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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1872
Page
2
The week of prayer, starting tomorrow, will be broadly observed across the United States and Canada. A separate column provides the daily programme of exercises for each day.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners passes a resolution making it a penal offense for any member or their family to accept a present bribe or reward from any person for selling goods to or performing labor for the county. The writer wonders if Hamilton County should follow Chicago’s reform spirit.
A column critiques the misuse of Upper and Lower House terms and mocks Washington style pretensions. It notes power disputes within the County Board of Commissioners and a recurring intra-board clash causing official friction and protests.
The piece compares Charles Sumner and Carl Schurz as equal yet opposite intellectual forces in the U S Senate, calling them self luminous leaders who illuminate law from different sources. It notes their shared commitment to universal rights and public virtue and argues their divergent origins yield harmonious political results. It also critiques the Washington Letter Writer as a curious national institution.
Hon John Schiff a State Senate member from this county introduces a bill proposing the re districting of Cincinnati into wards. The measure is deemed important and likely to provoke discussion among the city’s rising statesmen. Schiff's bill is printed elsewhere.
The Catholic National Temperance Convention plans to meet in Baltimore Maryland on February 22 to discuss forming a National Catholic Total Abstinence Union and other measures to aid the abstinence movement. Votes are allocated by state unions and local societies with propositions to establish state unions, aid pastors, and create transfers between societies nationwide.
The Chronicle and Times reader letters mock the Evening Star first issue in Cincinnati as a cheap, politics free paper with ample capital. Critics claim the Chronicle’s tone shows sickness and bitterness while defending the new paper’s aims and public reception.
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