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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1892
Page
7
An old seafaring tale recalls the Woodjammer iron clipper at Port Lyttelton New Zealand. Rats abandoning ship a sign of doom prompts crew members to desert and seek shore, then return to sea after a perilous voyage toward Cape Horn aboard a rival vessel.
The text cites Plutarch praising a woman’s presence and voice as irresistibly beguiling, with charm and conversation. It also recalls anecdotes of educated Englishmen in America, a Texas to England body transport, and a private in G troop recounting London clubs and Oxford-C Cambridge contrasts.
A published anecdote recalls Dr. Samuel Johnson delaying the dictionary project until the last pages arrived. When asked what the publisher said, the messenger replied that the man said he was grateful to be done with Johnson. Johnson responded that he was glad the man thanks God for anything.
A French Canadian sportman reports shooting a pair of wild pigeons in the Sault aux Recollets bush. He notes more than twenty five years since such birds were seen there and recalls a past era when pigeons were so plentiful that clergy prayed for their destruction.
A Harper's Bazar caution urges readers not to risk sight for savings. It warns against free eye exams and cheap spectacles, stresses consulting a competent oculist, and notes hospitals offer free eye care in many cities.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds and consumption with a money back guarantee. It invites trial bottles at Belt and Tarr’s Batavia and J B Walker’s Williamsburg and lists prices 50c and 1.00.
A Paris resident writes a farewell letter blaming long illness and fatigue before taking her own life. The text promotes Dr Miles Restorative Nervine and Dr John Bunn's drug store in Batavia offering a free trial bottle and a book.
A Durango mining man named Collins reports a street robbery in the lower town. The assailants demand surrender, but Collins uses wit to join the robbers by offering to share food. The crowd laughs and a sympathetic partner offers meals, allowing Collins to reach the lower town unscathed.
An old physician claims a vegetable remedy cures Consumption and related lung ailments and nervous disorders. He offers to send the recipe free by mail in German French or English to anyone who requests it, with instructions, after noting the paper's name. Rochester address provided.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat notes squeaking sands occur in a Colorado plain, where singing sand emits a musical sound when dry and loses it when damp. The aeria sand remains quiet when dry and squeaks best when moistened, producing a soft sound akin to an armchair. The exact cause remains a mystery.
A barefoot widow drives a two barrel salt wagon to settle a flirtatious traveler’s curiosity in Posey County. She offers marriage for two barrels of salt and departs with a warning to others about widow riders. The crowd laughs as the man pays $2.50 and departs, leaving the wagon and the lesson behind.
Advert says Dr Haines' Golden Specific cures drunkenness or liquor habit by powder can be added to beer coffee tea or food without patient knowledge. Claims permanent speedy cure for both moderate drinkers and alcoholics with guaranteed results. Free 48 page book of particulars available from Golden Specific Co. 186 Race St Cincinnati.
An old advertising line traces Castoria as a remedy from baby to childhood to adulthood, noting its use through stages of life from infancy to motherhood and beyond with recurring product reference.
Dialogue from a clothier and fur nisher cartoon panel features Melton and a Beaver discussing why collars and cuffs are attached to a shirt. Melton explains the laundryman will return them with the shirt. The caption-style exchange captures a humorous separation of garment parts in a fashion workplace.
A compact note cites Bulwer Lytton's observation that woman and a secret are hostile properties, framing them as incompatible elements in a brief cultural aside.
Fragmentary OCR mentions TRON related items with dealers maintaining stock. It notes an 81 price or model reference and a redemarked genuine variant with crowed 1 ved on wrapper.
A farmer recalls a disastrous family flock loss after cherry byproducts led to a drunken chicken incident. Two hundred birds died or were plucked, then miraculously survived wired to markets, with later profit from feathers and a lesson on farm income. The tale ends with a note on oil history from Thomas W. Phillips Jr. of New Castle, Pa, linking old world occurrences to modern petroleum lore.
A small basement candy shop in the French quarter advertises prizes for bulk candy purchases. A shop window sign promises a ticket for each cent spent and a “preasant” for fifty tickets, with a garbled misspelling noted by the New York Sun.
The Pittsburg Bulletin features a vivid claim by a grandson who says he was struck by lightning and survived. He describes walking home afterward and wringing a quart of electric fluid from his clothes in a remarkable, somewhat humorous anecdote.
A fragment notes a sixteen year old boy with little else to claim, reflecting a coming of age theme in the Atchison Globe. The readable text hints at youth, longing, and the social setting of the period without explicit detail.
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