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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1872
Page
2
Mn T A Lusk is the authorized advertising agent of the Evening Star. The note designates Lusk as the official contact for ad submissions and related inquiries for the publication.
A physician of high standing highlights a communication on Hydrate of Chloral and notes that for all legal and other advertisements the paper charges one half the price of other daily papers, inviting legal colleagues to consider the rate.
The funeral for James Fisk Jr will be held today in Battleboro Vermont, his birthplace and longtime home of his youth.
The snow blockade of the Central Pacific shows the need for a southern transcontinental route. A southern railroad would avoid winter blockades, connect San Diego to San Francisco, and link Cincinnati and the South to vast mineral and agricultural wealth. It would boost manufacturing by enabling rapid distribution of goods to western markets.
The Tax Chamber of Commerce yesterday narrowly backed the Ferguson plan amid questions over the bill’s cost and scope. Business leaders prefer a definite plan that secures a Southern connection while seeking to avoid heavy outlay, with Willain's substitute reflecting broader sentiment.
The piece reviews Mexico’s turbulent history from colonial days to republic, argues against U.S. protectorate, and suggests Mexico should chart its own course. It notes European interference failed with Maximilian and contemplates U.S. guardianship as humanitarian but unlikely to occur, preferring voluntary cooperation or annexation only under consent.
Readers are urged to have the city committee examine Dr. Taylor's fuel-saving and smoke-burning furnace which is claimed to consume nine tenths of the smoke. Testimony from practical testers supports the claim.
Washington correspondent notes a Republican senator told Carl Schurz he could not lose the Democratic party. Schurz replied he never dreamed of it. The vie may leave Schurz loyal to the party until a nobler purer opposition arises. If he is disaffected, where are the true Republicans?
A tale of the Swiss youth who refused his father's trade to explore nature. Wandering through the Alps with little money, he pursued signs of nature as language. In London he impressed Sir Roderick Murchison and the Royal Society with his fish skeleton drawing, proving his early genius.
General Andrew Porter of Pennsylvania born in Lancaster served as cadet at West Point 1836 37 and rose through the ranks in the Mexican and Civil Wars. He held commands including Provost Marshal General of the Army of the Potomac and led mutiny suppression in Washington. He died in Paris on the 4th inst. leaving a reputation as a gallant soldier and faithful public servant.
A Cincinnati News Company note on The Kaneéas Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 issued in Topeka Kansas hails it as a West oriented literary venture. It compares favorably with Boston and cites Thackeray like sentiment about pleasing all readers while promising vigor from the New West.
The New York Herald reports the United States Naval Academy ball at Annapolis on the evening of the 5th lnst. Notables include a Cincinnatian, Lieutenant Christopher. President Grant and cabinet officers were absent. Many officials and naval officers from Washington attended, with guests from St. Land and other dignitaries present.
A ten year old boy, J. H. Broome of 106 East Thirty-Fifth Street, died after a mishap at a New York circus on Saturday. While handlers moved a wheel cage of animals in the ring, the boy was crushed when the rope and crowding action ensued, suffering a severe thigh and bladder injury that proved fatal.
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