Henry Brown and G W Engler Offer New Goods and Low Prices
Local ads advertise men's clothing at Henry Brown's right stand with half price sales and specials on boots gloves and overcoats. G W Engler promotes new stock including ladies undergarments hats and trim goods. Owen & Co dealers list wagons firearms weatherstrips and farm tools at reduced rates.
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Gom
Henry Brown
Right
Henry Brown's
Kight’s
Kight’s Stand
Owen & Co
Ingersoll Lectures Draw City Crowd Amid Adverse Weather
The Evansville Journal reports Col. Robert J. Ingersoll, nicknamed Infidel Bob, spoke in the city drawing a crowd despite mud and poor roads. A local anecdote recalls his generosity to a washerwoman, reflecting the lecturer’s popular appeal.
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Ingersoll
Robert J. Ingersoll
Bob
Evansville Journal
Col
Rooster
Col. Ingersoll
Shawneetown
Hvansville
Col. R. J. Incersont
New Discovery Free Trial Cures Many Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr. Kine's New Discovery for consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis and more, offering free trial bottles. It claims thousands cured and asserts no other medicine matches its efficacy, with Thrall & Mumford in New Harmony distributing it.
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Dr. Kine
Dr. Kina
Thrall & Mumford
New Harmony
Wallace's Prolific White Flour Seed Corn offered for sale
An advertisement promotes Wallace's Improved Prolific White Flour Seed Corn at $100 per month to active agents in adjacent counties, claiming each ear produces four to twelve ears and 80 to 100 bushels per acre. Include a stamped reply address to I. Lb. Osment in Cleveland Tennessee.
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Wallace
Osment
Cleveland
Tennessee
Lodge Officers Installed At New Harmony 1880
Installation of New Harmony Lodge No 87 I O O F officers on Wednesday January 7 1880 for the term includes John Walz Noble Grand L Chaffin Vice Grand T Pisely Recording Secretary G W Engler Permanent Secretary W Read Treasurer O N Fretageot Warden J T Hugo Conductor J W Miller R S N G W Richards L 5 N G J D Jones R 8 V G C Chadwick L S V G W Kreipke Inside Guardian I V Cowgill Outside Guardian F Nather R 58 H Anderson L 58 8 Trustees F D Bolton D M Schnee W Richards.
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New Harmony Lodge No. 87
John Walz
Noble
L. Chaffin
T. Pisely
G. W. Engler
W. Read
O. N. Fretageot
J.T. Hugo
J. W. Miller
R.S
Salt tax debate in Russia impacts the poor
The salt duty in Russia brings in 15.5 million annually but is urged for abolition by the press as it burdens poorer classes. In Adams Massachusetts a Methodist congregation expelled five rowdies. The clash ended the service with the religious element prevailing after a fight.
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Russia
Adams
Mass
Boston voters miss 127 women who registered fail to vote
A fragment notes that one hundred twenty seven registered women in Boston did not vote, faulted for not wearing winter cloaks and looking fit for the polls. It also touches on party lines and political rhetoric in a broader, reflective tone. It mentions retail whisky houses taxed ten thousand dollars each in Greensboro Georgia.
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Boston
Seas
Greensboro
Georgia
Detroit Free Press
Free Press
Detroit
Michigan
Transfers of Real Estate Week Ending January 12 1880
Sheriff Posey County transfers total 15 with notes on 18 to 44- acre parcels and 80-acre lots. Total consideration around 17399 79 dollars. Several deeds cite titles in Maclure New Harmony Poseyville and surrounding tracts with amounts ranging from 300 to 2600 dollars.
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M. A. Stallings
Stallings
Sheriff Posey Co
KE. Decker
Ableton Sains J. Gabel
G.huber
A. Showers
A. I. Lowe
Cynthiana
J.R. Williams
G. Montgomery
F. Deig
M. Weinzmpfel
Maclure
New Harmony
Ft. F. Davis
I. O. O. F. Poseyville
Poseyville
A. Hutcheson
W. Leeding
G. Husband
F.W. Lichtenberger
D. Mallee
T. N. Thomas
W. Ridenour
Nwsw
A. Boren
T. Mumford
Sleigh Bell and Skates Arrive for E. F. Owen & Co
Sleigh bell and skates were received by E. F. Owen & Co., with the delivery marked as received and acknowledged by the firm.
Richly dressed woman turns up tea at Windsor customs
A richly dressed woman wearing a large outfit drew customs officers’ attention at Windsor Canada where a container she carried was found to hold tea.
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Wisconsin
Windsor
Canada
Retail Market Prices Reported by Phrall Mumford
Market listing dated January 16 1880 shows varied prices for flour wheat corn meal and staples including eggs butter lard hams shoulders and sides. Also listed are sugar coffee molasses feathers rags tlow hides dry and green, lard oil linseed oil coal oil turpentine vinegar whiskey potatoes dried apples dried peaches salt beans and other staples.
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Phrall
Mumford
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Henry H Notaryt
U. S
Indiana
Notary Public
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New Harmony Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Company
WM. Read
Joan W. Minter
M. E. Church
Geo. F. Culmer
Bucklen
Arnica
Reploy Thrall & Mumford
World G. W. Engler
repCall
Decl
FE. F. Owen & Co
Ewe Weer Ag Novl
Mary E. Drinkwater
BK. F. Owen & Co
Wen
EF. Owen & Co
St. Nicholas Toy Company
EH. J. Owen & Co
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Missouri
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Snively
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Evansville
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California
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Posey County
Black Township
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Thrall & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumpford's
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Thrall & Mumbord's
Thrall & Mumeford
Pen
Thrall & Mumeord
Thrall & Mumeford's
Hannibal Hamlin
North Pole
White House
Brother Hamlin
Hamlin
Harmo
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