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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1870
Page
3
An uneven local page lists drug ads for Pure Pure Drugs and Medicines and Tant’s Vegetable Hair Renewer while promoting campaign materials and club formation. It notes a Rev J T Franklin lecture, railroad car contracts with Baltimore & Ohio for M and C R R, and calls for voter outreach and subscription offers for the Exquirer.
The issue mentions Wayne's Elixir as a popular remedy from the Original Cab Stove firm and notes preparations for the Primary Meet selection of delegates to be held next Saturday between 2 and 5 pm at local election sites. It also advertises a six week Democratic campaign pamphlet offer at a reduced price.
An 1817 marriage notice for Jon Dinn and Man Danny A Stevans appears, along with 1847 nuptials of Robert Haylie and Nancy Ervin. Local papers, including Chillicothe Ga settee and Vinton Record, see retirements and brickbats, with Tony left in charge of the county’s only paper.
Ohio officials Judge Thurman Auditor of State and the Attorney General declare the County Auditor law passed last winter is unconstitutional, delaying an election in Vinton County until October. The rest of the page covers local church notes, a political realignment in Adams County, a critique of party leadership, and an advertisement for Moorad’s German Bitters and related health products.
The Scioto Gazette denounces black voters in Chillicothe for backing Democrats in the Saturday election. It laments the shift from Radical support and accuses negroes of betraying liberty and citizenship after seventy years of advocating suffrage. The piece mocks the Negro leader's delisting from a convention delegation and ends with a bitter caricature.
The document describes a sheriff sale in Vinton County Ohio under a common pleas court order. Dennis Wilson and wife are named, with sale of property described as the dower estate of Ann Turner. The sale occurs at public auction at the courthouse steps, cash terms, with the defendant listed as Deanta Winner and attorneys noted.
Public notice for a sale of real estate by order of the Court of Common Pleas of Vinton County Ohio. Auction set at 1 o'clock PM at the Town of McArthur to satisfy a judgment in the case of Alon vs Mettintiek with William Eugene co-defendant names listed. Property valued at nine hundred dollars with sale directed by court terms in Ohio.
A fragmented notice refers to a road matter in Vinton County with mention of petitioners and a hearing date around 1670. The unreadable OCR yields scattered names and places including Boston and Withermite town, indicating a public road action. Further readable bits confirm a petition seeking relief or action and a likely county review.
A miscellany notes brick tea as a pressed drink from plant bricks, reports on peach crop prices, Utah Mormons turning to kid glove making near Salt Lake, a Boston firm mourns Dickens, farmers near Evansville help a sick neighbor on Sunday, Russian telegraphs increasingly run by women, a sensational tale of a drunken hen guarding porcelain knobs, London Paris Berlin Vienna mortality rates, chloroform production in Edinburgh, a depot theft in Town City with a masked gunman, and New York shipyards decline under tariff-driven competition.
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