Heres some more extremely trivial trivia from William Roses 1950 book Cleveland: the Making of a City pg. 87---In 1821 the publisher of the Cleveland Herald gave up on Cleveland and moved to Painesville, which had some 500 citizens, while Cleveland, still in the forest, had far fewer, and perhaps no future. Howe founded the Painesville Telegraph...The Cleveland-Buffalo Road, or Euclid Road [now Rt. 20] was now passable by a horse, and so Howe rode his horse the 30 miles to Cleveland and back once each week to deliver his newspaper. He had 300 subscribers along the way from Painesvilles squarem through East Mentor, West Mentor, then Chagrin [Willoughby], on to the fields of Euclid Township, then East Cleveland Township, where a bear was chained to a tree by a tavern at the corner of Euclid and Superior Street, and then Howe rode on into the woods of Cleveland to the clearing at Public Square. The latest news in the Telegraph was 10 days old from New York City and 40 days old from Europe....just one year before, the first steamboat had crossed the Atlantic leaving New York on May 22 and reaching England June 20...The Telegraph supported Andrew Jackson and farmers and opposed the power of the wealthy bankers.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:14:56 +0000
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