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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1903
Page
5
Advertisement touts Ayer’s Hair Vigor as a reliable preparation that makes hair thicker longer softer and glossier. Priced at 1.00 per bottle with mail order option via J C Ayer Co Lowell Mass.
Local notices record Miss Marietta Porter visiting Misses White and other social visits. Several dinners and parties are announced for next Sundays and upcoming weeks. An Indiana visitor, Mrs Mary Taylor, is in town. A health ad promotes Hall s Catarrh Cure with testimonials and a money back guarantee.
Large stone hauls along the Ohio turnpike. Farmers report poor crops after harvest. Mrs. B. Dial, aged resident, died last Thursday. burial at Union chapel cemetery Saturday. G. C. Nordyke returns to village life in Gas kin property. Ezekiel Nash, prominent elder, died last Friday. funeral Sunday at M. E. church. Ice cream social drew crowds at town hall under Baptist management. Horace Greeley Robinson from Cincinnati visiting relatives. Benjamin Archer of Cincinnati visits West Indiana kin. Mrs. F. Bell and daughter return to city after heated term stay. Wm. Beeler Fred Ingalls and Mrs Hesse listed as sick. An alarming preventive for death by own action cited. Electric Bitters praised as nerve tonic and regulator. Available from Nashs Pharmacy Batavia and J R Hicke Amelia.
Citizens attended the Institute in Williamsburg last week and praised it. Ruth Conner and Anna Chaney visited Williamsburg and with W H Ireton’s, while Mrs Hall stayed with her ill brother William McClelland. Lawrence Curry becomes Stew ards store clerk and Taylor Caldwell relocates to Greenfield. several others travel or recover from illness.
Advertisement promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion claiming it enables digestion and assimilation of food. It states the product prepares the stomach and improves blood health and strength and notes Nash's Pharmacy as the seller.
West Terrace Park hosts include Miss Alethia Pattison and others at a Saturday luncheon. Milford visitors dine at Bowlder Cottage Club with guests from Padneab Kentucky and Milford. Several local residents travel to Cincinnati, Muncie, and Chicago for visits and tours. Hugo Sederberg departs Milford for a European tour. End piece notes public health anecdote praising Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption with testimonials.
Miss Edna Brazier returns home after visit with relatives in McCordsville Indiana. Wm Martin stays week with his son in LaPorte Indiana. Mrs J R Rilea hosts dinner with Kate Ruth Wood Alma Meier Delia Bell and Blanche Hilton. Fred Brazier and family visit Indianapolis. Louella Meier and Eda Meier vacation with C Meier family. Mrs Taylor of Dayton Kentucky visits sister Mrs Kerr. Elizabeth Sayer of Mt Sterling visits Mrs M A Wood. Sarah Perry and Julia attend Loveland camp meeting. Martha Thompson of Cincinnati visits her daughter Mrs B Thomas. Alice Day returns from Niagara Falls trip.
The ad urges buyers to seek DeWitt on every box of Witch Hazel Salve made by E. C. DeWitt & Co. Chicago. It touts cures for cuts burns bruises boils eczema and piles and notes counterfeit products appear due to its popularity. Nash's Pharmacy sells the genuine product.
The Miamiville canning factory begins operations this week with Eveland adding buildings and tomato cat soup equipment. Local social notes mention visits, church events, a mortgage payoff for the M E church, a Miami club function on August 29, and a dysentery remedy testimonial from Drummond Tennessee.
Mrs. Lou Grimes and children visit her brother Kennedy in Norwood while Miss Mollie Levi stays with O. D. Hicks family. Various locals host visitors from Cincinnati Dayton Winona and Omaha with church services and school notes. Funeral for Knowles held at Grundy Center Iowa. several residents return from travels and visits across Indiana Ohio and Illinois.
A testimonial touts Dr. A. W. Chase’s Nerve Pills as a breakthrough tonic for restless irritable nerves. Mrs. Ida Markland reports rheumatic relief and stronger resistance after using the medicine sold by local druggists, with Buffalo based Dr. A. W. Chase Medicine Co. packages bearing the doctor’s portrait and signature.
Mrs. Robert H. Wood and wife from Madison Indiana visit Mrs. Wilhelmina Paeliz. Miss Helen Meredith of Xenia visits Miss Anna Simmons. Mrs. Nannie Bush daughter of George W. Simmons visits at N. W. Simmons. Miss Olive Eddy of Jasper visits her sister Mrs. W. E. Spurrier. Summerside residents visit Rev W. E. Spurrier and family. Frank Paeltz and Master Harold on business in the city Saturday. Many attend Sunday school at Swab's Grove Washington township. W. M. Simmons and wife visiting N. N. Simmons. Mrs. Thomas K. R. Hiney returns from the city to Daniel Boht's home. Jacob Light wife and daughter visit Laurel at Harbison McNeil farm and go to Laurel on business. Thomas R. Hiney returns to Beaumont Texas. I. W. Armacost, barber in Higginsport, home over Sunday. Dr. Geo. Ewing of Smith's Grove Ky for over thirty years shares his experience with Foley's Kidney Cure. After three bottles he is relieved and prescribes it in practice. Sold by John Bunn M D.
Fred Lindsey visits sister in Warren County. F K Thurber spends Sunday at home. Mrs Elizabeth Wyatt and daughters pay call at G W Wyatt's New Richmond. John Colvin of Lawrenceburg Indiana visits Frank Lin and Lindale friends. Lindsey family attend sister Vanosdol's funeral. Ida Wheeler spends Sunday at Mt Holly. Miss Bessie Pearce returns to Norwood. Fred Bennett seriously ill in Cincinnati hospital. Mrs Brunk visits Amelia. Miss Jessie Lillich of Franklin visits. A C J Wheeler and son John in Cincinnati. Florence Lindsey attends funeral of cousin Mrs B A Vanosdo in Williamsburg. Miss Wisby of Bethel visits A J Kilgore. Howard Wilson seriously ill with typhoid in Warren County.
A tale contrasts a frightened girl treading a grass hopper on a snake with a man who spends heavily on a cyclone cellar yet neglects to provide his family with Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The remedy is advertised as a prompt reliable medicine for bowel diseases and sold by all.
A long list of visits and guests fills a local social column. Jasper McChesney and wife spend Thursday with relatives in Georgetown. Numerous families from Williamsburg, Middletown, Cincinnati, Amelia and Indianapolis visit kin and homes across the region. Many trips to Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio are noted with returning visits and guest allocations.
Rev Winkler hosted a successful ice cream social on Saturday. Guests included Mr and Mrs Thomas Christy of Lebanon and Mrs Belle Whitaker and son Harry from Dallas. A large group of 25 enjoyed dinner, music, and a lawn photograph by Harry Whitaker. Plans were made to meet at Mrs C M Johnson’s in Batavia the next Sunday.
Attendees may visit the Boston Fair each day of the season enjoying lively activities and looking forward to tomorrow. The text invites the public to partake daily, noting the joyous end of each day and the welcome of the next.
A testimonial touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as restoring regularity and curing uterine issues and female weakness among many women who suffered backache and other symptoms. Mrs Henry Harrell recounts swelling relief after using the remedy, noting improved health and ability to work. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are promoted as a laxative for delicate women.
The Probate Court of Clermont County Ohio has appointed and qualified J B Winspear and H H Cooper as administrators of Lizzie Cooper late of Clermont County deceased August 11 1906 Nichols and Nichols attorneys. A V Kellum and family visited relatives in Bethel the first of the week. Many attended camp meeting at Shiloh Mina Louise Parrott of Batavia recently visited Miss Euie Higgins Lewis Watson of Union Plains Miss Della Jordan of Bethel and Joseph Carr were guests of Miss Mabel Hadley Sunday.
Misa Vivian Jacquot of Five Mile visited friends here Tuesday. The L P F society met with Mrs Eva Sliggins Friday afternoon. Our citizens wonder how they ever got along without a telephone. A number from here attended the ice cream social at Marathon Saturday evening. Ming Ethel Hall recently spent a few days.
A short advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best salve on earth for burns sores ulcers and wounds. It claims a scratch can be deadly without it and promotes availability at Nash’s Pharmacy Bata via and J. R. Hicks in Amelia for 25 cents.
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