Advertising Rates Note in Transient Ads
Legal and all transient advertisements priced at 63 per square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each additional insertion. A liberal yearly reduction applied to advertising.
11 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1883
Page
1
Legal and all transient advertisements priced at 63 per square for the first insertion and 50 cents for each additional insertion. A liberal yearly reduction applied to advertising.
The Northwestern press misrepresented his stance on the bill for cattle disease protection. He advocated strong measures, including a veterinary division in the Agriculture Department, and was disappointed by the bill's failure.
The three day secret congress in Copenhagen closed on the 3d with sixty members present agreeing to oppose Bismarck’s 1884 electoral policy and capital emphasis. Police misreported the meeting location as Switzerland and five socialists were jailed for riot instigation linked to a Paris meeting.
The report surveys frauds at Marion Trust Company, a lynching in Mississippi, and Berlin pork import protests. It also notes Cherokee whisky import limits, indictments against ex sheriff Bodkin, child labor enforcement in New York, a Cincinnati tow collision, factory deaths at Cooperage Works, a murder bid trial for Charlie Ross, corporate charter forfeitures, a North Carolina suicide, and a Canadian move to end postage on local papers.
Ohio General Assembly proposed amending sections one two and six of article four of the judicial article to reorganize the court system. It would set a five member Supreme Court with specified jurisdiction and govern terms and elections. It would also redefine circuit court structure and transfer district courts to circuits. Voters would choose yes or no on the amendment at the October election.
Mrs Susanna Engel lies near death in Baltimore after a brutal attack by a man she identifies as Henry Engel her husband. He was arrested after she named him in a dying deposition and faces a hearing as officials confirm multiple marriages.
A suit seeks ownership of a six hundred pound meteorite that fell on land in Emmet Iowa. The landowner claims it as his find, while a witness who dug it up believes the court will declare his title perfect. The case may bring anticipated eloquence on ownership.
A rescue party at the Diamond Mine faced a cave in while recovering bodies. A second group freed the imprisoned workers, with one man carried home in collapse after the ascent. Relatives identified the six deceased by clothing. funeral planned for tomorrow.
The State Senate and House advance numerous measures including extra school levies for Olmstead Township and a new Noble and Washington Counties district, bond issues for Wilmington schools, railroad rate reforms, and county water and road improvements. The sessions also cover stock reorganization for a railroad, changing Hamilton County board sizes, and kidnapping age raises. Additional bills authorize tax levies, road and water works enhancements, and freight fare reforms with penalties for violations.
A long list of Ohio residents across multiple cities received patents on the eighth of the month. Notable names include John W. C. Alday Dayton with an archery target, Charles F. Brush Cleveland for carbon rod and secondary battery element, Jas M. Butler Hamilton for a vegetable cutter, John M. Clark Cincinnati with two assignors, and Edward Evans Mansfield for a railway crossing.
The Wool Growers Association met in Columbus on the 30th to discuss Congress action on wool tariff. A resolutions committee was named by W N Cowden R K Willis J Kirkpatrick S W Thomas C Stoolfire Co S Chapman J W Pollock J C Stephens and C Delano. The report denounced Congress for reducing the duty on foreign wools and harming Ohio wool producers and sheep husbandry. The Auditor of State finished semi annual settlements with county treasurers except Hamilton County where settlement is postponed due to a Supreme Court suit.
John Barnes of Moore County, North Carolina, found gold on his twenty acre tract. He kept the discovery secret, moved the gold in quantity, and sold part of his land for 43000 dollars while retaining a large share of the mineral interest. He had few possessions beyond six coon dogs and the land.
U S postage stamps will bear past leaders and statesmen, not living individuals. The new two cent stamp will feature the head of Washington, correcting reports that it would show Grant. No living person ever appears on U S stamps.
Nelson Sahlstrom a 59 year old Swedish tailor of Jamestown New York died after drinking tea laced with phosphorus from match tips he had steeped on purpose. The death occurred after a period of great agony as authorities investigated the peculiar method.
Derrick Dodd discusses a pervasive hoodoo as a natural negation force shaping luck and fate. He cites how superstitions arise from this universal tendency and offers a method to discover and dispel one's personal hoodoo, illustrated by a southern man who misread his own doom via a revolver incident.
A female chimpanzee Mrs Rooney at Philadelphia Zoological Garden has a bad cold and uses a handkerchief with human-like grace. Her mate Pat Rooney shares meals, sometimes grabbing the leftovers. The pair entertain visitors with tricks learned quickly, including nose blowing, while the keeper notes their unusual harmony compared with other animals.
A Brooklyn judge refused to permit the sale of a family cemetery plot in Greenwood Cemetery after a tearful wife opposed selling the resting place for four relatives. The judge declared that the ground where the dead lie is not a subject for private barter.
A historical overview of glucose production from starch, noting Kirchoff’s discovery in 1811 and the evolution of the industry in the United States. It explains the acid process, raw materials like corn and potatoes, and the steps from starch paste to purified glucose, including boiling, neutralization, and filtration.
D. R. Locke in Toledo Blade profiles the Viennese dandy as an exaggeratedly slim, fashion-obsessed figure with a whitened glove stage presence. He notes ornate cuffs, middle parted hair, and a life possibly nourished by mothers, while lampooning his public charm and private routine. The piece closes by mentioning compulsory three years of military service.
The Weener Gewerbe Zeitung reports a Viennese chemist has developed a new glass with no silex potash soda lime or borax. It appears as a brilliant transparent crystal, is water insoluble and resistant to fluoric acid but corroded by hydrochloric and nitric acids. When molten it adheres to iron bronze and zinc.
A Boston weather diary spanning forty-two years notes that this year’s sequence of eight stormy Sundays has no precedent in the record.
A collage of brief quips from various papers discusses philosophy, social pretensions, school funding, and everyday humor. Jokes touch on taxes, telegraph poles, home charity, and a child’s comic misreadings, reflecting light anecdotes and public mood.
A German chemist outlines a bottling preservation method using a sulfite of lime layer. Lyon hospitals report typhoid death rate drops from 26 to 9 percent, private practice to 1–2 percent. Alabama labor trends note farmer dependence on laborers. Bowdoin’s Carmichael patents waterproof stock and indestructible paper dishes. French steamship lines target New Orleans and Havre. Mexican researchers claim a plant fiber rivaling silk, and an American expert details the Great Wall’s vast dimensions.
Detroit Chaff reports a young man escorted two fashionable girls to the Russell House. A silk umbrella rolled to the bottom of the stairs. An old man accused the youth of breaking a promise and scolded him, while the girls laughed. The umbrella must now be mailed home.
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