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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1872
Page
3
The poem describes an old couple by a cottage as a daughter’s memory fades with spring. Water drips by the lock, the cuckoo’s call roams the manor, and a night of wrenched rain seals the daughter’s fate in sorrowful tone. The speaker laments the lost daughter and reflects on years of fear and memory.
Instructions describe four one sided wooden buttons screwed to top face-casings of window sashes. When aligned, turning ends downward presses sash outward to stop rattling and seal gaps. Placed mid-sash height on each stile to press sides and block drafts.
A Faribault correspondent recounts a German family aboard a coach with a mischievous trigger. The father returns to grab a sleeping child just before the train departs, quipping that he counts and misses one, illustrating a humorous note on parental instinct.
The article explains how to determine a sheep’s age by inspecting lower incisor teeth. It outlines tooth eruption and replacement milestones at two, three, four, five, seven, and eight years, noting reliability declines after eight and recommending caution beyond that.
The piece discusses how younger sons like the Bulwers, Dalling and Bulwer, Lytton, Wellington, Marlborough, Mansfield, Pitt, Erskine, and Gladstone achieved high titles or honors through initiative, while elder brothers often stayed on estates. It notes Cambridge and Oxford circles, primogeniture, and family strategy.
A city council debate presents several marble monument designs honoring Roger Williams. The plans feature full length Williams statues, figures of Indians and Puritans, canvases of liberty themes, inscriptions like Soul Liberty and Hail Columbia, and varied pedestals, baskets of flowers, and panels depicting colonial scenes.
A 1600s Venice legend describes Tebaldo, a skilled craftsman who builds a deadly spring lancet disguised as a large key. He targets a noble couple, killing the bridegroom and later attempting the bride, with the weapon hidden in fleshveneer. The story ends with Tebaldo’s arrest and execution by the authorities. Separately, a Carlisle court frees Dr Schoeppe after a not guilty verdict and he heads to Baltimore.
The ex Grand Vizier Mahomed Pacha has been sentenced by the Sultan to imprisonment and his estates confiscated for malversation amounting to a hundred thousand pounds sterling.
A vintage catalog description presents six chromes titled Catching Sunbeams Sing Pussy Pet Lamb Unconscious Sleeper Hide and Seek and a fifth subject. Each depicts tender home life with mothers grandmothers and children in farm or cozy rooms. The Sunbeam scene shows a toddler reaching for light while a window frames hills and mansion. The Pussy scene shows a girl forcing a cat to “face the music.” The Lamb picture shows a boy decorating a lamb with flowers. The Unconscious Sleeper shows a child asleep as a Newfoundland rests nearby. Hide and Seek depicts a mother watching over two children amid kitchen scene. Sold by subscription for The Star Publishing Company Cincinnati.
The Charleston Courier estimates the current year's cotton crop at 3,400,000 to 3,600,000 bales, with Washington dispatches noting the projection as a national agricultural outlook. The report situates the estimate in the broader context of 19th century cotton production and market expectations.
Judge Carter presided as 8 cases opened the Police Court this morning with many new matters. Names include Kennedy Gallager McShay Kline Kelley Fay and several others for drunkenness disorderly conduct resisting officers and assault with various fines and workhouse terms. A separate list notes newsboys and bootblacks organizing a relief effort toward a Newsboys Home.
New York markets show mixed prices for flour and wheat with firm to steady tendencies in corn oats and lard while sugar cacao and linseed move modestly. London and Liverpool quotes for wheat pork beef and lard reflect steady to higher tones with various regional prices and nightly ranges.
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