New Pastor at Ebenezer M. E. Church in Brookville
Rev. Charles T. Lewis begins duties as pastor of Ebenezer M. E. Church. Local items note Simmons Liver Regulator ads, Clark county GOP nominating Frank Dean, marriage license for Charles Holcroft and Annie M. Peters, and various community notices including railroad accident details and birthday celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Lewis
Ebenezer M. E. Church
Simmons Liver Regulator
Brookville Water Works
Clark County
Frank Dean
Beech Grove Driving Park Hosts Jefferson Downey Fair
The Jefferson Downey Fair opens with Secretary Haigh and assistants flooded by entries. Exhibitors prepare displays of mercantile goods, poultry, livestock, and food vendors as premium races, trots, and paces prize money up to $600 draw large crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beech Grove
Haigh
Alois Graham
Rob Alling
Alan Alco
Bradley
Cincinnati
Dr. Adair
New Washington
Fremont Davis
To-Morrow
Sulphur Bitters and Hall's Hair Renewer Featured
Swindlers selling fake medicines are exposed while legitimate remedies like Sulphur Bitters and Hall's Hair Renewer are advertised as pure cures. A local fair shows Fred Phister Jr. displaying a miniature of the steamer New South. A man in Ripley county is found dead after possibly a wagon accident near Osgood. An unknown insane man is held in New Castle with a described appearance and claimed identity. A severed fingertip detail is noted for an unnamed individual. Kemp's Balsam is promoted as a cough remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Phister, Jr
New South
Joab Young
Ripley County
Osgood
Henry County
New Castle
Michael Jordan
Austin Jordan
Pittsburg
Black Wash Goods and Summer Fabrics Offered for Sale
The listing advertises a line of Wasu Goods including Choice Novelties in Thin Black Goods for summer wear. Items include Dotted Swiss Grendine Stripe Bordered Novelties Bedford Cords Embroidered Swiss Bulgaria Lawn and Plaids and Stripes with prices from 12 cents to 35 cents and fast color warrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulgaria
Obituary notices of Burke Ashley Littlejohn in Madison
The town mourns Mrs. Sarah A Burke the oldest Methodist in the city dying after a fall at 7 this morning. She was born in 1812 in Baltimore and came to Madison in 1814 with pioneer McIntire family. Funeral 4:30 pm tomorrow at the McClure home Jefferson street with burial in Springdale. Also Elizabeth C Ashley dies of heart disease at 7 am on East Third street aged 71 born Dayton Ohio. Funeral arrangements to be announced. J W Littlejohn funeral held this afternoon with Odd Fellows and Masons in Springdale cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burke
Methodist Church
J. G. Moore
Robison
Warsaw
Elizabeth C. Ashley
East Third Street
Dayton
Ohio
Madison
Kentucky
Mary Ashley
Mildred Muse
City
John Ashley
St. Paul
Louis Metesser
New Orleans
James Middleton
Minneapolis
William Ashley
Edinburg
J. W. Littlejohn
Odd Fellows and Masons
Tinsley
Springdale Cemetery
J. W. Scott
Jonathan Schooley
James Willey
R.J. Hurlbut
G. P. Mellen
Vincent Matthews
County Convention to Nominate Jefferson County Tickets
Delegates chosen in Jefferson County Democratic primaries will meet at Madison Court House on Thursday August 25 1892 at 10 o'clock a m to nominate a Democratic ticket for county offices by order of the Democratic County Central Committee J T Brashear Chairman Enw J Collins Secretary aug11w&d-wed-sat-td You may obtain Dr Kaufmanns Great Medical Work by sending three 2 cent stamps to A P Ord way Co Boston Mass
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Jefferson County
Court House
City
Madison
Democratic County Central Committee
J.T. Brashear
A. P. Ordway & Co
Boston
Mass
Indianapolis
Republican State Central Committee
Henry T. Fox
Richmond
Robertson
Anderson
Fox
Chase
Jefferson County Fair Association
P.C. C. & St. L. Railroad Company
Columbus
Tnd
State Dispatches From Across Indiana Hints at Appointments
In Indianapolis the Iron Hall troubles appear to move to Philadelphia as leaders and attorneys gather there to discuss placing the Mutual bank under a trusted receiver ahead of a possible receivership suit. Jeffersonville reports renewed murder mystery following Mary Lengler’s body discovery, with suspects seen near the scene. In Laporte, farmer Theodore Leutert dies after a runaway crash that leaves a man injured but alive. Indiana dispatches note court updates, injuries, and a recaptured burglar in Kokomo while Wabash and Brazin report a man gravely injured and a worker crushed, respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Iron Hall
Somerby
Davis
Taylor
Mutual Bank
Jeffersonville
Ind
Mary Lengler
Ohio
Laporte
Theodore Leutert
Chicago
Fisher
Leutert
Vitriol Mistaken for Communion Wine Triggers Panic
At Amenia New York a church misused vitriol as communion wine causing about twenty parishioners to fall ill. Ezra Wilson exposed the liquid and alarms spread. doctors treated victims who remained ill through the day but later recovered. Other brief items note a bear attack in Hull Quebec killing a sixteen year old, a severely mutilated woman near Mount Vernon Iowa, and Sheriff Herzog’s $6901.60 shortage in Ashland Ohio.
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Povenkrersin
N. Y
Presbyterian
Amenia
Duchess County
Mr. Bell
Ezra Wilson
Destructive Fire Wipes Germantown Ohio Neighborhood
A Sunday night blaze gutted much of Germantown destroying Antrim’s block three story frame building and a two story brick addition. Losses totaled thousands with groceries and other stock destroyed. several residents uninsured. Fireman injured, aid requested from Franklin and Miamisburg but late. High winds absent prevented total annihilation.
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Germantown
Antrim
F. T. Antrim
William Duckwall
S. J. Randall
Barney Rexroad
Franklin
Miamisburg
Dayton
Grain transported by pipe plan announced in Chicago
Mrs. N E Beasley of Chicago unveils a pipe transport system for grain from Chicago to the Atlantic coast. The continuous ventilated shaft would move grain at twelve miles per hour with wet stations every twenty five miles and an estimated three cents per bushel. A working model will be built locally. Monawk Ohio Aug 15 a mortgage of Eight million dollars by Wheeling and Lake Erie to Central Trust Co NY is filed covering 250 miles to finance tracks and improvements.
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Chicago
N. E. Beasley
Atlantic
Monawk
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Central Trust Company
New York
Recorder’s Office
Toledo
Martin’s Ferry
Norwalk
Huron
Portland
Steubenville
Golden Specific Co
Race Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Combined Washington Chilean settlement and several local tragedies
Acting Secretary Atlee reported Chilean senate and chamber passed the appropriation to pay claims from the Baltimore incident and approved a treaty for a claims settlement commission. A separate item notes a man found dead near Jamestown Ohio with little on him, and other local accidents and notices including a drowning in Providence and a railroad worker fatally injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlee
State Department
Egan
Valparaiso
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Baltimore
Counterfeiters Caught In Ontario Seizure
WALLACETURA Ontario August 16 James Beatty hotel keeper Lambton Downs farmer and George Daw butcher arrested for counterfeiting and jailed at Sarnia. Moulds tools and a pail of coin found at Downs home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallacetura
Ont
James Beatty
Lambton
Doi Downs
George Daw
Sarnia
Downs’ House
Chair Factory Burned In Traverse City Fire
Traverse Crew Mich Aug 16 William Beilner's luge chair and curtain pole factory burned last night leaving about one hundred workers unemployed. The blaze caused extensive damage and disrupted local industry. No injuries were reported.
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Traverse
Mich
William Beilner
Harvest Excursions Offer Low Fare Round Trip
Wisconsin Central Lines announces Harvest Excursions on August 30 and September 27 to Minnesota Montana North and South Dakota. Tickets valid twenty days from purchase with stopovers beyond St Paul Minneapolis. For details contact Jas C Pond General Passenger and Ticket Agent Chicago IL.
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Wisconsin Central Lines
Minnesota
Montana
North
South Dakota
St. Paul
Minneapolis
JAS. C. Pond
Gen'l Pass
Tkt. Agt
Chivaga
Madison Market price list and sales items from 1892 Madison Maryland
The market list shows prices for flour, grain, seeds, produce, meats, oils, coffee, sugar, dried fruit, milk products, and vegetables with ranges for wheat corn rye timothy clover and more. It includes notes on dairy eggs butter lard and hides, plus a promotional note for Dr King’s New Discovery with trial bottles offered by J. E. C. F. Harper Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Frovr—Poerfection
Uyvrinesbla
Triumph
City Mills
Electric Light
Coau
Pittsburg
California
New Orleans
Dr. King
Safferera
la Grippe
J. E. C. F. Harper Drug Store
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Chas. C. Cornett & Son
Hoffman
Steam
West Main Street
the Herald
Somnadame
L. €. Jones
Lessee
Indiana
Live 107
East Main Street
Charles Holcroft
Annie M. Peters
William Lawson
Saluda
Globe Tobacco Company
Detroit
Michigan
Joe Eastes
Christiansburg
Shelby County
Simmons
W. D. Bird
Hood
Big Hill
North Madison
Bessie Allen
Watson
Indiana School Book Company
Army of the Cumberland
Chattanooga
Tenn
Washington, D. C
Ebenezer M. F. Shurch
William B. Lewis
Jackson County
The
Baptist Church
Ayer's
the County Fair
Sun
Gorgas
S. $, Moffett & Son
Sarah A. Burke
Evizapeth
C. Ashley
J. W. LintleJoma
J. Collins
State Dispatches
Stila Moyatery
Judge Robertson
Sacer
Enalish
Henry Wovelsong
Kokomo
Joseph W. Tane
Greenville
Bruk
Brazin
James Roberts
Chicago and Indiana Coal
Wabash
George Adams
OtTtawa
A. Raymond
Hull
Que
Lake Tappen
Mount Vernon
Lizzie Streuber
Marion County
Herzog
Ashland
Ayer
U. S
Atlantic Canal
van Wert
Jamestown
Vanecofta
Providence
David Murray
Forbes
Parmera
Warren
Freeman Forbes
Barnesville
Charlie Bryson
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Mr. Alder
Bryson
Newark
Dr. Haines
New Orlans
America
Jansen
St. Alphonsus’ Church
Norwack
Alstin Kellory
Toreka
Chwlera
Plains
Jacksonville
Kanawha and Michigan Railroad
Paisa
Port Laxd
William Blubaker
Blubaker
Kenton
Richard McLean
Madison Market
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