11 Feb 1870
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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1870
Page
1
A collage from a 19th century issue includes a long poem Beautiful Child by William A. Hick, dated November 1 1854, alongside scattered notices and attorney listings for W R Allison J Venbak and Waddle. The page features ad copy for the Daily Herald with rates, location at Market Street, and various legal notices.
A verbose 19th century advertisement extols various tonics and vegetable preparations claimed to cure consumption and digestive ailments. It lists products such as Seweed Tonic and Liver Empranins, notes eligibility for sale by mail from Philadelphia, and promotes herbal cures, medical testimonies, and a patent medicine network with pricing and a moralizing tone.
A cobbler clashes with a bottle imp who tempts him to drink, showing visions of ruin from whiskey. The cobbler breaks the bottle, frees himself and his family from the curse, and returns to a sober life while the household prospers.
Henry Ward Beecher urged business students to value pluck and plod as essential to success. He argued employment seekers who lack perseverance are drones and praised Packard for teaching the virtues of effort. Applause followed as he stressed a Saxon word for steady work and warned against dismissing plodders.
The New York Union reviews Ohio politics over the Fifteenth Amendment, detailing how Democrats secured the Legislature with aid from a small Republican faction in Cincinnati, and mocks the Cincinnati inquiry for backing a mongrel ticket. Also includes health and horse care tips on beauty, diet, air, exercise, and sunflower seed founder remedy.
A collage of short items from 1869 with a freed negro meeting his former master in Toledo, a Benton county farmer and his wife, a wind torn tin sign in Detroit that killed a dog, an Auburn Maine oyster supper and negro wedding, oddball anecdotes about a Indiana man who reads every President and Governor, a Center Point Iowa minister who preaches in a saloon, a Medina county skunk-killing story, Chicago divorce statistics, a note on Nine Tailors origin, a Barnesville love tale, a Detroit infection threat from a wound, and Treasury penny discipline plus a Royal visit to Wheatland and California silk and flags.
In Washington on Feb 5 1970 the House discussed a territorial bill aimed at enforcing laws in Utah. It tightens penalties for bigamy concubinage and outlaws multiple marriages, sets citizenship limits for aliens practicing polygamy, and restricts marriage to authorized officials and clergy. The measure spans 31 sections and follows broader debates on state representation and military affairs.
In Corumnes the Soldiers' Orphans' Home bill moved to Committee of the Whole amid talks of repeal penalties for votes by non citizens. Ohio House debated Bible reading limits in schools and women’s vote, while considering savings associations powers. Senate proposals touched on court bonds in Montgomery county and investing surplus bonds.
A letter to General Sheridan from Bull Bear of the Cheyennes reports that Kiowas, Comanches, and Apaches are preparing for war against whites and urged Cheyennes to join. White settlers fear imminent trouble with the Todiana as hostility looms.
New York reports a Catholic priest accused in a scandal with a missing woman Miss Louian Daber. A letter to Rev Hartley claims she is confined in a church cell and may be sent to a Milwaukee nunnery, causing religious upheaval in Philadelphia. Elsewhere Illinois towns reel as gold fever erupts near Terre Haute with a Californian miner reporting paying gold and locals abandoning other pursuits.
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