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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1872
Page
2
A small classified item notes a price of $600 with a quantity described by digits three zero zero and a unit price of 1 60 in an aged newspaper context. The fragment implies a sale or listing but provides no clear product or seller.
A local essay warns that boiler explosions threaten thousands amid widespread steam machinery and near pavements. It urges stricter exams and active supervision of dangerous boiler and magazine installations to prevent future deadly collapses and widespread ruin.
A editorial urges citizens to scrutinize national leaders, resist office seekers, and participate in elections. It warns against apathy and endorses active involvement to ensure a competent and accountable government. It stresses vigilance from presidents to local officials and condemns nonparticipation.
The piece urges vigilance and respectful disagreement in politics. It argues for awake citizens who check excesses while avoiding uncharitable attacks on opponents. It favors courteous contest as a safeguard for free institutions during a coming struggle for power.
General news items report Brooklyn house pffiters on strike, Empress of Augeia perceived, New York voucher thieves to be tried next Monday. California dry for crops, San Francisco mining stocks firm. France sees no communal demonstration. Chicago reports John McDonald killed by fallen tree. Nova Scotia faces coal famine due to snow blockade. Pacific Mail subsidy bill prospects viewed as poor. South Carolina Ku Klux cases argued before Supreme Court. Chicago civic leader Alex White dies. Pittsburg official declines state auditor post. 1871 US imports and exports in gold recorded. French Assembly budget panel rejects Thiers tax plan on textiles. Apollo Hall leader dies by own hand. domestic trouble cited. Doolittle opens Democratic campaign in Connecticut. US Treasurer distributes coin checks for 1862 bonds. Sawdust swindle suppression bill eyed by NY Legislature. Military prison proposal floated by House Committee. Judge Davis avoids accepting labor nomination. Taft of Nebraska to propose citizenship for Indians. A. H. Mills of St Paul reportedly dies in St Louis from poisoning. Stanton, Maryland collector, detained for alleged defalcation. Salt Lake reports huge female Mormon vote at constitutional election. Ezra Arnold family tragedy from poisoned tea. Sir Charles Dilke prompts Commons debate over crown expenses. Mississippi Supreme Court rules Confederate wartime railroad debts payable in greenbacks. civilians not liable for cotton destroyed by Confederate orders.
In the Winter Palace a scene shows Constantine choking Alexander as they reenact the murder of Paul I. Constantine is arrested for attempted strangulation while Alexander is imprisoned for begging mercy. Potatoes in Allen County Kansas sell 90c to $1 per peck and corn yields 20c. A movement to nominate Horace Greeley by the Cincinnati convention is reported.
Senate actions include passage of the Kearsarge officers relief bill with $190000 in prize money. The Chicago relief bill faces opposition and amendments as Senators push for or against direct appropriations and tariff considerations. House debates weigh reporting rules and a Pacific Mail subsidy.
Advice from Bonn reports about about one hundred Old Catholic delegates holding a meeting last week. They resolved to call a general congress to meet at Cologne in September and to present a petition against the Jesuits to the Reichstag.
At a New York meeting F J Ottarson cited a London published description of General Washington from 1779. The account praises Washington as a virtuous, capable leader whose military talent and character earned the respect of allies and will be remembered by posterity.
In Lincoln county, extensive pine woods thrive northwestern Alma and adjoining Whitefield. Multiple 15 to 25 acre tracts are timbered, replacing former oakhardwood staves operations. Pines reach forty to sixty feet high with two foot diameters at ground.
The piece mocks Dr Lethe by asserting a supposed link between hard water and healthier English livestock and people. It notes hard water districts claim lower death rates, while soft water supposedly correlates with poorer outcomes, ending with a quip that soft water is worse than beer.
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