28 Jun 1836
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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1836
Page
1
Terms set at two dollars per year payable half yearly two dollars and fifty cents after year end. No paper discontinued until arrears are paid unless editors opt. Ads three times one dollar per square and twenty five cents each additional insertion. Liberal yearly advertising discounts. Most country produce accepted with payment.
A verse recounts a volunteer hero marching with sack and rifle into danger. He proclaims I’ll go ahead as echo answers. He pushes through forests toward Texas, meeting the foe and firing as war drums sound, the chorus urging go ahead. The tale celebrates courage amid deadly combat.
A traveler stops at a Western tavern run by Billy Lemon and encounters Quash the driver and a talking horse Belzebub. Strange happenings spook the landlord with ghostly whispers and a Bible by the bed, while Kenworthy’s entertaing ventriloquism ties the tale to a Columbia steamboat incident.
A river boat master asks Captain Solo what he is doing as he secures his craft for the night. The narrator says he is driving a nail in the boat’s edge to gauge whether the river will rise by morning.
The letter from Sherrod Williams prints General Harrison's reply to five questions on surplus revenue, public lands, internal improvements, a national bank, and the veto, outlining support for returning surplus to the people, distributing land proceeds, mixed views on internal improvements, cautious openness to a national bank, and limits on expunging prior journals.
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