13 Aug 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1879
Page
1
A partial OCR line mentions a price of 1.50 and a date indicator, with garbled words suggesting a newspaper notice or advertisement. Details are unclear but imply a small-amount annual fee and advance terms in a historical page fragment.
A damaged OCR fragment describes a woman with hat tipped to her nose and a gaze described as bait for looks. The scene hints at a moonlit moment and a departure, with a flounder imagery close to the final line.
A narrative recalls old Kentucky style candor with crowd antics at political treats and rough sports. It recounts a political campaign ritual of free drink, coon skins, and playful deceit, then shifts to tales of London daredevil feats including Samuel Scott's fatal Thames dive and future hopes for Harmon Peer.
Dramatic scene unfolds as a prized horse bolts from a forest retreat, tearing the Colonel’s fine hat and suit. The retreating rider’s appearance worsens after a fall near a tavern, where Squire fires in alarm and locals discuss losses and mishaps in a chaotic, tense exchange.
A daughter of Charles Schuyler of Geneseo swallowed a brass pin over a year ago. Illness followed with stomach upset, pain, and a swelling that became an abscess. A pin fragment was later found in the sore after she was examined and treated. the rusted pin had enlarged, but doctors expect a full recovery as the toxin clears.
A Nashville American note tells of Louise a bright five year old girl in a friendly city home. She, with black eyes and golden hair, charms Miss Annie the boarder for citron by pleading looks. The mother warns against taking more, yet Louise plans to appear upstairs to beg again, and her looks win the treat.
The Zulu king Cetywayo reportedly told Lord Chelmsford that the English hide like ant bears in holes. He challenged them to come out and fight openly and said submission would follow if they were defeated.
Address by Gen. Garfield at Madison Wisconsin marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the party. He defends the party’s founding to save liberty, recounts Civil War era debts and reforms, and argues for continued vigilance against Democratic insurgency and threats to national unity.
A speaker at Garfield argues the party’s history spans revival and origin, noting the Declaration of Independence as the source of the first Republican idea. He reflects on the party’s 25 year timeline and its ties to early American political ideals. He emphasizes continuity with the nation’s founding principles.
A collection of German maxims on virtue thrift and self mastery accompanies a Nashville centennial notice. The lines include “One has only to die to be praised” and “Better go to bed supper less than run in debt,” followed by a remark on Nashville’s upcoming centennial celebration on April 23, 1880.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising and transient ad rates at one dollar per ten lines for first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. Annual reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at four dollars per year.
A scrambled miscellany resembling a humor column with riddles jokes and social quips. The piece cites a hanging in Nevada a Russian Arctic expedition the value of science and various light anecdotes about photographers lovers and telegraph workers, ending with a country milk joke.
The article recounts Christian Henry Heinecker born 1721 in Lubec who spoke at ten months and learned vast knowledge including the Pentateuch history maps and languages. It notes rapid nail growth in children with right-hand nails and middle finger nails growing fastest.
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