Patchwork of notices and rural life snippets
A diverse string of brief items mentions persimmon harvests rabbits and geese, a new line of collars at local stores, a shooting match, a council meeting, and early winter hints. Local ads discuss trunks, blankets, wool hose, calf shoes, and a baking powder testimonial from Evansville. A prisoner is recaptured and bound over to circuit court for $200.
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Roz Ranpoore
Carmi
Marshal Wade
Richards
Enoch Fillingim
Squire Ford
Free Trade and tariff reform stir Indiana Republican rhetoric
In Evansville Journal and allied circles a sharp critique of high tariffs emerges. The piece warns that substantial tariff reform is overdue as 1892 elections loom, arguing protectionism harms producers and that the free trade Democrats push tariff reform. It asserts the need for organized Republican resistance and predicts tariff reform will prevail, labeling the current system a tax and monopoly tariff favoring millionaires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Congress
Iowa
Town Council Minutes Note Lighting Move and Repairs
The council met in regular session with WILLIAM READ COL DUCLOS SAMUEL O RAWLINGS and WILLIAM O TRETHEWEY present. A marshal salary and various bills were approved and a committee was appointed to study town electricity. The marshal was instructed to pressure repairs on a cellar door and to fix lamps at the lockup and Odd Fellows building. Adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Read
Col. Duclos
Samuel O. Rawlings
William O. Trethewey
Wm. Wade
Evanaville Journal Co
Owen, Johnson & Co
J.T. Eagle
Hiatt
Church Street
Fr. D. Bolton
School Yard
Duclos
Read
John Ribeyre
Dancing bears and beggars tour town in odd pageant
A crowd watched dancing bears led by about a dozen ragged foreigners in a barefoot begging caravan through town on a Tuesday afternoon. The sight drew praise for its novelty but was noted as the toughest beggar party seen here. A Mt. Vernon Sun correspondent praises Farmersville in Posey county. Joseph Cox harvested the season’s third crop of red June apples from a single tree, described as thoroughly matured and perfect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Vernon
Posey County
Farmersville
Joseph Cox
Local notes record travels and town visits in New Harmony
Personal items and social notices from New Harmony list Robt Faucett heading to New York and London, several residents attending the chrysanthemum show in Evansville, visits to Poseyville and Stewartville, plus townsfolk moving houses, attending courts, and recent marriages and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robt. Faucett
New York
London
Eng
Briny
New Harmony
The GOP status clouded by 1890s political shocks
The piece surveys the GOP's uncertain future after Democratic gains. It debates causes from Harrisonism to the G A R, prohibition, tariffs, and money. It notes Democratic optimism and Republican setbacks in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and the national mood ahead of 1892 elections.
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G.o. P
Massachusetts
Iowa
Harrison
Tanner
Foraker
Ohio
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C. W. Slater
New Harmony,indiana
A. M. Hayden
Upper First Street
Indiana
Enry Hunsdon
Illinois
Ind
Notary Public
Ford Bros. & Lichtenberger’s
John P. Bennett
Pew Room
Ford Bros. & Lichtenberger
Ford Bros & Lichtenberger’s
Ilford Bros. & Lichtenberger’s
Wesley Woods
California
Capt
Ab Driggers
Fox
Will Coonrad
Johnston
Mary L. Swarmstedt
J. H. Rarapone
Bedford
Here
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Peerrerreee
Rawlings
E. F. Owen
L. Pelham
Jim Chaffin
Ed Nisbet
Wade
Rob Randolph
J. W. Davis
Grossville
Ill
Dillie Fretageot
Lottie Husbands
Stewartaville
Brydon
T. Cummings
Griffin
Charley Ford
Chicago
Leroy Cox
Emily Lanham
Beo Neal
Phil Ford
Hvanaville
Andrew Wasem
Frank Mattingly
A. H. Fretageot
Lizzie Alsop
Lawyer Jones
Jim Baldwin
D—e
Mott Hall
Opera House
Main Street
Thos. C. Bridwell
T. Mumford
Schaffer
Times
Munn & CO
Broadway, N.Y
Architects & Builder
Scientific American
Munn & Co., Publishers
Patent Office
Patent Solicitors
General Office
Broapway
Board of County Commissioners
Church and
Brewery
Owen
Jotn H. Chaffin
U. S. Patent Office
Washington
A. Snow & CO
Washington, D.C
WM. P. Ford
Feice
Heckmann
East Main Street
A. D. Jones
Weils
the “Star” Saloon
Frank Lyon & CO
East Main St
John Walz
John Wal
Main St
Henry B. Beal
G. A. R. Hall
Tavern Street
SRE
Poe
Henry Brown
Lichtenberger & Co
New
Aled Hay
JOY RT
Wey
WY. Wiley & CO
West Main St
H. Brown
W. WW. Wiley & Coo
New Harmony, Indiana
Thomas Mumford, JR
Ecessor
Thrall & Fiat
NEW Harmonyw
Anmmoth Drug
Bazar
Proprietors
Duclos Coo
Peter Weber
NEW Ezlarmony
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