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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1873
Page
3
A collage of items reports flood losses at a Trenton slaughterhouse with livestock swept away, a Brooklyn ex mayor near death and financially strained, odd powders, and social mores. It notes Cuban sympathy protests in New York, a Chicago police recruit’s earnings, and a Kansas debate on a mother and son. Also covered are farming notes, rural observations, and a Decatur Illinois shooting misfire.
The Gemantown Telegraph extols a RO mode method for transplanting tomatoes cabbage cantaloupe and other tender plants. It advises filling a vessel bed with manure water and rich soil to a mushy consistency, coating roots, setting in a round hole, then firming and watering again with manure water, asserting consistent success and low effort.
The text argues that great men arise from superior mothers rather than fathers. It suggests mothers determine brain power and that intellectual excellence requires early favorable conditions. Fashionable life drains vitality, producing weaker offspring unable to stand out when inheritance fades.
A twenty year review of Woodstock Ontario rail and carriage bridge cables shows no deterioration after removal of caps and inspection of anchorages and masonry. The cables remain bright and sound as when placed, cement preserving the wires, proving the bridge’s enduring safety and the builders’ wisdom for travelers and investors.
A shipboard parrot escapes to a church and interrupts a stern sermon by shouting All hands below. The sermon falters as the congregation panics and flees, while the bird keeps signaling in its comic taunt. An elderly woman unable to flee is joined by the parrot’s final jab.
The fragment speaks of a wife’s love as a chain of countless caring links binding self-respect and devotion. It suggests severing one link would break the whole, likening the chain to many destroyed or damaged connections.
The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western, and Indianapolis Cincinnati Lafayette roads have invested about 100,000 to form the Queen City Freight Line. Running between Peoria and Cincinnati, the line serves distillers and grain merchants, expanding markets for Central Illinois cereals and easing ship shortages. The new service is reported to be performing well.
Charles Caine owns a large orchard near San Jose and uses sun exposure to color apples. After picking, apples are laid in long flat piles under tree shade to finish coloring in two to three weeks. Top layers color, are boxed, and sent to market, with Baldwins Smiths Cider and Spitzenbergs highlighted as especially fine.
An eminent Presbyterian asks Prof Tyndall through our columns for his ground of grievance against Presbyterians. Tyndall says they have merely argued prayer is not a vain form, an old belief held before science altered the world. He suggests Presbyterians might retort that he rails at religion, a serious charge. The piece notes belief in prayer can unite humanity as much as light phenomena.
An account describes a tin tube setup used to blast emery onto glass to drill a hole and form a star shaped cut. The apparatus includes a six foot tube angled, a one twelfth inch nozzle, and a lead insert to imprint a star pattern on the glass. The craft promises implications for artistic glass manipulation.
The article surveys animal vision, noting hawks and eagles spot victims from great heights due to specialized eyes. It mentions snail eyes at horn tips, hammer headed sharks with wide-set eyes, and flies with fixed, immobile eyes, highlighting diverse ocular adaptations across species.
Sidney Dillon testified before the Credit Mobilier inquiry and noted stock transfers involving Durant Ames and Brooks. Brooks requested 50 more shares, transferred to Neilson who borrowed funds to pay for them. Wilson's committee heard Rollins, Pacifi c road treasurer, on its books as part of informal reviews. Congress discussed Boston Relief, Geneva awards, and military casualty bonuses.
Society notices list meeting days Monday Wednesday Thursday at Walnut with remarks on a “The Pet Lamb” subject. The column describes art scene depictions, seating, curtains, and lamb motif comparisons, noting chromes and paper specimens from the Bar Fabricking Company.
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