From a Busy 1891 Jeffersonville Page
Readable items include marriage licenses for Charles Froman and Eva Conway Patrick Moore and Eliza Patton. local improvements like Walnut street crosswalks. notices of church revivals and lectures in A M E and Trinity churches. and multiple anecdotes about local business, loans, a bank failure impact, and community events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Staffer
Madison
Columbus Republican
Mr. Thomas Finnegan
H. M. Gould
N. T. Drake & Co
Charles V. Froman
Eva Conway
Patrick J. Moore
Eliza D. Patton
The Terror Harrison Hogan Seeks Eighth Wife in Indiana
Harrison Hogan known as The Terror plans to wed Miss Sallie Bowyer in Bull Creek Indiana after a string of legal troubles and disputes. Once jailed for shooting at his wife he lost his possessions and blamed his neighbors. Hogan, 78, has had seven wives and now pursues an eighth amid a village spotlight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bull Creek
Indiana
Harrison Hogan
Hogan
Jeffersonville
Harrison
Mr. Hogan
Sallie Bowyer
Pardoned mother and reunion after life sentence
In Indianapolis Mrs. Adams of Jennings county, imprisoned for life for poisoning her husband, receives a pardon after her daughter Emma, grown and prosperous in St. Louis, petitions the governor. The daughter, who learned of her mother’s fate at a cemetery visit, brings tears and a tearful appeal leading to release and reunion in St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Adams
Jennings County
Female Reformatory
Emma
Missouri
St. Louis
Mary Adams
Reformatory
Judge Berkshire
Supreme Court
Brown's Iron Bitters Advertises Malaria Digestive Relief
An old newspaper ad promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as a remedy for malaria liver trouble and indigestion. The notice highlights digestive benefit and health restoration claims.
Eleven Greenhouses Burned At Idle Hour Farm
Eleven large greenhouses at William K. Vanderbilts Idle Hour farm burned Saturday morning. Loss estimated from 75 000 to 100 000. Fire started by explosion in heating apparatus. Most valuable plants and the famous rose house destroyed. Some ferns up to 200 years old saved. other plants perished. Also damaged were numerous valuable ferns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isuip
William K. Vanderbilt
Also Mentioned on This Page
B.F. & W. W. Calloway
Branham & Ritchie
Nettie Barbour
Hanover
Schuler
Henry Schmidt
Walnut Street
Hood
J. W. ‘Lurner
Court House
Union Literary Society
Philaratheans
Pitcher’s Castoria
J. R. Henry
Bloomington
North Madison Baptist Church
Warsaw Landing
Fifth Street
A. G. Robinson
Carrollton
H. H. Thompson
J. Shephard
Kimmel
Moorehead
Madison Fertilizer and Glue Works
Shepard
Hannigan
Georgia
Gen. Sherman
Schwartz Bank
Louisville
Barbarossa Lodge
Knights of Houor
Helvetia Lodge
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Main Street
K.E.N.T.S
Kent
Henry Brown, Inc
Ohio
H. Titus
Methodist Church
Trinity Church
Titus
Ohio Wesleyan
James King
F. M. Stewart
Hops, Inc
Dearborn
Switzerland
Aurora
Rising Sun
Vevay
Brown
Rising Sun Recorder
Polk County
Iowa) Penitentiary
George Vanderbilt
North Carolina
Robins
Binghampton
Bigley
Scott
Jay
Sacramento
San Francisco Examiner
John Boyle O'Reilly
Anderson
Ind
Mason Hunt
Charles Wright
Philadelphia
Hunt
Ripley County
Columbus
Lyman N. Goldsmith
R. T. Skillman
Markttinsville
W. H. Wooden
Gregg Township
W. C. Lewis
McCormick Binders
McCormick Steel
East Main Street
Eckstein
Hawlin
Swormstedt & CO
Madison, Ind
George E. Currie
John W. Scott
Main Steet
Marow
Vanderbilt’s
Zanesville
Times-Recorder
Caldwell
George Harris
Armis
Cincinnati
Workmen's Hall
John B. Mosby
Rufus B. Smith
Poli Cree
Ellis B. Gregg
Theodore Horstman
Daniel W . Brown
Henr Hyeller
Edward
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Missouri River
Chicago
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Winterset
Audubon
Harlan and Counci Bluffs
Iowa
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Cameron
St. Joseph
Omaha
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Kansas City
Topeka
California
Salt Lake
Ogden
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Pike’s Peak
Manitou
Garden of the Gods
Northwest
Seneca
Kaneaeee
Lafayette
Council Bluffs
Atchison
Leavenworth
United States
Canada
E. ST. John
John Sebastian
Gen’s Ticket & Pass
Chicago, Ill
GEO. A. Macbeth & CO
Pittsburgh
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