06 Sep 1869
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Times
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1869
Page
1
A collage of clipped items mentions police tales, Chinese poets, fashion, courtship, a Commodore’s wife, a general’s visit to Washington, a window sitter, and sensational lines about Reform era editors. It hints at sermons, liberalism in Chicago, women’s rights tactics, and dinner diplomacy without cohesive narrative.
Correspondence discusses Secretary Boutwell's authority to contract for outside printing of fractional currency. The piece notes delays, pressure from New York bank-note firms, and strikes affecting supply while defending or criticizing the Treasury approach and the Interior Department staff discipline. It also shiftingly covers President Grant’s Epiguerra and a San Francisco death notice of Col Agoston Haraszthy.
The Times reviews coming fall and winter fashion. Prince Albert coats return in double breasted, short skirts with options in blue, black, olive or brown. Evening wear stays black with high collars, while driving outfits favor meltons and velveteens. Hats shift toward low crowns and wider brims, with varied suit materials from American looms. Baseball notes and local club matches follow, including Eastenders, Hill-tops and College Hill scores.
The item mix reports on Leipic students voting to abolish the duel and adopt a court of honor, a Bellefontaine Press change, early locomotives for Peru, fines for fast driving in Frankfort, Evansville peach prices, and then a wide array of curiosities from 1874 including royal rumors, church disestablishment talk, a ladies billiard room, Carlyle biography prep, Stowe critiques, Belgian railroad military testing, and various agricultural and crime anecdotes. It reads like a snapshot of scattered reports and curiosities from the period.
Telegram style items report burglars likely in Alleghany Pennsylvania and broad contemporaneous notes: 504 deaths in New York last week, Quebec ship laborers’ strike ended, Cuba advisory mix, Senator Morton to speak in Philadelphia, Delano to campaign in Pennsylvania, Lél Nélaton on Napoleon III recovery, Memphis workers oppose Chinese, 721 emigrants arrived at Columbus, Pittsburgh delegates to Keokuk convention, Willie barre rumors resume work, Red Stockings escorted to San Francisco, Vera Cruz road fund opened, Rawlins in fragile health, Allende McCoole $500 deposit, 5-20 bonds London price drift, centennial John Hus Prague, Canada fears, Aztec emperor statue, Tennessee legislature timing, Lilian escape, Feemaden illness, NY printer strike resolved, four thousand Cuba deaths predicted, Tennessee senatorial races, St Louis to New York rail fares cut, San Francisco customs probe, Osborn ex-judge fined, Byron defense note, Halonet ship seized at Halifax, new postage stamp designs, central pacific earnings rise, Real del Monte silver output, July August revenue receipts, Canby proclamation election, pension office fraud arrests, Doerr mill fire, French Senate rejects constitutional reform, Kiowa Comanche peace reports, yacht accident in New York, Wells Fargo coach ambush, U.S. bank statistics, rail line robbery pursuit.
A new state table lists live stock figures for Ohio. It shows totals for horses and other livestock, with counts indicating 1868 figures and accompanying breakdowns though some digits appear unclear in the OCR. The table provides a snapshot of animal populations and farming activity in the state.
Democrats in KEW shell debate the 1871 U S Senate election to succeed Thomas C. McCreery. Candidates include McCreery and Gov. Stevenson with Jesse D. Bright, John G Carlisle, and Gen. William Preston among others. Ambition mounts as factions align around favored contenders.
The Jewish New Year Rosh Ha Shana begins with a two day festival observed by Israelites. The year blends civil and sacred calendars, with the seventh month aligning to March and April. Services at Mound Street Temple drew large crowds led by Rabbi Lilienthal.
In Baton Rouge Louisiana, pickers work under uncertain conditions as weather slows cotton harvest. Officials say per acre estimates cannot yet be made while crops grow quickly and luxuriantly despite the delays.
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