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Newspaper
Democratic Enquirer
Location
Mcarthur, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1870
Page
3
The paper notes rising subscriptions with new names being added. Notices cover local business ads from Down's Clothing Store and Pure Drugs and Medicines, plus civic items about county commissioners, temperance, road work, and upcoming meetings in Ross county. Also mentions rail transport to the Jackson County Fair and half fare tickets on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad.
Word from Springfield Ohio reports the State Fair offers a one full fare round trip from any point on the Marietta and Cincinnati line to Columbus and back, with freight-free shipment for freight returning to origin. From Columbus to Springfield similar terms apply. The fair runs September 12 to 16 and promises large premiums and a wide variety of products, aiming for record attendance.
The Vinton County Lodge 1.0.4 reports a county lodge meeting with Parrott and other officers present. A new lodge was reorganized, seven names added, and preparations noted for a county temperance nomination at the Court House on Sept 17. Readers are urged to attend and join temperance movements.
Since 1862 the Radical party has shifted from land for the landless to a gang of speculators and railroad companies. They claim 135 million acres of public domain, more than twelve northern states. The theft enriched many Congressmen. the Ohio Radical State Convention condemned subsidies to corporations and monopolies.
Readers urged to support Ralph Leete for Congress, accusing rivals of selling lands to sharpers and backing taxes for tariff interests. The notice emphasizes Leete as the preferable choice on the ticket.
An advertisement extols Betters Great Western Bitters as a universal remedy for diarrhea loss of appetite fever and ague cholera morbus colic dyspepsia and nervous headaches. It touts travel use counteracting water changes and urges households and hotel bars to keep it on hand with directions to take three glasses daily before meals.
The item surveys currency shifts with gold prices and stock-like figures, cites tax payers in Boston, county coroner races in Champaign Ohio, census ages in Fulton, tariff politics and Radicals, church values in Cincinnati, Marietta camp meetings from 1805 to 1808, and a large railway bridge over the Dnieper near Kiev, detailing its length and arches.
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