The Encourager by J Hunt Jr. June 1849
Poem urges reform minded workers to be steadfast in progress and public virtue. It honors those who aid reform and calls on gifted individuals to live faithfully for divine reward. Banks of the Ohio, June 1849.
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Banks of the
Wm. F Tore
Batavia
Amelia
Clermont County
Ohio
J. E. Offutt
U. S. Mall
Cincinnati
Walnut Street
U.S
SLX
State Office
G. W. Lukens
Dexter & Huston
Man's Works Shall Follow Him Poem by Whittier
A Whittier poem declares that a person shapes future joy or fear and leaves enduring traces. It argues that the soul revisits the past through memory and art, and that man’s works follow him into eternity regardless of time or place.
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Whittier
Etymology and meaning of Batavia in Clermont Courier
The piece explains Batavia as a Java city, capital of the Dutch East Indies, founded 1619, later British 1811 and Dutch again 1816, and notes its nickname Queen of the East. It also traces Batavian Republic origins, Batavians as a Germanic people, and links to names in the United States, ending with a Bible letter/word count trivia.
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Batavia
Java
United States
Europe
Holland
Belgium
Netherlands
Rhine
Leyden
Waal
Meuse
Tacitus
Cesar
Vespasian
Civilis
Trajan
Adrian
Louis Bonaparte
Studium
The Kentucky Forger and Gen. Austin’s mercy in Texas
The tale centers on Martin Brown a former Kentucky legislator and convict who refused to leave Austin’s San Felipe settlement despite an order to banish him. He explains his crime and penance, and Gen. Austin cancels the exile, later aiding Brown and his family. Emma becomes a Galveston society figure. Brown dies peacefully, buried erect in a chanter’s robe with rifle, after a life marked by law vs. government corruption.
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Kentucky
Martin Brown
Texas
Austin
San Felipe
Brown
William S. Austin
Green Heart Grove
Gen. Austin
Emma
S—e
Martin
Senate
Galveston
Chanter
Ten Years of Ardent Spirits Causes in U S History
A compilation of dire claims about alcohols impact in the United States listing costs in money lives and social ruin. It asserts direct and indirect expenses, deaths, widows and orphans, and prison figures, then shifts to a series of rhetorical questions about notable figures labeled as “nobody but a printer.” It ends with anecdotes on marriage age, time, a Montrose Mormon sermon tragedy, and Austrian soldiers paid pittance.
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U. States
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the Courier
BY J. Hunt, JR
Milton
Raphael
Clermont Courier
F. Mathew
Alexandria
London
Great Britain
Venice
Mount Ida
Christ
England
France
Louis XIV
Memnon
Asia
Africa
Germany
New York City
Aristotle
America
Benj. Franklin
William Caxton
Literature
Earl Stanhope
Samuel Woodworth
Benjamin Franklin
Statesman
Governor Armstrong
Massachusetts
George P. Morris
James Harper
Horace Greely
N. P. Willis
Robert Sears
Cameron, Dix
Niles
Lynn Pioneer
Johnson
The
Medico-Chirurgical Review
Indus
Montrose
Milford High School
Stevens
Masonic Hall
Milford
Eastern College
New England
Thomas Area L. V
Spring Valley Factory
Xenia
Little Miami Rail Road
Spring Valley
GEO. Barrett & Son
P. R. Gest
D. B. McCdonnough
Western Military Institute
Georgetown, KY
Board OF Visitors
Cox
T. F. Jounson
Cot. E. W. Morean
Lieut
B. R. Jounson
Mas
W. A. Forses
Richard N. Newell
A. M
West Point Academy
Daviess
Milford Mills
MO. Kugler
J. A. Weaver
Main St
Court House
Hi. P. Collins
Medicine
James Evans
Jonathan D. Rireney
William H. Robinson
Adm
William H. Lakin
John Lakin
Hezekiah Barnum
Dee’d
Isaac Barnum
Cincinnati and
West Union Stage Line
Joshua B. Davis & CO
West Union
Newtown
Williamsburg
Bethel
Georgetown
Stace
Inincinnati
Dennison House
Adkins
Alexander’s
Kain
Perine’s
Dowdney’s
Incinnati
Alna
Main Street
John Grant
New Drug and Book Store
Tullin Street
Duckwall’s
rAlso
Dustin, Jenness & CO
Gero
Everhart
John I. Peterson
Williamsburgh
Columbus Insurance Company
Celliam Howard
Columbus Mutual Insurance Company
Batavia and Vicinity
J. A. Eee
D. M. Frazer
Ohio Pike
S. J. Alexander
Paysictan & Saregon
J. Milner
Mason's Lodge
Goshen
Drug & Book Store
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