Lebanon Pioneer Ad Rates and Publication Terms
The Lebanon Pioneer announces a weekly Friday issue edited by T.2 Harrison. Subscription is 1.50 per year if prepaid, 2.00 otherwise. Advertising rates are listed with strict adherence to terms.
04 Jun 1875
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Newspaper
Lebanon Weekly Pioneer
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1875
Page
1
The Lebanon Pioneer announces a weekly Friday issue edited by T.2 Harrison. Subscription is 1.50 per year if prepaid, 2.00 otherwise. Advertising rates are listed with strict adherence to terms.
The New York Graphic advocates flogging to curb thieves on Third Avenue cars while Osceola Pennsylvania is wiped out by fire leaving residents destitute. Relief is pledged as debates on reform and trials, missions, and grasshopper pleas fill nationwide reports.
The year saw 2,147 vessels produced in the United States, including 404 steamers. Total gross tonnage reached 432,735 in round figures.
TheCapital reports an Indian insurrection at Washington with Spotted Tail and Red Cloud leaving Tremont House and then returning, plus war-footnotes of Sioux City attacks, fires from Nebraska to Massachusetts, church tragedies, and disasters in Tennessee and Pennsylvania with deaths, robberies, and political notes.
A Western city tale follows a penitent mother’s scene as a grieving girl seeks a repaired gold ring. A German jeweler pretends to have it ready but moves shop, until the mother’s plea reveals the ring and a change of heart. The tale ends with the line that those who rock the cradle govern the world.
Vice President Wilson with Gen James A Ekin toured Gen Zachary Taylor’s grave near Louisville and lamented its neglect. He noted the crumbling vault and ivy covered grounds while praising a likely Kentucky Legislature plan to erect a monument to Taylor in the next session.
A historical recipe advises steeping tea sage balm and wood sorrel in a stone jug with washed hay dried herbs. Add thin lemon peel, pour three pints of boiling water, sweeten, and cover tightly to serve.
The piece derides a proposed meeting of leading Republicans seeking a written renunciation of a third term by Boss Grant. It notes Fish as a possible GOP nominee, criticizes the Interior Department’s corruption linked to Delano, and mocks party unity as self-serving. It cites Kentucky journalism consternation and reflects on helmet hats for plains troops and Spotted Tail’s Washington visit.
The speaker contrasts Pomeroy's claim that Democrats trimmed expenses during the 1857 crisis with current Republican action. He argues Congress funds grand projects in Washington and coastal defenses, increases navy readiness, and shows no retrenchment, while the public faces hardship and starvation.
The Vice-President toured Kentucky Tennessee and Arkansas and visited the dying Breckinridge. In St Louis he praised Southern kindness saying peace order and confidence prevail in the South. The piece argues Radical Republicans push sectional resentments while urging national unity and that Henry Wilson and other Southern leaders will expose calumnies. The author foresees a political shift away from the current party line.
The Cincinnati Commercial laments that American exports rise in staples like food cotton and oil but manufacturing falters. It blames protective tariffs piled up over fifteen years for destroying foreign and domestic markets and driving up costs for producers.
Coronel James Bobcie recalls a tale set forty to fifty years ago. A stagecoach travels Arkansas with three women on the back seat and two men on the middle. a small blanket covered man on the front seat confronts a ruffian who insists on smoking. The little man draws a bowie knife and threatens to kill if the cigar remains. The ruffian yields and drops the cigar.
An Indianapolis correspondent reports that the serious accusations against Thomas McIntire, longtime Superintendent of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, are the talk of the circles and divided opinions form around his guilt or innocence. Some call for suspension of judgment until court proceedings, others defend his known integrity.
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