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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1872
Page
2
The piece condemns exchange lists for spreading contradictory statements. It argues readers cannot trust any paper, since each distorts facts to fit its party. Reading only one paper is safer, while exchanges breed doubt and bias across the press.
Friends of William Smith longtime superintendent of the Chamber of Commerce and editor of the Cincinnati Price Current report he is dangerously ill at his home, 455 West Ninth Street, with prognosis considered grave.
The piece ridicules summer flittings as a frauds and comforts chase in city life. It laments the heat wave with references to ice cream soda and shade while condemning the mania for costly hotels and crowded resorts. It argues many seek rest yet end up in restless, poorly ventilated rooms and wasted expenses.
The passage invites urban residents to retreat in a genteel country farm-house surrounded by fields and forests. It promises wholesome bread, tender poultry, creamy milk, and untainted produce. It vows quiet, comfort, rest, and renewal away from rival social display, with a healthy return noted by neighbors.
The article notes the nine year anniversary of independence and describes bells, cannon, fireworks, and speeches as traditional observances. It lists numerous excursions, picnics, theater, band concerts, and church events across Cincinnati venues and nearby areas with schedules and depots mentioned for the day.
Crop notes from Germantown Ohio report barley all cut and stored, wheat harvest varying from abundant to poor, oats unusually strong, hay light, corn thriving, and potatoes late with rough weather causing uneven yields. Local farmers report mixed yields across Twin Creek valley.
June reports note a $200,000 vote to the Columbia Toledo railroad, a heat spike in the East, and an array of incidents from accidents in Toledo to a deadly stabbing in St. Louis. Other items include labor party meetings, a Cuban expedition success belief, fires in Philadelphia and Hillsboro, and a 17 to 0 Boston baseball win.
A Claremont Minnesota correspondent asks for guidance on planting European larch and other timber trees. The writer seeks seed costs sowing times treatment and suitable species for fuel fencing and lumber. advice recommends native species first and notes European larch seeds at $3 per pound.
Paris reports a treaty for the evacuation of France by German forces, with ratifications due within a week. The accord schedules indemnities in francs, sets evacuation dates for Marne Ardennes Vosges Metz Meurthe, and allows Germany to retain occupation forces until debt is settled. A loan bill was to be introduced in the National Assembly.
The Pars of the L and B W R R at Crawfordsville was entered last night. The agent was chloroformed and the safe opened yielding over 1400 dollars. The building burned but flames were contained. The agent was rescued after near suffocation. The report also notes the Richmond carpenter W H Reynolds found dead near Indianapolis St Louis track. Numerous local events and notices follow, including church cornerstone laying at Lewisburg, canal boat charters, accidents, and fair dates.
A fragmentary tale recalls a gullible reader sent a dollar for a dyspepsia cure, laughed at, and cured. a bookbinder jokes about wedding plans, and a garden transplant note claims a large tree may bear sooner. The Boston Traveller cites Shakespeare predicting Grant’s eight-year term.
A Danish couple aboard a bride tour were injured in the Metuchen railroad smashup. The bride lost an arm but the ring remained on her finger. the husband recovered consciousness and found the severed limb after a concealed train crewman betrayed the arm. The bride was moved to St Barnabas Hospital in Newark and remains in recovery.
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