Merchants advertise assorted goods at Kight & Co and Thrall & Mumford
An advertisement row touts silk linen and cotton parasols at Kight & Co with new prints and millinery items. Thrall & Mumford promote dyes, soap products, building materials, canned fruits, fish, and painters supplies. Agricultural items include hand plows, Coulters, and McSherry force feed. A note mentions Paren Heckman and a panther in Wayne County.
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Wayne County
Carmi Courier
Paren Heckman
Prominent Figures Draw Fire in caustic Ohio News
A lengthy survey of political jabs and society notes from a Cincinnati Star item mocks Sergeant Bates and Private Datzer. The piece riffs on Hayes, Grant, and Tilden while quipping about public trains, speeches, and humor from the New York Tribune and Boston Herald. It mentions Mesers. Dudes as local advertisers, Annis Forp and Nora Cuapwick heading to Bloomington, and E F Owen Co agricultural displays at the Fair. The column notes no paper next week due to Fair week.
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Cincinnati
Datzer
Ohio
New York Tribune
Hayes
Rhode Island
Dan Webster
van Zandt
Keys
Carl Schurz
The
Sentinel
Grand Parade of the Great European Show Delights Street View
The Grand Parade features the Golden Car of Cleopatra with the Bavarian Pioneer Band in ten thousand dollar uniforms. Elephants Camels and Dromedaries follow with lavish housings, Aurora the Goddess of Liberty tableau, a tiger den and lions with Merladia, a Plate Glass Den of Serpents showcasing Tasbee, the African bush-boy, the miniature menagerie on ponies, King Darwin and Bride, thirty two cages of wild beasts and birds, all crowned by the steam Car of the Muses with its eerie music.
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Aurora
Merladia
Riday Tasbee
Darwin
Adv
Local Business Notes and News Roundup
Mr Isaac Pricr launches a weekly butcher service with Tuesday Thursday and Saturday deliveries promising top quality meat. Fair entries surge as exhibitors prepare with one townwoman posting sixty nine entries in a single Tuesday. Delinquent subscribers urged to settle during next week’s fair. Turks and Russians trade blows with no clear victor while a major New York fire endangers many lives and a million in property. Prof J W Hrart arrives to examine pupils before the school opens on the 17th. Brickwork resumes on a new building for Ford Owen and Co. Eric Ham Young dies, leaving a large widowhood. Katz, daughter of the late N G Ngetheron, dies in Canada per Cincinnati Inquirer.
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Cynthiana Happenings and Fair Notices
Local notes report a near term fair week crowd growing at the Union Hall concert and Strangers arriving for the fair. Wheat harvest yields exceed expectations while hog and chicken cholera press on. Died August 26, Armstrong township farmer Jordon Calvert.
Marriage Licenses Issued at Croix Office
Croix's Office in Posey Cincurr Court on September 1 1877 lists licenses granted to C W Cash and L M Wingo Joseph A Copeland and Anna B Walker Joseph A Dei and Mary P Weinzaepfel Hammond Noelle and Anna Berger Simpson Mull and Mary Williams George D Aiken and Lillie B Russell George T Harris and Almeda C Phillips John E Anderson and Hannah Downen Geo W Curtis Clerk.
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Posey Cincurr Court
C. W. Cash
L. M. Wingo
Joseph A. Copeland
Anna B. Walker
Joseph A. Dei
Mary P. Weinzaepfel
Hammond Noelle
Anna Berger
Simpson Mull
Mary Williams
George D. Aiken
Lillie B. Russell
George T. Harris
Almeda C. Phillips
John E. Anderson
Hannah Downen
Geo. W. Curtis
Alonzo Leister Shoots Self on Nevada Bar Room Floor
The passage describes Alonzo Leister lying on a Yolo Nevada bar-room floor and shooting himself in the head. The text includes garbled remnants such as eevee bushel and stray words.
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Yolo
Nevada
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