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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1873
Page
2
Governor is generous in his retiring message urging the Legislature to raise the Governor salary to 10000 before the new term. He notes constitutional limits on increases during a term and criticizes the policy that shifts wealth from producers to non producers amid rising corn and pork prices.
The report shows 459 patients supported by Hamilton county and 126 by friends. The year’s average daily census was 58 with a peak of 608. Admissions numbered 246, including 117 males and 129 females, mostly single or married, with a mix of natives and foreigners. Occupations varied from common labor to domestic service and many without work. all ages above 10 noted and none under.
The piece argues the New York World overestimates Grant opponents by counting potential voters from census data and population growth. It criticizes usury laws as relics of barbarism, endorsing repeal and favoring market morality based on integrity and prudence.
Governor Geary aims to curb pardons but retains a pardon list similar to his predecessor. New York City’s aggregate wealth is tallied with 797,125,115 in real estate and 206,049,429 in personal property, while the mayor criticizes the city’s high per head and per family assessments. Credit Mobilier books promise revelations. Kansas election bribery costs are estimated near 70,000, with the Pacific road implicated. monopoly and speculation underpin political corruption, tainting national morale.
In New Orleans on January 13 two inaugurations drew large crowds. Governor John McEnery spoke in Lafayette Square before about forty thousand, while Governor W P Kellogg presided at Mechanics Institute with around five hundred in attendance. A false fire alarm disrupted Box 82 early morning. A scrap iron theft led to Edward Bush's detention at Hammond Street Station. Coal boats arrived, signaling heavy shipments expected by tomorrow night. The Grove and Baker Sewing Machine Co of Massachusetts filed a petition in the Circuit Court against Elijah Grimes and W H Hurd of Muskingum County to recover 840 dollars plus interest from November 30 on a debt for seven machines. There was no court session today as Judge Swing was delayed returning from Batavia.
A summary of property deals listing parties such as Abraham Bohm Samuel Fluschman William and wife C C Jeffries and others. Transactions include parcels on Ninth Street Freeman Street Second Street Plum Street and Fairview Avenue with various lot sizes and prices, plus cemetery and leasehold notes.
Market report shows barley scarce and high prices, with cattle and pork sales varied. Flour and lard markets steady, green meats opening strong then softening, whisky demand moderate, and wholesale bulk items showing moderate activity.
Harpers summarize U S journalism history from the first Boston pamphlet Public Occurrences to the late 19th century. It notes Benjamin Harris as publisher, a single issue fate, the 1704 News Letter, daily papers starting 1784, and 1870s counts of 542 dailies and about 5 000 weeklies with hundreds of millions of copies yearly. It contrasts U S output with Britain and France and recalls Father Pickering on double weekly editions.
Market notes from New York and York report quiet but steady sentiment for pork beef and bacon with prices noted for flour wheat and oats. Calibrated figures show winter wheat around 1 25 19s 3d and red flour around 11 85 per barrel with other commodity quotes across Cities.
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