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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1878
Page
3
F. Owen & Co have completed contracts with reading implement manufacturers, securing slight shifts in standard goods. Special arrangements required large orders, making tools better suited to Posey county locality and needs.
Wa Williams escaped a buggy accident with severe bruises last Saturday. Prof G W Warren of Evansville arrived in town last Wednesday. A Union Hall ball is planned for Friday evening. The Boone Democrat laments money as the missing link between subscribers and the editor. Cunane Profane of Mt Vernon visited town last Wednesday dressed as a pirate. London Times reports a 104 year old Ashcott woman who spent forty years drinking gin, often a thousand dollars yearly, and may have hastened her end.
March reports span St. Patrick's Day festivities in St Louis Cincinnati New Orleans Chicago and other cities. Political upheavals include arrests in bond rings and revolutionary actions in Jamaica Port au Prince and European tensions. Also noted are fires in Louisville and Memphis casualties and local electoral discussions in Posey county Indiana.
Reports from March 13 to 16 detail workplace accidents at Woolwich dockyard, mass emigration on trains through Topeka, and war news including English naval reinforcements. Also noted are new silver dollars in New York, a long bridge at New Brunswick, NH election results, Cuban insurgent actions, fires in Hot Springs, a yellow fever death in Havana, a billiards match in New York, and various British military preparations. The pieces mention Creighton, Ha vana, Grayville, and notable figures like Redmond, Hampt on, and Whitelaw Reid.
Oliver C. Terry runs for mayor of Mt. Vernon promising strong leadership and a pro growth agenda. Supporters say his election would mark a high standard for the city's leadership and governance.
The Indianapolis Journal and other Radical papers mock the Democrat candidate J G Shank lin for being a gentleman in manner and speech, calling out presumed perjury and whisky theft charges as partisan slurs from the press and urging support for the Democrat.
A terse, damaged excerpt attacks The Radical Party as having no real existence, claiming it serves only money power and national bank interests. The fragment cites Seymour Times style and insults the party as disconnected from national needs, with indifferent tone and unclear attribution.
From New York the New York Sun reports that owing to the Republican gerryman der of the State it requires a large popular majority to carry the legislature.
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