Campaign echoes and local notices from Greencastle
Local column notes visitors, campaign rallies and election chatter amid Apple butter season. Mr Prichard moves to Greencastle while Diphtheria concerns persist. Fair set for Sept 13 1881. Sweeney wins at State Fair with cash prizes. Blue Ribbon Union and Y M C A form Sabbath School at Temperance Hall with officers elected. first meeting Sunday at 2 pm.
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Floyd Township
ReyxJohn Merryweather
A. J. Neff
Rex
Greencastle
James Steele
Sweeney
J. G Sweeney
J. G. Sweeney
Gene
Blue Ribbon Union
College
Temperance Hall
W. L. Hood
L. D. Moore
Sophia Richards
Lin, Hopkins
Treas
Smith Smiley
Miss Snyder
Minnie Hood
Alice Wernexe
Those Wise in the Ways of the World Say
A reflective line on rational living, noting that sensible folk enjoy life but avoid free rides from others amid a funeral opportunity, with parents and bachelors mentioned in passing.
Quips on Courtship and Daily Frictions
A collection of wry, fragmentary maxims on gender roles and social norms. Observations touch on young women in courtship, punctual trains, family duties, fashions, and domestic tasks, using humor to lampoon manners and expectations of the era.
Correspondence policy notice in Tur Stan column
Readers are reminded that Tur Stan does not endorse correspondent opinions. The paper simply provides space for neighbors to share thoughts so the public may learn diverse views.
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Tur Stan
Hathaway's Mills and Local Updates in Russell Township
Wheat sowing is finished and corn harvest continues while B Leaton moves to Fincastle. The Clodfelter brothers haul logs for Hathaway. Solomon Grimes, longtime Russell resident, dies at about 75. A large dance at Mollie Levis's last Saturday night week follows a heavy rain the preceding Sunday. A. J. Farrow to speak at Bainbridge tonight amid political chatter.
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W. M. Suthern
Henry Young
B. Leaton
Fincastle
Clodfelter
Hathaway
Solomon Grimes
Russell Township
Mollie ‘Levis’s
Neff and Welch
Jas
Raglin
Maine
A. J. Farrow
Bainbridge
Lightning Fatality Near Bullhart Farm
Joseph Simpson, about 40, was killed by a lightning strike while protecting under a tree during a late rain shower on John Bullhart’s farm, three miles southeast of the city. He was a first cousin of General U.S. Grant and well known locally. The body arrived in the city shortly after 1 pm.
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Murctg
Joseph Simpson
John Bullhart
Tragic double incident in French Bick Township
News from New Albany reports Edward Cromwell killed fellow laborer Nathan Lamden with gunfire and a neck stab wound before drowning himself in the river. Lamden survived the injuries. Official cause attributed to delirium from fever.
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Cisemsnati
the Gazette
New Albany
French Bick
Orange County
Edward ‘Cromwell
Nathan Lamden
Lamcen
Hunting for an Heiress Miss Lynch Seeks Her In New York
The sister Josephine Lynch of 417 Ninth Ave seeks information about Miss Mary Lynch last heard in Cincinnati. The Truth reporter relays Miss Lynch’s story from Ireland where her father owned land with many tenants and a family of three, including Josephine and Mary.
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County Down
Ireland
George
Josephine
Mary
Missing Heiress in New York: Judgment on £50,000 Inheritance
Josephine Lynch, long reticent and obstinate, travels from home to America escaping family control. In New York she works as a domestic on Fifth Avenue and learns she is heir to £50,000 after a mysterious postmarked letter arrives. Her sister Mary, missing since eight years earlier, is tied to the Liverpool funds and Cincinnati Hospital records.
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Sition
Josephine
America
Gotham
New York City
Castle Garden
Fifth Avenue
Josephine Lynch
Travers
Mary
Cincinnati
City Hospital
George
Liverpool
Cutting Outta Woman Tongue A Remarkable Surgery
Hartford Times reports a rare operation on Mrs. Pomeroy Higley of Granby who had a cancerous tongue. Surgeons removed half the tongue under ether, preserving use for eating and speech with expected improvement. A Kansas lynching occurred after Henry Bird aided in the mob that hanged a suspected man.
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Pomeroy Higley
Granby
Clinton County
Kansas
Henry Bird
Miner braves intense heat to assess water surge at Hale and Norcross
At the Hale and Norcross mine on the Comstock Savage drift a pump failure sent hot water surge toward the Sutro tunnel. Foreman Kellogg entered the drift with a cooled shirt and only one eye exposed, vowing to shut the shaft if he did not return in fifteen minutes. He emerged after twelve minutes with no danger found, though his blistered hand testified to the extreme heat.
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Gold Hill
New
Comstock
Habe and
Norcross
Hale and Norcross
Hale
Deidesheimer
Kellogg
Mr. Kellogg
Drunken man shoots in home. baby wounded. mother dies
In New Apang an inebriate named Burnet fired into Julius Percet’s residence after a whiskey refusal. A one onlooker threw a infant and Mrs Percet was struck. she died from shock. Burnet was indicted but not yet captured.
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New Apang
Burnet
Julius Percet
Raily
Perse
Burnets
Wives Trade Sparks Night in Walker County and Bank Theft Probe
In Walker County Georgia Colquitt and Woods quarreled over their wives, agreeing to trade spouses before a mob forced them away. Meanwhile in San Francisco a bank clerk stole four thousand dollars, leading to an investigation that exposed Flood’s extravagant spree.
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Walker County
Colquitt
Woods
Young Flood
Sonanza King
San Francisco
Flood
Man Claims Hop Bitters Restored Health at 72
A Sunday Mercury reader testifies that kidney troubles and gravel plagued him for years before Hop Bitters cured his ailments. He says his blood is strong again and he feels as active as an eighty year old, despite being seventy two. He recommends others try it.
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Sunday Mercury
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