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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1885
Page
4
The Coshocton Age announces weekly publication on Saturdays and informs subscribers not in-county must prepay. It requests readers to provide their current post office and desired new address for mail delivery changes.
The report notes Spain is free from cholera while disputes over Hocking Valley wages go to arbitration and miners resume work. A Rep Rap club forms in Springfield as Newark follows suit. Oregon elects Ilon John Ti. Mitchell to the Senate, completing a Republican majority. A young Chambersburg editor plans a death themed paper, and Calcutta cyclone tolls rise with 150 villages submerged and 9,009 drowned.
The judge condemns a defendant's use of a pistol and imposes a 400 dollar fine plus costs. The piece shifts to political corruption, exposing a proposed $2500 salary payoff to a Muskingum County representative to resign and trigger a special election. It ends with a discussion on possible natural gas beneath Coshocton and a plan to probe gas prospects led by Mr. Forbes with town council support and a 3000 dollar test investment.
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent notes Ohio is poised for a gas boom with towns like Columbus Spangfeld Dayton and Cleveland forming gas firms. Findlay leads with widespread use of gas for lighting and heating and plans to pipe streets and power mills and households.
A long list of deeds shows Noah W Buxton and Cordelia Fitegerald selling parcels in New Castle to Adam Bodine and Adam Bodine respectively, plus multiple other land trades, quit claims, and admin transfers across Monroe Linton Adams and White Eyes townships with prices ranging from 1 to 3 thousand dollars. The page also includes local notes from Virginia and Linton about railroads, voter quips, birthday coincidences, a musk chase bee, and an Indian pipe discovery in a North Bend field.
Mr E Springer of Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania reports severe lung fever and lung abscess left him a walking skeleton. He details a free trial bottle of Dr King s New Discovery for consumption leading to recovery and a 43 pound weight gain after three bottles. He urges visiting J F Compton Drug Store for a free trial bottle.
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