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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1849
Page
3
Advices from Havanna to the 12th inst note yellow fever. legislative items include amending the act on wills and foreign probate, extending caveat rights, and protecting purchaser titles. Proposals cover land titles, probate, and sale procedures, with dates and officials named.
The Clermont Courier reports a May sun letter from Edgar Hamilton of Laurel Ohio criticizing Van Buren’s stance at District No 2 school meeting. He notes the meeting aimed to disapprove the Superintendent and oppose a tax for educating the poor, while asserting local funds already provide free schooling.
In this town on Saturday evening last William Townsley aged about 50 years died after a lingering illness. He was the last surviving member of the Townsley family, descendants of the late Robert Townsley senior, an early local settler.
Strayed from Williamsburgh on the night of the 26th May 1849 a bright bay mare 16 hands high with black mane tail and legs, heavy tail and winded gall on hind foot. Reward for information leading to recovery. S Gravis Milhamsburg May 31 1849.
A petition will be presented to the trustees of Jackson township Clermont county Ohio on June 23 1849 to extend and locate the Five Mile County Road to intersect the Cincinnati road at the William Hunter decd farm or as near as practicable across lands of B F Smith Benjamin Johnston Moyer White and others within a triangular route from Smiths corner past Moyers and White to Hunters land toward the intersection point. May 31 1849. 41. A PETITIONER.
Summary lists solvent and discount status of numerous banks across states including Tennessee Alabama Arkansas North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Virginia Michigan Indiana Wisconsin Kentucky Mississippi Louisiana Illinois and others. It notes solvency judgments and par values for banks and securities with regional references such as Cleveland New York Lake Erie and various city banks and branches.
An 1849 ad promotes S. J. Alexander's Compound Tincture as a non secret remedy for cholera. It advises early medical aid, then uses the tincture with warm applications and a specific follow up powder if needed, noting it is for use where doctors are unavailable. T. H. Howells drugstore in Batavia supplies the medicine with full bottle directions.
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