13 Apr 1839
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1839
Page
1
Advertises weekly publication terms: two dollars per year in advance, two fifty within sixty days, or three dollars after a year. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid. Failure to order discontinuance will be a new engagement.
Charles Quill urges apprentices and journeymen to begin study immediately, learn daily, value small knowledge, redeem time for reading, discipline thoughts, seek learning companions, obtain guidance from educated men, set aside book money, and stay patient. The guide promotes steady, practical self improvement through constant, focused effort.
The essay argues that educating a man builds citizenship, political understanding, and moral influence, while also cultivating imagination, taste, and literary appreciation. It laments limited public provision for mass education and calls for reform of the schooling system to prepare all for self improvement through life. It cites the so called great school of life and contrasts it with faulty public institutions. It notes a New York penny paper story, The Old Clock, as a later, less original variation of an older tale.
An exploration of education as more than earning a living. It argues education should free the mind from want, develop faculties, train intellect and judgment, foster truth and knowledge, and cultivate conscience and social duty for a holistic, purposeful life.
A humorous tale from Dunse features Walter Dron the barber and a wager about leaping over a chair for a guinea. Texas notes praise the National Intelligencer’s governance and rapid growth, rail plans, temperance, churches, and a punitive penal code. Also reflections on mills, and a Boston Courier notice about a fugitive husband known for storytelling and deception.
A Scotch paper notes that Walter’s good humor was restored after his exertions were generously rewarded with a well earned guinea. The brief item highlights the gesture and outcome in a concise report.
The article discusses a method of grafting by using February scions treated in wax or rosin, buried in sand and laid horizontally to root, promising uniform fruit quality and fewer grafting faults. It also recounts a boy’s struggle with arithmetic involving fat content, illustrating practical understanding vs. rote calculation and criticizing schooling for ignoring real life application.
A narrator recalls a physician who treated a patient with the full regimen of a drag shop dose. He prescribed cupping, blisters, mustard plasters, and large doses of laxatives. The patient, skeptical, asks if he must take everything, and the doctor insists, prompting the patient to joke about pulling a tooth instead.
The passage argues sentimentality in writing may reflect a bad heart. It cites Sterne as a tender figure yet claims his mother’s debt and a school run by her to support an extravagant daughter would have led to jail without a subscriber fund. The tone implies Sterne valued sentiment over familial affection.
A schoolmaster tests a pupil by asking who Jesse was, the boy answering briskly that he is “the flower of Dumblane.” A Havre packet left New York carrying the family of William M. Price, former district attorney. About 200000 in specie was shipped from New York to Havre. The Portland Courier explains Ancostook as arrowhead, tied to the river’s landform near the St. John.
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