Newspaper Clippings

1895. 1780 found carved in a tree.

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1837. John Blancett obituary.

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1854. Laborer killed in field near Blanchester.

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1854. Swindler in Blanchester

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1858. Blanchester counterfeiters.

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1864. Samuel Baldwin store robbed.

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1867. Civil war soldiers, brothers Ezra and Abner Cadwallader. Blanchester.

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1870. Dance brawl in Blanchester.

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1873. New Ohio county proposed.

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1876. Marion Township history.

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1897. Mennonite preacher prays for a calamity, Blanchester.

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1898. Blanchester bicyclists must carry light and ring bell.

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1912. Tornado hits Blanchester.

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1912. Tornado hits Blanchester.

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1918. Arcade roof in Blanchester collapses.

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1932. Blanchester bank robbed of $15,000.

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1949. Cowan's Creek mound yields skeleton.

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1949. 1,100 year old Indian tomb found at Cowan's Creek.

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1949. Cowan's Creek mound excavation.

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1949. Prehistoric house found during building of Cowan Lake.

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1949. Lake Cowan, skeletons found in Indian mound.

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1953. Lake Cowan visited by 10, 000.

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1956. Evangelical United Brethern Church of Midland homecoming.

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1956. Village Shoppe opening in Blanchester.

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1888. Abel Leever falls on ice.

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1860. Blanchester freight train robbery.

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1897. Electric lights come to Blanchester.

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1887. Blanchester man falls into cellar.

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1860. Van Pelt train accident, Blanchester.

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1916. Catherine Rude, eggs for sale.

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Felix Rude bitten by spider.

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1874. Garrison Corner play story.

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Harvey Smith cuts throat and dies.

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1880. Man poisons family and is hung by mob, Blanchester.

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Marion Township, wolves and bears.

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Melba B. Wade death.

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1896. Murder of Giant Ben Brown, Blanchester.

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1873. New county for Ohio denied.

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1943. Clinton County Fighting Men - Donald D. Goodwin.

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1895. Peddler murdered in Blanchester.

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Pioneer pastimes - Squirrel hunting.

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1913. $5 fine for spitting on sidewalk in Blanchester.

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1878. War on Blanchester salons.

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William Garrison finds horse.

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1887. Mastodon bones found in West Woodville.

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1894. John Dumford crushed by straw stack, West Woodville.

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1895. 7¢ burglary, West Woodville.

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