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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
8
Train times for Batavia bound for Cincinnati and departures from Pear Rotler Court and Broadway stations are listed with notes on Sunday service. Local items include illness of Rev. Robinson Ely, visits by Mr. Fulton and Mr. Holmes, a knitting factory plan for New Richmond, and various notices on medicines, ads, and community events.
The column recounts G Foster of Williamsburg's west trip, praising farm homes with modern improvements and a bumper harvest across the country. It compares Boston and Clermont County's agricultural prominence, notes local people like L R White and Earl Kirkpatrick, and mentions plans for industry and trolley-led development.
A Clermont County column notes Senator Roudebush leaving for the Bantam fair scene and Kennedy's Sardinia fair promoter J. W. Campbell in town with September 2 to 5 dates. It mentions Governor Nash's municipal code, Batavia city status prospects, Governor Nash’s code and local trolley hopes. The item also highlights Belfast blacksmith J F Stall, a Civil War veteran of the 57th Ohio, returning to a county soldiers relief board meeting.
An advertisement touts a “Home Gold Cure” for drunkenness claiming a disease driven cure without public exposure. It promises a pleasant taste remedy, with directions and physician advice, priced at one dollar and shipped worldwide from Edwin B. Giles & Company Philadelphia. Oysters may be hunted next Monday Season opening.
The piece details a summer round trip fare of 24.30 from Chicago to an illustrated Black Hills health resort via the Northwestern Line with through daily service. It directs readers to ticket agents or W B Koiskern for full particulars. It also lists Cincinnati ball team salaries including Kelley and Crawford among others.
A Panama Colombia physician credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving a 16 year old girl from dysentery. He reports eight hours to relief and full recovery in a week. Also notes an Iowa girl appointed rural mail carrier and building a self powered wagon for winter routes.
Local notices advertise salt prices and orders from Wendell Kline, promote Queen & Crescent service Cincinnati to Atlanta and Jacksonville, offer life and accident insurance and legal loans, plus wagons from Stirling and Moore. Various attorneys list money to loan at 5 or 6 percent.
The speaker proclaims The Ticket a winner while noting no man saw a thinner thing accused of winning. Lenins line up praises Penn Williamese six thousand dollars earned, Joe Larkin a winger spends on cigars peaches and honey. The poem predicts doom for John and an outcome of wasted ink when votes are counted.
A wounded Civil War soldier cries out to his homeland as shellfire and gunfire surround him. He clings to pride in fighting with Sigel and bids farewell to home, wife, and children before dying. We bury him beside the Shenandoah river with a rough marker bearing his line.
Mr Jacob Schaefer of 1038 West Front Street Portsmouth Ohio praises Doan's Kidney Pills for backache first expressed in 1896 and reaffirmed now. He urges Portsmouth readers to buy the pills at Fisher and Streich's drug store take a course and expect relief. Doan's Kidney Pills priced 50 cents per box sold by all druggists Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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