Stephen Foster youth's golden gleam - online book

His Life And Background In Cincinnati 1846 - 1850 by Raymond Walters

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A Tale of Two Border Cities           77
may be sure, to this newspaper advertise­ment24 of the final concert of the Kneass troupe,, a benefit performance on the evening of October 28:
The Company beg leave to an­nounce that on Wednesday Evening, they will award a beautiful
GOLD MEDAL!
for the best Original Ethiopian Ex­travaganza adapted to an old or orig­inal melody. The songs, or a part of them, will be sung before the audi­ence and the prize, as selected by a Committee, awarded. The papers next day did not report the out­come or the contest.