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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1870
Page
3
The weekly Gazette reports the Ladies of the Temple of Honor meeting plans, church events, and social gatherings. It notes Frank Holmes fined for assault, railway office opening by Mr. Searles, first baseball game of the season, and minor disturbances at Main and Secoulatresia caused by whiskey.
A jumble of names and moves shows clerks and firms planning store room changes sales and purchases. Dealers like Hyoum Keith relocate to new premises while A C Sherman's sale is announced for next Saturday and Johnson Palen prepare spring stock. Merchants Overton Levings buy Washington Exchange Bank stock as Couby Son seek NY acquisitions and farmers are urged to view Smith Tranter agricultural implements.
The page reports on a planned Mazanio Mall in Tafayella, Bank of Malem remaking a parmetite, and urges for a manufacturers association. It notes Judge Crain’s anticipated public statement, a jail engine house dispute, gifts to the Tarraante mill supervisor, and church history in Clark county. It also covers an altercation in Jeffersonville, river projects to Portland Kentucky, and candidacy of Murray Trigg for county auditor, plus market prices and local commerce items.
Real estate transfers appear in a fragmented ledger with names such as Alfred, Sue, Starlin Sie, and GOO. Amounts listed include 3,000 00, 400 00, and 140 00, with mentions of 14, 6 and 30 acre parcels in Daviess County and Spring Hall areas, plus receivers and trustees noted in the irregular record.
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