06 Apr 1878
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1878
Page
1
An 1878 advertisement promotes practical accounting and mercantile training. It lists merchants brokers railroads mine companies and publishers, with names and local contacts for enrollment. The notice targets businesses and individuals seeking instruction in retail finance and bookkeeping.
Real estate listings for Bellefontaine Indiansyo addition Marion and Lisin Wallace ads offer terms and prices from local brokers. A magic drama at City Hall next week is highlighted, noting prior success in Blythe and earnings reported. Local merchants promote maple syrup and property sales amid various notices and sales pitches.
A lengthy promotion for The Pictorial History of the World by Johannes D. McCabe, praising its scope from ancient to modern times. It highlights superb engravings, 1260 pages, 650 plus illustrations, and a $25,000 engraving cost, noting low subscription price and Smith as local agent.
The report notes the death of Jacob Wick aged about 27 or 28, a Ward worker from Marion. Funeral services are scheduled for 7 PM tomorrow at the Albright Church, with unclear details about his family and cause.
A fragmented note from the C. & Po R. reports annual travel totals with regional comparisons. North and South passenger counts stand at 74 314 and 75 608 respectively, earning differences favoring the North by 1 310 15. Freight pass totals show North at 250 296 804 and South at 125 140 871.
A fragmentary remark in Awber to The Sun contemplates Lord Dufferin offering Sitting Bull and his 10,600 followers a chance to join in a battle for the “White Mother,” joking about how the Cossacks would be astonished by such a force.
The text cites O.0. Howard and the Tuchass claiming the destruction of the Russian army would be complete, with a, grim jest about all dying laughing. It also notes roller skating as not modern, tracing its vogue to The Hague and Scheveningen in 1790.
The fragment references the Queen, Mrs Osborne, and a 1878 context with a claim of 600 000 to 900 060 men. It mentions color citizens, landivehx, landstuva, and Baron Kubo's organization, but the text is garbled and unclear about actual events or dates.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a speech by the president of the Philosophical Society praising efforts at a Public School event. The text hints at appreciation and a sense of liberty felt by the local populace, with references to literacy and communal sentiment.
March 29 1878 listing praise for Baker's Short Methods of Accounts as a good system for beginners. Local merchants and professionals named include Williams Garberson hardware Isaac Young engineer Wm Fres furniture Stolt Terpany shoes H Peters druggist F Li Reed dry goods N Green cigars tobacco P W Seareh superintendent public schools Went Liberty Ohio.
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