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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1887
Page
4
A collage of humorous maxims and quotes from varied sources. It contrasts moral virtue with social vanity and features wry lines about gratitude, labor, and human folly. The text includes jokes about parenting, education, and frontier humor, ending with a meditation on continuity of character.
A Springwells man enters a local grocer and exposes a fake inheritance scheme after a stagey toast. He claims a New York lawyer says the recipient is heir to a 90 million dollar English estate and demands a 25 dollar fee to recover papers. The boast includes plans to open ninety groceries with a million behind each, threatening the grocer Dennis if proven a liar.
A concise critique on how unreadable signatures hinder identification and trust. The piece argues writers should clearly print their names to avoid embarrassing friends and readers, noting legibility reflects on the writer and social regard.
An elderly man who had never ridden a railroad train before survives a collision and, after escaping from under a heavy box, asks the conductor to walk and questions the railway’s stopping method. He notes no one has been killed yet sees a crippled follower. He doubts the prophecy of danger.
State platform of the Union Labor Party of Ohio denounces syndicate control and corrupt two party system. It calls for abolition of the fee system, bribery laws, corporate charter revocation, mortgage taxation, state printing of school books, bank security duties, criminalizing market manipulation, protecting union rights, and reforming corporate taxation based on capitalization.
A historical pledge listing ten prohibitions against labor abuses. It condemns child labor, political coercion, gambling on margins, stock watering, centralization of power, pence lobbying, Wall Street dominance, foreign pauper labor, mercantile syndicates and trusts, and asserts moral worth over wealth as national standard.
A fragment from a 19th century scene shows a sleeping car porter bargaining for a tip with a New York official at Castle Garden. The porter offers to dust and boot black for a dollar, presenting himself as a poor man seeking aid.
G W Brown recalls in Oil City history how a group of men decided to build a church after a night of drinking. He took a lumber contract, and thus Oil City’s first church arose from that impulsive plan.
A London lady allegedly stole Valenciennes lace while viewing items but was detected and allowed to leave. The shopkeeper sent a letter offering additional lace of the same pattern, stating the initial fifteen yards would not trim the dress. the recipient accepted and paid.
The platform pledges graduated land tax on large estates and free coinage of gold and silver, public control of irrigation, a national monetary system issuing currency to the people, postal savings banks, and opposition to private corporate land ownership. It calls for labor arbitration, equal pay, income tax, direct election of U S Senators, Chinese exclusion, abolition of private armed mercenaries, and universal suffrage with temperance reforms.
Large sale offers over 600 imported Newmarkets at 7.50, plus lots of childrens cloaks, Misses Newmarkets, and wholesale hose at deep discounts. Includes ladies and children’s wool, cashmere, and ribbed hose from 10c to 25c, scarlet underwear, camel hair socks, and knit garments with wide price reductions.
A prominent local store advertises a large purchase of A Naumberg & Co stock from New York. It offers boys suits and overcoats at well below cost, plus heavy discounts on buttons, notions, and assorted apparel and accessories with many items priced under a dollar.
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