Local advertising rates and shop notices
The Register lists advertising rates for one square to year lengths, local column charges, and late 19th century subscriptions. It also advertises clothing, boots, hats, gents furnishings, and a range of goods from Ford Owen Co to Thral l & Mumford with price reductions and cash terms.
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Elenait Brown
Church Street
Viets House
New Haewonx, Inc
Henry Brown
Wae KE
F. Owen & Co
The Man From Hamilton County Shoves Off With a Fight
Local notes recall a wild scene aboard the steamer Cornelia at Walnut Bend where laborers clashed with Bliss and townsfolk. Tom Campbell faced the challenger with a powerful right, ending the melee as Bliss broke contact and the boat resumed loading. Separate court news reports Rowe found guilty of manslaughter with a two year sentence after self defense claims. Minor items cover hog weights, farm losses, and regional happenings across Indiana and Illinois.
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Bliss
Dave Barbee
Cornelia
Tom
Tom Campbell
McLeansboro
Ill
Dave
Kentucky
Grassy Pond
Veryon
Dennis Rowe
Young Rowe
Collinsville
Doyle
Indiana
Marion
Starke
Shelbyville
Railroads threaten republic, warns LeRoy M. Ware
Correspondence of the Register notes growing railroad power endangers republican institutions. It cites Vanderbilt and Gould as figures pushing Congress to be owned by railroads, compares rail kings to feudal lords, and warns of a railroad oligarchy if unchecked. Also cites tomato production, pool game crimes, Massachusetts liquor votes, Wabash floods, and Manderson as U S Senator choice.
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Register
Posteryvilue, Inc
Republic
United States
Jay Goulds
Vanderbilts
Congress
Vanderbilt
Goulds
Russia
LeRoy M. Ware
Calamity and crime in a New York week of fire and rail
Inman line steamers suffer calamity as the City of Brussels is laid up and the Zyypé fills the vacancy. The Egypt endures a massive blaze yet remains seaworthy. Reports of electrical shocks strike Brooklyn as a royal spectacle of sport, while public anger targets Corbin over the rapid transit system.
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New York
N.Y
Inman
City of Brussels
Zyypé
National Line
Egypt
Hudson
Brooklyn
Mace
Slade
Bergh
Rapid Transit
Coney Island
Corbin
Jay Gouldiam
Gould
Prohibitionists Plot Next Indiana Campaign and More
Indiana news notes that prohibitionists abandon pushing a statewide amendment but aim to seize the Republican structure and elect prohibition Democrats to wield power in the next legislature. Other items report Senate reforms, licensing proposals for steam machinery, Posey Representative Williams’s illness, and various national political and economic tidbits.
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IndianaPolis, Inc
Senate
Williame
Posey
House
Washington 1883 week in Congress and social season
Washington dispatch reviews a week of tariff debate in Congress with House and Senate bills under consideration. It notes possible extra session after March 4, and contrasts social season excesses and the term Lent with Americanite strain. It recounts President Arthur’s brief Treasury guard duty and discusses tariff protectionist theories, voter sentiments, and fresh nickel five-cent pieces. It also mentions a Wilkes-Barre cave-in, rising southern cotton mills, and hydrophobia in Vicksburg dogs.
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Thrall &Mumford
Thrall & Mumford
Lubin’s
Atkison's
Lundbourg
Palmer’s and
Price's
At. Thrall & Mumford's
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Baker
Stephens and
Winchester Rifles
Bae
Thrall & Mumford’s
Wilhelm & Co
Hamilton County
Passivittx
James
Joseph Cale
Joe
Varenon
Kinchelo
Stewartsville
Fuhrer, Boyce & Co
Wabash
Ohio River
Anna Overton
Newall
the Sun
Cynthians
Gibson County
Princeton
Inn
80Th Regiment
Clarion
Knights of Pythias
Hazelton
Knowles Station
Posey County
Gibson
Thos. Boren
Montgomery Township
Neal Gainey
Owensville
White County
Illinois
Carmi
Holmes
Shawneetown
Staley
Grayville
Phillipstown
Yerby Land
Chas
Shepard
New Haven
Mill Shoals
Wabash Road
Katie Popp
Clark County
Cannelton
Rockport
Democrat
Aaron Ayres
Hammond Township
Spencer County
Clinton County
Brazil
Mt. Carmel
Wm. Birkett
8. F. Cain
Orleans
Air Line
Republican
Saline County
Crawfordsville
Chicago
Northern Illinois
Bloomington
Boonville
Carmel
Newburgh
Michigan City
Union City
the Railroad Corporations and
the Republic
Maryland
Virginia
The
Prison Association of New York
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Charles F. Manderson
U. S
Gotham
Indianapolis
Minnesota
Jeld Windom
Dwight M. Sabin
U. S. Senate
Troy
N. Y
Charleston
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Iowa
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Rutherford, Tenn
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National Capital
Herbert Spencer
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Treasury Department
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Randolph Tucker
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
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