We Have Music Organette Giveaway at Parlor Store
The Parlor Store offers a SL500 Organette for 25 cents with a drawing on April 1. Shoppers buying 25 cents of goods receive a card with a number for a chance to win the Organette and over 200 feet of music. Also advertised is masquerade trimmings and a full line of stationery, toilet articles, pictures, frames, and more at spot cash. Wall paper and window shades arriving soon. visit one door east of the Viets House.
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Viets
Notice of Survey in New Harmony Indiana
The County Surveyor and Cyrus Schnee announce a survey on March 3, 1882, to locate lines and preserve corners to Lot No 6 in Owen's Eastern Enlargement of New Harmony Indiana. Five interested parties are notified.
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Posey County
Owen
New Harmony
Said
Cyrus Schnee
Posey County seeks physicians for pauper care 1882
Posey County Indiana Board of Commissioners invites sealed proposals for furnishing medical attendance and medicines to the county poor for one year starting March 1882. Nine township areas require physicians, including Harmony Bethel Lynn and Black Point, with weekly visits to the County Poor Asylum. Bids due by March 1, 1882. right to reject all bids reserved. Alfred D. Owen Auditor. Feb 17.
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Posey County
Indiana
Black and
Point Townships
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Harmony
Bethel
Robb and
Smith
Robinson
Center
Marrs
County Poor Asylum
Bobb Township
Alfred D. Owen
Notice on vaccines for Harmony Township schools
Frank D. Bolton, trustee, enforces Health Board rules in Harmony Township Public Schools Posey County. All teachers and scholars must be vaccinated within sixty days after January 1, 1882 or be excluded until a physician certificate is produced. Refusers face a five dollar daily penalty reported to the Health Officer.
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Neate
Posey County
State Board of Health
Harmony
Frank D. Bolton
Harmony Township
J W Davis Undertaker expands with new stock and services
J W Davis undertaker announces purchase of J T Huge’s business and stock, adding a wide range of caskets, burial cases, robes, shrouds, embalming fluids, and patent cooling boards. A paired black team and new hearse will serve Poseyville and Stewartville, with local managers T M Davis and Geo Trethewey ready to attend calls.
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AVING
J. T
Hugo
Poseyville
T. M. Davis
Stewartville
A Bomb in the Camp of the Half-Breeds
Washington dispatches report the Conkling nomination to the Supreme Court sparking factional strife among Republicans. Sargent of California may be sent to Russia as minister. Grant and Blaine plan southern tours to drum up support. A new apportionment bill increases House seats to 825, with various state gains and losses. Democrats seen gaining ground in many states. Garfield eulogy by Blaine at Congress and Hoar’s sharp rebuke noted amid political turmoil and looming 1884 election. Weather and floods mentioned in the lower text.
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Grayville man jailed for barber shop theft and boy’s suspected suicide
Harry Ferguson of New Harmony pleaded guilty to stealing a razor from Sizemore’s barber shop and was jailed in Carmi after a preliminary examination. A 15-year-old from St. Wendel disappeared. a note on his hat hinted at suicide, but floodwaters prevented recovery.
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Stewartsville Sidelights From A Dry Road Some News
Stewartsville notes dry roads then mud and possible rail closures to Grayville. Local trustee offers dog attachments. April may reduce dogs. Schools mostly close next week. Teachers visited Evansville to see Booth. harvest season brought sore arms. Mumps spread a mile or two away. A temperance society forms. Mason Long may lecture. Rufus Stinnett and Robb family update. Township teachers’ institute seen as burdensome. calls to test the law. Odd hog-chase anecdote from Virginia City stage driver. Aurora preacher hunt cited with punchy plea for a strong pastor. Chicago gambling houses closed for first time in history. St. Louis mills import wheat. Republicans win Harrisburg.
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Booth
Mason Long
Rufus Stinnett
New York Gossip and Radix Tales in 1882
A lively column from New York on February 24 1882 recalls a police reporter trapped by a janitor and bricks, labor strikes by street-cleaning carts, praise for Century magazine and wood engraving, and sharp notes on emigration taxes, art quarrels, life insurance frauds, prison cruelty, and Congressman J Hyatt Smith’s efficient pensions work.
State of affairs at Washington fuels costs and greed
A New York Sun letter from Washington on February 20 describes a surge of spending ideas. Captain Eads seeks 50 million, pension agents claim hundreds of millions, and plans loom for river improvements, public buildings, a larger army, a rebuilt navy, Indian supplies, and a new Congressional library.
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Sam
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Potomac
Indiana Dems weigh Myers for Secretary of State
Washington dispatch reports Indiana Democrats leaning toward W R Myers of Anderson as a potential Secretary of State candidate. Myers signaled readiness to enter the race after broad Democratic urging. Also noted are Garfield memorial to Mrs Garfield by ex Confederate soldiers and other political notes from Indiana and Pennsylvania.
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the Sentinel
Washington, D. C
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Congress
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Indiana
Myers
James A. Garfield
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