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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1872
Page
2
Text appears as a fragmented advertisement line showing monetary figures and prices. The readable portion lists amounts and a series of numbers likely denoting rates or items. No clear event or person is identified.
Cincinnati readers review the Boston Peace Jubilee as a colossal spectacle with twenty thousand performers in a vast hall. Critics note the mismatch between volume and musical unity, admitting Boston’s proud noise yet urging a natural limit to concord and crowd-sourced sound.
The writer argues a second Indian War is inevitable on the southwestern frontier. They condemn native tribes as savage and beyond civilization, claiming extinction is the only outcome. They criticize government efforts to assimilate or relocate Indigenous peoples as failures.
Report notes a yesterday gathering of editors at Niagarea Park and a club resolution urging loyalty pledges amid shared prosperity. A detective pressed for formal action in an abduction case and demanded cooperation from authorities.
The New York Herald prints Long Branch dispatches under The Federal Family. Officials think Geneva Conference arbiters may remove barriers to progress. A Plank road distillery case verdict hits 300000 dollars with a not guilty as to one defendant. Kentucky's first black jury in Louisville convicts a coloured man for stabbing another amid calm on the sacred soil.
A New York correspondent at Long Branch reports the President’s stables contain the usual horses two Newfoundland dogs and a stubborn donkey. The President asks whose donkey it is and a stable boy cannot answer while a friend jokes it may be used to stump for Greeley.
A fragmented exchange shows a reader mocking the editor over corrections to the Price Current. The dialogue features a boy protesting and an elder replying to stop the fuss as the paper claims all corrections are completed.
The piece argues peanuts have high commercial value beyond eating, noting their oil content rivaling olive and almond oils and their use as illuminating oil. It cites California as leading the world in peanut cultivation and describes the crop as highly profitable in the state.
Observations on respiration describe lungs as two unequal sacs joined at the neck. The text notes life relies on oxygen, leaves breathe, and trees supply air. it discusses leaf area, plant and animal dependence, and the fragile balance of life when breathing is impaired.
The German Day of the Jubilee fills the Coliseum with large crowds despite heat and dust. Franz Abt and Madame Pescha Leutner wow the audience as Gilmore struggles with singing through a trumpet aid. The Boston police ushers lead a military style layout as Franz Abt conducts and Mendelssohn and Handel pieces thrill listeners.
Aimerica in the Ground hosted a Kaiser Band performance with Meyerbeer and Weber overtures. The basses dominated at times but the overall display showed masterful technique and grand, thrilling sound. The audience roared approval for Der Wacht am Rhein as the program closed.
The report notes the NYC strike nearly over, the Jumel case to be tried again, and the Chicago session of the National Division of the TT. It mentions German Pope election influence, alarming Spain, Valmaseda’s Cuban resignation, and the Geneva arbitrators’ adjournment. Also covered are Erie stock declines, Jay Gould Erie conspiracy rumors, Tyner’s presidential nomination, Vatican convents law, and New Orleans quarantine plans for Caribbean and Latin ports.
The article surveys venerable trees and legendary groves from England, France, Italy, and Turkey, noting elms, oaks, and cedars aged centuries. Descriptions cover size, hollow trunks, and protective supports, with relics like the Big Tree on Boston Common and the Somma cypress in Lombardy. It mentions Watertown near Fitchburg and the Mall's tree-lined vision. The piece closes with New Albany Posting on Bessemer steel works linked to Louisville line completion.
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