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Newspaper
The Republican Press
Location
Danville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1822
Page
1
The paper costs two dollars per year payable in advance every six months. Mail subscribers pay all expenses. No subscriber for less than six months or paper will be discontinued until arrearages are paid. Advertisements run three times at one dollar per square, twenty five cents for each additional insertion. Cash must accompany all ads.
Ash will be paid for hops at market price by Philip Goodman. Oct 3, 1821. For sale cheap a complete set of surveying instruments. Any person wishing to purchase can apply to the subscriber living at Washington.
Historical advertising copy touts Dr John G Voughts Anti-Dysenteric Medicine a vegetable preparation for dysentery diarrhea cholera morbus and summer complaint with customer testimonials from military hospital officers contractors and residents in 1821 New York and Pennsylvania praising its quick bowel relief and recommending its use for travelers families and distant settlers.
On Tuesday January 1 1822 the Senate met in the State Capitol. Mr Grosh offered a resolution to appoint a committee to consider a law for inspecting lumber brought down the Susquehanna River landed and sold in Lancaster Dauphin and York counties. The measure was laid on the table.
The Senate considered petitions on militia support, bank charters, and a loan office, with actions to amend militia penalties, establish justices courts, and report on small claims court limits. Committees were tasked to map turnpike and inland navigation projects and to study court attachment and writ procedures.
A fragmentary record shows motions before Judge Baird on behalf of George Donchey estate. authorities to operate a public ferry near Williamsport. a State road from Pounsborough to Danville via Washington. an alteration to the improvement act for funding a Pine Creek bridge. and payments to Nathaniel Coulter, plus interest on land surveying debts. Additional items include a Justices Court bill, Capitol furnishing supplement, widow of John Ewing mortgage authority, and a bank accounts inquiry for several Philadelphia banks with a call to report capital, notes, deposits, and debts.
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