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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1885
Page
4
The Coshocton Age announces delivery terms and pricing for one year or six months with in county precampaign payment. Address changes require prior post office details. Obituary notices up to ten lines are free. longer items incur charges per line.
The correspondent critiques Ferdinand Ward and allied officials noting five million missing funds and suspected ties to Mayor Grace and the Marine Bank. It laments justice delays, surveys New York and Brooklyn crime, praises Cardinal McCloskey, and reports Ellen Peck’s conviction. It also touches on excise licenses, city crime, and various brief notices from across the country.
The census reports about 150 of 350 towns losing population in Massachusetts with gains in manufacturing centers and losses in agricultural districts. Nantucket fell from 8,064 in 1855 to 3,143 in 1885.
A discussion of new air mail service proposals and their expected impact on cost and speed, followed by assorted local news notes including a bank staff event, a portrait discovery, a soldier’s photo, smallpox anecdotes, a horse incident, and snippets on postal reforms, taxes, politics, and temperance debates. The item also covers political shifts in New York and Iowa party dynamics.
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