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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1872
Page
3
A mother contemplates her son growing from baby dresses to pantalooned boyhood. She reflects on leaving infant attire, the bittersweet goodbye to babyhood, and hopes the boy will choose virtue and good over hardship as he steps toward adulthood.
The editor notes sunflowers have broad economic value. An acre supports about 25 thousand plants at one foot spacing, attracting bees for honey, with seed yield near 50 bushels per acre and 50 gallons of oil. Oil suitable for table use and lamp burning, soap, and painting. oil cake, stalks for potash or fiber like silk. fiber efficiency questionable. may have sanitary value against miasma and seeds for poultry feed.
A historical report details thirty years of minting at Philadelphia and branches, totaling 1 093 638 986 dollars with an annual average of 32 165 826. For 1871 the year end, coinage reached 40 158 405, including gold and silver coins and bars and nickel coin. It notes the longstanding coinage law and proposed amendments challenging government charges for refining stamping and coining, arguing costs exceed refining costs by 14 cents per ounce while mint charges run 8 to 11 cents.
A cheerful note extols German pansies as top garden flowers with rich colors and smiling faces. Ten cents buys a bed of seeds that self-sow and endure, offering life-long beautification with minimal upkeep. The piece also provides guidance on easy omelet making and concludes with a French petition demand for free and secular education.
The Geneva Board of Arbitration labors heavily as British protests complicate evidence while Paris reports mass executions and strikes. Juarez dies in Mexico, Lerdo de Tejada poised to assume provisional presidency, Tamaulipas rebels defeated, frontier pacified, civil rule restored. Cholera declines in St Petersburg as global unrest persists.
The text argues that before the recent war U S six percent bonds held strong demand at 126 in gold and the government offered 120 in old to redeem them. It asserts national wealth and integrity warrant high credit and that prudent management will restore credit, with long six percent bonds at 126 and lower-rate bonds at similar levels.
The Castle of St. Angelo sits on the Tiber outskirts, a fortress with a storied past. It witnessed Gothic and Roman conflicts and, per legend, a vision of St Michael guiding Rome away from plague, earning its name as a symbol of papal power amid tenth and eleventh century church rivalries.
A doctor examined thirty eight boys aged nine to fifteen finding twenty seven showed harmful tobacco effects. Circulation digestion disorders, nosebleeds, sleep disturbance and mouth ulcers were common. health improved after quitting tobacco. The piece also mentions university youths in Illinois and a coal shaft trespass anecdote.
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