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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1892
Page
5
Temperate weather note and a local ad filled with Henry Brown's promotions for coats, hats, neckwear, and school supplies. Mentions a broken ferry cog-wheel, county official thanks to Silas G. Howard, and real estate sale by C A Parke at New Harmony Banking Co. Also notes Mackey team-ferry purchase and a patent medicine advertisement.
Fortune smiled as Cleveland won and the Democratic State ticket prevailed. Mrs Glucman sent a young chicken named Grover and dedicated it to the celebration. Mrs Phoebe Elliott sent wine with a note praising the party and denouncing McKinley bills.
An ad touts Electric Bitters as a nerve tonic and alterative for nervous prostration urging readers to try a bottle. It claims restored appetite, digestion, and liver kidney function with surprising results, priced 50e at Wilmoth Wilhelm Co.’s Drugstore.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cats bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It cures piles or no pay. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. 25 cents per box. For sale by Aploy Witmota Wilbely & Co.
A local drug advertisement touts Yucatan Chill Tonic as superior to imitations. It claims the product is warranted and offered for 50 cents at Wilmoth, Wilhelm & Co.'s drug store.
A roundup of residents traveling from Mt Vernon to attend, visit, or relocate. Guardianship trips, lodge delegates, family visits, and relatives are noted with multiple names and towns including Mt Vernon Evansville Crawfordsville Indianapolis Green Castle Cincinnati Hastings Fla Carmi. The list records movements of Parke Wilmoth Ford Fretageot Holton Wolfe Trethewey and others across Indiana and neighboring states.
An old time Democratic celebration is announced for tomorrow evening with a glee club, fireworks, anvil firing, procession and ball to celebrate Cleve Steve and the State ticket. The fourth annual Farmers Institute will be held January 12 and 13, 1893, place to be announced. Persons wishing to assist should contact Joan B Enurorr.
Advertising puff asserts Yucatan Chill Tonic is the greatest tonic and the only one that never fails to cure chills when properly taken. Each bottle is warranted and priced at 50 cents at Wilmoth Wilhelm & Co.'s drug-store.
Employment notice invites both men and women to respond foradvantageous opportunities at a ramped address in Ecanavite Indiana. The brief item appears as a classified recruitment blurb dated September.
An event notice notes a Dancing School session on Saturday November 19 at 2 o'clock taught by Mrs J G Coupwell. A political results snippet records Taylors official congressional majority in the district at 445 over Twineham with county by county tallies and party shifts. Rabbit hunters begin winter campaign.
The New Harmony Literary Club met in the high school room on Tuesday evening November 1802. President H P Owen chaired the session with music by Mrs Emma Wolfe and Miss Eliza Lichtenberger and papers by P Wolfe and Mr Wolfe.
Rev F C Fylehart of New York urges use of Cc Certain Corn Cure to remove a corn on the toe described as a thorn in the flesh. The product is sold by Wilmoth Wilhelm & Co.
Guardian of the minor heirs of Thomas Minney deceased by order of Posey Circuit Court will privately sell at the New Harmony Banking Company office in New Harmony Posey County Indiana on Saturday November 19 1892 between 9 am and 2 pm two undivided two thirds interests described as Forty acres more or less in the West Half of the North Wall of the Northwest Quarter and two thirds of another tract containing about 20 acres with specifics of metes and bounds. If not sold privately the property will go to public sale at 2 pm. One fourth of the purchase price cash with the balance in three installments at 6 12 and 18 months with notes and security. Attorney F P Leonard. Oct 28 1892.
The postoffice political contest expands as several candidates enter, with a few prominent ladies considered. The article lists Martin Golden, Richards, Lawrie Lichtenberger, J. W. Ford, W. W. Wiley, Phil Schutz, W. J. Beal, A. H. W. Fretageot, James Stoker, Lew Felch, John Given, A. D. Jones and W. F. Lichtenberger, plus possible contenders. A primary is planned to yield a clear field, with the election tentatively targeted for November 30.
Cunt Heverxe died near Stewartsville and was buried at Maple Hill cemetery. The brief notice notes the burial followed the death in the locality, with services held at the family plot.
A reflective verse recalling symbols of unity and reform as the nation debates tariffs and policy under Grover Cleveland. The poem notes public discontent with tariffs, calls for patriotic resolve, and foresees change as communities adapt to evolving times. H. Ernest Shephard.
Mr and Mrs Loren B Trescott keepers of Gov Lighthouse at Sand Beach Michigan tell of their four year old daughter who suffered measles cough fever and rapid decline before Dr King s New Discovery cured her after two and a half bottles This tonic is advertised as effective and safe with free trial bottles offered at Wilmoth Wilhelm Co drugstore It is promoted as a pleasant anti fever remedy also sold under several names with ads for school supplies and children s medicine stating no cure no pay and universal satisfaction
The undersigned will apply at the next Posey County Board of County Commissioners session to retain spirituous and malt liquors on Lot 100 Church Street in Owen's part of New Harmony. Ralph J. Boren and Lawrence A. Varner request approval to retail spirits and malt liquors on Lot 95 Main Street between Church and Tavern in New Harmony. William Green.
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