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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1881
Page
3
U S claim agent in New Harmony Indiana offers notarization and deed acknowledgments. Church notes include Rev M E Church preaching times and Sunday school. Thrall Mumford store advertises mince meat sugars molasses syrups and tonic medicines with various prices and new musical instruments and silver ware on sale.
THRALL & MUMFORD promote Landreth's Garden Seeds with a full catalog available. Seeds are not sold on commission and buyers are assured fresh stock. Edward Homer, Esq., has letters of administration on Matilda Carnahan's estate. A township warning targets property destruction at the school. Prizes announced for masquerade ball and juvenile event.
Capt Caatrix of the steamer Sweetzer was in town this week as repairs delay passage under the St. Louis and Southeastern railroad bridge. The boat is laid up below the bridge awaiting clearance, and tensions may rise between the boat owners and the railroad company over the delays.
A feverish 1881 New York dispatch sketches stock slumps and telegraph consolidations, notes benevolence funding a new Brooklyn hospital, recounts public spectacles and the Washington birthday obelisk handover, laments dirty streets, river collisions, rising rents, and a booming yet volatile real estate market amid a busy immigration economy.
Numbers drew prizes at Mesars Toraty and Mustorn’s drawing last Monday night. Winners must call at the store to claim prizes.
The program for the Teachers Institute at New Harmony on the second Saturday in March 1881 includes G Nash on Practical Elementary Geography, Mollie Carr on Six Rules to arouse pupil interest, T Tompson on Answers to History questions, Dr. Lawrence on Reminiscences of early school days in Indiana, and Professor Moore on Winds. By order of the committee. Advertises Evansville hardware discount via PD and E railroad customers who traveled to its southern terminus for bargains.
Members of the Posey County Agricultural Society will meet on Saturday the 12th to appoint a time for the next fair and conduct other important business. The notice urges a large fall attendance.
Old military bounty land warrants—up to 25,000 issued for Revolutionary through Indian wars—are sought by heirs. Letters to Charles D Gilmore of Washington DC outline how to claim forfeited warrants. The Indiana Legislature is criticized for self‑pay and stalled reforms, with calls to drastic reduction in members and speedy passage of laws. Local notes praise Texas troupe Golden and upcoming dances at Union Hall, plus a river and steamer update.
A collection of local remarks and notices from New Harmony including a funeral lament, a masquerade ball at City Hall with prizes for Nina Witty and C Loeckwoop, a children's ball with awards for Ensie New som Minnie HorrarrkrR and Lesis Hugo, an oath of office ceremony for General Jas A Ganerenp, wordplay on Republican simplicity, Mrs Ki Hops moving to Canada with an auction, a new safe at Freractor & Co, Thrall & Munford shopping trip to Chicago, Senator Jones of Florida described, and County Commissioners meeting at Mt Vernon. Also a New Harmony to Mt Vernon hack run by Dr John N Stevens with morning departures and afternoon returns.
A damaged OCR fragment lists assorted commodities with unit prices in a rural market mix. Items include flour, wheat, corn, meal, chickens, eggs, butter, lard, hams, shoulders, sugar, coffee, molasses, feathers, rags, tallow, shoes, dry goods, hides, lard oil, linseed oil, coal oil, turpentine, vinegar, whiskey, potatoes, apples dried, peaches dried, salt, beans dried, tea, and other staples. No clear dates or totals available.
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