Mammoth dry goods bargains and odd notices
Local advertisements from Rosenbaum and Bro. Mount Vernon Indiana offer ladies gaiters, kid gloves, boots and shoes at deep discounts while a Kentucky coffin tale and a New Hampshire farmer tease readers. Canned humor about Chicago streetcars ends the jumble with a riddle.
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Public Square
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Rosenbaum & Bro
Mammoth
Mount Vernon
Indiana
Sax
Saiit
New Harmony
Sear
Col. Brutally Assaulted in Town
A Wisconsin reporter notes Col. remains alive after a severe assault last evening. The item mentions neighbors who know the citizen will regret the incident and confirms he was not killed.
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Wisconsin
Col
Duchies to convert gaw mill into steam stave factory
Mr. V. C. Duchies secures the gaw mill near the ferry landing and plans a steam stave factory with a 40,000 staves per day capacity. The operation targets home use and export, meeting rising demand from flouring mills now making kiln dried meal and barrela.
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Sam
V. C. Duchies
Ferry Landing
Grayville
Ill
Advertising and its profitable use in newspapers
The piece argues that advertising pays for enterprising liberal and progressive businessmen who choose the right paper. It compares ad value to product quality, noting readers' suitability matters, and that price alone does not determine value. The example of cloth prices shows higher cost can reflect better value, not merely higher expense.
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Inquirer
Early settlers and land entries near New Harmony
The New Harmony Register recounts John Gresham settling near New Harmony before the town’s lay out. It lists entries in fractional sections 36 25 and 34 in 1807 1808 and 1811 by Gresham Levitt Mounts and Jesaac White, noting a distillery spring and a fort built by Wright Stallings amid hostilities of 1812.
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New Harmony
Ephora
John Gresham
George Rapp
Ignatious Levitt
Mathias Mounts
Wright Stallings
Moses Johnson
Cynthiana Items and Local Notes on Post Office Curiosities
June 4 1873 report from Cynthiana notes heavy rains delaying corn planting and a first postal card read aloud by the postmaster amid protest of political bias. Also mentions Poseyville Xanthippe, a Napoleonic veteran's Boston death, a Miss Sawyer salve cure, and a town ledger of goods with prices for flour wheat corn and groceries.
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Cynthiana
Montgomery
P.M
Grant
Xanthippe
Argus
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Singer
Wheeler & Wilson
Grover & Baker
Debtf
Kigot & Davis
Kight & Davis
New Narmony
Evansville
Jesse M. Neal
Thrail & Mumford’s
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Thrall & Mumford
Georgia
Kentucky
New Hampshire
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Chicago Post
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Posey County
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W. Hi. Turacy
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Janes B. Campbell
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Pioneer Flock and Ladder Company, No.1
Mt. Carmel
Wabash
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Capt. McKenzie
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Dan Rice
Joan G. Young
Grant House
Gresham Creek
Evansville Road
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Toledo
Ohio
Black River
Literary Notices
Tyrol
Abbotsford
Walter Scott
Claribel
You and I
Narcisaus
Ella Rodman Church
Eleanor C. Donnelly
Madame Roland
Summer
Somebody
Madge Carroll
Archer Winford
Annie L. Forcelle
Dorothea
Fannie Hodgson
Greylands
Henry Wood
Little Samuel
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Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Captain Jack
Far West
Messrs. E. F
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Main
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Guggenheimer
Boston
Miss Sawyer
Patten
Silas Bryant
Sherman
Mark Ts
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M Aly
Lg Mumford
Lkotbey
H.and L. Co
New Harmony Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Company
John Walz
WM. Reed
Aplay
McReynolds
D. McReynolds
P.O
Evansville, Indiana
Haveb
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Schapker, Bussing & CO
F. W. Lichtenberger & Sons
East Main Street
Rex
New Harmony and Vicinity
CMAY
Main and
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