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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1875
Page
1
A poetic catalog celebrates country maids and their many chores from staining and sweeping to baking and gardening. The verse extols virtue and beauty, praising a single hardworking girl as more valuable than many others.
A wealthy heir denies a cousin in distress over a diamond ring. Ned Winner pleads for one hundred dollars to save his family from eviction, while Jack McDermot buys the ring and learns a bitter mercy when Ned and his wife and child die after the same night. Jack mourns a missed chance to help.
The Indian Grand Council at Okmulgee discussed farming and stock raising as viable livelihoods for tribes like Cheyennes and Arapahoes. A constitutional committee will report next September, aiming to establish a territorial government and possibly house all tribes under federal jurisdiction.
A well known drummer at a dry goods house bet a party from a neighboring town he could admit thirty one people to a Maine circus show without paying. The countable crowd slipped in with the straw hat man revealed as an innocent local, while the ticket taker kept his post and learned to count before admitting.
A long roster links famous names to family trades from fisherman to carpenter, merchant to tailor. Notable figures include St Andrew and St John sons of fishermen, Columbus a woodworker, Franklin a chandler, and Napoleon a lawyer, among others.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes General Hayes rising in 1864 electing him to Congress in the Second district by 2445 votes and 3096 with soldier votes, 1868 victory over Theodore Cook by 2558, 1867 Ohio governorship over Pendleton by 7301, 1872 minor reversal by H B Banning 1502, and aims to beat Allen in 1875.
A retrospective look recalls the United States a century ago as a little known land in the heart of Africa. The note tracks settlers, early papers, and lack of steam tech while praising later century progress and the value of a Centennial celebration. It mentions Kentucky Ohio North Carolina and broad advances in science, industry, and communications.
A twenty two year old man found drunk on the sidewalk faces the court. He is warned to mind his conduct as he nears manhood and is told to avoid intoxicants and settle his board bill, with a cautionary path forward.
In Jefferson County West Virginia Shepherdstown the first steamboat was built. Patrons included General Washington and Governor Johnson of Maryland. Rumsey proved steam navigation could push upstream on the Potomac in 1785 using boiler and machinery from the Catoctin Iron Furnace in Frederick County. The Potomac gentlemen certified the success with Washington Johnson and others witnessing. The first boiler was made in Frederick County about twenty years before Fulton’s Hudson breakthrough.
A fragmented reminiscence notes envy and meanness among actors while praising sincere passion for the craft. The author, a multirole figure, values honest success and shared honor with fellow performers, though lingering bitterness surfaces briefly.
The text fragment mentions a Congressman and fees but is garbled with stray words and incomplete sentences, offering no clear event, names, dates, or locations to anchor a coherent news item.
Grass, wheat and oats show variable results across the state with worms damaging corn in Belmont and late-planted corn in Guernsey County. A 1059 frost is recalled, while Morrow County reports wider corn acreage. spring rains could improve pastures. The Republican State Central Committee elected its executive lineup.
Estate of the late John Harper valued at 4 000 000. Dickey Anderson’s famous Thoroughbred Paragon dies in Xenia. Cincinnati mares and Ohio Indiana trotting stock featured with prices and sales across Kentucky, Flora, Columbus, and Philadelphia training lists. Notables include Idol Star sold for 2000 and Norwood purchase, with speed records for Goldsmith and Occident cited.
The Gazette of Little Rock notes unusually severe hard times in the region with many people lacking money and basic staples. Citizens resort to barter and make do with improvised goods as markets struggle to supply essentials.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a customer who ordered a carriage must pay the mechanic the agreed price of seven hundred dollars plus interest if the buyer refuses delivery. The decision, reported by Tigex Star, upheld that a crafted article to order binds the customer to take it or pay. A separate note recounts a New York legislative practicality joke where Mr. Miller received a ring and a lavish banquet followed.
The column riffs on bank dividends and stock buying at high prices while mixing in sharp, crude humor about wives and deaths. It cites a Fall River rail tragedy, a child on ice, and a Democratic and Liberal Republican exchange over party alignments with pointed editorial opinions.
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