Halter Swindle Among Civil War Soldiers Reveals Discipline
A camp tale from 1864 Whites Station recounts a private thief who sells the same halter to fifteen officers for a dollar and a quarter each. Major Shearer orders investigation. the boy is caught, tried, and sentenced to double duty while repaying every dollar. The incident shows army life’s demoralizing temptations and eventual reform.
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Whites Station
Memphis & Charlestown
Sam
Alex W
Alex
Lum Land
Lum
Shearer
Lume
Lam
Missouri
Maj. Shearer
Jll
West Tennessee
Local items and notices from Franconia area
L Cohn moved to Cincinnati and Dave Cohn became the new merchant. Sugar-making began as wheat remained good after the snow. Elder Whitlock preached at Mill Creek Tuesday. Tom Mack spent vacation at home. Breeden and Finney formed a new mill firm. Prayer meeting at Union Valley last Thursday. A girl named Jemima from Iowa died by self harm after lacking a diminutive for her name. A classmate named Dear, darling Mimmie, wrote too late. eight companions Abbie Bessie Carrie Dollie Ettie Florrie Georgie Hattie attended the grave.
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L. Cohn
Cincinnati
Whitlock
Mill Creek
Dave Cohn
Franconia
Tom McCammack
Cloverdale
Lambart
Breeden & Finney
Union Valley
Lex
Iowa
Jemima
Mimmie
Abbie
Bessie
Carrie
Dollie
Ettie
Florrie
Georgie
Hattie
Man Pleads Cold Starvation Led to Lamp Toss
John Petersen appeared in Essex Market Court blaming hunger and consumption illness for his act of throwing a cobblestone at an Eldridge Street lamp near the police station. He said he sought arrest to secure a bed and food after being refused shelter by the station and losing his clerk job. Justice Kilbreth sent him to the Commissioners of Charities for relief rather than Island confinement.
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Kilbreth
Essex Market Court
Eldridge Street
John Petersen
On the Road to Riches book review and sale notice
A review praises a new book for clerks and young businessmen on buying and selling. It claims extensive demand and strong advertising, calling it practical without sensationalism. The work, by an experienced merchant, is recommended for every mercantile firm to gift to clerks. price 160.
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Hodge
Calamities and Misfortune Reported in Danville Area
News recounts James Vannise fatally injured by a maul near Danville while splitting logs. Arch Johnson, a state representative, is gravely ill in Crawfordsville and unlikely to return this winter. A house fire near St. Wayne kills Jesse Nutt and injures others. Nutt family suffers $1,800 loss with no insurance. Other items note Andrew Ensley’s enlistment in the regular army amid domestic woes, a Floyd County cattle-bell dispute ending in costly compromise, John Barnett’s suspected poisoning and family anxiety, and W H Barnett’s ankle injury after a garden gate accident.
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James Vannise
Danville
Arch Johnson
Montgomery
Parke
Crawfordsville
Danial A. Nutt
St. Wayne
Jesse Nutt
John Hyber
Nutt
Mr. Nutt
Andrew Ensley
Wm. Ensley
Shelbyville
Young Ensley
Floyd County
Mayfield
Featheringill
Immersion Baptism With Tragic Outcome At Palmyra
A German Baptist baptism at Spring Creek Palmyra Pa ended in the death of Mrs. Martain Bowman 55 unable to walk After three plunges in icy water she died and her husband and children mourned as friends aided her recovery efforts Report notes other baptisms postponed for warmer weather and local reactions.
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Palmyra
Martain Bowman
Spring Creek
German Baptist Church
Cincinnati Enquirer
Fragmented Anecdotes and Local Notices From The Gazette
A jumble of brief items and anecdotes from the Cincinnati Gazette including birth notices, a servant cleaning a kitchen, an Iowa teacher prodigy at sixteen, a religious fanatic kept in custody, a farcical duel among youths, and a Philadelphia actor’s will about his head destined for the Walnut Street Theater.
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Cincinati Gazette
G. Horren
Lissie
Nevada
Déke
Iowa
John R. Reed
Walnut Street Theater
Philadelphia
Don’t Smoke Where the Canary Is
A Kingston Courier note recounts a gentleman with a canary kept above his smoking chair. After tobacco smoke stifled the bird, moving the cage to purer air allowed the canary to recover and sing clearly again within a fortnight.
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Kingston Courier
Dr King's New Discovery Promises Quick Lung Relief
An advertisement promotes Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs colds asthma bronchitis consumption and throat or lung ailments. It claims hundreds of cures and offers a trial bottle for ten cents or a full bottle for one dollar at Alleos Drug Store.
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Dr. King
Alleos Drug Store
Landes & Co Drugists Rubber Overshoes Ad
Landes and Company advertise rubber overshoes boots and related items. Readily available at Arnold's located at the southwest corner of the public square.
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Northwest Corner Public Square
James Gillespy
Public Square
Greencastle
Ind
Arnold’s
Dr Kings California Golden Compound Offered Free Trial
A persuasive ad inviting all suffering from indigestion dyspepsia constipation and related ailments to visit Allen's Drug Store for a free trial bottle of Dr King’s California Golden Compound. The pitch promises rapid relief and claims the remedy has never failed, urging readers to test before buying a regular one dollar bottle.
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Allen's
Dr. Kine
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