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An unreadable OCR segment mentions individuals and events with garbled text making specifics hard to identify. The fragment hints at names and a possible memorandum but reveals few concrete details.
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Times
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1856
Page
2
An unreadable OCR segment mentions individuals and events with garbled text making specifics hard to identify. The fragment hints at names and a possible memorandum but reveals few concrete details.
The writer recounts a roughly one hundred mile trip to Ohio by train to inspect farmland and crops. They describe the landscape, the impact of drought, and crops in 1856 including winter grain and corn, noting general good yields but hay shortages and calls for rain. The piece ties agriculture to commerce and national well being while reflecting on nature and learning.
The wheat harvest has begun in the Southern part of the state Kentucky and Indians Illinois reports most of the crop gathered Across the West no shortage is noted and production runs into millions of bushels Flour is forecast to drop to four dollars per barrel within six weeks Buyers of bread await better times.
The N Y Mirror reports the third ward police arrested an Italian beggar woman in the street for cruelty to a six month old child. The child’s arms were bound with muslin to look armless and provoke sympathy, its limbs swollen and fixed. She was sent to the Tombs and committed as a vagrant.
William and Samuel Howard, brothers, quarreled on the Columbia turnpike near Alexandria. Samuel stabbed William in six places, causing near immediate death. Both had long resided in Alexandria County. Samuel Howard was arrested and jailed in Alexandria.
John A Callen of Virginia and E J Wilson of Kentucky, passengers from the bark Archibsid Gracie seized as filibusters near Le Pas Mexico six months ago, have arrived in New Orleans after escaping a prison camp where others were confined. They recount a 1500 mile trek through Mexico to Vera Cruz and accuse authorities of harsh treatment and government neglect.
The article lauds Secrat Beams Cates for his decisive role at the Buchanan Convention, noting his sharp legal handling of charges and the broader critique of those who profited from others. It praises a landlord at Burnet House for housing delegates and condemns predatory figures as vultures and carrion kites.
The Lawrenceburg Register reports a fashionable Aurora clerk vanished Sunday evening after borrowing about three hundred dollars from friends. He has notable New York ties and a wife and three children there. A respectable Aurora lady, with whom he was intimate, also departed, and they are now believed to have fled together.
The Liberty of the Press is subverted in Kangas as every newspaper establishment sympathetic to freedom is destroyed. Reported losses include two in Lawrence, one in Quagawattomie, and one in Leavenworth.
Mr Edwin Booth son of the great tragedian has earned a high reputation as an actor in San Francisco. Local papers say he has been performing to crowded and delighted audiences.
A private London letter to the New York Journal of Commerce states Mazzini secretly left London with rumors he traveled toward Switzerland to remain near the Italian frontiers in case of emergency.
Fragmentary text shows Mr. A. C. Tichenor visiting town while other names like Cocone, Dusevanes, and Sows inne Te appear in garbled form. The passage offers no clear event details or dates to establish a definite report.
Fragmentary report notes arrival in New York of Hereford and other figures amid unclear context. Names and details are incomplete, giving a minimal snapshot of a possibly social or political gathering.
This fine work, the best of its kind now published, has just been received by Pease and Lewis on Sixth street east of Walnut. The month’s illustrations are The Queen's Stories, The Visit to the Nan, and Religion Consoling Justice, all executed in fine style. Pease and Lewis are the city agents.
At 8 o clock Monday afternoon Smith and Winters auction 85 fine Building Lots in Barnet and Reeder's Subdivision on Mt Asburn. Omnibus start at two from Sixth and Vine and Main and Court to convey to and from the premises free of charge. Baker hats and daguerreotypes offered. Prof Woodbridge provides clear faithful pictures for twenty five cents. The Knicknack new comic monthly at Dick Duncans opposite the post office. Jewelry store robbed recently. Ball's Daguerrean gallery offers fret rate pictures.
The Green and Black Teas of Hermann are praised for their excellence. Residents are invited to visit his shops on Fifth Street west of Walnut and at 197 Walnut Street to sample and judge the quality.
At ten o clock Monday morning Smith and Winters offer for sale on the premises a fine dwelling and lot on Eighth street No 489 between Cutter and Linn streets. See advertisement.
On Monday morning at eleven oclock Smith and Winters offer a valuable set on the south east corner of Beventh and John streets per the advertisement.
An old time ad copy touts Balm of a Thousand Visca as a cure for tan pimples and freckles promising a soft roseate complexion. It promotes a fifty cent bottle and claims long lasting whitening effects with a few drops on a shaving brush. Agent listed as K J D at Cincinnati corner Walnut and Fourth streets.
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