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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1871
Page
3
Mt Vernon readers see Thrall and Mumford advertised groceries and Christmas treats while Owen Lyon announce new stock and a fashion coat sale. Dr Davis and Viets House offer bunion cures, with water drought affecting laundries. New Harmony String Band to play for Starlight Club hop next Tuesday.
The Posey County Board of Commissioners calls a special election on January 9 to vote yes or no on subscribing 125000 to the Cincinnati Rockport and Southwestern Railway. The board later posts that the election is postponed to March 30, 1873, per order of the commissioners.
Christmas greetings mark the holiday mood with children awaiting Santa and grownups enjoying sugar plums and turkey. local commentary lampoons pirates, Thrall & Mumford’s holiday rush, Union Hall balls, and a contested county printing claim, while Posey hogs set a weight record for a championship.
The page highlights Sullivan Faurer & Co of Mt Vernon as a leading five man outfit selling dry goods boots groceries and pork and grain with large New York sourced stock. It rails at the Newburgh Ledger editor over Cincinnati printing quality while noting a new apportionment bill that could boost Indiana to twelve congressmen and suggests Thomas R. Conn as candidate. It tracks brisk pork trade with prices and lists hog receipts by firms, praises boots by Jo Watt, cites 1870 71 election totals and mocks carpetbagger Clark in Texas amid a chiropody ad by Dr. F Davis.
Walter E. Thrall is announced as a candidate for Posey County Treasurer, running in advance of the Democratic Convention. The column notes the race is contingent on the convention decision and lists Thrall as theTreasurer hopeful.
An Independence Belge hoaxer staged a fake death and fortune for the DuBois name, attracting many subscribers. An Italian unlettered healer, La Regina del Cin, gains fame for setting broken limbs despite no formal medical training after initial arrest. A suitor’s flowers and sweets are cited as proof that money touches the heart of a beloved.
A testimonial from Warton Morris praises Cloud's Invigorating Cordial and notes two daughters recovering from general debility and scrofula, while a second notice details a sheriff sale by Alex Crank in Posey County Indiana. The real estate rents and profits from the West Half of Lot 16 in Cynthiana are offered December 30, 1871, with additional right to sell the defendants interest if needed.
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