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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1870
Page
3
8 M Pettingill and Co at 91 Park Row New York advertises agents for advertising. The misspelled line suggests a promotional call urging engagement with advertising at their designated location.
The Enquirer Printing Office has relocated to the north side of Main Street near Locust in Rosa County and invites patrons to visit the new office. The shop touts affordable job printing, lists improved type and specimens, and notes strong local support as subscribers and advertisers are urged to visit and bring work. The issue also mentions a sheriff election tally for Daxter Boorn, plus promotions from American Sanat School Work and October issue details.
Notice announces Dr B Waenenschwanz a physician and surgeon who practiced two years in Columbia Ohio and Portsmouth locating in Zaleski. The piece praises his professional acquirements and predicts he will make his mark in the field. It also mentions a horticultural paper printed at Palmyra New York with premiums for club organizers and a yearly price of 50 cents, soon expanding to sixteen pages for 1.00.
Friday a 14 year old, Winstam Soatens, was severely injured by a cane mill near Zaleski on the Athens road, his head crushed and jaw broken. The piece also notes aurora displays, political rancor, and a local election aftermath with references to carpetbaggers and a Democratic majority in Vinton county.
The passage laments despair hardening souls to self harm and violence. It condemns cold indifference toward a fallen woman once fair and beloved, urging empathy as a sister in God, noting how lives resemble ceaseless clockwork and life’s worth is diminished by hopelessness.
A remark denounces Grant’s nine hundred eighty three relatives holding office nationwide as the only people with more wealth than needed to pay taxes, while the Dent family and business men face widespread suffering.
Parlor and Kitchen furniture of the best workmanship and finish, of superior material, prepared to furnish a variety of wood and metal items on demand. The advertiser claims satisfaction in regard to work and prices and invites inquiries from potential buyers.
In Franklin County the Dornt ie party clash and rival Democratic papers in Columbus culminate in the defeat of the entire Democratic local ticket and shrink the state ticket majority to half. The Newark Advocate laments rival factions and calls for unity amid political strife at the State Capitol. The article shifts to health advice on bedroom ventilation, noting nightly weight loss and emission of carbonic acid and decayed matter.
The Marietta Railroad Company advances a new depot at Loveland Station. The piece also attacks Radical politics and white voters about recent conventions in New York, alleging misgovernment and urging whites to oppose the party.
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