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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1870
Page
3
Fragmented OCR reveals a late 19th century ad filled with names and notices. It lists publishers and stores in Philadelphia New York and local towns, mentions a book sale by Strome’s and Look Out for new cheap goods, plus a Christmas shopping appeal urging readers to visit Winn & Co in Zaleski for fashionable clothing and gifts.
Burglars looming, Dan Will and Brothers offer wholesale discounts on their dry and fancy goods during Mondays while they invoice. Secure bargains on beautiful, substantial merchandise before prices rise.
Advertises holiday sales at Main Street shops with cheap prices on stoves toll-wial-builer worn out pans dippers and kitchen utensils. Goon on hand at Strong's and promotes latest improvements in hardware.
An old market gossipy note claims Farin Marts offers goods at low cash prices while buyers seek seasonal stock. It also mentions hay feeding debates, a French English paper Le Citoyen American, and a Christmas toy push at G W Sisson’s drug store. Sheriffs sales recap lists several property transactions including Bratton, White, Bagh Furnace, and Rains properties along Main Street and townships.
Members of the Presbyterian church will host an oyster supper at the School House Tall on Monday evening, November 26. Tickets are two shillings.
Fragmented OCR lists locations and routes such as Car From COLUMDUE Athens to PORTSMOUTS Over the Columbia Hocking Valley and other place names. The text appears to be a catalog of stations, destinations, and numbers with names like Winchester Sugar Grove Kioreport and John 2509.
A sprawling, mixed set of notes reports on varied items: a proposed waste furnace for New Lexington. a new newspaper called the Morning Ledger in Chicknmill. a McQuugh murder case cost. 11 convicts at the Moundsville Penitentiary. no Dickens Christmas story this year for the military. Portsmouth ranking twelfth and Trenton eighteenth by state population. a man in Ilion, Ohio punishing his son in a shed accident. California geese nuisance to railroads. a pardoned convict lecturing on prison hardship in Minnesota. roughs in Chicago aiding medical colleges in exchange for profit. copper-rich Guilford county mines flooded. railroads using stove locks to prevent passengers from smoking. a contractor’s joke about locking stoves. no Radical votes in Polk County Nevada. U S troops in Augusta, Georgia during an election with a Democratic gain and a stabbing incident. an old Jackson, Mississippi man loses eight hundred dollars buried in a yard when fire dries it. an inquiry about why Smiths come from everywhere concludes with a factory sign in Senith Mesafagtuye ing Co. indicating the era’s odd, disconnected notices.
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