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1937 - H July 14:3/1 - We understand that Mr. Lyon of Strongsville, in this county, committed suicide this morning by cutting his throat. He was some 45 years of age. (verbatim) (1)
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Abstracts 1938 - 1940
SUICIDES (Cont'd) 1938 - H July 23:3/2 - Mrs. John Flint of Brighton, Cuyahoga county, committed suicide yesterday by cutting her throat in a fit of despon- dency. She had made previous attempts at death. The woman was 50 years old.
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1939 - H Sept. 20:3/1 - Mr. Peter Barnard landed here yesterday from Wis- consin and put up at Mr. Cook's Temperance House. He had been drinking on the boat, and while laboring under the horrible effects of delirium tremens last night, he attempted his own life by hanging himself to a bed post with a pocket handkerchief. His struggles aroused a son of Mr. Cook, who cut him down before the vital spark was extinct. Mr. B. belongs in Plattsburgh, N. Y. (verbatim) (2)
SUPERSTITION
1940 - H July 12; ed: 3/3 - The singular superstition that the applica- tion of a dead man's hand to any afflicted parts of the human body will cure disease, was noticed particularly at a late execution in Warwick, England. In an account of the last hours of a man who was hung for kill- ing a fellow being, it is stated that an unusual number of females were present, and that scarcely had the soul of the deceased taken its flight from the earthly tabernacle, when the scaffold was crowded by numbers of women who were afflicted with wens, tumors, whiteswellings, etc., upon all of which afflictions the cold clammy hand of the deceased was passed to and fro. This was much to the benefit of the executioner, who re- ceived from each person a fee of application!
"'Faith,' it has long been said 'will remove mountains, ' and these poor women must have possessed an abundance of the strengthening prin- ciple." (2)
SURGERY. See Medicine & Surgery
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1941 - 1944
TARIFF
1941 - H July 8; ed:3/1 - Walker, secretary of the treasury, has written a letter to the MISSISSIPPIAN, which is copied into the WASHINGTON UNION, in which he mentions that the labors of his office are very arduous, and that at present his chief occupation is with the details of the tariff which must be reduced to the revenue standard.
"An effort will no doubt be made at the next session of Congress to reduce the Tariff but we incline to the opinion that it will be easier to talk about it than to effect it." (5)
1942 - H July 22:3/2 - In a letter to the editor, "A Woman" says: The policy of protecting American interests by imposing higher tariffs tban needed for the bare support of the government, I know is a vexing question, and one in which women are supposed to have little interest. Yet, there are many of us who have no busbands or fathers, and must therefore labor for ourselves. To this class the question is of intense importance.
"If unchecked foreign competition is allowed, the prices of their labor will of necessity become so reduced that instead of comfort we may reasonably look for squalid poverty, and even beggary ....
"I know it is urged that the starving poor in other lands are fed by the sacrifice of our manufacturing interests. Let me ask how long they would be benefited ?... I admit a present benefit to a part, but I can- not conceive that it would effect a general good, even to Great Britain herself, while our own poor would be degraded and suffering." (12)
1943 - H Sept. 2; ed: 3/2 . The Loco papers continue their war on the tariff. Much sympathy is expressed for the farmers because they can send no bread stuffs to England, not because England will not buy, but because our high tariff will not permit the importation of goods here in payment for our agricultural produce.
See how a few figures exhibit the fallacy of the above assertion: Our exports to England for the year ending June 30, 1844, were valued at $3,156,891. Imports from that country during the same period were $41,476, 081.
"Compare the willingness of England to take the products of American agriculture, save cotton, tobacco and rice, with our unwillingness to pur- chase British manufactures!"
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1944 - H Sept. 3; ed: 3/2 - A Washington correspondent of the EVENING POST states that the secretary of the treasury is bending all efforts to gather statistics which will prove the fallacy of the present tariff and bring about the "excellent democratic regulation" known as sub-treasury. The correspondent refers to the tariff as "this execrable relic of Whiggery."
"This will doubtless be highly gratifying intelligence to the manufac- turing population of democratic Pennsylvania, and the wool growers of New York and the East. The whole country is confessedly prosperous beyond precedent, under the existing Tariff. Polk was elected under an implied and almost explicit promise in certain sections to let it alone; and now we are told it is doomed!"
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1945 - 1947
TARIFF (Cont'd) 1945 - H Sept. 5; ed:2/2 - A Washington correspondent of the New York HERALD reports a conversation with a southern farmer in which the latter praises manufacturing to the skies and declares, in one place: "And I tell you, if you fellers at Washington go for to tear down the Tariff, we'll be down on you like a thousand of brick, as the Yankees say." This is a practical aspect of the pro-tariff sentiment.
"Wherever manufactures have been established at the South, by enter- prising men, the same results have followed - the farmers find they 'ollers have money, ' and this practical argument in favor of the Tariff is worth a thousand diquisitions which very few can understand." (12)
H Sept. 18; ed:3/1 - See Politics & Government - United States H Oct. 8; ed:3/2 - See Politics & Government - United States
1946 - H Oct. 9; ed:2/1,2 - The Nashville UNION moans over the present protective tariff and states there is no enhancement of labor or wages here, as promised by the advocates of protection.
"We do not believe this statement correct, and facts, as they have been gathered throughout the free North, will not support the anti-tariff 'UNION' in the position it has assumed. We take it for granted that every additional manufacturing establishment put in operation in our country, gives additional employment to an increased number of men and women ....
"There can be nothing more true, than that those laws which put addi - tional labor in motion, cause a direct creation of wealth. Labor, under the beneficial effects of the 'present tariff,' is everywhere in the free States (where it is paid) accumulating capital."
Again, the UNION laments over the long working hours of northern labor, forgetting that in the South labor is not paid at all, and made to serve year after year with no reward.
"Who are they that demand the repeal of the present tariff? Who are they that cry out so loudly for the destruction of the protective system. . .. They are the slave owners of the South; they are men who, in the language of a Southern writer, hold that Labor is a curse, and notwith- standing all the petty sentimentality of the Everetts, the Childs, and the Longfellows, is everywhere considered so !... They are men who live in luxury and wealth, upon the proceeds of their unpaid slave labor.
"But we shall never cease to advocate the protective system, and uphold the domestic industry of our country, in preference to the visionary free trade system of the slaveholders of the South and the unprincipled dema - gogues of the North." (23)
1947 - H Oct. 11; ed:2/1,2 - The advocates of free trade and slave labor in the south, especially that Polk journal, the Nashville UNION, have for a long time been in the habit of speaking in a contemptuous and truthless manner of the free laborers of the north, and they have expressed great sympathy for the "poor creatures" who labor in the cotton and woolen mills of New England. Many of them loudly maintain that the southern slave is
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Abstracts 1948 - 1949
TARIFF (Cont'd)
better off all around than the laborer in a northern manufactory. The Vicksburg SENTINEL goes so far as to say the Negroes of the south could not be driven to do what these "poor creatures" (the laborers in the facto- ries) are compelled to submit to, to procure subsistence.
"Go to the ten thousand happy homes, which are the fruits of the wages of labor, and ask the inmates what they think of the comparison of the SENTINEL. between them, and the slaves .... We can say to the labor haters of the South, that all their attacks upon the 'factory girls' and factory laborers, will only recoil upon their own heads, and tend to wake up the North to the defence of her interests; for the people of the North are beginning 'to know what they do,' and what they have to deal with.
"We can tell the Slaveocracy of the South, that all their free-trade theories, and hatred of free labor, and envy of the prosperity of the North, will not aid them in perpetuating their Utopian schemes, or in sustaining their 'peculiar institutions.' The only truly happy man is the laboring man. Freedom and industry are as necessary to human happi - ness as agitation is to the purity of water or air.
"We cannot believe that the North will yield up 'American Industry, ' and home protection, in order to profit the slave-labor of the chivalrous South," (27)
H Oct. 31; ed:3/1 - See Political Parties
1948 - H Nov. 17; ed:2/1 - "It is stated that the present price of plate glass is ten per cent more than it was before the removal of the high duty."
We cut the above from a list of items by the last British steamer at Boston. It is true as to all fabrics in all countries where home industry is protected. We assert unhesitatingly that no article originally of foreign production has long been protected by tariffs the price of which has not been materially reduced.
Domestic competition in all articles that we can raise or manufacture soon brings down the price, not only of the foreign, but of the home product. Profits may for a little time be high but cannot long remain so. Who pays as much now for paper, nails, boots, shoes, hats, cotton cloths, and calicoes, as before duties almost prohibitory were imposed?
"The text furnishes a subject upon which a long sermon might be preached, but we have neither time nor inclination to do it." (5)
1949 - H Dec. 12; ed:3/] . President Polk and Secretary Walker are for cutting down the tariff, the result of which would be to shut down half of our manufactories and interfere with the prosperity of our people, by transferring our workshop to Europe.
"The king of Holland has decreed that until June 1, 1846, the duty on a barrel of potatoes should be eight dollars, which is two dollars more than the value at this time in the Cleveland market.
"Ilurrah for free trade, Col. Polk, Mr. Walker, and 'We, William II, King, &c. '" (3)
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1950 - 1954
TARIFF (Cont'd)
1950 - H Dec. 12; ed: 3/1 - The President in his message says that the fact that the tariff act of 1842 was passed by a majority of only one vote in the Senate and two in the House affords strong and conclusive evidence that it was not intended to be permanent. Polk points out the expediency and necessity of its thorough revision.
"We expect bar-room politicians will lie if it suits their purposes; but we feel mortified and ashamed when a high functionary of our American Government, descends from his elevation to utter a sentiment which he must know is calculated to deceive." (4)
See also Commerce
TAXATION
1951 - H Feb. 7:2/1,2 . In a letter to the editor, "Huon" says: "I am somewhat disappointed that ere this some member from the 'Reserve' in our Legislature has not made a strenuous effort to have our laws relative to taxes amended so as to bring into the 'taxables' more property."
It seems to me that justice and right require that sheep and hogs be subject to taxation in our State.
I am well aware that this matter of taxation is a very difficult one, and not easily made right; but it does seem that it might be made more equal than it now is in Ohio. Let household furniture, gold and silver plate, also luxuries like gold watches, diamonds, and jewels be taxed.
Our laws taxing money at interest need amendment very much. As they now exist they are a mere nullity.
The mercantile capital in Cleveland is taxed too high. One firm in Cleveland paid a tax on their mercantile capital in 1844 of $282 and many of them $50 to $100. Bring more taxables on the list and reduce the taxes.
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1952 - H Feb. 10:3/3 . At the city council meeting on Feb. 7, our senator and representative were requested to procure the amendment of so much of the city charter as relates to the collection of discriminating taxes, and that section nine of said charter be so amended that the council have the power of appointing a collector to collect such taxes as may be assessed for discriminating purposes. (1)
1953 - May 5; adv: 2/4 - Assessors Notice. - The Cleveland Township Assessor, may be found at his shop in the rear of the City Buildings, from 7, a.m. to 12 m. each day. Lambert White, Assessor. (verbatim)
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1954 - H1 May 6:2/1,2 - In a letter to the editor, "Two Cents and Three Mills" says: 1 wish through your paper to ask of Lambert White, Esq., the "Cleveland Township Assessor," whether he expects all the township tax- payers to call at his "shop" with their taxable liabilities? It has al- ways been supposed that the Assessor is paid for attending to his duties, and that a part of them is to call himself upon the flock when it is to be fleeced, and not to have the flock call upon him.
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Abstracts 1955 - 1959
TAXATION (Cont'd)
The great gratification of complying with "Alfred Kelley's chicken- tax law," will not be much enhanced by requiring us to pry into all the shanties "in the rear of the City Buildings, " to hunt up the "shop" where the shears are kept. (verbatim) (2)
1955 - H May 8:2/3 . Mr. Harris: - Will you please to inform the "Two Cents and Three Mills" man, that if he is in the habit of passing up or down Superior street, that by stepping a few steps out of his way, he can find our Shanty; and if he will inform us when he will call, we will put our Shanty in order for his reception. Or if he will inform us where his Palace is, we will put on our narrow brimmed hat and high heeled boots and call on him.
If he will take pains to look at the Law, he will find it incumbent on him to deliver his statement to the Assessor. Shears. (verbatim) (2)
1956 - H July 3:3/3 - The common council on June 30, adopted a resolution appointing Richard Winslow as one of a committee of three to replace Bailey as an assessing board on Sheriff st.
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1957 . H Sept. 16; ed:2/1 - A most singular feature in the assessments under the new Hamilton county tax law is the diminished amount returned for taxation, independent of the capital in trade and money at interest . 10,118 acres less of land reported for taxation this year than last. The OHIO STATE JOURNAL complains, and very justly so, of this attempt of Hamilton county to avoid its equitable proportion of taxation.
"Is it just then that Hamilton, the wealthiest and most favored county of the State, should shuffle a portion of the public burdens for which she is justly liable, upon counties that already contribute their full proportion. Such, assuredly should not be the case, and if there is any remedy we hope it will be applied."
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1958 - H Sept. 30; ed:2/1 . The Chillicothe ADVERTISER gives the following as an example of the injustice of the present state taxation laws: An investor in bank stocks, exempt from taxation, has only to pay taxes on his profits, which run often as high as 25 percent, while an investor in a business of any kind is taxed on both, capital and profits, the latter in most cases not exceeding ten per cent of the investment.
"Perhaps, Mr. ADVERTISER, you have misrepresented a little in the above statement, in order to bring the State tax law into disrepute, which was voted for by Messrs. Disney, Armstrong, Baldwin, Loudon and others of the Democratic party, on the passage of the law." (6)
1959 - H Sept. 30:3/2 - In a letter to the editor, James A. Briggs, auditor of Cuyahoga county, says: As much has been said about the unjust and op- pressive tax law of the state, passed last winter, I present the following illustration in defense of the law: Our Locofoco friends say the law does not tax bank stocks. Let us see. Judge Coe of Dover pays $64.47 tax yearly on land property he owns, valued at $19,192. If this $19,192 were
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Abstracts 1960 - 1962
TAXATION (Cont'd)
invested in bank stock, at six per cent, the rate at which bank capital is taxed upon net profits, his tax would amount to $115.15.2. Thus, we see, the judge pays less tax on personal property than he would if it were turned into bank stock.
"And what is here shown will prove true in every instance in the State of Ohio, in proportion to the amount of the tax levied. . What would our Locofoco friends have? They favor a plan whereby bank stock holders would be taxed much above property holders, and yet they profess to be for equality. To have taxes equal, I believe the cash valuation should be adopted, and all kinds of property should be taxed." (10)
1960 - H Oct. 27; ed:2/1 - At a recent sale of stock belonging to an estate near Circleville, O., an imported cow sold for $220, a cow and bull calf for $200, a number of others at prices varying from $80 to $70, etc .; yokes of oxen at $67 to $91, and 300 hogs at $6.50 to $7.57 per head. It
seems to us there can be no better evidence of the justice and necessity of having a tax law based upon a cash valuation of property, than is given by the above sale. The justice of taxing hogs will be readily ad- mitted by all who wish to do right.
"We hope the Legislature will revise our tax law, and fix upon a just and equitable one, so that the burdens of government will fall equally upon all who are protected by our laws and constitution."
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1961 - H Dec. 17:3/2 - In a letter to the editor, "A Tax Payer" says: I see that some Loco members of the Ohio legislature say that there shall be no change in our system of taxation, unless bank stock is taxed like any other property. The problem, however, resolves itself into how to tax the different banks. Obviously a free, or stock bank, would be un- justly treated if its capital were taxed, while the capital of a state bank was not.
"If you tax the banks for mere local purposes, it would be manifestly unjust toward non-resident stockholders; and if you tax the resident, the others escape entirely, and so of two stockholders here, living within ten rods of each other, but on opposite sides of the city line, and we happen to know a citizen through whose house our city line runs. How would you tax him? Where he eats his dinner or where he sleeps? for he might do the one out of the city and the other within it. A bank in one city or township might be subjected to heavy taxation, and in an adjoin- ing one to none at all." (12)
1962 - H Dec. 20; ed:2/1 - We are surprised to see that the Ohio assembly is disregarding the matter of taxation. This will not do. The people demand an equal and just tax law, and it is the duty of the legislators to comply.
"The ad valorem principle is the only just and equal one that can be adopted. A man should pay taxes in proportion to what he is worth."
It is to be hoped that the members from the pork raising regions of the state will not oppose any attempt to tax their industry equally with
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Abstracts 1963 - 1966
TAXATION (Cont'd)
all others; for up to this time they have stubbornly refused to have their products levied on.
"Give the people a just and equal tax law . let all kinds of property protected by law be taxed; and then the representatives of the people may be greeted on their return with, 'well done, faithful servants. '" (7)
See also Tariff
TEACHERS. See Schools & Seminaries - Teachers
TELEGRAPH
1963 - H Feb. 25; ed:3/1 - The operations on Morse's telegraph between Washington and Baltimore have been discontinued in consequence of lack of funds.
"Congress should make another appropriation forthwith. Professor Morse has achieved a National honor, and the Nation should not act niggardly towards him."
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1964 - H July 12; ed: 2/1 - Henry O'Reilley, formerly of Rochester, has completed arrangements with the patentees of the magnetic telegraph to extend lines from Albany to Harrisburg, and to Pittsburgh and Wheeling by next spring - later, to Cincinnati and Detroit. O'Reilley further contemplates a network of western lines some 3,000 miles in extent.
"The benefits of this wonderful invention are to be extended to the West,"
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1965 - H Aug. 4; ed: 3/2 - A complete line of telegraph will soon connect New Haven and Buffalo, at the same time extending to New York, Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia.
"The steam horse now brings intelligence from Boston and New York in three days, but when news mounts the wings of lightning to Buffalo, it will reach us in some 16 hours! and when the wires shall be extended to Cleveland, as they doubtless will be, the hours will be changed to less than seconds! What an astonishing triumph of mind over space! Friends hundreds of miles apart, talking as if face to face." (4)
1966 - H Aug. 19; ed:3/1 - Surely, there is no calculating the incalculable amount of knowledge in the world, nor the vast changes which the Morse telegraph is destined to bring about. We had often wished for an invention to set down our thoughts as fast as they flitted through the brain, and now the Morse telegraph, improved in design, does this for us, sending these thoughts thousands of miles to be set down in far away lands. Still, agree- able as is this discovery, there are pangs of regret for the departing goose quill, so long honored by the wise and good.
"Ah, surely, its days are numbered, and it will soon remain for some lightning wrought telegraph to print (not write) its funeral eulogy." (4)
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1967 - 1971
TELEGRAPH (Cont'd)
1967 - H Nov. 3; ed: 3/1 - We learn that Dr. Boynton has arrived, and will entertain our citizens with lectures on the Electro Magnetic Tele- graph, which instrument he will exhibit in complete operation at the Empire hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
We should judge from the tone of the public press in the Eastern cities where the Dr. has been lecturing, that the scientific and curious will enjoy a rich treat. He comes authorized by Professor Morse, and is prepared to give any information upon the subject. We advise all to go and hear. (verbatim) (2)
1968 - H Nov. 4; ed:2/1 - We hope to see a full attendance of citizens at the Empire hall this evening, as it is desirable that all should under- stand the operations of lightning talk. The telegraph will be in opera- tion from the Atlantic to Buffalo next spring, and during the season arrangements will probably be made to extend the line farther west.
"One object of the Lectures is to awaken an interest on the subject by exhibiting the mode of conveying intelligence which is destined to work wonders by enabling city to talk with city!" (3)
1969 - H Dec. 2; ed:2/1 . Contracts are now out for the construction of 1,107 miles of telegraph in the east, the amount of wires required for this work being estimated at 188,190 pounds. Work is also proposed on a line to connect the Atlantic states and the Mississippi valley, including the Ohio and lake county.
"In the course of a year from this time, there is reason to believe that the most distant sections of the Union will be conducted by Magnetic Telegraphs." (7)
TEMPERANCE
1970 - H Jan. 4; ed: 3/1 . The convention of the Ohio Temperance society was held in Columbus, O. recently.
We commend to the attention of the public that portion of the proceed- ings relating to a change of license laws of the state so that the people of each township may determine by their votes whether licensed taverns or groceries to sell ardent spirits shall exist among them or not. The reso- lution on the subject was adopted with great unanimity, and we presume a like unanimity will exist among the people of the state in its favor when the matter is fully understood.
"The practice of Temperance by communities is so salutary in a pecu- niary point of view, to say nothing of its benign influence on the morals and happiness of individuals and families, that every movement tending to its advancement should receive the cordial support of taxpayers in particular. Intemperance and taxation for the support of paupers go hand in hand, and men who encourage the first cannot with propriety complain of the burden of the latter." (7)
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