President's House furniture funds trigger partisan clash
National congressional debate over a $6,000 appropriation to furnish the President's House exposes disputes between supporters of American-made goods and calls for retrenchment. The record includes letters from officials, inventories mentioning silverware and bedstead, and votes showing contrasts between Allen Wise and other lawmakers amid reform rhetoric.
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Alford
Allen
Mr. Wise
Mr Allen
Pable
Keim
Mr. Allen
Harrison
Our foreign relations and inflammatory rhetoric
The Journal declares the morning effort belligerent and asserts that England will not yield any territorial claim. It cites Harrison’s inaugural praising sovereign harmony as a guarantee that imposed claims won’t be accepted, labeling this language traitorous and demanding explanation from the Journal.
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England
Harrison
Gen Harrison in Virginia Fond Memories and Grog Shop Joke
A Richmond anecdote from the National Intelligencer depicts General Harrison visiting his boyhood haunts. He tours markets and his old medicine school now a grog shop and jokes about his early "pounding" of medicines. The piece teases political policies and the President's fate.
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Gen. Harrison
Richmond
Virginia
National Intelligencer
Ohio Legislature House Debates on New State House Bill
The Ohio House debated a bill to erect a New State House as the seat of government. Mr. Jenkins moved to recommit with instructions to strike after the enacting clause and provide a provisive appropriation of 1,590 for repairing the present State House. The vote failed and the session adjourned without passage.
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Yeas
Allen
Bell
Bliss
Brown
Burns
Carpenter
Clarke
Coctean
Cook
Dunham
Giddings
Griswold
Hamilton
Hawkins
Hinkie
Johnson
Cuyahoga
Kalor
Lamme
Lawrence
Marsh
Nye
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Pollock
Probasco
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Reeves
Reynolds
Scott
Crawford
Geoff
Greene
Hartson
A Selober
Smith
Adams
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Watkins
Welch
Wheeler
Washington
Young
Speaker
Nays
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Aten
Baldridge
Bartley
Brough
Dann
Hockinberry
Israel
Jenkins
Jolson
Monroe
King
Morris
McAnelly
McGugin
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Riblet
Shreve
Stark
Spindler
Warren
Wilson
Wood
Coonies
Logis
Demregard
Socrats
Feds
State House
Public sale by fi fa at Steubenville Court House
By virtue of a fi fa and directed me I will sell at public outcry at the Court House door Steubenville on Tuesday 30 inst between 10 am and 4 pm the following goods and chattels Dry Goods Queens wire Tinware Saddlery Boots and Shoes and a bay mare taken in execution sold by Isaac McDonald sheriff March 20 1841. The Bank of Steubenville March 1 1841 shows loan and discounts etc and cash assets with assorted figures. Ballard cabinet making.
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Steubenville
Isaac M'Donald
Court of Common
Ion Jefferson Cuthty
Sieubenville
Jefferson county sale notice and auction display
Public sheriff sale on March 26 in Jefferson county includes two gray mares two cows two calves ten sheep and about 16 acres of wheat from Henry H Teeple farm Wayne township along with an auction of household furniture at Steubenville on March 27. The notices also advertise goods at discounted prices after importations with stock at the Third street corner public square location in Steubenville and a house to rent.
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Court of Common Pleas
Jefferson County
Henry H. Teeple
Wayne Township
Third St
Public Square
Hans Wilson
Wm. Dougherty
Sceubenville
Petition and multiple sales in Wayne Township 1841
A notice announces a petition to Wayne Township Trustees on the first Monday of April for a township road from Elijah McGrew and Samuel Mansfield line to Joel Wood's saw mill, then via the hollow to the colored settlement and to Swearingen's mill, near Edward Mansfield. It also advertises a March 29 public sale by vendi exced from Belmont County Court of Common Pleas, offering Thomas V Carey’s interest in part of the northeast quarter of section 8, township 5, range 2, with chain of parcels and boundaries described, at the Steubenville courthouse, with additional real estate sale of David Betz in John Winters' addition to the town of Wintersville, including buildings, and all to be executed and conveyed by Isaac McDonald.
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Ik Teven
Charles Anthony
Chamber
Stepon
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van Buren
Europe
North Bend
John W. Allen
Ohio
Wise
Lincoln
Allen
Cbi’nt
W. Noland
Sbie
Toad
Wayne Township
Jefferson County
Elijah McGrew
Samuel Mansfield
Joel Wood
Swearingen
John
Edward Mansfields
Edward’s Corner
Ohio River
Jackson
Virginia
Court of Common Lleas
Belmont County
Stewbenville
Thomas V. Carey
Wits
Ae Poek
Lees
Isaac McDonald
David Betz
Wits Lot
Jobin Winters
Addivien
Wintereville
Property Auction in Jefferson County by Writ of Fi Fa
Under a writ of fi fa from the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas, on March 29 between 10 am and 4 pm, at the courthouse door, Benjamin Mairs’s interest in a 40 acre tract near Orr farm will be sold by public outcry. The lot lies along Seventh Street, Orr farm boundary, Stony Hollow, and includes buildings, with a reserved right of way for Henry Orr. Also offered at the same time and place is Thomas Hamilton’s interest in Steubenville McMurry’s addition Lot 1 and Lot 14 with buildings.
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Court of Common
Jefferson County
Court House
Benjamin Mairs
County of
Jefferson
Matthew Roberts
John Andrews
Seventh Street
Orr
Stony Hollow
W. Alexander
Wm. Alexander
William McLaughlin
Henry Orr
Isaac M'Donald
Thomas Hamilton
McMurry
Steubenville
Auction notices of Steubenville and Annapolis properties
Isaac M'Donald sheriff announces two writs of f fa from Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas for public sale on March 29. Henry H Teeple’s tract in Section 12, township 6, range 1, bounded by Fisher Gray heirs and Herford, 106 acres plus 17 acres of adjacent land in Langs District offered at Steubenville. Jacob Shultz’s Lot 72 in Annapolis town and 3 acre sand town tract also offered. Sale at courthouse door by public outcry between 10 am and 4 pm.
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Court of Common Pleas
Jefferson County
Court House
Henry H. Teeple
Steubenville
Samuel Fisher
Jeremiah.Gray
Robert Smith
Joseph Herford
Langs
Clay Lick
Cross Creek
Samuel Pisher
Joseph Hertford
K ‘Talbott
Kinsey
Balm of Life balm praised by physicians and clergy
A Victorian era circular extols the Balm of Life as a trustworthy remedy, welcomed by physicians, clergymen, and philanthropists. It notes circulars with testimonials are free and urges purchase at James Turnbull's book store for one dollar per bottle, dated February 13, 1841.
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James Turnbull
Steubenville
Angel
Itous
Dr M Lane's Sudorific Lung Syrup advertised cures
An 1830s advertisement touts Dr M Lane's Sudorific Lung Syrup for coughs chest illnesses and early consumption. It links skin and liver health to lung disease and promotes accompanying Liver Pills and Sudorific tea with Pennyroyal or Balm. Testimonials praise cures and note 25 cent half bottles.
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M’lane
T. Fludson
Uniontown
G. Ss. Holmes
Morgantown
Pr. C. Mnlane
Messrs
Holmes
Elizabeth Morris
Pittsburg
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