14 Dec 1877
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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1877
Page
1
Swart announces hardware and medical offices in Ashban County with trains update from May 15. The public notice lists local businesses and professionals including physicians and lawyers serving Ashtabule county.
Fragment describes railway timetable details between Cleveland and Buffalo, then shifts to Rev D. Le Hickok letters praising northern benevolence and African American education at a Talladega institution, outlining student progress, church life, and regional social dynamics. Mentions sewing machine works and industrial methods in Elizabethport and Glasgow with workforce and export notes.
The article recalls Confederate suffering for medicines during the siege era, noting scarce quinine, morphia, and chloroform, efforts to cultivate opium, and use of substitutes. It describes hospital shortages, improvised remedies, and public morale, including civilian acts of aid and local anecdotes of hardship.
A fragmented Rochester Despatch item recounts rumors about Mary Clemmer and the Widow Oliver. It mentions proposals and a senator scene with a clerkship, noting Clemmer supposedly shared the whole story, eliciting audience reaction.
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