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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1872
Page
3
A poetic meditation on charity and mercy urges facing others’ pain with kindness. It contrasts judgment with empathy and asks readers to unlock compassion within their hearts, sharing love despite faults. The piece emphasizes enduring virtue as life’s guiding light.
An amusing scene unfolds as a crowd crowds around a butler joke at a social gathering. A wife insists on ice and a lemonade, while General Butler is humorously challenged. The incident ends with a police seizure of a belligerent husband and a repayment for terrapins. A California tale then recounts a deadly duel between Armistead and Jones. Armistead fires fifteen times, Jones eleven, Armistead dies two hours later after expressing affection for Aunt Sallie and Charlie.
A literary piece argues winds shape character with joking archetypes of north, west, east, and south winds and their temperaments. It notes the south wind as especially potent in stirring longing and poetry. The section hints at an ensuing small poem by a young lady staying with the writer, but truncates after mentioning its opening lines.
A New Jersey child died on Tuesday in Pemberton after a period of dangerous illness with strange symptoms. While awaiting funeral rites at Mount Holly Cemetery the child suddenly coughed and opened its eyes, was moved from the coffin, but died again. No hope remained for revival.
This piece encourages families to plant grape vines by showing how simple trimming and nourishment are for common readers. It advises selecting Concord Ware Adirondack varieties, preparing rich soil with manure bones and ashes, and using soapy wash water as a fertilizer to boost growth and fruiting.
The St. Louis Dispatch comments on Col. Jim Fisk’s limited legacy and Jay Gould’s failure to anticipate Fisk’s resourcefulness. It recalls the rapid Erie coup by Sickles, noting Gould’s lack of reserves and defeat, likening it to a bad Waterloo. Fisk, now dead in Connecticut, is seen as beyond the swindle’s reach.
A culinary piece extols boiling fat for crisp fried foods and notes frying fat must fully cover items. It adds guidance on deep pans and proper temperatures. The piece closes with Chicago welfare figures: weekly poor relief $140,000, 9000 rations issued, treasury $600,000.
A fragmentary roster names WAM L Robinson as president John Walliman vice president Samt W Bell treasurer Edward Leally secretary W W Roberts with other listed figures including T HW McGeehir N Roff Bishop T C Campbell P Webster Wm Caven R H Flemming Iton Alex Long A J White John P Story G W Cormany John Brenner Dr A M Brown Theo Schumaker Jacob Haas noting prominent community roles in a municipal or organizational context.
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