18 Apr 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1883
Page
1
News epitome notes a memorial from the Central Committee on National Labor Legislation petitioning Congress for an early extra session to study labor and capital relations. It cites delayed action since a 1882 Senate resolution and seeks remedial legislation.
The fifty first anniversary of the stars and stripes is noted with a Washington celebration at Colonel Reid's house where the flag was first raised in 1818. Other items report Alderman Saver's death after a wagon accident in Central Park, a Long Island City mayoral verdict, and a mass poisoning in Virginia. Additional notes cover Nihilist confessions, a Dubuque family murder, Dublin trial verdicts, Chicago moral reforms, and postal fraud list placements affecting Industrial Works and Union Trust Company.
Legislation moved through the State Senate on the 6th and 7th with acts authorizing a railroad right of way from Yellow Bud to Marsfield Mills near Chillicothe along the Ohio Canal bed and expanding contempt powers, plus school and county finance measures. House and Senate work included bonds for bridges, a new free turnpike, dam removals, and tax reform changes for liquor, with several local and public works bills advancing.
Robert Appleby and his four year old daughter left Fair Haven for Canton a few days ago in a buggy and have not been heard from since. His horse and buggy were found. Brown and Lawrence's store near Athens was destroyed by an apparent gunpowder blast. The state posts new appointees include George W. Smith Cavett Willis E. Jones Linderville Abner Lodge Oakdale.
A Connecticut woman argues tea is intoxicating a notion she believes new though centuries of tea drinking show otherwise. The remark reflects tea’s long cultural role and effects as perceived by a modern reader.
In a curious tale from San Francisco Ah Foy swallowed an entire box of rat poison yet suffered no ill effect. The Telegraph notes the unusual outcome and remarks that a man who can eat rats should hardly fear rat poison killing him.
A Newland physician jokes that if every family kept a box of mustard, three-fifths of doctors would starve. He concedes it may not be true but calls the idea worth trying and adds a note on speaking up rather than always listening to others.
A Portfolio remark lauds Alma Tadema for masterly veracity and imagines the painter as a potential editor. The praising note hints at Tadema’s disciplined eye and disciplined storytelling, suggesting a future leadership role in publication.
The article notes that most hotel clerks in England are women while highlighting they understand leadership roles at the establishment. It contrasts gender distribution with the awareness of management structure within hotels.
In a Seattle Chronicle account, coastal tribes near Nesh Bay pursue whales with cedar canoes and bone harpoons. The pursuit is a festival event with chants, potlatches, and communal feast after the kill, illustrating their skill, culture, and evolving wealth from sealing.
A romance unfolds as Joshua Smith, a widowed carpenter, marries Annie Bernard, the daughter of Isaac Bernard at Woodbridge Presbyterian Church after a quiet elopement. Bernard seeks arrest, but police dismiss the notion. Annie and Joshua begin life together at the Potrero and Ba View Railroad locale. Annie becomes Mrs Kak Smith.
News from Indian Territory describes seven Cheyenne children buried on a hilltop platform tied to a tree. The site holds wrapped bodies with household items and horses, reflecting Cheyenne burial customs, as documented by Bent and others. A second vignette recalls a California tale of bears and a white man shouting Whoop-Ee during a San Joaquin ferry crossing.
A critique of cheap literature aimed at youth, detailing how dime novels glorify violence and crime. The piece cites examples of youths imitating gunplay and robbery, notes modern social harm, and urges better reading. it ends with a call for stricter circulation controls and cites a New York Graphic critique.
The Clermont Goutier listing rates for transient advertisements are fifty cents per square, with ten lines for the first insertion and end of each additional insertion. A yearly reduction is offered for advertising, and business cards up to six lines may be inserted for $6 per year.
A collage of brief quips and anecdotes from various papers, including jokes about telephones, privacy, and social customs. snippets on wealth, flirting, and taxation of manners. notes on saloon tunes and drinks. a Vermont bakery misstep with corn cobs. and a Troy Times anecdote about a minister’s wife receiving a discount.
Five million dollars will be invested in buildings on twenty acres at Beaver Falls Pennsylvania to establish a barbed wire works. In Nice Italy violets, heliotropes, and white roses are grown by the acre to supply perfume factories. The American Consul at Funchal Madeira reports about 10,000 women in embroidery with exports valued at $3,355.34 in 1881. Draining low land in the southern United States rises as a new focus to convert land for cotton, corn, sweet potatoes, and small grains. A Paris-Mediterranean line trial of an automatic electric train approach bell uses a mercury box under the rail. A French chemist touts an odor that repels for a week within a half mile, not deadly but intolerable. Electricity enters horse traction with a claimed twelve-horse power storage battery enabling a practical electric tricycle for hills and long runs. The first ton of Mexican tin from Durango arrives in the United States, with ore values around seventy-three percent for smelted tin. Henry Fransa, an Australian tin mining engineer, travels between Cathace and Hemikocenes seeking tin evidence. Durango’s southwest lands hold tin ore prospects as merchants push for development. The northern Iron Moun tain region remains a noted ore source.
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