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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1875
Page
4
A long list of community items, meetings, and incidents covers preparations for a May festival, a Grand Hotel gathering, and a variety of local affairs. Reports include prison releases, school board vacancies, physician convocation, charitable contributions, church union progress, and a fatality case in the river noted by authorities.
The article previews Silas Kise Wennersby making her debut here under Miss Jennie Ot Joot campa. She is praised as unrivaled in the field, with past fame in Lydia Thompson's troupe. Her sister joins, and together they have enjoyed success across the country as crowds gather for the Aladdin performance this evening.
A lively row at Ge Saloon on Hunt ended after a pursuit to Woodward Street. Martin Twoley received four wounds, John Sullivan was stabbed in the skull, William Kelsey sustained five wounds, three in the neck and two in the hand. An unknown man was cut in the abdomen. Henry Niemeyer and Henry Bouchmer were arrested for cutting and remanded on bonds. The knife blade was recovered from the skull and a pistol found near the scene.
Covington saw a vast assembly witness the laying of the foundation stone for the Convent Church of St Joseph to accompany the Little Sisters of the Poor’s new building. The Gothic edifice will rise five stories on each wing and six in the main body, with a Mansard roof. front depth 112 feet, breadth about 46 feet, height 78 feet. The convent will house about 350 inmates across seventy-one rooms and a similar number of smaller cells, totaling 142 rooms. Architect is Mr Bevin. contracts awarded to Shoning. total cost over 100000 dollars. The procession started at Eighth and Sycamore. speeches by Mayes Johnston and others followed the ceremony.
Fragmentary OCR lists festival cuerdas members marked as stopped for compliance with attendance rules. Numbers such as 403 105 146 139 430 881 233 311 32 30 appear beside notes, with scattered names and phrases. Details are garbled and incomplete.
A Western correspondent visits Spotedd Pall, chieftain of the Northern Maux Indians, noting Wigwam judge, a friendly border trees by the margin, and a head soldier Two Strike. The scene describes a formal reception and escort to the chieftain’s square palace, with the judge and soldiers involved in the proceedings.
A garbled OCR fragment presents ethnographic sketches and frontier notes. It references a Gauged town with dances and adornments, a Red Trail, and a girl nicknamed the Princess. It also mentions Gall brothers cultivating mammoth headway near Denver and a village economy with eggs and spring chickens, plus a surge of immigrants to the West since March 1.
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