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Newspaper
Cincinnati Weekly Chronicle
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1869
Page
3
A dated verse by Miss Julia Hatyirld urges relentless work despite despair or doubt. It elevates labor as purpose, insisting daylight, fame, or gold do not end the task but continued effort and virtue through diligence and striving.
Dorothy Stanbury and Priscilla discuss life at Nancombe and the Clock House as Mrs Trevelyan departs. Nora and Emily seek new homes with the Outhouses while Dorothy confronts a possible engagement to Mr Gibson and Aunt Stanbury’s schemes. Dorothy weighs love against money and social plans.
In a satirical review of married life the piece argues that wives use intimate knowledge of their husbands to provoke and control. It describes how quarrels arise, the theatrics of crying and reproach, and the social pressure to endure and reconcile, citing poets and urban legends to illustrate gender dynamics.
The item lists numerous religious developments including 7,130 itinerant ministers in Moethorlis Episcopal Church, calls for Rev. W. I Reevege in Champaign Illinois, Catholic aid to the Pope, a Norwich swan tribute, and church actions from Hartford to Detroit with revivals, unions, and mission efforts, plus debates on church governance and Easter timing.
A broad column notes Paris subscriptions for a Voltaire statue. deaths in Akron. temperance meet proposed in Milwaukee. political letters to Spain’s Cortes. mortgage payoff in Illinois. Gen Swayne returns to Nashville with bride. Grant era hat joke. painter Paul Huet dies. Rev Van Meter retires. society weddings and engagements. various European and US figures, lectures, and travels. a late item mentions Grant cabinet chatter with a witty reply from his wife.
Readable fragments note American wigs spending. a German women’s rights paper in New York. Anna Gagarin the richest Russian heiress at $80,000,000. widespread anti education quotes. crime and political anecdotes. Kentucky and Wisconsin statistics. a Chicago Douglas property suit outline. depopulation and saloon issues in Sitka.
The New York Cattle Commissioners and Dr. Morean Morris report that Texas cattle disease is mainly caused by a parasitic plant whose spores appear in blood bile and urine of examined cattle. They note infection can arise from feeding and contact with moist vegetable matter and stress from long transport.
A war of extermination is described with one side killing 250 crows in pine hills near Winchester. The State pays three cents per crow pair for their feet. A separate ad notes a 100 acre farm on the Northeastern Railroad about 23 miles from Charleston selling for 700 dollars with half cash.
Report notes planters in St. Marys parish La paying twenty dollars a month and rations, cabins and wood yet still unable to obtain field hands. The process farmer who cannot feed calves can only graze his shins.
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