Thrall & Mumford’s advertise fresh goods and dyes
Advertisements list Thrall & Mumford’s offerings including new bacon hams sides and shoulders just smoked and new white lime for whitewashing. They promote family dyes and dye stuffs and three boxes of Best Concentrated Lye for 50 cents. The page mentions legal notices and varied items from travelers in a montage of 19th century notices.
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Thrall & Mumford’s
Thrall & Mumford's
Richmond Music Dealer Sells Sheet Music for Confederate Money
A Richmond music dealer announced he would accept Confederate money as payment and recently sold a piece of sheet music to a female customer for 2612 dollars in that currency.
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Richmond
Reputation Comment Sparks Debate Across Press
The Cincinnati Enquirer critiques a preacher and woman comparison, asserting society limits on women’s reputations compared to a single preacher’s. The remark sparks debate about gender and influence in public discourse.
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the Cincinnati Laqquirer
Golden Dramatic Troupe in Farewell Show Draws Loud Indifference
Large audience at Union Hall endured a disappointing performance of The Streets of New York by the Golden Dramatic Troupe amid stage problems from flooding dressing rooms. The paper criticizes the piece but notes actors’ effort and upcoming shows in Greencastle.
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Union Hall
Golden Dramatic Troupe
New York
Golden
Greencastle
Damon
Pythias
Posey County Auditor’s $32 Trip Bill Sparks Local Critique
The Mt. Vernon Democrat criticized a state tax relief report linking Col. Owen and Tommy Collins to Posey County’s lower assessment. The county board approved bills of $32 for auditor travel to Indianapolis and another $32 for Collins as assistant, with Collins having used a free pass during the campaign.
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Mt. Vernon
Posey
County Board
Indianapolis
Tommy Collins
Tommy
Old Posey
Prices at Eagle Mills Stir Local Protest
The Eagle Mills proprietor posted notes on streets declaring flour at 6 to 7.50 per barrel, implying only lower grades. He omits prices for top quality flour and denies selling a barrel for nine dollars. Authorities say corn meal won’t go under 1 a bushel nor flour under 10 a barrel. The Register is praised if it helped lower prices.
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Eagle Mills
Register
New Harmony Renamed Venice Amid High Water
In a Mt. Vernon Republication sketch, residents recount during the high water era New Harmony was renamed Venice by some, while another observer lamented the town’s fame and questioned what’s in a name as tears flow.
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Mt. Vernon
New Harmony
Venice
America
Twenty Britons refer to Queen Victoria as gran'ma
A brief note reports that twenty young Britons use the term gran'ma for Queen Victoria, reflecting a familial nickname used in polite society. The item highlights informal language surrounding the monarch and suggests a softer public image.
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Queen Victoria
Podonk sale shocks Lynn Township residents
An 19th century column notes Podonk is sold to John Abbott and hints at a dramatic change for the village, while warning of social strife from local figures Delaney and Harshman. It also reports school reopens around September 20, Isaac Hart Reno stacks wheat daily, and roads remain badly washed, needing repair.
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Podonk
John Abbott
Hart
Granger
Harshman
Delaney
Bethesda
Ist. Ind
Sullivan
New Harmony
John Miller
Daniel Miller
Solitude
California
John
Golden State
Healthful Mexico praised by Colonel Fly in St Louis letter
Colonel Fly writes to the St Louis Times extolling Mexico's healthfulness and climate as unequaled by any country known to civilization. Shoo Fly.
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Fly
St. Louis
BalLova's Magazine for September
BalLova's Magazine for September offers a sea story adventures and multiple domestic love tales plus poetry and engravings. It lists titles such as The Bridal Gifts The Rose The Fatal Glove and A Voyage in the Days of the Pirates among others from Thames & Talbot Boston.
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BalLova
The
People
Lady Grange
Mademoiselle Sylphina
Jack Trost
Ruthven
New Jersey
Numorous Pictures
Thames & Talbot
Sawley Street
Boston
Irish Lady Sues for Breach of Promise over Lover
Kate Graves, of good family, sues a truant heir for 15000 pounds after breach of promise. The evaporated bridegroom boasted of leaving a rival, taunting her with change of mind. The plaintiff recovered 4000 pounds as her father challenges the faithless sweetheart.
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Kate Graves
Fair
Rival Texas doctors end in blood vendetta
Gas Mallette and Manning, rival Texas physicians, fought with bowie knives, then Mallette pursued Manning with a gun. Manning killed Mallette and absorbed his practice. The feud began near Serbia and illustrates threats in the medical profession.
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Mallette
Manning
Texas
Serbia
Political leaning of July newspaper notices and Grimwood’s fate
In July there were 103 new newspapers listed by Geo. P. Rowell. Nine claimed Republican, nineteen Democratic, and seventy five were Independent or neutral. Grimwood’s fate is resolved as his body was found on Lake Michigan. Donaldson’s remains unidentified.
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Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Max
Donaldson and
Grimwood
Chicago
Barnum
Lake Michigan
Continual Inquiry in Indian apolis Deaf Asylum Probe
The Indianapol is investigation into the Deaf Dumb Asylum runs alongside the Tilton Beecher trial and the Tichborne case, with claims of extensive deception matching the gravity of a major scandal trial.
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Tilton-Beecher
Deaf Dumb Asylum
Indianapolis
Wabash River Recedes Reducing Water for Catfish
The Wabash River has crested and fallen within its banks, with water retreating rapidly. Authorities warn there will soon be insufficient depth to float even a catfish, signaling a significant drop in navigable conditions.
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samThe
Colonel Valentine Baker Dismissed From Army
The aristocratic Colonel Valentine Baker who assaulted a young lady on an English railway coach has been dismissed from the army. The matter of raising his salary was not considered.
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Valentine Baker
Ridicule as a tool against strong minds
A reflective line argues ridicule fails against strong intellect while noting that ordinary people fear ridicule and prefer silence over public mockery. The aphorism contrasts courage with cowardice and suggests mockery weakens against true resolve.
Meeting of Working Men's Institute to hear building bids
A meeting of the Working Men's Institute members is held this Saturday evening. Bids for the new building will be opened today and the results announced at tonight's meeting.
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Henderson
Evansville
New Harmony
St. Stephen’s P. E
R. Owen
Working Men’s Institute
Indiana Exposition grows with 23rd annual fair
Arex Herron secretary notes strong Indiana Exposition interest under the Board of Agriculture. Space for machinery and stock doubles, seventy new stalls completed, two carloads paintings en route, and a record painting on view. Evening lectures announced with speakers from New York Missouri Illinois and Indiana.
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Board of Agriculture
Peter Barry
N. Y
Parker Harie
C. V. Riley
Olcott
Ind
J. Kh. Dodge
Agricultural Department
W. R. Duncan
Ill
Shortridge
Agricultural College
A.C. Stephenson
Arex. Herron
Sec
Fatal Clerical Error Tied to Treasury Account
A Washington telegram reports a War Department official who learned of a $1600 balance in his favor that did not exist. An old accounting error had deducted the sum from another officer’s account and credited it to the War Department officer, prompting a fatal self-inflicted death tied to the clerical mistake. The records indicate the tragedy resulted from a clerk in the war era.
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Washington
Treasury Department
War Department
Treasury
Inventions. Patents issued to Indiana inventors week ending August 11 1875
U S Patent Office lists patents granted to Indiana residents for the week ending August 11 1875. Seal Lock by J Brown of Indianapolis. Machines for making stovepipe elbows by J Piehl of Richmond. Dumping wagons by W Senkle of Morton and by M Hf Meigs of Romney. Washing machine by KK Jones of Wolcott. Bee hive by W Vanurder of Woodbury.
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U.S. Patent Office
Indiana
Messrs
Cox & Cox
Solicitors of Patents
Washington City
J. Brown
Indianapolis
J. Piehl
Richmond
W. Senkle
Morton
Meigs
Romney
KK. Jones
Wolcott
W. Vanurder
Woodbury
Real estate transfers for week ending August 16 1875
Transfers array with buyers and sellers including A S Newsom to J W Cox part NE 4 NW 4 18 82 acres and W Pondon to K M Spencer quit claim on W 4 NE and S E EN. J Akers to J Vannant int in sections and fractions. W Whiting to D B Montgomery multiple lots in original Cynthiana and a separate grant of 12 22 acres. W T Kidney to T Stevens lots in Kimball Mt Vernon. Harmony Township trustees to Workers Institute for schoolhouse ingress. J F Welborn to A Zimmerman Lot 12 Williams Mt Vernon. Harmony Township trustees to V C Duclos and others lots in Maclure New Harmony. S Hunter to S Cox part W 3 NW 7 5. and notice filed for record of the Constitution and By-Laws of Wadeville Cornet and String Band.
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A. S. Newsom
J. WH. Cox
N. W
Pondon
K. M. Spencer
N.E
N. Joest
C. Coll
Wadlesville
J. Akers
J. Vannant
S.w.es
Whiting
D. B. Montgomery
Cynthiana
Alaska
D. I. Montgomery
Ss. W
W.T. Kidney
T. Stevens
Kimball
Mt. Vernon
Trustee Harmony Township
Working Men's Institute
New Harmony
Zimmerman
J. F. Welborn
Williams
Harmony Township
V. C. Duclos
Maclure
W. Hunter
Cox
Wadesville
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L. Pelham
New Harmony, Inc
Ernest Dale Owen
BGF
Au24
Henry Hunsdon
Notary Public
Walter E. Thrall
Office
Fay
Jesuf
W. F. Gray
Postoffice
Elgin Watch
Sar John Bright
Wheeler
Sar
Wales
India
Andy Johnson
s@Tilton
Beecher
United States
U.S. Grant
Fair Point
Victor Tugo
Worcester Press
Grant
Plymouth
Prince of Wales
Hvansville Journal
Alt. Vernon
Agricultural Society
Posey County
Gibson County
Posey County Teachers Institute
New Harmony Graded School
New Harmony Register
Lynn Township
Sam
Thrall
Mumford
H. and L. Co
New Harmony Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Company
WM. Read
Aply
OF the
Posey County Agricultural Society
Jas. A. Coover
W. Elperall
Julith
Lonsdale
Jed ‘S.kighut &S
Mumford’s
N. O
Yarmouth
Tural & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumford RE
Phgenix
Cleveland Rubber Paint Company
Hoice Media
Old Government
Java
Ma Maricribo
Laguayra
Golden Rio
Green Coffees
15 Thrall & Mumford
Bafplime
C. F. Norris
W. G. Stanard
W. A. Telegraph Co
Geo. T. Berlin
West Main St
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