Swan Price Adverts and Autumn Local Notes
A compilation of short items from the Star including Swan advertisements offering delivery to January 1, 1881 for twenty five cents, remarks on cooler weather and equinoctial storms, fall fashion notes, church attendance rising in winter, brief travels and visits by local residents, political gatherings with Republican clubs, and a Riverside Cloverdale dispatch reporting a rape accusation against Frank Kerr.
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Bey
P.G. Fry
Bainbridge
Union City
Ind
M. A. Johnson
Carbon
Philadelphia
Bea
Cloverdale
Frank Kerr
Miss Brown
Rallies Set by Parties Across City With Big Speakers
The October 9 political rallies proceed as announced with Republicans at College Campus and Democrats at Court House yard. A large crowd attended Saturdays first Democratic rally featuring a sailor club, Judge Slayback, and a torchlight procession, followed by Hon. C. F. McNutt at the Opera House. Meanwhile news from Bainbridge reports Braxton Elis, who left to buy clothes with a valise, has not been seen and rumors of family infidelity surface.
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College Campus
Democracy
Court House Yard
James Allen
Monroe Township
Sailor Campaign Club
Judge Slayback
C. F. McNutt
Opera House
Cincinnati Gazette
Bainbridge
Braxton Elis
Arch Allen
Winter fashions and domestic advice in quirky tone
A fragmentary column exhorts readers to seek bare feet in cold weather and contentment despite tight boots and corns. It praises fur lined circulars and seal skin cloaks for winter, urges women to inspect purses before buying bonnets, notes few weddings, and describes pumpkin pie styles and a quirky line about kicks.
Election Inspectors Appointed for Tatham County Seats
At the June term the Tatham County Commissioners Court named election inspectors for the October and November elections. In single precinct townships the township trustee acts as inspector. In multi precinct wards the county commissioners appoint inspectors. Appointees include Russellville, Charles B. Winn Greencastle township W W Allen Bainbridge C G Hubbard city of Greencastle Ist ward Jacob Ratliff city of Greencastle 3d ward John Murphy.
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Indiana
Tatham County Commissioners Court
Russellville
Charles B. Winn
Greencastle
W. W. Allen
Bainbridge
C. G
Hubbard
City of
Istward
Jacob Ratliff
John Murphy
Whistler Peter Campbell Challenges Global Competitors
Peter Campbell born in Tyrone Ireland around 1559 displays early genius for whistling in Bridgeport. He gains backing from M T Feeley to host a whistling match at St Johns Hall with rivals including Jinks Morarity Signor Delano and others. The event draws four hundred spectators with admission 25 cents and reserved seats ten cents.
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New York Sun
Peter Campbell
County Tyrone
Ireland
Bridgeport
Booth and Steuben
M.T. Feeley
Mr. Feeley
Campbell
Hartford
Signor Delano
Fred Monks
Anasia
Harry Hart
North Manchester
Norwalk
Connecticut
Clark and Monigan
St. John’s Hall
Jinks Morarity
Vna
Whistling contest delights audience with Campbell and Moriarty
In a St. Johns Church hall, Peter Campbell and Jinks Moriarty perform contrasting whistling acts to loud applause. Campbell’s refined, chest-driven notes win back the crowd after Moriarty’s canary-like trill, amid juried debate and audience stamping.
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Page
Peter Campbell
Jinks Morarity
Peter Campbellis
Robin
Jinks Moriarty
St. John's Church
Campbell
Campbells
Moriarty
Hartford
Liver Pills Claim Superior One Year Results
An advertisement asserts Sellers' Liver Pills outperform all other proprietary medicines in one year, priced at 25 cents per bottle. The note emphasizes real, proven benefit.
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C.J. Kimble & Son
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Pex
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Wiley
Denver
Sailor Club
Danville
John Albaugh
Leon
Iowa
Bes Eli Perkins
Brown's Hall
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Guilmette
Quincy, Llls
S.E. Cor
Public Square
Greencastle, Ind
George Bicknhell
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Studebaker
Pittsburg
Indiana and
Columbia Streets
Undertakers
Putnam
East
Washington Street
Green Castle
Putna
Washington St
Warris
ST. Louane
Portiano, Inc
A. H. Latham
American Telegraph
Albany
Missouri
Linnie Faris
Pennville
Faris
R. H. Parrett
Buffalo
N. Y
Invalids
R. V. Pierce
United States
Pierce
London
England
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
George Weehler
Milwaukee
Chicago
Alfred Speer
Passaic
N. J
Enquirer
Allen’s Drug Store
Galesburg
Ill
Nellie Chase
West
Miss Chase
Horace Chase
Peoria
G. H. Higgins
Sam Munroe
Sam
California
Hset
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Antwerp
Michigan
Lindsey
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