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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1869
Page
3
Town reports the Charleston Courier missing for over a month while detailing a flood of local happenings. Notes include a county board meeting, temperance lecture plans, railroad labor, a riding accident, electoral reminders, decorated graves, a fatal horse accident, and crop concerns with high water and worm damage in Melrose.
A diffuse Marshall column notes sales of a bound volume from Cincinnati, steamer runs to Hutsonville, and a Wabash river bridge plan for the St Louis Vandalia Terre Haute railroad. It highlights railroad grading near Mill Creek, railroad men at work, church and social events, new saddlery leadership, saloon upgrades, animal control concerns, and town improvements including a proposed college and merchant upgrades.
E J Hughes of the New York Store has moved in, refitted the old corner hardware site, stocked with dry goods from the East, and advertises low prices with a large front bulletin board. The piece also notes plans for the Paris and Danville railroad and local stock campaigns in Crawford and Robinson townships.
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