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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1872
Page
3
A letter from Janesville, February 1872, reports a sermon by a teacher praising charity. The observer describes how the message on loving your neighbor challenged local faults and the town’s petty judgments. The note notes the pastor’s call to avoid envy and to treat others with genuine kindness.
Senate debates a bill banning race based distinctions in Washington and Georgetown public schools. Discussion covers funding for mail service with Brazil, post office appropriations, and a proposal to abolish banking privileges after January. The session ends with executive adjournment and remarks on various bills introduced.
A congressional session discusses privilege and Foreign Affairs meetings with the President. Debates center on whether private consultations violate House rules. The Senate approves a bill funding Washington City liabilities as of 1871, with a House vote on the deficiency measure.
Women increasingly turn to poultry keeping as a profitable, patient pursuit amid high egg prices, praised for refined care and social appeal. Also notes on tanning leather methods, and clover cutting to avoid waste and improve manure value.
The Medical Recorder states children die because they are not cared for. From birth they are kept in waterlogged, hot, sealed conditions and only briefly allowed fresh air. They are dressed inadequately with exposed limbs and insufficient protection on cold days, increasing risk to health and life.
Foreign dispatches describe various events on May 6 including claims of Don Carlos capture rumors, Spanish government pressure, and Franco‑European tensions. Market notes mention American bonds flat while political chatter centers on Horace Greeley’s presidential nomination and related newspaper opinions.
A coke filler aboard a London and Eastern Company train leaped from a moving goods engine to reach a crossing. In darkness the driver did not see him and he ran into the fore foot of the next line, then was struck by a following down train at twelve miles an hour. He lay between the rails with minor injuries as the two trains passed.
Judge Ball cites 1799 smallpox cases near Hoosick Falls and a pest house. Seventy years later the dwelling showed no new cases until a repair worker fell ill with malignant smallpox. The article argues for stricter pest-house precautions to prevent transmission.
The text hints at a Continental inn keeper's marriage and a scattered group moving through a desert region under threat. It mentions a tribe’s life, pacific aims, and armed travelers including a man from North Canalis. The fragmentary passage implies danger and possible extinction concerns for a mixed group.
At Hanley England a traveling exhibit by Bostock and Wombwell arrived with an elephant that injured a child with a stone misdirecting the animal. The elephant lifted a hay fork and dropped the child after keeper intervention. The boy died despite medical care and injuries were sustained by others.
The Daily Star asserts its circulation has more than doubled in two months and continues to rise. It denies giving away copies and emphasizes careful, economical publication to provide a live newspaper at a reasonable rate, inviting skeptics to accept the bona fide figures.
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