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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1873
Page
3
A mishmash advertisement page notes Kight & Davis will stock lumber shingles and ship promptly, with a new saw-mill two miles east of New Harmony. Also teased are branch stores, upcoming fashion goods, and various local election results, church and convention notices, and merchant stock hints.
Obituary notes the death of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase in New York at 67, recounting a 37 year political career from Ohio governor to U S Senate, Lincoln cabinet member, and finally Chief Justice. Includes brief remarks on Chase’s party alignment shifts and the era’s political shifts. Also scopes other wartime and local items, including Louisiana news, medical convention, Vanderburgh fair plan, Credit Mobilier activity, Indiana elections, and local notices.
Tur Lapy's Frisno for May features a graceful engraving The Huntress of America a Diana opening the issue. music Over Sticks and Stones Galop by Carl Faust includes literary pieces Dorothea and others. fashion department orders and subscription offers from Deacon and Peterson Philadelphia with chrome premium incentives.
The May 6 1873 issue notes the Register’s popularity and reports local happenings in Cynthiana Kentucky including Rev Henderson and Miss Augusta Williams eloping on May 4, professor Martin Wilkinson moving to town and potential school upgrades. It mentions a proposed ten thousand dollar schoolhouse and a three thousand dollar frame church project, plus lottery winnings for Mrs Henrietta Wilson and a light suggestion to invite Eonest Dale Owen to teach moral lessons.
A mixed page notes various queries and quips from correspondents on titles and Latin studies, followed by a Louisiana skirmish alert and local bankruptcy chatter. It cites Harmony Indiana merchants near bankruptcies, a New York court ruling against Stokes, and Rosenbaum & Bro. promotions in Mount Vernon Indiana with shoe and glove deals.
At the May 5 1873 annual meeting at Union Hall James Flusbands was re elected Trustee for three years Wm Reed elected Treasurer and Arthur Cransfield Clerk Trustees Reports describe Maple Hill Cemetery management since May 5 1873 including land possession improvements fencing and deeds Also listed are receipts and expenditures for the year and a patent list and local dry goods notices within the journal text
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