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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1878
Page
3
K F Gwen & Co have purchased the celebrated Smith Wagon in quantity and offer them for spot cash at ten dollars less than any wagon of the same class offered here before. Freight rates are favorable, enabling the discount. By 26.
Saw Mill notice invites lumber orders at Kemerlin and Brooks butcher shop with mill start planned Monday August 26 near Charles Kemerlin Jr residence. Local ads list E F Owen Co nails wire cloth hardware Thrall and Mumford painters supplies and Mrs Potts polishing iron. Also notes Bethel Township death of wife of Jon Urzey Esq and Republican jury remark plus Fannie Truscott visiting England and Boren and Mattingly in town for orders.
Burglaries plague New Harmony with thefts at T S Fern home and William Baldwin shop. Thief targeted money, a pocket knife, and tools, left behind by locals, and authorities urged better security and double barrel shotguns. Gen Manson and Democratic candidates visited. mass convention derided as unwieldy with about four thousand attendees. Wa. Reap returned from six weeks in Europe.
Across the week notes report the contract for the new Statehouse going to Kanmacher & Denig of Columbus Ohio. Also daily items include British warships off Newport saluted by Fort Adams and political nominations in several states. Yellow fever declines and fires feature in southern reports.
The piece argues a delegate convention would handle business and form a satisfactory ticket, while mass convention supporters face late enlightenment and should learn for the future. It notes a pedestrian beginning a 100 mile walk, and reports a snake whipping incident at the Philadelphia Zoological Society. Also mentions Hagland’s national debt and a student leaving for school in Bloomington.
The mass convention chose George W. Curtis for Clerk Alfred B D Owen for Auditor P A Hutcheson for Recorder Wim Hendricks for Coroner S John C Smith for Commissioner J W Whitworth for Surveyor The primary on September 14 will nominate a Representative Treasurer and Sheriff and the Democrats seek united support to win.
The New Harmony Graded School lists teachers including Superintendent John Moore and Mra. L T Phillips with other staff, but illness delays opening until October 1. The session will run eight months. Local notices urge Dems to vote in the October primary and support the ticket, while river levels and excursion plans add regional color.
The town welcomes a growing group of arrangers visiting for the upcoming fair. Local officials expect increased activity as makers and vendors assemble to showcase crafts and plan events.
The Posey county Democratic mass convention met at New Harmony on August 31 1878 to nominate county officers. Delegates formed committees on permanent organization and rules with G S Green and Dr Kelly as chairs. Nominations were made for Representative Clerk Auditor Recorder Coroner Commissioner Surveyor with balloting showing no majority for Representative Treasurer or Sheriff and adjournment without those nominations.
A primary election was set to be held after a meeting of the Democratic Central Committee. Details of date and location not fully legible in the source. The report notes organizational planning and impending election procedures.
A fragment notes a Kentucky expression and describes it as a yard wide state of hilarity. It hints at dialect usage without clear context or names, presenting a snapshot of regional speech in a clipped OCR segment.
The Cincinnati Daily Haguirer advertises Thrall and Mumford's as a daily sale source offering Choice Sugar Cured hams 8 cents per pound Soda and Starch 5 cents per pound coffee and tea deals including 44 price roasters and bulk coffee, canned goods at bargain prices and new stock of pet items, plants, and fancy goods. It promotes savings, urging readers to buy more groceries for $1 and notes a wide assortment of groceries and household items with emphasis on coffee, molasses, canned fruits, fish, and hardware goods.
The article notes that the Earth's surface covers 196,626,000 square miles. This figure is presented as a geographic statistic without broader context or accompanying analysis.
OCR reads a scattered catalog of goods with inconsistent units. Items include FLOUR WHEAT CORN CORN MEAL CHICKENS LARD HAM and other staples with varied measures such as bushel, dozen, gallon, and pound. The text resembles a wartime or market ledger fragment with many garbled words and misspellings.
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