Local notes and public matters from the county
A compact compilation notes thanks to State Treasurer James B. Ryan and Auditor Benron, arrivals of toys at Tarati & Mumrorp, praise for Mr. A H Frr- TAGEOT, and a new book by Robert Dale Owen. It covers a fire alarm at a park house, Grant’s civil service remarks, and the Commissioners Court decisions on pauper supplies and highway expenditures to curb county drain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank D. Bouton
Court of Commissioners
Hall
Ser
A. E. Fretaceor
Joan Reseryre
Commissioners Court
Star Banner and Scientific American Advertisements
A mid-19th century reader notices a expanded Star Spangled Banner issue for January 1872 with new layout and more content including stories poetry and departments and a large ads section detailing Prang Chrome and subscription offers. The Scientific American for 1872 is praised as essential to engineers and farmers, with pricing and club rates. The page also notes political commentary from Omaha Tribune and Germantown Telegraph about Tarlin and treasurer defaulters, plus local market hog prices and pork packers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Spanglepd
N. Y. Ledger
Money Maker’s Mirror
Children’s Department
Health Department
Farm and Farmer
Cook’s Corner
Rogue's
Prang
Star Spangled Fanner
Hinsdale, N. N
Epitaph for Phoebe Hersel 108, Brighton burial record
An epitaph from a Brighton churchyard notes Phoebe Hersel born Stepney 1713 who served as a private soldier in the Fifth Regiment of Foot in Europe and fought at Antenoy in 1745 under the Duke of Cumberland, receiving a bayonet wound. She died at Brighton December 12 1821 aged 108 after a long life begun in Queen Anne’s era and ended in George IV’s munificence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Phoebe Hersel
Stepney
Europe
Duke of Cumberland
Antenoy
Anne
George IV
Dietetic Lesson Banquet Digestive Reverie
An eccentric doctor sits near a patron at a banquet and places a duplicate share of every item the alderman puts in his stomach into a bag. Next morning the alderman reports indigestion as the doctor empties the bag before him and questions how anyone can digest such a heap.
Senator Kellogg Meets Conkling on the Avenue
A Louisiana senator greets New York colleague on the street, claiming both are senators and ending with Kellogg asserting his status. A separate quip notes a witty woman’s home reply. A Wisconsin party incident describes a man biting a fainted lady, leaving him with a poultice on his eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Kellogg
Lousiana
Senator Conkling
New York
Conkling
Conkey
United States
Kellogg
Bill Kellogg
Lousianian
Wisconsin
Indiana Patents Issued Week Ending December 5 1871
List of patents granted to Indiana inventors dated December 5 1871 includes hoisting apparatus detachable draft hook medical compound cookstove plow fifth wheel and roofing tile with inventors Nicholson McElfrish Weakley Butler Finley Hughes and J B Hughes plus a note on leap year eclipses and a verse on political change and printers’ bills cautionary remarks from a newspaper exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Patent Office
Indiana
Messrs
Cox & Cox
Solicitors of Patents
Washington, D. C
Nicholson
Monticello
N. McElfrish
Elizabeth
J. A. Weakley
Indianapolis
J. Butler
Huff Township
A. Finley
Bainbridge
J. B. Hughes
Terre Haute
Real Estate Transfers Weekly Ending December 11 1871
Transfers list includes Wm Sutton to John Hodson eight acres plus other parcels totaling 40+ acres. J D Boren to Isaac Price eighty acres. Mumford to Mental eighty acres. Duckworth to Chalier and others with various lots and tracts. Crunk to Oliver twenty acres. Rumsey to Cross lots in Wadeville. Williams Hass to St Louis and Southern Railroad through quit claim. miscellaneous values and a testimonial from Centre County Pennsylvania dated March 15 1870. weekly prices for flour and market items listed by Thrall Mumford with December 16 1871 date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Sutton
John Hodson
J. D. Boren
Isaac Price
N. W
T. Mumford
John Mental
J. M. Duckworth
J. M. Rumsey
Tas. Cross
Wadesville
Sligelsa BT
Alex. Crunk
R. J. Oliver
EB. AN. B
Eigens
Wwillams & Hass
St. L
Jos
C. Terry
Williams
Oy Vernon
Green
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Register
Richard Brooks
Jessy Nasu
Saline County
Ill
New Harmony Literary Society
Institute Hall
Wx. B. Nipnack
Washington
James B. Ryan
Auditor Benron
Lady
Tarati & Mumrorp
Sar
A. H. Frr- Tageot
farThe
Internal Revenue
Nam
Robert Dale Owen
Carleton
Grant
Jefferson
Lincoln
Gonnove
Oxgrta
GooLove
Register
Evansville
Gibson and Posey County
Parrett
Congress
Rockport Democrat
Princeton Democrat
New Harmony Register
Mesars. Munn & Co
Park Row
The
Omaha Tribune
Tarlan
Ady
Ford, Fitton & Co
D Aba
Leveyre Lyon & Fitzgerald
Lichtenberger, Owen & Co
Total
Loansville Courier
Waltr Lesry
Radical Papers
South Carolina
Union County
Noblesville
Hunter & Co
Hinsdale
N. H
Germantown
Pennsylvania
Telegraph
Philadelphia
Boutweet
Treasury
Johnson
Walter E. Thrall
Posey County
General Grant
Napoleon
Ohio
Northwest
Neo
MiLespura
Centre Co
Penn
Cloud
Scrofala
W. N. Watson
Tenn
Warton Morris
Thrall & Mumford
New Harmony
Coffey
Howard Association
Box P
Pasedy
V.b. Thrall
Notary Public
Ind
N.H.F.E
H.and L.co
New Harmony FireEngine and Hook and Ladder Company
W. Baldwin, Jr
J. T.hyeo Seo
Owen & Lyon
Rosenbaum & Bro
Mount Vernon
Ffer
Id Jeans
Sax
Au Rosenbaum & Brother
WM. Wimpelberg
Damron House
Mount, Vernon
Ruth Brand
J. Ruth
James
Laztrd
Public Square
J. R. Hugo
Rachel Hugo
Joseph Pisely
Cor. Main and Steam Mill
Sts
J. W. Miller
Frank Bolton
J. D. Jones
Aplé
Arble
John A. Althouse
John R. Hugo
Jel
Tsohn R. Hugo
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