No. 2
Fever Epidemic Closes Stores and Hotel in Mobile
News from South Alabama reports a fever outbreak in Mobile with nearly all stores closed and business suspended. The Battle House hotel closed as clerks and servants were lost to illness, while Southern Railways suffered damages but trains resumed operation.
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Altimore
Mobile
Battle House
Orchard and Grocery Prices and Rates Advertised
The notice lists varied goods such as apples beans flour coffee butter bacon pork and cheese with retail and wholesale terms plus rates for advertising by the Aurora Standard and Independent. It includes candidate notices and payment terms for local advertisements and endorsements and ends with a catalog note for Conway & Co offering lime and gunpowder products.
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Slater
Harner
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