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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1850
Page
1
The Athens Messenger outlines subscription prices and advertising terms. It details annual discounts, insertion charges, and rules for discontinuances, spanning court street offices and weekly publication. It specifies rates for political candidate notices and advance payment requirements.
Poem reflects on aging and death across seasons urging thoughts of mortality. Refrains urge think of death as age will come, while promising immortality in Heaven. Portrays flowers streams birds and seasons fading to emphasize life's finitude.
In a colorful sketch from the Knickerbocker, Aunt Piety Parsons is introduced amid a Far West scene. The narrator describes her ragged, wind-swept attire and misbehaving children, who mock and torment seven piglets without remorse. The moment showcases her notoriety and quirks through vivid, humorous detail.
A vivid portrait of Aunt Piety Parsons, a rough, shrewd woman in a log cabin, her Quaker spouse Barzillai, and their humble country existence. The narrative contrasts her hospitality, cleanliness, and beliefs with sharp humor while linking her to local society and a broader account of presidents’ deaths and public notices.
A political oration warns that sectional division would bring desolation and bloodshed, invoking the United States imperial frame between oceans, rivers as borders, and the fate of Europe. It laments unity as necessary to avoid Continental wars and preserves calls for constitutional harmony among states. The piece also shares a civic-moral note on independent thinking and writing, plus a humorous note on Senator Sam Houston's oversized white fur hat observed in Washington.
A partisan piece criticizes Locofoco favors in the Galphin claim, lists alleged plunderers, and denounces the New Mexico delegate fight. It cites names, sums stolen, and accuses Free State betrayal, while defending Taylor era positions and implying current Whig alignment with Fillmore.
The 1850 act requires every Ohio bank to annually report capital stock and surplus minus real estate taxes and, after auditing the tax rate on money at interest, to pay a tax to the state treasury. Banks with charters prescribing tax in another way may opt in by a stockholders vote, and penalties apply for failure to file. The act also details branch circulation rules and provisions for dissolved corporations to sue or be sued in their corporate name.
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