21 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1878
Page
1
Local business notice for Kowalke and Hudson highlighting a full line of furniture and accessories. Funeral services offered with prompt and careful attendance.
Cord wood and fence posts offered on Nyncth Main Street. Mast Millet average quality, 1.000 to 30G of Cue best quality CT Gas for seats tesa. Fence posts six cents each. Leave your Geis. Any quantity of fore BoM at Fs per cord.
Fragmentary text indicates a dispute involving The Walao mills and Goan BW with Beare. References to Dick & Merkert's, Keeter & Slukes, and Go Mwoy's suggest a regional commerce quarrel. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
The readable text mentions Oyster Restaurant and nearby eateries on Center Street with calls to visit or dine, but many words are garbled. It appears to be a damaged notice about local restaurants and a location on Center Street.
A fragmentary notice announces wood for sale. The readable details indicate a single parcel or lot offered by a local seller near Ward vir with uncertain quantity and terms due to the damaged OCR text.
Property listing offering a house for rent by Mrs. Holverstott on the hill. Prospective tenant must have good recommendations and Mrs. Holverstott prefers to board with the renter. For details contact P. W. Holverstott.
FOR RENT. A new house of five rooms at No. 111 North Main street. If you want good our oak font Posts or good coal of any kind, I keep Band all kinds, hard 'and soft, as good and as cheap as cup be found in Maron T. R. ROBERTS.
A notice offering a business room below with ware rooms attached and three stairs upstairs for lease starting April first. Located three doors north of the A G Way on Main Street. Suitable for business or board, term negotiable across years.
The Episcopal Church women plan a City Hall supper on Friday evening February 9. The event aims to be attractive and entertaining with booths themed by nationalities and refreshments. Dinner costs 25 cents for a meal, 25 cents with accompaniments, ice cream and cakes 15 cents, mush and milk 5 cents, and admission 10 cents. Supper served from 5 o'clock until dusk, with a cordial invitation extended.
Mrs Calrns invites ladies to view wares at Ruernmusch's store on Monday for puffs, culls and switches of human and horsehair. Samples and orders accepted. Switches repaired at the Exchange Hotel.
A Mum Social planned for Friday evening at Mt John Highes on South Mai Street is postponed to Wednesday evening next week due to a tea party at City Hall. All are invited to attend.
The notice notes a large quantity of cannabis products at Joe's attracting all tasters. Underwood receives a fine sum and promises to align offerings with current trends, suggesting preparations for a significant pipe item sale.
Samuel Hume of Marion Ohio advertises a mail offer for handkerchiefs that costs 93 cents a promise of rare line items as free gifts with each order. The proposed set includes a roll plated cuff button engagement ring and other trinkets described as part of a centennial promotion.
The notice states that the listed rates apply only to advance payment. If not paid in advance, the price becomes fifty cents per month.
New maple sugar just received at Petht's Western New York season. Miley occupies the middle room of Coe's Block, and not the liquor business as was slated. Bull Keps, lint coffee, oysters, baked pork and beans, etc. For rest. Good dwelling house, enquire of A. C. Aglt.
For sale by C Mossman near the A G W cot. He moves to Kansas and offers three fine cows for sale and one heifer, due to freshen about September from P O Stackless stock. The cows will calve in a few months. Mossman will accept a bearer on his stock.
The Dining Hall enjoys daily crowds from the Courtroom and the country. Patrons praise Bill for the best baked beans oysters hot coffee ham eggs and overall lunch quality in town.
An offer of five hundred dollars for five years proposes an initial mortgage at three times its value and a yearly principal reduction of one hundred dollars. Call at the Star office for details.
Poem urging freemen to claim rights amid wealth inequality. Calls for labor to grasp justice and oppose slavery in the nation, invoking past battles and divine protection. References to gold, rent, banners, and the need for equal laws and defended liberty.
Elizabeth Taylor of Newell's Run fatally struck Miller with an axe after he seduced her and refused marriage. Miller had threatened to place her in the County infirmary. Taylor’s friends claim she is insane. Miller died after prolonged injuries.
J F Matthews defends truth in print and rebukes a baseless hoodlum claim about a school report. He urges the author to tell the truth, citing scripture that liars cannot enter heaven. Mr Young, author of the report, acknowledges the mistake.
B F Stahl is said to run a large insurance and real estate business. Town residents long for a flouring mill and now seek a bank to enable loans for purchase. An Irish servant girl boasted of her early morning routine. A shooting attempt hurt William Smith near College Corner on the 9th. Henry Noris was arrested for the crime.
Fragmentary notice states loss of a bunch of keys and a six inch boxwood rule on West Center street. Caller asks contacting T B Newcomb or T Breen at Center street store and paying for this notice.
The State of Ohio invested a thousand dollars yesterday in a brief legislative session. Forty members attended the House and eleven attended the Senate. Members drew pay at the same rate for the session.
Phillip Detrick, Marion’s eldest tailor since 1836, has long operated in the present building and continues to manufacture garments. He is famed as the city’s most rapid walker and a storied local tradesman.
Charles R. McGill was indicted for the murder of Mary Kelley and the trial began in Cleveland on Monday.
Adam asks how to leave thee and receives no answer from Eve who instead points to a distant fig tree. He gathers an armful and feels a sense of relief, marking the moment as the first re-leaf.
John Clark, a blacksmith now heading Murphy's Huber forge, is linked to the name Lia formerly Walter Clark. Twin brothers John Barley-corn and John Demijohn, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, frequent saloons and hotels behind the bar, noted for their bad breath and undesirable acquaintances.
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