Thrall & Mumford's and Eight & Co advertise goods and bargains
Thrall & Mumford's promotes building materials and painters supplies with a large stock of glass, putty, cement, and sashes along with dress goods and mackerel offerings. Eight & Co touts millinery bargains, hats and bonnets at deep discounts, plus Field Roller and Wheat Drills. Kight & Co claims low prices on felt slate and ostrich feathers. News notes hint Russians defeated by Turks on the frontier and endorse Kight & Co as cheapest with largest stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kight & Co
Eight & Co’s
Wen
Kight & Co's
Nations, &c
Proof Indisputable Letter on Hayes in Dispute
A letter from Supreme Court Justice William Story to Grannce W. Jones dated February 26, 1877 argues Congress cannot control state electors and warns against centralizing power. It claims Hayes’s presidency rests on a technical decision and questions Strong’s vote on the electoral commission. Discussion links Hayes to fraud claims and critiques Democratic and Republican maneuvers.
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William Strong
U. S. Supreme Court
Electoral Commission
G. W. Jones
Congress
Tennessee
Washington
Grannce W. Jones
Congres
Louisiana Returning Board
Democratic Party
W. Storya
Judge Strong
Hayes
Louisiana
Ohio
United States
Packard
Chamberlain
South Carolina
Mr. Tilden
Charles Francia Adama
Florida
Election results and political commentary from 1877
A dense report surveys election results from Virginia to Wisconsin with Democratic gains in several states and Republican leads in Minnesota and Massachusetts. It notes Indiana caretaker appointments and a funeral scene for Senator Morton, plus local notes on commerce, manners, and town life in Cynthiana and Evansville, dated November 4, 1877.
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Cynthiana
George Fisher
Morton
Montgomery
J. Wilkinson
Evansville
Hivansville
Richard Young
Funeral sermon sparks sharp rebuke of Cleaver
An Indianapolis Sentinel excerpt recalls a funeral for Senator Morton where Rev. Cleaver delivered a controversial sermon. Washington observers were displeased by a political tone masking as prayer. The piece mocks Cleaver, calling his remarks a fiasco and likening him to a butcher with sausage meat of facts. Also notes Stoddart's Musical Library promotion at ten cents, promising cheap, high quality instrumental and vocal music.
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Morton
Joseph Brapford Cleaver
Senator Morton
Indianapolis
Lincoln
Cleaver
Stoddart’s Musical Library
Messrs. Stoddart & Co
Accident With Pistol Explodes Harms Two Men
Last Wednesday a serious incident occurred when a pistol exploded while Wing O Neal loaded it to shoot at a mark. The blast tore the fingers of his right hand and lodged in the bowels of En Martin Jr. O Neal suffered severe lacerations and Martin’s wound is feared fatal. The event prompts a plea for firearm caution.
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Wenpie Scumier
Dr. Rawlines
Wendle
Wing O’neal
En. Martin, Jr. O'Neal
Martin
The 20-cent coin deception noted in local paper
The Boonville Enquirer mocks the 20-cent piece as easily mistaken for a quarter and recalls a Congress bill by Sanset Cox to abolish the coin. It notes that last Tuesday marked one year since 369 electors were chosen, with a Democratic majority for Tilden and Hendricks. The item credits J.C. Poory, Reg., for New Orleans papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boonville Enquirer
Sanset Cox
Congress
Tilden
Hendricks
Democratic Party
Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors for Week Ended Oct 30 1877
The Register lists patents issued to Indiana inventors for the week ending October 30 1877. Entries include Brick Kiln by J Kelley Muncie Tron Mantle for Fire Place by T and J Scantlin Evansville Mill Spindle Bushing Attachment by C Walters Richmond Eaves trough Machine by W Barber Covington Gate by L Bickford Mt Etna and Treating Hides and Skins by J Figshlack Indianapolis.
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Indiana
Messrs. Cox & Cox
Solicitors of Patents
Washington, D. C
J. Kelley
Muncie
T. & J. Scantlin
Evansville
C. Walters
Richmond
W. Barber
Covington
Gate
L. Bickford
Mt. Etna
J. Figshlack
Indianapolis
New Harmony Retail Market Weekly Prices Listed 1877
Corrected weekly price list from Thrall and Mumford for New Harmony dated November 9, 1877 shows per bushel and per unit figures for flour wheat corn meal eggs butter lard coffee sugar molasses fertilizers bags tanlows hides dried apples peaches salt linseed oil coal oil turpentine vinegar whiskey potatoes and more with substantial cwt and dozen units across commodities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Harmony
Thrall
Mumford
Ceceer
Adolph Louis Referred Mockingly in Obituary Note
In a biography obituary Thiers, the French statesman and his biographer are described with the phrase plain Adolph Louis. The text notes France as a republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thiers
Adolph Louis
France
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the Register
Frank D. Bolton
New Haxnony
Posey County
Hovey & Menzies
William Loudon
E. M. Spencer
Mt. Vernon
Ind
JerGy
Henry Hunsdon
U. S
N. H. F.E. and
New Harmony Fire Engine and Hook and Ladder Company
WM. Read
Joan W. Milner
Gar Kress’ Agne
Thrall & Mumford’s
Sar
Bf. F. Owen & Co
B. F. Owen & Co
Thrall & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumford’s. Mb16
Kien & Co
Ne. Kight & Co
New Mess
Thrall & Mumford’s. Mbio
California
Chié
Ser
F. Owen & Co
John Deere
Oliver Chilled
South Bend
HE. F. Owen & Co
Pep
England
Scotland
Ireland
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Virginia
Mississippi
Minnesota
Connecticut
Massachusetts
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McClellan
Colonel Noyes
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Wisconsin
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Kellogg
Williams
Daniel W. Voorhees
Senate
Rar
M. R. SourHarp
B.S. Foner
J.C. Poory
New Orleans
M. E
A.H
Louis Pelham
B. Hugo
Robert Gullett
John W. Hearing
Ella Schnee
Cesseees
Fannie Vandegrift
Fannie Fretageot
KB. D. Owen
J. W. Davis
Posey Cs
J. B. Gardiner
A. Ramsey
J. Paker
M A. Derrington
R. Grixby
C. Garris
M. E. Baen
Advent
B. A. Ham
C. York
L. D. Carrier
J. C. Duclos
Defur
Welborn
Stewartsville
New Hatmos Seesessee Reserssen
I. Heubner
L. M. Heubner
St. Wendel
J. Schiff
J Neinhouse
JF. Daseney
L. Mestfall
W. M. Kohl
G. Weis
A. Wiergel
C. Hoffman
Hume, Sr
W. W. Hum, Jr
A. Woodsy
F. M
T. J. Truscott
W. Read
D. C. Cox
A. S. Cox
J.W. Whitworth
N. J. Carner
Nene
G. Heubner
E. Heubner
W . Miller
J. "Schiff
R. Neinhouse
Ceerere
I. Freeman
Scone Man
Alderney Stock
Alderney
Morris Pote
MNE
Main Street
Fatham
Baldwin & Snelling
Mrs. James
Bes
Viets Hotel
Root & Tinker
Duane &J
N.Y
Vv. Co. Duclos
Co Duclos
G. G. Duclos
AVING
Duclos CO
Dry Goods and Nations
Frank Smite
Esires
New Harmony and Vicinity
Frank Smith
Steinway
Mpahe
Steinways
G. W. Warren & CO
Alain Street
EB. F. Owen & Co
AND
New Harmony, Ind
Walter A. Wood
J. McCormick
Nichols, Shepard& Co
Battle Creek
Rumely
Robinson Machine Works
Sais
Eagle Machine Works
Birdsell Manufacturing Co
E.F. Owen & Co
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