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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1887
Page
4
Fragmentary report notes housing in Cincinnati has become increasingly stunted with homes described as growing in size constraints over days. Local observers remark on the shrinking dwellings and changing neighborhood landscape.
A fragment discusses honest prices and how small business houses evolved into larger stores. It recalls a time when a small room bore a name above a single door, now part of a growing block of stores. The piece questions whether high prices ever justified big business growth.
Local notice invites shoppers to compare stiffened coats and veligarment for men and boys at the factory outlet. Patrons may inspect the contrast with Cincinnati styles after 7 PM.
The report depicts townsfolk debating identity and pasts as a strange visitor asks about “the same fellows” seen weeks earlier. A minister and a bridegroom talk obliquely of marriage while moral curiosities surface amid scattered dialogue and local color.
A loud street sermon invites crowds to a museum exhibit claiming wonders from Europe and America. The orator touts oddities including a two-nickel admission, caliope performances, and a mix of sensational scenes featuring people and bizarre acts, with sensational commentary on race and physical traits.
A fragment describes a German sentry or ward observing a change in orders and discovering a note left for himself. The text references a shift in command and a personal message, suggesting caution or awareness during a tense moment.
The document outlines a platform advocating graduated land tax on large estates and unearned land grants, public control of irrigation, worker owned transport and postal services, a national money system with direct issuance to people, and postal savings banks. It calls for free coinage of gold and silver, prompt repayment of the national debt, labor arbitration, reduced hours, equal pay, and strong labor organizations, plus justice for soldiers and an income tax. It also condemns private militia use by corporations, affirms universal suffrage, temperance linkage, and endorses planks on land, transportation, money, income tax and Chinese labor as core platform.
A fragmented list accusing labor politics of corruption and abuses. It condemns child labor, gagging candidates with assessments, gambling on futures, stock watering, centralized power, lobby influence, and foreign pauper labor while attacking mercantile power and syndicates.
A fragmentary column notes a young matron advising against marrying a widower, then recounts a friend who did. The text ironizes the difficulties of remarriage, mentioning burdensome finances and wardrobe concerns as a husband’s past and present troubles emerge.
An ad promotes Plush Wraps crafted from Real English Seal Plush with satin lining and trim. The set includes items ranging from $9.75 to $45 with extra bargains on sample garments.
A crowded listing details Newmarkets ladies garments hats cloaks and cloaks for children and misses, plus hosiery and woolen undergarments at steep discounts. Also promotes reduction lots from A Naumberg Co including boys suits overcoats and pants with deep price cuts. Highlights extents from 12 50 to 9 75 and coats from 4 50 to 7 50 with odds and ends in dress trimmings and jewelry.
A historic feeding test shows pea meal plus oats and corn meal with excellent pasture yields high milk production. The Jersey cow produced an average seven pounds of butter daily for four weeks while fed sixteen pounds of pea meal and twenty four pounds of corn meal daily, with ample carbohydrates and fat beyond maintenance.
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