Thrall Mumford’s Teas Spices and Paints Ad
Thrall and Mumford’s offers teas and spices and a range of hardware supplies including paint brushes and turpentine. B. F. Owen Co. and E. F. Owen Co. advertise John Deere plows wagons buggies and farm implements with stock at Posey County outlets. Feb 21 notices promote bargains and factory direct discounts from Posey County dealers.
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LF. Owen & Co
Thrall & Mumford
Ron Frame
John Deere
Garden City
Avery
South Bend
Cassidy
Hall
B. F. Owen & Co
F. Owen & Co
E. F. Owen & Co
Heilman
Urie, Avery
Prairie Fire and War News From 1880s Digest
Summary of scattered items: Sheridan downplays uprisings in Indian country. Madison fire destroys $15,000 worth of property. British beat Afghans near Borea. Egypt lowers tobacco duty. Albanians resist annexation to Greece. Fire destroys multiple farm buildings in southern Dakota. Commerce notes in Kansas and Tennessee debt settlement. April 1 reports Census chief Francis Walker. national debt up. several local political updates in Wisconsin and Illinois. Reports on fires, elections, and social events including a matinee fire accident and a hatful lot of local business notes.
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Sheridan
Madison
Wis
Borea
Egypt
Greece
Lulu Lorimer
Beaton
Dakota
Merchant of Eden
English House of Commons
Wheatland
Knox County
Tennessee
Senate
Francis Walker
Simon Cameron
Noansville
James Laughlin
J. K. Minor
Henry Ayers
J. D. Saunders
Jeffersonville
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Chicago
Harrison
The
Herald
Union
Stewartsville Notes Reflect Railroad Fever and Local Life
The piece notes railroad enthusiasm spreading from Stewartsville while rain hinders farming and road repair. It lists locals travelling to Cincinnati, mentions weddings, funerals, a new monument for Clara A. Robb, and arrivals of family and students. Advertises agents for the St I and Ki Railroad and Cunard line with immigrant tickets and east to west travel options. It ends with political barbs about Congress and postwar figures in Chicago and St Louis.
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Stewartsville
Cincinnati
Lewis Lyne
Benjamin Hine
William Schettler
Geo. Faul
Jno. W. Robb
Demberger & Faul
Wabash
Mt. Vernon
Elvis Hine
Lebanon
Ohio
Ida Robb
Valparaiso
D. M. Shoemaker
M. MH
James M. Sline
Nora Faul
Frederick Faul
Odd Fellows
Poseyville
Wm. Jaquess
Clara A. Robb. Finis
Kansas, &c
California
Colorado
Far West
A. H E. Friracor & Co
New Iarmony
Ind
Transfers of Real Estate Week Ending April 1 1879
Posey County records show twenty transfers with total consideration $17,678.76. Transactions include L Pelham to J C Miller NW quarter and other properties in Poseyville and Williams Mt Vernon. Green, Wasem, Carter, Collins, Truscott and others appear as grantors or grantees with varied acreages and values.
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L. Pelham
J.C. Miller
F . SW
Salvert
Ee Aeres
Rutledge
Poseyville
Enon Eee
Posey
O. Jarred
LEO Ncres
S. Bloomer
AL Allen
Mt. Vernon
Posey Co
A. Wasem
Williams
Carter
C. Carter
G. W. Curtis
Seeeseer
J. BF. Tennison
L. Venenil
T. E. Collins
N. A. Jones
T. J. Truscott
J. Allyn
A. Aldredge
A. Harrison
Hf. F. Thielmann
A. Miller
W. D. Hawkins
West Friklims
Cccee
Ceeseceeecresenapeceasseeee
G. M. Wiley, Adm’r
E. Stephens
BE. Sweeny
Ccaecesenesee
Thrall & Mumford ad touts stocks and prices in Southern Indiana
An advertisement proclaims Thrall and Mumford as offering a large stock of drugs medicines dyes paints and more with a promise of value for money. It also highlights building materials including lime cement plastering hair and brushes, and urges customers to shop for better goods and groceries. The passage also notes a falling river allowing steam boat navigation and mentions various local happenings and sales imagery from nearby merchants.
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Indiana
Thrall & Mumford’s
Thrall & Mumford's
Salmon &c
Marriage Licenses Issued at Court Office April 2 1879
Posty Cincoir Carer reports licenses issued to Robert Smith and Lucy Wade George W Welborn and Amelia Curtis Joseph G B Peper and Sally A Goode Fudward Fitzgerald and Mattie B Williams Wm H Patten and Cemantha Beard James M Wyne and Elenora A Faul James B Kirk and Henrietta Watson John B Negrotto and Louisa FE Sibley James A Hutchison and Grace Ashworth Gro W Curtis Clerk
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Cuerk
Louisa FE. Sibley
James A. Hutchison
Grace Ashworth
Gro
W. Curtis
Clerk
Market Prices for Groceries and Staples Listed
A list of staple prices from April 4, 1879 shows per bushel per gallon and per dozen costs for items including flour corn meal potatoes apples dried peaches salt beans dried and other common goods. The document records prices in a midwest market context with units such as bushels gallons and pounds and items like lard beef butter and coffee.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Thrall & Mumford’s
Thrall & Mumfords
New Orleans
Malaga
Thrall & Mumford
Seth Thomas
Thrall & Mumford's
Wihsey
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the Register
Working Men’s Institute
Institute and Township
Institute Library
Township
Jebl
C.H. White
Henry Hunsdon
U. S
New Harmony
N. H.F. E. and
New Harmony Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Company
Wm, Read
Joan W. Miuarr
M. E
Geo, F. Culmer
RE. F. Owen & Co
Calcutta
Owen & Co
Nea
Kress’ Ague Tonic
Kight & Co
Apt FE
HE. F.owen & Co
Apt
Se. F. Owen & Co
Posey County
K. F. Owen & Co
Jas. H. Carnanan
Lone Star State
News of the
Cairo
Corydon
John Clark
Arthur Chambers
Philadelphia
Canada
Clark
Little Wolf
Yellowstone
Columbus
Captain Boyton
Evansville
Massachusetts
Grant
Liam
Ilinois Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Seneca
Riddle
A. J. Colburn
John Marlett
Louis Langlor
C. Genung
Misa Ann Forp
Misa Nora Botton
A. R. Fauntleroy
U. S. Engineer Corps
Detroit
D. F. Reese
Harmony
H. P. Owen
New Harmony Banking Company
Stuttz
Auma
Aliss Alma
Victoria
City of Roses
Leas
Ane. Pestorp
Llarmony Township
Ane
Hartman
Haubstadt
North Carolina
Union Hall
New York Produce Exchange
Edward Eggleston
Albion Journal
Largison
Congress
Harts
serIt
Lonsdale Domestic
Bolt
Hope Domestic
Humbel Doeskin
K& We
Marks Lichtenberger & Sons
tarThe River
Sey
Greenbackers
Messrs
Huse & Friarson
Hon
Wa. Hetlwax
Mexico
Wrall & Mumford
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