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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1882
Page
4
The Register reports burglars entered E F Owen Co hardware and cutlery shop Thursday night, stealing about three hundred dollars in pocket-knives and pistols. Entry used framing chisels stolen from John Wheatcroft's shop. A $50 reward offered. thief may be captured and arrested in Norris City.
The Union Hall masquerade drew decent turnout last Tuesday with many fine ladies in elegant costumes. Prizes went to Miss Bessie James as Cleopatra and Miss Sallie Schafer as an Indian Squaw, plus others for a Chinaman and Village Blacksmith. Child entrants won trophies for Mother Hubbard, a Spanish Lady, Jack the Giant Killer, and Heinrich Hudson. Additional notes mention stave and heading machinery ads, river levels, marriage licenses, and a scolding about fake bargains.
A cluster of 19th century ads from Thrall and Mumford selling gun wads at ten cents a box, Breech loading shotguns, imported kraut, buckwheat flour, maple syrup, canned tomatoes, and a range of hardware items. Also promoting E. Owen & Co. hardware store, Phoenix Bed and Plate Casters, coffee mills, fire sets, winter boots, and Henry Brown the clothier with affordable menswear and undergarments.
A weekly corrected price list from New Harmony by Thrall Mumford shows commodity rates for flour wheat corn meal eggs sugar tea and more. It lists quantities per unit and monthly totals for staples including dried beans peaches apples salt coffee molasses and fats with prices per item and per unit.
Terms of sale require not less than full appraised value. Purchaser pays one fourth cash, balance due in six, twelve, and eighteen months via notes with personal security and mortgage on the real estate. Interest at 6 percent from date. Waives valuation laws with 5 percent attorney fee. Guardian Sarah A. Robb.
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