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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1889
Page
3
Poem recalls a lover who never considers eye color while describing how their eyes reveal love. The verses emphasize shy glances and silent hours, with messages exchanged by feel rather than description, and a focus on the beauty and connection rather than details.
In a family discussion, Mr. and Mrs. Morell confront rumors that Robert Harvey embezzled from his employer. They debate the temptations of youthful spending and the duty of young men and women to resist extravagance, leading Marian toward cautious generosity and restraint. Years later, Marian recalls a close call with borrowed money that steered her husband toward honest living and prudence.
A Hartford letter-writer asserts many Connecticut girls as young as under sixteen smoke cigarettes. Norwich, Waterbury, Bridgeport and New Haven report female smokers both minors and adults. The piece cites how stores sell cigarettes to young women and how social circles encourage smoking as a lifestyle.
The text claims 6,000,000 widows in India and that most marriages occur young. It argues Hindoo widows cannot remarry, are condemned to lifelong widowhood, must renounce jewelry and beds, and live in servitude to the mother-in-law’s family, even cooking and eating alone.
Relic hunters explore the Old Fort and Sentinel Mounds near Toolsborough Iowa, uncovering copper implements, pipes, and stone tools. The dig reveals mound-building culture predating present tribes, with two famous elephant pipes found in Louisa County and now housed in Davenport.
Wall Street men recount Chauncey Depew and companions gathering aboard a trip to England. A silent guest reveals a single conundrum, delivering a macabre quip about a turkey being stuffed after death while he remains alive.
The article cites Archiv fur Eisenbahnwesen figures on railway lengths and capital. It notes Europe leads in invested rail capital with about 14.5 billion dollars while the rest of the world totals roughly 12 billion dollars based on mileage.
A compact listing shows AMES E ROBINSON attorney at law with Cincinnati office at Fifth and Walnut and residence in Amelia Ohio. OWNSLEY WOODLIEF Attorneys at Law plus W A Townsley J R Woodlief and C Q Crane Attorney at Law Notary Public. Bantam Clermont Ohio firm notes indicate prompt service.
Aurora citizen Judge Walker built a grand mansion on a hill near Aurora Indiana. On a Cincinnati steamer he asked a stranger who owned the splendid house and was told it was his own barn despite his vanity. The tale ends with the stranger calling him the biggest fool in Indiana.
A correspondent recounts tasting raw fish in Japan, detailing the sight of the whole fish in slices, the sensations of caylare onions olives and garlic, and the eerie feel of the cold flesh quivering under the teeth, with a strong sense of its recent death.
A Wallingford Pennsylvania family reports a tabby cat killed herself after the death of five kittens drowned to curb the cat population. The distressed cat roamed the house meowing loudly, then leaped from the third story to the porch roof below and died from a broken neck.
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