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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1872
Page
2
Early reports indicate the United States may harvest around 4,000,000 bales of cotton this season possibly exceeding that figure. If surpassed, Indian cotton could be driven from the market as U.S. mills prefer domestic supply at reasonable prices, since Indian cotton is considered inferior to American.
The piece notes ongoing Cuban unrest despite claims of subduing, cites Valmaseda's brief rule and $3,000,000 in plunder, and describes growing revolutionary activity and worsening governance in Cuba amid Spanish turmoil.
The Marquis de Noailles arrives as French Minister to the United States and asserts there is no chance of Napoleon restoration while praising Thiers as indispensable to the Republic. The piece notes concern over a republic dependent on a single elderly figure and mentions Marshal McMahon as ready to act if Thiers dies or resigns.
The article argues that only Grant or Greeley can lead the nation for the next four years. It praises both as eminent citizens with proven service and unblemished records, confident either would safeguard the Commonwealth.
The piece compares General Grant and Horace Greeley, noting their humble origins and opposite paths to fame. Grant embodies military prowess and decisive action, while Greeley embodies editorial influence and public persuasion, yet both are seen as benefactors of the nation bound by shared aims of freedom, union, and progress.
The July number of The American Farmers' Ad Advocate offers articles on The Present Cotton Crop, Proceedings of the National Agricultural Congress, emigration toward the South, meteorological crop research, and weather reports. Published in Jackson Tennessee by the Advocate Publishing Company, it is a sixteen page monthly edited by Charles W. Green.
Frost touches parts of New York while Boston reports Sommer for Greeley. J P Thompson readies Northern frontier notes amid planned burnings. Geneva tribunal disallows damages claims. Florida damages set at 2 600 000. Blair and wife stay at East Hampton as Barnard impeachment hearings commence. Paris trade falters. Thiers allies drift. President departs Long Branch for Washington. A drowning near Louisville follows a river jump. a Nebras ka City fire destroys Morton's block and telegraph offices. Fire also hits B St Joseph rail eatery. Philadelphia publishers suffer a 30000 loss.
Robert Bunker, in this city, received from Japan eggs of the Bom bas and Yama Mai silkworms. Nineteen of twenty-two eggs hatched, worms nearly grown and starting cocooning. The species feeds on oak leaves, not mulberry, and produces a stronger, cheaper silk that could rival linen. Growth is rapid, with five to six molts in under three months. Eggs hatch in spring and early summer. many eggs sent to botanists and amateurs for testing.
Dr Roosa in a university anniversary address contends that diseases track civilization and modern ailments like neuralgia and myopia rise with urban life. He cites German and Oxford data on myopia, urges trained surgeons plus researchers in diseased tissues, insanity shades, and acoustics for aiding the deaf.
Various notices list the Gosport Independent up for sale, over $350 raised for an artesian well at Kent land, and a Wayne county distillery project. Reports note deaths from accidents near Fort Wayne and Celestine, a cat attack on Crown Point’s postmaster son, a Col John Williams graft claim, a rearrested horse thief, Durgin trial rulings, libel suit in Evansville, a Haubstadt wagon accident with fatal skull fracture, German adulterated coffee found, and Britain’s 1871 birth and marriage stats plus Mississippi River steamers.
A speculative essay argues that a hermaphroditic or female politician would need to shed femininity for political combat. It envisions a campaigner marching through heckling crowds, trading jests, enduring blows, and mastering rhetoric, ending with a housing of the parliament she may one day join.
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