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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1872
Page
3
A fragmented eighteenth century style verse recalls a dead wife and the living gaze. An attic room fills with dust memory and a painting whose eyes seem to follow the living, haunting the house with sorrow and eerie persistence.
A letter to Mrs. Morton Foster reveals Morton Foster died in Chelsea on the 30th ultime. He claimed his health was ruined by duplicitous Dr and Mrs Burr who fled with his wealth after a plot to keep him sedated. Lulu, his wife, finds solace in his final confession and hopes they are judged by God. The note recounts a year of deceit and a widow’s grief. Other items note Baptist preacher salaries in North Carolina, pastors moving, and Lutheran Synod data.
The nine months receipts averaged about one thousand barrels daily. Each barrel held eighty dozen eggs, totaling roughly 960 eggs per barrel and near a million eggs per day. At 30 cents per dozen, daily value reached 24,000 dollars, about 3,709,000 dollars yearly.
An anecdote about attempting to craft handsome rag mats blending colors in imagination rather than worsted yarn. The author recalls taking mats to a fair, faulty entry handling, and finding their work lost amid other displays. They recount a failed experience last year and share a basic method for making color blended mats for readers interested in trying the craft.
Great stock market recovery led by Pacific Mail and Panama issues with heavy short covering. Erie declines two percent as European steamers bring Erie stock to New York. violence in Hunterdon New Jersey follows a race riot between whites and blacks over a railroad tunnel project with several killings and arrests. Dining-room crowd figures show large meal counts at major city hotels and inns.
Fire fighters responded to a morning blaze at the Brighton Flour Mills on Central avenue near Denman street. The fire reached the two story mill quickly, destroying vast grain stocks and threatening adjacent houses and the brewery. Estimated losses run to about 18 000 to 20 000 dollars. Authorities suspect arson as the cause.
Acting Commissioner Chesley of the Internal Revenue Bureau reverses his prior ruling and allows redemption of unused documentary stamps as of October 1, 1872 without extra legislation. Citizens may mail stamps with affidavits of nonuse for redemption, with penalties and conditions, including a five percent deduction and potential exchange at par for checks or proprietary stamps.
The piece notes two million bee swarms in the United States with each hive yielding about twenty two pounds of honey. At twenty five cents per pound, bees generate over eight million eight hundred thousand dollars annually after sustenance costs. The author expects further growth in apiary interests. It also cites a translation of love in an Indian language and a playful phrase.
A vivid description of six chromes shows a boy with a garlanded “pet lamb” on a crimson cushion, a sleepy child with a cat and a Newfoundland dog in a boudoir, and a mother with two children in a cozy kitchen. Each scene exudes domestic warmth, inviting subscribers.
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