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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1874
Page
3
An Evansville store advertises the largest stock of stoves and tinware, made with top materials. The corner of Main and Tavern streets is urged for buyers, with note of roofing and guttering services and low bottom prices.
The piece chronicles the 1847 formation and growth of the New Harmony Dramatic Association, noting arrivals of actors from Covington, Kentucky, early bills for Venice Preserved and The Iron Chest, Othello, Charles II, and Richard the Third, plus theater improvements, editorials, and a fatal knife attack nearby. It also mentions school closings, local notices, and civic events of 1847.
The March issue of Batov's Magazine offers sentiments and sea adventures at a low price. Subscriptions are 15 cents per issue or 1.50 per year by mail, with a chrome gift for subscribers. Contents include stories, puzzles, and humorous sketches. Thames & Talbot, 36 Bromfield Street, Boston.
Stewartsville area notes record a Grangers organization about twenty strong amid local news. The column mentions widespread sickness with multiple deaths, including H P Cox and family losses, and honors the late Mrs Cox and her father, old Jackey Roberts, aged over ninety.
From the Mt. Vernon Democrat a notice seeks a steady farmer with a Grange certificate and a steady laborer for a local farm in New Harmony Indiana. The farmer earns a $5 monthly advance. the laborer $3. Applications by letter to Moses Johnson. Also reports drownings, sledge slide banter, and a note on actress dresses from Paris.
A compiled notice of patents issued by the United States Patent Office to Indiana inventors for the week ending January 27 1874, listing patent topics and inventors such as lamp fixtures nut locks cultivators and other devices along with multiple real estate transfers and property listings through February 16 1874. The document names inventors including F M Gideon J Cory IL P Hood L H McCullough W Obenchain C R Moon F W Robinson J A Althouse R Last W Newlin W H Pedrick and others. It closes with transfers of real estate among Indiana grantees and P Pentecost R P C.
The report notes Governor Moses of South Carolina delivering a lecture on Religion. It adds that Theo Monitor Dictator, a notable vessel of the navy, is reported lost off Charleston. General Butler boasts of iron clad strength and urges defending justice over brass.
The New Harmony Public School week ending February 19 1874 names pupils with perfect attendance and flawless lessons. Alice Holton Martha Burton Fannie Freta geot Lillie Husbands Mollie Fretageot Lottie Holton John Kilbinger Dalton Althouse Jane Taylor Lizzie Arnoldy John Armstrong Rufus Ackman Emma Fitzgerald Ela Ferguson May Hugo Homer Shepherd James Shepherd Lena Hugo Fred James Annie Miller Daniel Lance Charley Moore Herschel Rawlings Ollie Reed Co W Mills Principal. Pa The Patten Voice clip notes Miss Sawyers Salve cures a scrofulous cancer in Sherman Mr Silas Bryant after four applications is cured and healthy. Mars tf
The fragment from the Market Mumford issue dated July 21 1874 lists a sequence of numbers and small values. It appears to be a price or financial table with multiple entries and decimal figures. The readable text provides no clear events or persons beyond the date and place.
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