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Newspaper
Hamilton Guidon
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1875
Page
6
A storm and local events fill a Middletown page from a city news column. Items include a Sunday snow, church social, Sunday School program, and multiple court cases in Common Pleas Court with damages awarded to plaintiffs. Other notes report personnel changes, bids for infirmary medical service, a teachers association meeting, and antebellum style notices from a local broker.
A fragmented ad page describes a massive February 20 sale at Jacob Maas & Son with O O P C H branding. It touts low prices on coats, shirts, collars, ties, boots and shoes, and gloves through Feb 20 for ten days, urging customers to visit Maas & Son and Fulmer's West Hamilton Shoe Store for Eastern prices. The notices discuss annual government salaries and a Board of Education meeting, including bond interest and legal service notes.
The piece questions the applicability of the law in the Board of Education case against Treasurer W. W. Caldwell. It notes fear of a default, cites Dr. Marks offering a $100 personal donation to pay for an attorney, and condemns the police, mayor, and council for failing to curb the rising Frasu balls nuisance and lawlessness.
The author argues Britain still holds overwhelming naval strength despite German claims. He cites the Kaiser class, Russian fleets, and Britain’s growing dreadnoughts. A massive Portsmouth ironclad and the Inflexible are highlighted as symbols of unmatched power, asserting no rival ships could stand against them.
The London Times reports a convention between M Caillaux and M Chevalier forming a French company to build a Channel Tunnel. A minimum 2,000,000 francs must be invested in five years, a 99 year concession, and a 30 year monopoly with no other tunnel approved for France and England. Lord Derby has no objection. The project may employ Hawkshaw and Lavally as chief engineers.
The empire extends civil registration of births deaths and marriages from Prussia to all of Germany. The new law replaces clerical wedding and baptism services with civil proceedings, allowing child birth entry without baptism or church affiliation and permitting marriage without clergy consent.
A Times report notes the new Prussian Civil Registration Law weakens church rites, with only 25 percent of Berlin marriages in churches and about 30 percent of Berlin births baptized by clergy. The piece suggests broad social consequences as religious formalities recede in civil practice. Also mentions a sale by Jacob Maas & Son with low priced shirts.
In a stream of requests from many friends and supporters, names appear for mayor and city offices in the upcoming spring election. J L Flickinger and James B Millikin are proposed for mayor, with other figures urged for marshal and street commissioner roles.
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