05 Jan 1878
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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1878
Page
1
A brief historical timetable entry dated May 13 1877 references the Michigan company as a western institution. It notes a railway table and mentions a person or location with unclear spelling, indicating an early transport schedule fragment.
A promotional note offers a genuine Skipareen Linen Handkerchief for 25 cents and lists a bundle of free gifts valued at 360 dollars, including cuff buttons shirts studs and rings. The message is signed by Samuel Hume of Marion, QC, and hints at insurance from Michigan Mutual.
Keefer and Snake announce a refitted room in Miller's Block Marion Ohio offering a full assortment of groceries and provisions sold as cheap as the cheapest with free delivery citywide. They stock top cigar and tobacco brands and thank Marion and nearby citizens for past favors, inviting continued patronage.
H T Van Fleet attorney at law and real estate agent advertises extensive sale of farms and land tracts across Ohio and adjoining states. Listings include multiple railroad lands, farm parcels from 12 to 890 acres, town properties, mills, and numerous parcels owned or offered by Van Fleet and partners with available maps and circulars at his Marion office.
The list records arrivals at Kerr House and Exchange Hotel including guests T H Roberts from Cleveland C F Corwin from Mt. Gilead John Simpson from Mansfield H J Knesley from Columbus J G Blackman from Youngstown J H Jackson from Columbus A Peter from Toledo J J Crooks from Columbus A Sullivan from Dayton J W Mooney from Delaware George Roberts F E Biyers from Canton James Carter from Lewisburg Lon Ogborn from Cincinnati Gust Joss from New Philadelphia O Parmelee from Cleveland Store and Moore city HP Adams from Prospect H Butler from Greenborsa NY
The Common Pleas Court convenes on Tuesday the 29th. F Serner's roof shows signs of the slate work. The concert saloon remains quiet with no demonstrations. A target of notes was removed from town. Capt Hughes, a silver tongue orator, visited Marion yesterday. Daniel Wake and family settled in their Center street den house. The Graphic sings a local chorus. Messrs Moopy and Sankey hosted a watch meeting in Providence R I on New Year’s Eve. Osborn & Yager run a lively meat trade for the season. A young man sang by moonlight last night. An oyster supper for twelve workers on Serner’s job was funded by Serner and Hoyt. H P Adams, formerly proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, now runs a hotel near the depot in Prospect O. Miss Mary Moore and Miss Laura Davis visit Mrs Libby Hayne in Portland Indiana. The young ladies left Marion last Saturday and spent New Year’s Day at Judge Hayne’s of Portland, with plans to stay about two weeks. Portland, they say, is
Marion markets firm on cold weather with butter scarce and firm, eggs scarce while plentiful? no, eggs said to go plenty, potatoes rising, poultry abundant, hogs firmer, meat slow despite abundance, dried apples scarce, sugar low for years, coffee unchanged, flour down to 1.55 per sack. A carload of cabbage arrived from the East yesterday selling at five cents per head.
J F Darrah of Delaware dies from typhoid fever. He recently completed grain work on Mrs Riser's building two months ago.
Bree Fishes must adjust strategy to widen the Republican majority in Big Island township, aiming to secure stronger support in upcoming local elections.
A poor young man notes that capitalists only tell him to live within his means, but his true difficulty is living without income. He portrays a clash between advice and hardship, highlighting economic squeeze and personal resilience in the face of scarce funds.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Beecher and a holiday season’s impact on sinners, mentioning a phrase about the hellt business and a bold move with brakes off. Details are incomplete, leaving ambiguous context and no clear event or source venue.
Centerville Md Observer notes J E Ludner of Queen Annes County raised 784 bushels of corn per acre on a 25 acre field this season.
Mr. George L Brewer of the Clearspring District in Washington county Met is credited with a season production on four acres of meadow land reaching 1203 bushels per acre. This report highlights a notable yield by a local farmer in the area.
Hearty Thurston of White Creek Texas stands seven feet six inches and believes he is the tallest man in the Union. He is strong and healthy, served in the Confederate Army, and drew huge crowds in St. Louis after the war. He declines modest exhibition offers from showmen.
In Trenton New Jersey a hen owned by Mrs Dooley was hit by a coach and thought dead. The bird’s broken leg required amputation but later recovered with a stick attached to its leg. The patched fowl could not walk properly yet remained animated and cherished by its owner.
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