Four presidential tickets with Civil War generals named
The Star lists four tickets for President and Vice President, each headed by a Civil War general: Garfield Republican Hancock Democrat Weaver Greenbacker Dow Prohibitionist. A telegram from Wheatland, Knox County, notes the death of Governor Williams wife, the funeral held Monday with wide sympathy across the state.
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Tere
James A. Garfield
Winfield 3. Hancock
James B. Weaver
Neal Dow
Wheatland
Knox County
Williams
Cincinnati Convention Platform Ends In Democratic Creed
The Democrats of the United States in convention declare their platform. They oppose centralization and despotism, advocate home rule honest money tariffs for revenue only and civil service reform, defend the free ballot, condemn the current administration, and push for restrictive Chinese emigration and Burlingame treaty amendments.
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Cincinnati
Democrats of
United States
Democratic Party
The
Union
Samuel J. Tilden
Democratic pledge and budget reform message
The text asserts Democratic party aims to protect public money for public uses and lands for settlers. It praises labor support and vows to guard workers against predatory interests. It lauds a Democratic Congress for reducing expenditures by 40 million annually and calls for lasting reform across government.
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Democratic Party
Real estate transfers listed in Greencastle area records
Real estate transfers reported by Lewis and Newgent include G H Williamson selling to Hamilton Gray for $500, Manhattan and Greene Castle areas show multiple parcels. Other deeds include John W Fellows and James Risk selling parcels to Thomas W Zane and Franklin tp. transfers involving Clinton, Monroe, Floyd and Russell townships with prices from $1 to $3,500.
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G. H. Williamson
Hamilton Gray
E. T. Keightley
Greencastle
William Roberts
Thomas W. Zane
Manhattan
John W. Fellows
Jennie W. Allen
Tandy Crawley
J. P. Sinclair
R. R. Enl
Samuel Payne
Hinkle
Clinton
Augustus Pierson
William H. Pierson
Reelsville
Thomas Horn
Reuben Michael
Jefferson
Daniel T. Darnall
Lucinda McKee
Monroe
James W. Risk
F’ranklin
Franklin
Huther
Alma Bettis
Michael W. Spaulding
Milton Cassity
Thomas J. Ellis
Bainbridge
Susan Hunter
Elizabeth Hunter
Floyd Pl
Alma A. Bryant
Emery Martin
Cloverdale
Lucinda Barker
Malinda Young
Jackson
Samuel W. Linton
John E. Blake
Russell
John HE. Blake
Josephs
Gregg
Russell Tp
Sheriff P. C
Mary E. McMannis
Rogers
Cockerly
Enl
Frank P. Nelson
John Crawley
John P. Sinclair
E. Sub
Mary E. Ader
George W.farrer
Groveland
Freight train wreck claims multiple lives near Confidence Hill
A Vandalia freight derailment near Confidence Hill fifteen miles from St. Louis killed fireman Alonzo Woods and blacksmith Thomas Beasley. Freight engineer John Wood and several wrecking crew members were seriously injured as wrecking train collided with west bound No. 12. Injured include Henry Frokarder and Chas Russey with serious wounds. many others hurt. Both engines and several cars were destroyed. cause under investigation.
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St. Louis
Confidence Hill
Vandalia Road
East St. Louis
Hunter’s Switch
Alonzo Woods
Thomas Beasley
John Wood
Henry Frokarder
Chas, Russey
Michael Walsh
John Sullivan
Sam Lannigan
John Murphy
Dan O'Connell
Albert Angeaine
Dennis Murphy
Cross
Vandalia Manufacturing Company
Double Murder Suicide in Elkhart Tragedy Claims Two Lives
George Elliott shot his sweetheart Miss Mamie Dacey in Elkhart this afternoon, then killed himself with a second shot. Dacey survived briefly before dying. she is from Dunkirk New York. Local inquiry points to a domestic tragedy with a fatal outcome.
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Kuart
Ind
Elkhart
George Elliott
Mamie Dacey
Dunkirk
N. Y
Sneak Thief Captured After Church Contribution Robbery
A former school teacher snatched a church contribution box at Broad Street Congregational Church. A running pursuit by the congregation ended with the thief caught and the box recovered containing 1594 dollars.
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CoLtumaus
Broad Street Congregational Church
Storm tragedy in Tipton kills two horses and child
In Tipton Indiana a lightning strike killed four horses and a bystander. a nearby child also perished by electric fluid. In Supranapouts Indiana Samuel Vancamp suffered a severe facial bite from a bull dog. William Reed died during prayer in East Douglas Massachusetts. An ark builder in Helena Texas prepares fifty passengers for a biblical voyage. A divorcee in Jefferson Ohio regains hope after his wife wounds him.
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Tipton
Ind
Andrew Fielding
Francis Bowen
William Reed
East Douglass
Mass
Helena
Texas
Demure Quaker town bars fiction from public library
Germantown near Philadelphia runs a 10 000 volume public library that excludes fiction. Shakespeare Byron Pope Dryden Thackeray and Kingsley are kept out while travel and natural history works are preferred. The librarian jokes Twain’s travel books aren’t trusted. Reading is pitched as healthier than whiskey.
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Germantown
Philadelphia
Shakspeare
Byron
Pope
Dryden Thackeray
Kingsley
Mark Twain
Philadelphia Times
Rochester's Hop Bitters a Great Local Enterprise
A Rochester firm, The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company, is highlighted as a leading business, with its product widely adopted in households. The item also recounts a Niagara Falls March 1848 event described by Rev Dr Fuller, plus a note praising Thermaline as a malaria cure sold at 25 cents per box with Allen's Drug Store as a venue.
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W. W. Jones
Gisar
Gray Medicine CO
No. LO Mechanics’ Block
Detroit
Mich
Greencastle
Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company
Rochester
Niagara
T. B. Fuller
Hamilton
Ontario
Allen's
Fragmented Classified Fragments From A Distant Ledger
A collage of 19th century notices and ad-like lines mentions a white child raised by a black mother and a brutal incident, plus product pitches for butter color and patent medicines. It mixes personal matters, moral judgments, and commercial blurbs with scattered names and places, all in a terse, unsourced clipping style.
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Conrad Cook
West Side Public Square
Lueteke & Haspel
East
BEST
EAMM
Leratus Salera
Tisai
Falmer
Church & Co
DR. Clay
Pirrette
James
Fentons
Tom
Howe, M.D
Lueteke
Frank A. Anxoup
Peneeeeee
James Gillespy
New York
Scorner
Greencastle, Ind
Jay
Taylor
West Side Square
Renick, Curtis & Co
Charles H Goodale S
Ofice
the Star
Wysong's
Iris
Wysong’s
Castle Mills
Ie Gage
Cincinnati Convention
Democratic Congress
Lewis & Newgent
Supranapouts
Samuel Vancamp
Talbott
Charles Ledwell
Ohio
Patrick Clark
Ann Davis
Clarks
Noah Towner
Bui
W. Va
Dundas P, Co
Allens
Ndianapolis
St. Louis Ray
N.Y
John W. Earp
St. Louis Vanpai
Trrne
Hacr
Dianapolis
Sam
Louisville, New
Aupany & Cnd Rathroan
Cee
Iister
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington
Richard Harte & CO
Cincinn
Birrens
Erin
Boston
Bright
Hunt
Rom Rev
E.G. Taylor
D. D
Baptist Church
Providence
L. Jan
Lean
F. C. Taylor
R.I
BE. Chanke
WM. E. Clarke
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