24 Dec 1874
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Newspaper
Ohio Cambridge News
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1874
Page
1
Poem reflecting on Christmas peace and goodwill. Refrains celebrate Bethlehem’s star and the season’s generosity while urging compassion for the homeless and seafarers. Evokes winter scenes, family gatherings, and bells chiming as a timeless holiday message.
A Christmas tale where a benevolent Child prompts a selfish household to share joy. Up stairs a musician, down stairs a shoemaker, and in my lady's chamber a grieving widow receive a magical intervention leading to acts of generosity, family unity, and renewed happiness for all. The Child unites the trio, delivers shoes, music, and warmth, and inspires the sister to adopt a child and the widow to open her home. The story ends with a hopeful, communal Christmas transformation.
Readable scraps cover juror excuses, newspaper scams, a Vermont girl in a drug store mishap, a Boston fire outbreak, a Kept robber tale, and public affairs from Mississippi to New York. The column blends jokes, oddities, and brief notices with names and places to hint at a lively late 19th century press page.
The record shows House passage of bills aiding homestead and pre emption settlers damaged in 1874 and measures for free banking and legal tender notes. Senate discusses Kalakaua reception committees, customs reforms, grasshopper relief, and railway projects while adjourned between sessions.
A British steamship was lost with all on board in a dramatic maritime disaster. In domestic affairs Gov Ames faces approval from the administration as events unfold. Reports describe destructive fires in Boston and Charlestown and a disgraceful lynching case in Des Moines alongside general news items.
In Berlin the trial disclosed that Bismarck ordered the Count's secretary to spy on him. Reports cover German politics, a cremation in Dresden, amnesty in Argentina, Bismarck’s resignation bid, and Ultramontane talks. Also noted are ship losses, a market collapse, and political shifts in the era.
A New York market report lists prices for cotton flour wheat and meat goods with fluctuating figures across states. The Cincinnati and Chicago sections show varied prices for flour wheat corn pork lard and wool. The article also reports on Dresden whose cremation advances draw cautious official opposition as observers describe the process and its outcome.
Market listings show wheat corn oats and barley prices across Cleveland and Toledo with no. 1 red and spring grades. Livestock bids include beeves hogs and sheep with regional quotes for East Liberty Yorks Philadelphia and general farm livestock ranges.
A Bureau of Statistics table shows immigration totals by ethnographic groups from July 1, 1870 to June 30, 1874. Entries list England, Teutonic and Latin groups, Scandinavia, Spain Portugal and colonies, Russia Poland, China, British North American Provinces, and other regions with yearly figures and a final note that 16,042 were from Great Britain not specified.
In Des Moines on December 15 a mob of about 500 Vigilants, many with faces blackened, dragged Charles Howard from jail after he was sentenced to life for murder. They hanged him from a lamp-post outside the courthouse, beating back guards and the sheriff. The act follows a string of recent murders and a tense trial, shocking the city.
The piece profiles John Harrison Curtis an audacious medical imposter known as an aurist who tainted Britain with his dubious methods. He once treated Sir Robert Peel using two watches and a syringe, first silencing then restoring hearing to demonstrate his supposed cure.
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