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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1849
Page
4
A poetic fragment celebrates the approach of May and spring in lush, symbolic language. It contrasts spring and youth with aging and decay, imagining May prizing flowers and roaming through gardens while summer and time hasten the end of beauty.
A courtroom scene unfolds with Bob Owens and a drifting figure who says he roves streets seeking shelter. He explains he has homes in town and country but shifts residence seasonally and lacks steady funds while describing his bizarre, hungry condition and misfortune.
A speaker recounts failing at medicine and dentistry, then adopting the art of borrowing to get by. He describes debts piling up, visits to saloons and cheap grog shops, and a looming public shame, ending with a grim note on charity as a steady, virtuous duty.
A Yankee describes a Maine pine of enormous size. Six months cut on one side, twelve months on the other reveal a dozen woodcutters at work for a year, prompting the crew to abandon the effort. Also noted: ashes and grass boost from 0.5 to 1.0 to 1.25 tons per acre after autumn applications.
In a Vineyard Gazette exchange from Sacramento and Placer, Sam Johnson questions a claim that General Taylor whipped the Mexicans by accident. Zachary is said to have planned it, while emigrants to California are discussed as theatergoers and seekers of gold, with mutual suspicion and light banter.
A humorous miscellany discusses how a blank sheet can be worth fortunes or ruin, and shifts to a Vermont cider tale about a phlegmatic farmer and a sly pun. It finishes with a quip about courtesy on a public promenade and who should yield in mud.
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