School and hardware promotions in local ads and notices
A mixed page of classified notices and ads lists wares from waF-School of supplies to Thrall and Mumford brushes, lumber and shingles from RE F Owen and Co, furniture and wood promises for subscribers, a December sale at Lichtenberger & Sons, and machinery offers from Ducos Co. It also notes an earthquake felt locally and travel notices for residents Mr and Mrs Enowarp Homer and Wa Reap Enq. traveling to Springfield and Indianapolis respectively.
Halifax Award Paid and Rome Floods Dominant News
The edition reports the United States has completed arrangements for the Halifax award payment. Violent storms flood much of Italy with Rome partially inundated. In political results, Martin leads in Delaware with 7,244, and Minnesota shows a Republican majority of 17,824, while Pennsylvania expects a 22,507 Republican plurality. Bradford, Pennsylvania suffers a major fire destroying key businesses. A New York arrest wave targets four men suspected of body theft in Stewart’s case, as Atlantic City endures a fire causing 835,000 in damages. The Indianapolis Sentinel ad urges readers to subscribe.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Man Pays Ten Dollars for Kiss at Buffalo
A gray-haired man in Buffalo paid ten dollars for a kiss from a twenty-year-old woman who had offered the kisses at twenty cents. He pursued the deal, driven by greed, hoping to obtain them for nothing.
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Buffalo
Mt Vernon Merchant Frank Smith Shows Busy Week
Frank Smith a popular Mt. Vernon merchant visited town last Tuesday and Wednesday, greeting many friends. His dry goods store is noted as one of the best stocked in Mt. Vernon and locals are urged to call for bargains. Mesars. F W Lichtenperner & Sons tease local items about the New Idea with plans to explain later in a future issue. Their mammoth store remains open for extensive stock evaluation.
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Frank Smith
Mt. Vernon
Frank
Mesars. F. W. Lichtenperner & Sons
Joan Waz
Turnips scarce and harvest notes from 1878
The item notes scarce turnips and corn gathering with a fair yield wheat sowing completed recently. It mentions George Trethewey at the state capital for the Grand Lodge, a pump man, the death of Mrs. K Schneck with her son John, Clara Robb sick at her grandfather Thomas Robb, a saloon burglary, and local remarks on teaching and hunting by B. F. Adams and Trouis Barth returning from Mt. Vernon. Date noted Nov 19, 1878.
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George Trethewey
Grand Lodge
K. Schneck
John
Clara Robb
Thomas Robb
Johnson Pulliam
B. F. Adams
Trouis Barth
Mt. Vernon
Heartstone
Burglarized gunsmith shop and blanketing sale ad
A Mount Vernon ind big store offers 114 white wool blankets for 225 dollars. A burglary at C Prerzen’s Main street gunsmith shop stole nine revolvers, pocket knives, razors. chisels left on the step with no clue to thieves. Local notes mention concerts, education about ghosts, and various small items and events including a forthcoming Union Hall concert and a Vera sighting of political chatter.
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Rosenbaum & Bro
Mount Vernon
Ind
C. Prerzen
Thrall & Mumford's Offers Daily Essentials Bargains
Thrall and Mumford's advertises dried beef ready for self feeding meat cutters, dyes and dye stuffs, concentrated lye, potash and soap balls. Building materials include sash doors shutters lime cement glass putty. Promotes groceries with $100 buys and coffee deals including 10 pounds white sugar for $1.00, 54 pounds coffee for $1.00, and 6 pounds extra good coffee for $1.00.
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Thrall & Mumford’s
Age The New Idea in a Preparatory Lesson in Buying
An item from December 1 outlines a preparatory lesson on buying presented by Lichtenberger and Sona. It notes early guidance on market choices and decision strategies.
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Lichtenberger & Sona
Winter bargains at Rosenbaum and Bro store
Reader to New York reports shipments of heavy grey flannel and wool filling jeans at 15 to 20 cents a yard. Berlin reports one tenth of residents live in cellars with high mortality and crowded houses. Local scenes note a grocer adding a show case, a quip about mothers and fathers, and a St Petersburg bank cashier arrested for misappropriating 1.375 million.
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Rosenbaum & Bro
Mt. Vernon
Berlin
Credit Froncier Bank of
St. Petersburg
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