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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1872
Page
2
The Star announces circulation at 7500 and from today will publish three daily editions. The piece critiques Liberal Republicans and Straight-Outs courting workingmen, noting Wil son and Greeley as campaign figures and urging workers to press demands before November.
The Star expands from twenty four to forty eight columns and maintains a dollar yearly price. It pledges independence from parties while delivering choice literary scientific agricultural and other content. Subscribers can choose one of six chromes including Catching Sunbeams with family scenes and a child learning music as a central image.
A description of a noisy, heartwarming series of domestic images. A tired child droops in a chair as a cat steals a moment, a Newfoundland lies at ease under a boy's touch, and a mother guides a game of hide and seek in a cozy kitchen setting with a country view through the window.
The Philadelphia Convention has nominated Grant and Wilson, a move viewed as strengthening the ticket against Greeley in the South. Contenders like Colfax lose influence, while party balance and Western support remain uncertain as canvassing progresses. The outcome hinges on regional dynamics in New York and the South.
The Republican national platform from Philadelphia pledges loyalty to the Union, calls for equal rights, constitutional amendments, civil service reform, and limitations on land grants. It endorses reducing debt, protecting veterans, fair immigration, and avoiding foreign entanglements while promoting wage growth and industrial prosperity.
A political platform praises loyal women, amnesty for rebels, states rights, and measures to boost commerce and shipbuilding. It lauds Ulysses S. Grant as leader and notes public applause as the platform is adopted after General Burnside moves approval.
In Aurora Indiana two men named Johnson and Cope killed saloon keeper Olph with a blunt weapon and were jailed. Indianapolis officer Rodney Shea was beaten by a rescue gang likely to die from a severe head wound. A gunman named Bill Cheek attempted to kill Lewis Little in Aurora. Mary Lewis was arrested for murder after a fatal fight with Mary Wagner in Indianapolis.
Six weeks after injuries to ten year old Alice Snyder, inflicted by eight year old Willie Van Wagoner with a four foot knotty stick near Caroline and Nelson streets, Alice died Monday at 3 PM. The coroner's jury examined Flora Potter and Lydia Snyder, and adjourned for further testimony to Wednesday morning.
The article praises small courtesies in farming communities especially water troughs for travelers and beasts. It urges road authorities to support free watering points and notes the Southern Pacific survey placing the Colorado Desert three hundred feet below sea level with the line running below sea level for over fifty miles.
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