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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1876
Page
3
Thrall Mumford’s advertises Handsome Coffees and Green Rio tea options, best concentrated tea for 50 cents, fish hooks and lines, paints and oils, seed potatoes, garden seeds, and a large stock of fishing gear. Mentions sheriff in town, a horse raffle for wounded soldiers, and a note on local real estate ads.
A Posey county notice informs readers along Stewartsville to Princeton that the Register will move to Friday delivery with the new volume. It urges correspondents and advertisers to note the change and mentions arrears on subscriptions. The item also criticizes a county agricultural report and discusses Fourth of July horse races and local development projects in Posey county.
A returning reader praises New Harmony for a new schoolhouse and soon to be completed library, noting the telegraph line from Mt. Vernon and local efforts to improve education. He urges home investment in local schools and library access, commends recent social progress, and thanks friends for their kindness.
The President reshuffles his Cabinet with Judge Pierre pont leaving as England minister and Judge Tarr taking the Justice Department helm while J Don Camero of Pennsylvania heads the War Department. The moves aim to influence New York Ohio and Pennsylvania. A 105 year old man in St Louis dies, suggesting someone might attend the Centennial in 1976. Dom Pedro tours the country. one Philadelphia hotel bill nears $3,000.
Poseyville residents and nearby communities meet at the M. E. Church to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of American independence with an old fashioned barbecue. Committees of arrangements and rallying delegates are named, with publication to the New Harmony Register requested. Also, news notes mention Thespians closing this season and President Grant appointing Edward F. Beale minister to Austria, viewed skeptically by some.
Licences issued for the week to date include Louis C Felch and Lucretia Goble Handy Perry and Jane Campbell Alfred Pendell and Mary J Wilkins Peter M Clayton and Margaret Endicott Geo W Curtis Clerk s A note predicts a frost between May 28 and June 2 likely killing fruit north of a line through Crawfordsville Indiana. Predictions forewarn fruit in several counties and cities. The Evansville District Convention nominated Brnom S Furen for Congress and Joan Brown LEE for Prosecuting Attorney, with expected election next fall. Notices mention candidates seeking convention support for a fee. Suggestions arise on Fourth of July celebration in New Harmony. A Newark clergyman is mocked for Sabbath violations and informing on sellers. Chock Wong of the San Francisco Oriental is described as a naturalized American citizen. The piece questions the term assignment for creditors and notes the Centennial era raises concern over many bachelor prospects.
A fragment lists prices for multiple staples and goods including flour wheat corn meal coffee sugar molasses lard shoulders and hogs, with figures per bushel, gallon, or dozen. It also notes eggs, potatoes apples dried peaches dried beans salt and tobacco products, reflecting a historical local market quote.
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