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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1892
Page
4
The Clermont Courier reviews political contests in Ohio and national labor unrest. It notes slot machines replacing newsboys, comments on the Cleveland administration, and critiques on tariff protection, strikes, and pension vetoes. It cites Judge Cox, Whitelaw Reid, and Republican candidates while discussing Alabama Tennessee and New York political shifts.
A playful remark frames Mars as a prohibitionist since it is off by millions of miles. The joke notes the planet's distance makes it seem distant from policy in a light cultural riff.
Kirk and Co of Chicago offer Dusky Diamond Soap claiming half century experience backs its softening, healing claim. The product targets rough, chapped hands and sore skin, promising soothing effects after use.
The piece recounts President Cleveland blocking veteran claims as political backlash grows over using Mrs. Cleveland’s name for a women’s influence club. It notes Mrs. Cleveland posing for photographs, copyright issues, and satirical commentary on using her image in sales and politics.
During last summer’s flux epidemic in this county many traveled ten miles at night for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. J H Bennum Druggist Golconda says it outperformed all others in diarrhea cases and sold over five hundred bottles locally. It is praised as lifesaving in several epidemics and sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes by local pharmacies.
A fashionably rich hostess brags of never cleaning gloves while friends scavenge a drawer of discarded pair by pair. Seventy nine gloves survive as rest of the stash goes countryward, illustrating excess and idleness among New York’s young elite.
An advertisement warns against adulterants in white lead and promotes strictly pure white lead from the Old Dutch process. It asserts that inferior fillers like barytes degrade quality and urges readers to buy only the ANCHOR brand and other National Lead Co. products, offering a free information book via a postcard.
Excursion tickets to the National Capital for the G A R encampment and to Baltimore will be sold September 13 to 20 over the Pennsylvania Short Lines at very low round trip rates. Tickets good returning to October 10 with stopovers at Baltimore. Side trips to historic sites possible. For details, contact Pennsylvania Line Ticket Agent or F Van Dusen Pittsburgh PA. Reunion events September 15 to 19 in Baltimore and September 20 in Washington with reduced rates offered by Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad.
Public auction to the highest bidder at Batavia courthouse front steps on September 17 1802 between 1 and 3 pm for a tract of land in Batavia township Clermont County described by metes and bounds with 66 acres 2 roods 86 poles. The sale is pursuant to an alias order of sale in partition issued by the Joint Court of Common Pleas.
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