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Title: History of Dearborn and Ohio counties, Indiana
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Publisher: Chicago, F. E. Weakley & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ald bears date of February 20, 1885. Givingour prediction for what it is worth, founded on our observations of theconduct of the Liliputian, we judge our young friend (if he contin-ues to see in person to the prompt delivery of the Herald of a Februarymorning, with the mercury ranging from 15° to 20° below zero, the OhioRiver almost frozen over, with the city itself frozen up, before one has afire or his breakfast, as the writer experienced last winter), will rise to theforemost rank of his profession. The printing offices of to-day throughout Dearborn and Ohio Countiesare well equipped with presses of modern make and with improved facil-ities for the dispatch of all kinds of job work, and the men engaged inthe conduct of the several newspapers are men of ability and well quali-fied for the profession, and are endeavoring to advocate such measuresas are in the line of progress and advancement ennobling to man, andare for the best interests of the public generally. The men conducting
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OHIO RIVER FLOODS. 191 party papers are, generally, of strong political convictions, and are notsilent on political questions, but are ever on the alert in the furtheranceof the principles of the party to which they are attached. Biographiesof the members of the press will be found in the biographical depart-ment of this work. CHAPTER XII.OHIO RIVEK FLOODS. Climate of the Ohio Valley—Conditions Favorable to a GreatFlood—The Flood of 1788-89—1832—184?—1882—1883—1884—Disas-trous Effects at Lawrenceburgh—Relief for Sufferers-Table of High-water Marks at Cincinnatl AN account of the most disastrous floods of the Ohio River will begiven in this chapter in the order of their occurrence. The Ohio Valley is subject to greater vicissitudes of climate, perhaps,than any other part of the world of like proportions. A change withinforty days has been experienced from a temperature 20° below zero to65° above—the cold of Canada and the warmth of the Gulf in the samewinter. The

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