Obscure Classified Ad and Notice Fragments
Fragmented 19th century style notices advertise clock sales florists funeral notices and local business offerings. Mentions Drake and various shop names with garbled wording and partial prices.
22 Feb 1878
Page 1
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1878
Page
1
Fragmented 19th century style notices advertise clock sales florists funeral notices and local business offerings. Mentions Drake and various shop names with garbled wording and partial prices.
Fragmented OCR text mentions Avon ton North Mare Street and a unit price of 2 per cure. Notes a Denise posts six events exchanged and references wasteful practices. Details are unclear and partly unreadable but imply local notices or postings about properties or prices.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference flour purchases or mill notes. Names such as Dick and Waber’s and Ed appear amid garbled phrases. No coherent event or dates are readable to confirm a clear news item or outcome.
A garbled entry mentions calling on a heap and a person named Oy Vata rae, with a reference to Pf tet yaparty D nyAy tsam and Centler street. The text is incomplete and unclear.
A promotional offer promises a genuine Skipareen Linen Handkerchief sent to any recipient who pays 23 cents. The deal includes a series of small gifts such as cuff buttons, collar pins, and nickel plated items, with mailed payment rates listed for various time commitments from one week to one year. The notice is signed by Samuel Hume in Maumee, Ohio.
Business notices state J. McGruder has received a fine lot of whips brushes combs and related items for sale. The shipment enhances stock for early buyers and market demand remains steady across the region.
Notice offers a chance to rent a house for a No.1 family. Mrs Holverstott seeks a tenant who will board with her, with good recommendations required. For further particulars inquire of P. W. Holverstott.
Advertises a new five room house for rent at 111 North Main Street. Offers oak fence posts and coal of any kind kept in stock, with a claim of good quality and fair prices. Mentions Marton and T. R. Roberts.
TL McFarland offers a neat business room below and three upstairs rooms on Main Street near A and G W Railroad. Available April first for one year or longer, 400 dollars for business or boarding lease. Term of lease to be given.
The ladies at the Episcopal Church plan a City Hall supper Friday evening February 22. The event aims to be entertaining with rooms themed to nationalities and refreshments served. Lunch table 25 cents, oysters stewed 25 cents, ice cream and cakes 15 cents, mush and milk 5 cents, admission 10 cents. Supper from 6 o’clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Mrs Coluna addresses Ma pos god vacuity ladies about Monday work at The Exchange Hotel for making puffs switches and econtines. Samples viewable at Ruennrinnod's store and orders accepted. Switches repaired and hair ragied.
The Mim Local event scheduled at Mr John Hugheseu on Friday evening and next Wednesday has been postponed because of a tea party at Carey Hall. Members will be informed of new dates.
The New York Sewing Machine Company recently completed a model the Dedse HLOMAIC T609100 self acting take up device for regulating cost and speed. It features a convenient belt finder and a long service life with durable wear parts. See it at St. J Magridier's.
A fragmented ad promotes a store stocking cigarettes of many brands and qualities. It hints at fine stock, low prices, and top prizes attracting smokers to visit. The copy is garbled but emphasizes variety, value, and offers at a local shop.
In Western New York 1878 notice, Miley occupies a minde room in Cou's Block while Tess is misattributed. The ad mentions Bill serving hot coffee oysters baked beans meat and MES, with rent information and inquiry contact A C Ault for a good dwelling house.
O Mossman offers three flu e cows for sale near the A G W cat pens. cows are fine and will be frest about next September from P Q Sharpless stock. Mossman, 18, preparing move to Kansas and will give a bargain Ga 633 stock.
Wm Miley 1 Dining Hall draws crowds daily from the Courtroom and countryside. Patrons acclaim Bil serving of baked beans oysters hot coffee ham eggs as the best lunch in town for quality and atmosphere.
Classified notice seeking five hundred dollars for five years on a mortgage valued at three times its amount. The lender would reduce the principal by one hundred dollars each year. Call at the Star office.
The poem portrays a forsaken youth facing neglect and scorn as natural imagery comforts another sleeper. It contrasts misery and punishment with nature's quiet fidelity, urging mercy and a kinder path while referencing Mrs. H. E. and Mr. H. M. Barnhart for inquiries.
A fragment from the Bowsher McVey murder trial notes corroboration of preaching testimony with three exceptions. D J Course testified on the morning after the murder he smelled a scent at the McVey house and found a purse. He followed to a ravine where a lair contained rags sacks and papers. He suspected murderers hid there until opportunity.
The item lists names John Noonin John Codding and John Hardy with brief, unverifiable notes about their occupations and ages alongside quoted reflections on remorse memory and scandal. It blends civic notes with sensational aphorisms and ends with a garbled social comment about Mrs Hicks Lord and her sons as well as a New York scandal mood.
Clever old gentleman notes James Swinerton as a 28 year old machinist and carpenter, beloved in the shop. The county raised craftsman earns praise for intellect and benevolent manner, nicknamed Pap. John Cristip, a 26 year old contractor and rising carpenter, is described as a steady worker weighing 131 pounds.
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