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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1888
Page
3
Local brief notes report election turnout and results in Republican Democrat and Prohibition races, plus multiple announcements. Meetings, lectures, auctions, and social notices from Cambridge and surrounding townships are listed, including staffing changes, new businesses, road and rail updates, and local incidents.
A retailer offers free measurements for Mrs Harkey at Hotel Kerwick in Navy region on Monday and Tuesday. A lady assistant guarantees a perfect glove fit. The event takes place at the Sth and 6th location.
N B Liptey, a dentist, announces a 30 day sale on plate work. Sets priced at 15 dollars for 8 and 10 dollars for 6, using same material and craftsmanship as regular services. Office location noted as over Hirschberg's Store.
The Uncle Tom's Cabin Company opened a week at the Standard Theatre to an overflowing audience with many ladies and children in attendance. Eva's death scene drew tears while Topsy and Marks the Lawyer sparked laughter. The Siberian Bloodhounds impressed with their sagacity, earning strong applause as the troupe tours from Cincinnati toward Pittsburg. At Hammonda's Opera House, Friday evening, November 2nd.
A promotional notice urges protection against chills by visiting Hirschberg's One Price Clothing House. It touts affordable undergarments, overcoats, suits, socks, and accessories with a pledge of honest prices, goods, and treatment, labeling the store the poor man's friend.
Fashionable ladies prefer fans made to order while relying on Dr Bull's cough syrup at 25 cents. The saying about pain and cure is cited, with Salvation Oil also praised as painless and certain at 25 cents.
Mr John K Johnson and his wife marked fifty years of marriage on the 18th with friends gathering at their Pt Pleasant home where they have lived eight years after moving from Noble county. He is 75 and she 70. A post dinner presentation followed by a brief religious service featured Revs Piggott Slatey and Fathers Secrest Trott.
Local notes report growth on the West and South Sides with new stores and homes. Gardner brings in game, and residents discuss a possible church, pensions, and a wedding rumor. Typhoid patient improving, arms injury update, andburg nonlocal peddlers cited.
Washington reports Miss Nellie Gary visiting Cambridge friends while local fairs premiums ran high and Wheat crops begin well New corn sold at 40 cents a bushel A Republican meeting is planned for next Saturday evening RS Frame attended a Wirick Sunday School convention Barnesville Miss Maggie Dugan wed by Rev Wilson Arthur Smith travels to Washington DC to clerk for Mrs E A Haines Rev McCracke to be ordained at the Presbyterian church Thursday A $100 to $20 bet on Hanom Money up Local attendance at horse racing and gas display in Cambridge SM Hyde bought a carload of apples at Gibson's Price paid 45 cents per hundredweight Geo Raiser aged about ninety years old dies Friday buried at Elizabethtown graveyard Saturday
Local items note J A McEwen of Columbus visiting town, new Dickerson livery owners Humphry and Ryan, Cam bridge work on WS Heade residence, and Clayton Hall from Ohio Medical College at home. Reports mention a big Republican rally, Masonic delegate Abbey Hall, meat shop bids, and bands scoring at Cambridge. Apple growers Barton & Son harvest surplus, with 25 cents per bushel at the depot, while South Side residents push for a town walk and Council action to finish street work before winter.
John Orr moves to town as Pioneer Co operations run full time. Murray Peters septicemia concern. Trail Ren miners leave for Indiana. John Hogg visits Cambridge on business. W Trenner moves into Enoch Sears property. Birth announced for Oct 28 daughter to Mr and Mrs Ed McConnahay. George Dudley sprains ankle after hay load fall. Halloween festivities planned for Wednesday night. Lizzie Lee heads to Cambridge to winter with sister Mrs Maggie Lightowler. Industrial Publishing Co to relocate to Jackson, G to continue paper. Byesville Circuit first quarterly meeting held at Hartford last Sunday. Quarterly conference set for Thursday there. is lying very low with
Thomas McBride will soon occupy his new dwelling house. Joseph Campbell was in Belmont county several days last week. Charley Cunningham is home from New Philadelphia on a visit. Wm Knouff, Sr. and Al Liddy went to Cambridge last Tuesday. Mr Coen of Washington was a guest of Dr Coen part of last week. The Band enlivened the town by playing Some excellent music last Saturday night.
Epizooty spreads among neighborhood horses. Mr and Mrs Snowden Wilson of Newark visited relatives in Brady, staying with Milton Wilson. Ephraim Cregiston and wife from Grant County Indiana visited Aunt Peggy Culbertson last week. Quarterly meeting at Allen's chapel set for November 11 and 12 with Elder Mills of Barnesville in attendance.
Three Gill children suffer scarlet fever after visits by family and friends. Geo Coen and wife travel in Kansas WH. Hanna greeted the boys this week. Rev Reed of Barnesville preached for Rev Kumiler last Sabbath. Win St Clair and wife visit Cambridge and New Concord. Mary Cowgill died of heart disease last Wednesday. Cider sells for two dollars a barrel as supplies for medical use rise. Wm Stranathan returns from Kentucky with two well bred stallions. Jash Steele Stephen Mills and Charley Jennings of Caldwell visit Monday. Huston Covert's residence near town nears occupancy. Harry Winley of Cap Lina telegraph operator visits his mother and friends. Dr A Trimmer’s wife of Barnesville died Friday and is buried here. sister of Thos G McCortle. HC Reynolds V S sells household goods to move to Zanesville and will visit weekly. Mrs Sarah M Thompson of Salida Colorado visits her brothers R W and Samuel Conner and sister Mrs Garlington after 33 years. Tev LJ Hawkins returns from Synod meeting at Lebanon Ohio and visits Cincinnati Exposition. reports a good time.
NW Ruby and family plan to move to Cambridge this week. James McCollum and family of Perry county visit his father Alex McCollum. Ida Smith of Kimbolton and Mrs Joseph Temple of Uhrichsville visit Mrs Margaret Temple this week. A singing class closes next Saturday evening with 10 cents admittance for nonmembers and nonladies. Quarterly ME church meeting is held Saturday and Sunday week with preaching Saturday at 10 30 by the presiding elder and Saturday night services.
Allen Forman of The Journalist presents a detailed study of low income immigrants and tenement dwellers in New York City based on his firsthand residence in crowded tenements. The article argues for a vivid, nonfiction portrayal of the poor without relying on imagination.
List of names awaiting letters at the Cambridge post office with instruction to say advertised. Names include R V Acheson I M Brown Miss Marie Black W H Campbell Earnest E Duffey Miss Dora Elsey Mrs H J Hutchison Miss Like Williams Mr Lewis Harding Mr Thomas Murray Howard Runyon GH Stonger Martha Sullivan Lon Waller Mrik Watkins and others.
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