A Traveler Revisits Hocking County and Cincinnati
A narrator travels from home across Hocking Bridge to Cincinnati then returns, noting landscape shifts from rich Clinton and Clermont lands to rough hills near Zaleski. He admires Loveland and the Little Miami line, contrasts European and American rail travel, visits Auburn Avondale Clifton and Pendleton’s estate, and ends recounting the journey back to the schoolhouse on the Hocking Bridge.
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Schoolhouse Hill
Hocking Valley
Hocking Bridge
Vinton
Zaleski
Mother Earth
Londonderry
Ross
Chilicothe
Athens
Clinton
Clermont
Loveland
Little Miami
Loveland Station
Marietta
Miami
Europe
Berlin
Leipzig
Munich
City
Ohio
Cincinnati
Nereides
Neptunes
The Old Subscriber Letter From Paris to General Grant
A weary subscriber recalls his misadventures since quitting his paper. He details fines for game and fishery laws, Sunday hunting losses, debt, and selling livestock and crops to stay afloat. He notes debt, taxes, and bets on political names, concluding with a Paris letter about Grant’s invitations and a Sabbath remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
General Grant
Pres. MacMahon
MacMahon
Grant
America
Channel catfish chase ends with dramatic rescue
A Burlington Hawkeye tale describes Isaac C. Heron of Agency Avenue fighting to free himself after a hand line dragged him from a boat. The powerful line pulled him toward the Iowa shore, raftmen arrived to help, and the fish was slain with a boat hook. The catch weighed a pound and a half and measured nearly five inches. Heron sustained bruises but was not seriously hurt. a humorous postscript follows about a family scene and a coachman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Mr. Heron
Heron
Iowa
Butler in Court Plea Sparks Local Paper Clash
General Butler in one early case orders notice to be given in the Lowell Advertiser a local paper detested by his opponents. The clerk expresses disbelief replying I don’t know such a paper as Butler admonishes to avoid telling the court what you don’t know.
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Butler
Lowell Advertiser
Clerk
The Tribune Adverts Elevate Its National Role and Offers
The Tribune pledges peak reach in 1578 by guiding public thought and Morality while endorsing President Hayes. It promotes the Semi Weekly and Weekly Tribune editions with enlarged formats, new premiums, and a Webster’s Dictionary gift, detailing subscription prices and club offers for 1878.
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the Tribune
Lowey
Tribune
Hayes
National Treasury
Tammany Hall
New-York
Indiana
Connecticut
New Jersey
Party of Freedom
Isso
Eer
Weekly Tribune
Pope Son
Can
Great West
Harper’s Weekly
ISA
Bayard Taylor
Arsen Lope
John Hall
Gail Hamilton
Solon Robinson
Life and Lights
L. B. Arnold
G. C. Caldwell
C. V. Riley
Josiah Hoopers
New York
Harper’s
Tspa
United States
Daily Tribune
P. O
Greele
Mr. Greeley
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Auburn
Avondale
Clifton
Cumminsville
Springgrove Cemetery
Kansas
Pendleton
Belknap
Beecher
Babcock
Blaine
Burlington Hawkeye
Peter
Detroit Free Press
New York Sun
Ben Butler
THE
New-York Tribune
F. P. Graham
New Lexington
A. L. Roach & Son
Main Street
C. C. Farquhar
Zanesville
Warren House
Farquhar
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Railroads
Pittsburg
Cincinnati and St. Louis
Elle
Tors
Orea
Islen Izerg
Reaeris Ise
Hse
Igna Iing
Zafsb
BSG
Peeler
Langgages
Bovey
Seeea
Tritici
Musi Goin
Lancaster
Janetion City
Dresden
Goin
Circleville
New Holland
Washington
Wilmington
Morrow
Loveland Cincinnat
UM Valley Diy
Ast
Wai
BANKS
H. Moore
T H, Sheldon
James Ballard
First National Bank
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State Bank of Ohio
Jacob Grones
South Court Street
Jacob Gronba
Joe Printing
Messenuse
Eclectic Magazine
EcLectric
Right
E. Gladstone
James Anthony Froude
Matthew Arnold
Charles Kingsley
Francis Power Cobbe
Leslie Stephen
Arthur Aelps
Alfred Tennyson
Thomas Hages
William Black
Mrs. Oliphant
Thesears Turgenieff
William Dorris
Miss Thackeray
Science
Profs
EcLecric
Ecle Cric
Highland Pets
Landseer
E. R. Pelton
Bond Street
Jos
A. Brigel & CO
Third St
Cinati
O. Brery
Parvin
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