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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
3
The article argues that home patronage protects farms and towns from mail order and trust pressures. It claims that diverting money to distant merchants impoverishes communities, lowers local employment, and weakens schools and churches. Emphasizing self-reliance, it urges residents to support local stores to boost real estate values and regional prosperity led by D. M. Carr.
A reflection on the U S system where schools and churches promote education and religious liberty. Emphasizes urban advantages, rural needs, and the link between local prosperity, schooling, and moral development for good citizenship.
The 1900 census shows vast US production of eggs, poultry, butter, and cheese. It argues small farming towns could sustain exclusive produce shops, avoiding merchant intermediaries and securing better prices for farmers.
The good roads movement is highlighted as a major, ongoing effort with wide benefits. It argues that 8,000,000 farmers could save about 10 annually in time and wear on horses, totaling roughly 80 million dollars yearly, with individual farmers saving 50 to 100 dollars. The piece notes civic pride, state legislatures taking up road work, and expectations of major highway changes in the next dozen years.
The typewriter's arrival has created employment for more than one million women, expanding opportunities and transforming the workforce. This rapid growth highlights the surge of female labor in clerical and office roles across the country.
The article argues that physician compounded remedies are true nostrums, with secret compositions and questionable safety. It contends doctors lack pharmacy training, warns of errors in handwritten formulas, and credits proprietary medicines prepared by expert pharmacists as safer, often preferred by physicians under modern labeling laws.
William Knoepfel of St. Louis touts an invented cure for baldness and discusses the lure of fake remedies. He laughs at crooked schemes and recalls an old eccentric tale about three heirs who exploit a will by stuffing the coffin with money and checks to gain change after burial.
Harry Engelbright son of Congressman Engelbright crawled a canyon trail above Washington when a monster cinnamon bear rose from brush. He shoved the animal and backed away as it snorted then moved off into the woods. Earlier the same bear had killed a dog that day with a single paw strike.
In Braybrook Northamptonshire a six inch long monster trumpet with a bell end two feet one inch in diameter and ten rings was used to magnify the choir leader voice and summon villagers. Only four exist and the vicar keeps and shows the relic to visitors.
A New England man recalls a Connecticut farmer in a tale of money matters and a Greenwich widow. After marrying her, the farmer notes the union was not quite ten thousand dollars, despite a friend’s claim of wealth, citing the cost of the marriage license as part of the balance.
Special Deputy Fire Marshals Garrett Fox and Hamilton Deweese cornered Minnie Thrash near Canal Winchester. She confessed to setting fire to a barn and an empty house after eviction disputes over rent, with the property previously left to her son Jess B. Thrash. Two of her daughters are noted district school teachers.
For the first time in Columbus Ohio women will vote at primary elections. The board of deputy state supervisors of elections opened the polls to female voters who wish to participate in nominating members of the board of education. Voters must register and declare their party affiliations before voting.
Oliver E. Hanks of Fostoria is accused by Prosecutor David of sending threatening letters to Edward E. Wallace. The dispute stems from both men loving the same woman, Wallace being favored by her.
Frank Brown an examiner in the bureau of public accounting in Montgomery county moves to the excise bureau of the auditor of state’s office. He will fill the post vacated by Dexter Awer who has been reassigned as statistician for the office.
William Bivans, 36, a Pittsburgh financier camping with friends three miles above Marietta, Ohio, fell from a steamer during the night and drowned. The body was recovered and sent to Pittsburgh for interment.
Akron Ohio Mrs Vogin Miskov 49 kept a boarding house was fatally shot by a man at a construction camp on the Lake Erie and Pittsburg road after she refused to give him money He lured her to the door and fired then fled the scene.
Hamilton reports that Dr Norman W De Witte now a Greek professor at Washington University St Louis won the Miami University Greek chair recently vacated by Dr W A Eckels. It is said he will accept the post.
John Stine aged sixty two collapsed and died after pitching oats onto a wagon during harvest near Findlay Ohio. His son stood nearby as witnesses attributed the death to heart disease.
In Cleveland Ohio Mrs Daniel P Rhodes widow of a noted Democratic politician and coal and iron magnate died at her home. She was the mother-in-law of the late Senator Hanna.
Toledo officials alert President Roosevelt as head of the local produce exchange requests his mediation in the telegraphers strike. A telegram conveying the request was sent to the White House.
Washington February 8 Curtis of Mt Vernon Ohio named chief clerk of the navy department to succeed the late Benjamin F Peters. Curtis takes over duties immediately in a move affecting the department's administrative leadership.
Pomeroy Ohio banker B C Fox, confined in the penitentiary for one year, was released on $2,500 bond in advance of a circuit court hearing on a motion for a new trial.
Glen Schroufe aged 17 is bound over to the grand jury on criminal assault charges in Bellefontaine Ohio. The alleged victim is Mary Garber aged 16 who worked at the Schroufe home as a servant.
John Taborn, inmate at the Ohio Penitentiary since 1870 serving a life for a Delaware county murder, is expected to be considered for executive clemency. Physicians report his mind is not affected though he has long lived in the prison’s little insane asylum due to temper and erratic acts. The governor cannot act without Taborn requesting mercy.
Justice Day announced after talks with Architect Van Buren and contractor Malte that the Canton McKinley national monument can be completed in time for the September 30 dedication. President Roosevelt planned to deliver the address. Earlier fires threatened the schedule, but extra effort and machinery now keep day and night work on track.
David Job died after being shot by his sister-in-law Sabina Kelly in Youngstown Ohio. Kelly a nurse claims Job pressed advances on her and had been with her mother, sparking the fatal confrontation. Kelly is held for murder.
Harry Ellis, noted gun swinger of Company A from Bucyrus, accidentally discharged a revolver at his Crestline home. The bullet struck his sister beneath the eye, apparently fatally injuring her.
Dayton Ohio telegraph operators at newspaper offices began a strike after an hour of AP dispatches. Later union workers at Western Union and Postal offices quit their keys, leaving business nearly paralyzed.
Anthony Muldoon, a Lake Shore railroad watchman at Petroleum, rushed to greet his wife and was instantly killed crossing the Youngstown and Southern Electric line despite being seen by his wife.
The contract for the erection of the new women’s building and superintendent’s residence at the Defiance county infirmary was awarded to Clemmer & Johnson of Hicksville for 24038.63 dollars. Work will commence at once.
Columbus Ohio Secretary of State Thompson filed his quarterly Willis law receipts totaling 787 162 70 and the annual state tax receipts amounting to 67 982 30.
In Marietta Ohio Willard Smith six year old son of Robert Smith died after lighting candles on a toy train. flames ignited his clothing in an accident traced to the child's play with the train.
Hamilton O Sheriff Brannon received a letter from Governor Harria appointing him a delegate to the National Convention of the American Prison Association to be held in Chicago from September 14 to 19.
The Miami Conference of the United Brethren Church chose Union City Ind to hold its next annual meeting. The opening session was well attended and led by Bishop Mills.
Two of the ten signers of the $5,000 bond for ex Mayor Thomas B. Block have withdrawn their names. Block faces charges of forging mortgages totaling about $30,000.
Six year old O Ellen Boyd daughter of George Boyd of this city Merchants National was run down by a motor vehicle. She suffered probable fatal injuries with three broken ribs.
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