Leasehold plea to continue patronage at Furniture Stand
Having a long lease of the old Furniture Stand which I have occupied for nearly five years I intend to remain permanently and solicit a continuance of your patronage.
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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1878
Page
1
The Flour Broker and the Wealthy Elder
Old Hiram Gromley, a wealthy elder with a strict pride and a loving yet distant daughter, sits with his portrait as a mysterious green-clad trader enters to propose a flour deal. The visitor speaks in riddles, hinting at a partnership and a life changing opportunity that promises profit to the shrewd, if he agrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Gromley
Hiram
Grimes
Clover
Tirom Gormley
Asven
Thram Gormley
Tam
Old Siram
Hiram Gormley
Brea
Tahal
Old Hiram
Old Airam
Itiram Gormaley
Ife
Sherman on Contraction and the 1868 Crisis
The text recounts Sherman’s 1868 congressional warning on contraction and resumption. It argues the policy would devastate debtors and enterprises, cause wage declines, bank contractions, and widespread bankruptcy, with gold hoarding constraining coinage and worsening property values.
Soul Mortgage Dreams and Dark Visitor Change Hiram Gormley
A tale recounts Hiram Gormley yielding to a devilish figure in black who claims his soul for past wrongs. The exchange ends with a mortgaged soul iterated through parchment boxes, a dramatic collapse, and a miraculous personal transformation as he repents and reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram Gormley
Hiram
Gormley
Old Hiram
Potter
Eylar backs reorganization bill at Ohio soldiers orphans home
The People's Defender article defends Representative J. W. Eylar from Adame county for voting for the Orphans Home reorganization bill. It claims the home was mismanaged under prior Republican control, detailing expenses and abuses. Eylar, editor of the Defender, supported the reform to create a proper Soldiers Orphans Home under a Dutch soldier manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durbin Ward
Eylar Atand
Eylar
Xenis
O'Connor
Ohio
Green County
Jim Owens
William Allen
Bill Allen
Ite
Kylar
Dutcn
Shaw
Dalzella
Thorpa
People’s Defender
The
Defender
House of Representatives
Adame County
Trade Dollar Legislation and Bank Attitudes Spark Debate
Banks and some individuals are discrediting the trade dollar by refusing deposits or offering low exchange rates. The piece notes the 1873 act designating the trade dollar at 420 grains of standard silver and traces legal tender status through the 1887 act, with earlier acts defining dollar weights and standard silver content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biand
Trade dollars legal tender under old acts argued
The text contends that trade dollars remain legal tender for sums five dollars or less under the act of February 12, 1873, and that tendering mixed gold or standard silver dollars with trade dollars is legally acceptable. It asserts Congress did not intend to discriminate against heavier dollars and notes the legality of such mixed tender in a target sum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Congress
Smmroft
Wages Fall Across New York Construction Trades
An investigation shows widespread wage declines in New York. Carpenters now earn 1.50 to 2 dollars daily, bricklayers 4 to 5 down to lower figures, plasterers about 2.50, stope cutters 3 down from 5, plumbers 2 to 2.50, artisan and unskilled labor hit hard. Elevated rail construction workers average 1.25, Cornell Co. monsiders 1.10 to 1.20, with many discharged. More reductions likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cornell & Co
Republican malfeasance tally dominates postwar finance
A dated railing cites alleged Republican embezzlements across states since the Civil War, listing Ohio Illinois Pennsylvania and New York treasurers with amounts from thousands to hundreds of thousands. The piece claims broader bank and trust company fraud by Republicans while declaring Democratic malversation negligible in comparison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Revyenue Department
T. A. Wick
Stark County
Ohio
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Warren County
Laws
Buffalo
N. Y
Saratoga County
J. R. Helman
Wayne County
Wilkesbarre
Neal
Detroit
Jersey City
Green Bay
Wimneases
Negley
Lucas County
Scioto County
Tramboli County
Guernsey County
Insurance and Trust Companies
Odds Fellows in Ohio Report for Year Ending 1878
Readers learn from the Indiana annual report of the Grand Lodges of Ohio the year's relief work. During the year ending January 1, 1878, 49 percent of brothers were relieved, $11,642.93 paid for widows and orphans, $13,852.84 for burying the dead, and a total relief outlay of $13,573.29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inot
Grand Lodges of
Ohio
Folklore of Poolscap Paper Name Origin
A tale explains Poolscap paper name from Cromwell era. After Oliver Cromwell’s rule a cap of Liberty was stamped on government paper. Later Charles II rejected the stamp when shown on Cromwellian sheets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Cromwell
Protestor
England
Charles the Second
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