County fair and Thalheimer bargains fill Ohio notices
Washington county reports 64 072 sheep while Muskingum farmers form a county alliance. Thalheimer's advertises ship shirts for three dollars, 21c underwear, shoes sales, and a wide array of sawed wood, dress patterns, and hats. Local visits and events touch Blairsville, Zanesville, Cambridge, and Cadiz with duties, prices, and upcoming fairs.
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Washington County
Thalheimer’s
Road petitions, funds transfer, and sheep claims in county session
The county commissioners granted petitions for roads in several townships with conditions to pay compensation. One petition was dismissed for lack of proper notice. Transfers of funds between building and county and court house accounts were approved. Sheep claims were allowed for several residents, and levies set for county, veterans relief, infirmary, and a few other purposes.
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Jesus
Church of God
Reads
George Kennedy
Rollston Read
J. C. Steele
Mathers
W. E McNeeley
J. W. Ferney
W. E. Gamp
Westland Township
Adams
Court House
John Carothers
W. H. Bonnell
Caroline Mehaffey
Thomas C. Bonnell
Martin
Congressional notes on silver bills and foreign affairs
Senate reports favorably a plan to retire wartime generals with Belvadier General rank. Across sessions, debates on free coinage and silver continue. House actions include anti monopoly cattle transport efforts and alien land ownership probes. Proceedings cover postmaster elections, immigration questions, and appropriation bills.
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Washington
Senate
Mendelson
Committee On Military Affairs
House
Yeas
Postminsters
Call
Spain
Cockrell
West
Oules
Alabama
Committee On Judiciary
United States
Lodge
Mass
Secretary of the Treasury
Cunard Steamship Company
New York
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Simxarr
New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans
Africa
Morrill
Finance Committee
Blair
Plumb
Washington Post
Howse
Internal Revenue Laws
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Eustis
Turpie
Hovusk
Mills
Texas
Turner
Georgia
Ways and Means
Carlisle
Kentucky
Kas
Stewart
Edmunds
Edward K. Valentine
Platt
Wyoming
Messrs
Evarts
Vance
Morgan
Tex
Committee On Rules
McMillan
Tenn
Committee On Commerce
Harris
Henry W. Wall
Tennessee
Paddock
Montana
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Dawes
Goodnight
Testing a New Locomotive Engine at the Works
A Detroit Tribune correspondent describes a calibration scene where a finished locomotive is hoisted above the floor and spun at about 300 RPM. An engineer tests stability by placing a wine glass of water on the cow catcher and adjusting valves to minimize spill, ensuring safe operation before track testing.
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Steubenville
Kimbolton
Newcomerstown Index
George Sullivan
Detroit ‘Tribune
British syndicate seeks Chicago packing house purchase
Wm Resp leads a British syndicate negotiating to buy Chicago packing houses. The text notes large mail mass transfers to New Orleans for a lottery firm, totaling over twenty five million dollars yearly. Other items touch army veterans, Mexican official actions, and a Kentucky representative’s liquor tax repeal measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Resp
Chicago
United States
New Orleans
Lottery
Drowning, assaults, and public notices across Ohio towns
Reports from Fremont to Marion recount a twelve year old drowned in a river trench, a preacher committed to a county infirmary, a site chosen for a Circleville library memorial wall, and a Marion depot robbery with a $523 haul. Also noted are a missing girl, poison tea attacks, a night-operator kidnapping, water works accepted, and multiple local trials, accidents, and civic updates.
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Jesse Tomas
Fremont
Ricum Mono ConLins
Akron
Circleville
Ballard
Cornee Main
Pickaway Streets
N. B. Myers
Tiflin
Marion
Mary Hastenn
Watson Hammell
Tuscarawas County
Uhrichsville
DeGraff
George Kress
Lincoln Kress
Mott Kress
Withtam Jivurrman
Iglijah Cole
Tiltin
Pomeroy
Middleport
Mary Brady
W. Main Street
Newark
Brady
Peter Brady
Cleveland
Otto Leuth
Johnstown
Licking County
Eben Pratt
Josefh Barker
Cincinnati
Covington and Newport
Licking River
Frederick Hoffman
Hoffman
Norwalk
Francis Clyde
Bellevue
Henry Downs
Walter Upington
Jewelers
Tur
Ohio Pharmaceutical Convention
Toledo
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Ayer
Frank Mellows
Chelsea
Mary Stevens
Lowell
J. C. Ayer & Co
THE
Nichols & Shepard
Vibrator
Cambridge Herald
St. Clairsville
Oxford
H. Greenwold
Thalheimer's
J.P. Adair
James Cressner
Blairsville, Pa
Farmers of
Muskingum
Barnum
Zanesville
W. C. Brown
Cadiz
J. D. Taylor
Washington City
Wilson Scott
Dakota
D. M. Hawthorne
Charles McMahon
Princeton College
H Greenwold
McKyar & Ray
Fred McCrea
H. Greenwood
W.B. Kirk
Morristown
Ohio
R. W. Lindsey
Will Hays
Middlebourne
Kansas
Caldwell
C. F. Palmer
Dresden
A. K. Bates
Cadiz Presbyterian Church
McKiyar & Ray
Craig & Sons
J. K. McCartney
J. M. English
Londonderry
E. E. Sparks
Martine Ferry
Mi!wood
Westland Townships
Jobo Lorimer
Norwich
Cara Deets
South Cambridge
Noble County Friends
Lora Haines
Virginia
Elizabeth McCreary
New Concord
J. H. Veitch
Kansas City
Barnesville
Hines
Adams Township
Cambridge
Alice Anderson
Wooster University
James Little
Barnesville Enterprise
J. R. Troette
Newcomerstown
Bertha Sultzer
Flushing
M. Fordyce’s
Belmont County Teacher’ Institute
Eighmie
Jacob Probasco
Belmont County
Newcomeratown
Ahan
Board of Trade
G. Schooley
Mt. Peasant
Thomas Boyd
Antrim
Elijah Gill
A. E. Boone
Pittsburgh
Freddie Wolfe
Quaker City
McIlyar & Ray
Ubrichsville
David McWiliams
St. Louis
Globe Democrat
C. A. Rech
Mellyar & Ray
Thalheimer
Baltimore
Charlies
J. A. Cosby
McLaney
Perry County
Guernsey
Eyesville Lodge
W.J Hall
N.G.S
Lee
W.G
W. Beach
Edward Harding
Freeport
Dayton
H. Greenwold’s
Minnie
A. J Clark
Washington (Pa) Seminary
Columbus
Pennsyvania
Cambridge Normal School
W. T. Young
J. P. Turner
McCorkle College
Bloomfield
Martin Smith
Highland Township
New Concord Enterprise
Pt. Pleasant Planing
G. W. Woodruff
Dyson
Zanesville News
Thomas Tracy
Kate McGee
Detroit
S. Craig & Sons
H. F. McDonald
Grand Hotel
Sylvester McClelland
Cumberland
Wiliam Culbertson
Delaware
Ches, Marshall
New Concord School Board
Miss Blackwood
E. J. White
Sumner
S. A. Dickson
Xenia
Dickson
Marietta
Pedder
Middleburg
Noble County
Costner
Barnesville Republican
Hanlon Bros
Bellaire
Eva Hyatt
T. G. Hyatt
Harry Stewart
Pennsylvania
Scott’s Mines
Armor Allen
Geo
W. Woodruff
P. O
Guernsey County
O. Tf
D. Lovejoy
Michigan
Cambridge Htrap
Herald
Caldwell Republican
Westland
Spencer Townships
Ross Barnett
Claysville
New Philadelphia
J. W. Owens
Congress
Josiah Murphy
Board of Equalization
Buffalo Commercial
United Presbyterian Assembly
J. J. Porter
W. 8. Heade
W.S. Heade
D. D. Taylor
J. W. Hill
Zanesvile
Josiah Burgess
Lora Jefferson
Soute College
Murphreesboro
Mary Jefferson
Nashville
Seagov
Paucoast & Griffiths
Philadelphia
the Herald
Jersey
Lena White
John McBurney
Steubenville Avenue
W. H. McFarland
M. E
Cambridge Lodge I O. O. F
Byesville Lodge
Hattie Johnson
Winchester
Miss Johnson
Barneaville Enterprise
Harrison Warner
McConnelyville
Here
Hagerstown
Maryland
Nancy Hanson
Lute Clark
Hale Young
Lincoln
Nebraska
S. B. Clark
Jr. Salmon
8. A. Dickson
Peoples Press
Salmon & Parkinson
N. H. Beymer
Louisville
Belle R. Turner
Elza Turner
Fairview
Mathias Stottler
Cambridge Public Schools
Fay
W. H. Turner
Anna Britton
Eliza A. Britton
Willie
Anna
Hermon
Nellie Edgely
Fisher & Aiken
George W. Aiken
George R. Edgely
Edgely
Canton
Tom
J. J. Watson
L B. Moore
James Bair
W. I. Davids
B. A. Davids
Wilkin
John Kelley
E S. Bennett
F. B. Doudna
G. W. McManiman
Isaac Crow
A. A. Robinson
W. A. Kye
E. R. McCollum
P. B. Ogan
Thomas McKinley
Simeon Davis
James Watson
T. G. Kirkwood
J. O. Hall
Howard Rainey
John Raston
Otsego
Morgan Corneson
James Hamilton
Hamilton
Common Pleas Court
Mary F. Burket
John Burket
Magdaline Burroughs
Charles F. Burroughs
George McManaway
Porter Mitchell
Hoyle & Scott
G. D. Giffin
Julius J. D. McNamar
Exr
W.A. Todd
W.H. F. Lenfesty
Henry Burkheimer
John W. Burkheimer
Standard Coal Company
Martha A Filler Cooper
John H. Cooper
North 6Th Street
Sylvester
Lucinda Root
7Th Street
M E. Church
Istian
Churwick
Rome
Golgotha
Battle Creek, Michigan
Carters
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
Cry
J. C. Carver’s
Pension Agency
Wheeling Avenue and
East Eighth Street
Commissioners’ Proceedings
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Victor
Reynard
Iris
Oli
Army of Arkansas
Society of the Army of Arkansas
General Reynolds
Noble and
Rusk
Mexico
California
Wilson
Freisinnige Zeitung
Prince Bismarck
Tus Herald Office
Art Limaa
Katie Brice
C. 8. Brice
Janie Porter
Mahoning County
West Lima
Joan Moone
Crooked Tree
John Seiter
L. B. Grimes
Orno Hayes
Elizabethtown
Watchmakers’ and Jewelers’ Association of Ohio
Cabel
Urbana
Chas. Cullen
John Beck
Daniel Brennan
J. D. Straped
John Bowan
Oue Common Pleas Court
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