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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1872
Page
2
The Daily Evening Star reports a circulation that exceeds all other Ohio afternoon papers by more than 3000 copies for the month of July.
The piece discusses establishing a Scranton silk factory and the need for silk eggs from Japan. It notes France and Italy lack raw silk supplies, China and Japan may embargo exports, and proposes importing silkworm eggs to feed on local oak leaves to yield heavier silk fiber.
A long discussion warns that recent car factory fires in Jersey City Philadelphia Newark and Jeffersonville suggest possible motives beyond accident. It notes extensive losses likely in the hundreds of thousands and ponders rivalries grudges and vindictive acts as potential causes, urging public awareness of such dangers.
An essay extols American industriousness, arguing Americans are workers not idlers. It rebuts the notion that labor is a divine curse, asserting toil honors and sustains earthly life and should accompany fortune rather than negate happiness.
The article argues workers’ gains are secured by law and cites census figures showing about 9.5 million adult males in gainful work, with nearly one third of the population in productive pursuits. It details native born dominance, sector distribution, and foreign-born shares by country, including Ireland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Asia, plus counts in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
The second number of the health monthly arrives with improved content. Features include articles on popular rates three classes of American girls electro-therapeutics by A D Rockwell practical guidance on teeth health ante natal influences use of wheat hygienic bathing and summer illness cures plus sea-sickness sun stroke smallpox and agriculture notes. Published at 889 Broadway New York by B R Wells at 20 cents a single issue or at a yearly rate.
A hotel keeper in the Lehigh valley planned to create a mountain echo for guests by hiding a boy to repeat voices from the roof. After half an hour with no echo a loud wrong message finally rang out causing guest laughter and the host to retreat. It is now dangerous to mention the word echo at the hotel.
A fragment reports a negro woman finding a gold ingot weighing about a half pound in orth Garotna. It mentions a ragcal man and a death linked to a potato bug infestation in a poor widow's garden patch.
Correspondent notes a grand camp meeting at Beira on July 1872 with an estimated five thousand in attendance. Roads and two extra trains to Marietta and Cincinnati carried hundreds. services ran from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. with a brief dinner break. Rev Palmer and Rev Arthur preached, a Miss Lehming spoke briefly and planned missionary work. crowd orderly, no drunkenness or disturbance observed.
Reports from Geneva and Paris summarize arbitration fees disputes between Britain and the United States, with England denying several claims and contemplating interest on awards. Other dispatches note a Mont Cenis railway landslide, Guise funeral, Juarez death affecting Mexico ties, Nilsson wedding, and Carlist defeats in Spain.
A broad sweep of tidbits includes weather damage in the Northwest with crops to suffer little on oats and wheat, and a report on furor in markets and rail progress. Duly noted are nautical, political, and social items from cities like Pittsburg New York and Chicago, with deaths, crimes, and civic events interspersed.
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