ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

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Abstracts 71 - 77
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
BANKS & BANKING (Cont'd)
71 - H&G June 6; ed:2/3 - A list of banks of Michigan, bankable at
Detroit, is greatly desired by persons in the Lake country.
"All sorts of reports are afloat touching the value of different
kinds of Michigan paper at home. Will some of the Detroit papers
publish a list?" (1)
72 - H&G June 12:2/1 - At a convention of the banks of Ohio, held at
Columbus on the 6th and 7th of June, A. Seymour and J. N. Woolsey represented
the Bank of Cleveland, and T. P. Handy, the Commercial Bank
of Lake Erie. (2)
73 - H&G June 16; ed:2/4 - "Have our anti-Bank locos no indignation in
reserve for T. Benton & Co. of the U. S. Senate? The anti-bank body has
again extended the charters of the Banks of the District of Columbia?
Thus Hydras are now fostered in the late home of the "Monster Killer."
Uncork your thunder!" (1)
H&G July 25; ed:2/4 - See Flour
74 - H&G July 31; adv:2/4 - Bank of Cleveland, July 31, 1838, The Stockholders
of the Bank of Cleveland are hereby notified that a final instalment
of Ten Dollars on each share of the Capital Stock of this Bank
is required to be paid at their Banking House or at the Office of John
Ward & Co. New York, on the first day of September next. By order of
the Board, H. Handy, Cashier. (1)
75 - H&G Aug. 1; ed: 2/3 - The ADVERTISER says: When a thief wishes
to escape, he joins in with the mob and shouts at the top of his lungs
Stop thief! Stop thief!
(H&G) "That's it. The Locofocos made the banks, got in debt to the
banks, do not pay the banks, and hence their loud cry of anti-bank, antibank,
anti-bank!" (1)
76 - H&G Aug. 6; ed:2/3 - The banks of Ohio will resume on the 13th.
"To show that a resumption is 'gall and wormwood' to the leading locofocos,
we have only to note that the editor of the STATESMAN announces
the fact with one of his choicest sneers. tt (1)
77 - H&G Aug. 18; ed: 2/4 - The administration papers advocate a reform
in the banking system. The administration has chartered a hundred or
more banks. Why have they not chartered them according to the reform
model? Why have they not made the stockholders responsible? They are
pretty much "used up" and now they must have some watchword to rally
their broken and scattered forces, and they cry "reform the Banks."
"This to them is a familiar song. The people have become accustomed
to it. It disturbs them not." (3)