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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1872
Page
2
The June term records forty four railroad accidents with sixty three dead and one hundred fourteen injured. Causes include collisions and machinery failures amid a year marked by political editorials that mock party platforms and mock Greeley’s record. The piece compares global travel and laments sensationalism in press.
In Cordova near Buenos Ayres residents, devout and wary, treated a recently built railroad as the devil’s creation. After observing the locomotive, crowds pelted trains with stones and finally tore up the track and demolished the machinery, suggesting urgent missionary work.
Auditor of State of Illinois notes a staggering Chicago fire loss of about 115 million dollars with only 37 million paid. Insurance firms showed weak assets versus policies, prompting calls that a "wild cat" system risked public confidence. British companies paid promptly with minimal unpaid salvage, while Illinois and Ohio firms posted large unpaid claims and low payout rates.
The piece argues that notes from failed banks fetch a four percent premium as bankers exploit regulatory gaps to retire broken-bank notes. It contends solvency does not prevent investors from valuing broken-bank notes higher due to quota manipulation and Treasury exchanges, boosting circulation and profits.
A boomerang from Santiago Canyon in Los Angeles County is displayed at the California Academy of Sciences. It is described as used by local Indians in the same manner as Australian nations though its use in California is rare. Historical Los Angeles records note boomerangs among the region’s weaponry.
A Port Said dispatch notes the arrival and departure for England of the Livingstone search hero and a son of Dr. Livingstone. In New York a German Reichstag figure argues Bismarck will curb emigration by law, while Vienna reports a German envoy may wed the United States minister’s daughter.
In a vivid account the writer chronicles David Livingstone's six year search across Africa after leaving Zanzibar in 1866. Stanley meets the doctor at Ujiji while Livingstone pushes toward Tanganyika and Manyema, seeking the source of the Nile and the mysteries of the Lualaba.
The London Telegraph contemplates Livingstone’s possible discovery of the Nile's origins, suggesting the Lualaba could flow east or north, redefining Victoria Nyanza and Albert Nyanza. It envisions a future where Livingstone uncovers mother springs and Baker Pasha ventures to found a new kingdom for the Viceroy of Egypt.
Rev Charles Wetherby urges open pure affection among schoolgirls and warns against clandestine flirat ions. He counsels mothers as friends, emphasizes duty to study, and frames moral development as the path to becoming educated women guided by a caring pastor.
At a London meeting the Palestine Exploration Fund announced it is out of debt with a healthy bank balance and about fifteen thousand dollars annual income. Capt. Cowder of the Royal En Signet was named successor to Capt. Sewart as head of Palestine surveys amid hopes of new discoveries in Jerusalem. An exchange at the meeting highlighted the value of accurate surveys of Palestine.
A lecture raised questions about funding for Palestinian exploration and missions. Critics accused it of misusing funds, but supporters argued missions spur home industry and emigration. The piece cites Archbishop York defending mission work and notes a summer boarding ad in a daily paper.
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