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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
5
The town hosts a Saturday December 21 Christmas market with bread cake pie butter eggs chickens popcorn pumpkins canned fruit and oysters. Santa Claus will have a department to buy presents for friends and plans his trip. Oysters and cream will be served. Bring the children.
Wright Brown and wife visit E W Patchell. Marshall Roudebushh of Boston stays with James Patchell. Miss Laura Wood visits Mt Crab. Miss Etta Burgett near Milford is dangerously ill. In South Dakota wonders and at Mil City Mrs E D Clapp reports a healing using Dr Kings New Discovery for a lung throat illness. Trial bottles free.
Local notices report Chas Domford building a new farm home on recently purchased Mejor South land. Mrs Lucien Meek sustains a seriously wounded arm. Several visits and moves occur among Grospickle Dimmitt Stouder Smith Grosnickle and others. Foley’s Honey and Tar advertised as safe cough remedy with no opiates. A protracted meeting planned by Rev Degman at the Carietian church beginning December 2.
Abraham Brows of Winterton N had a curious condition described as kidney, liver and stomach troubles. After trying Ricotric Bitters his health reportedly improved, with one bottle doing more good than five doctors’ prescriptions and his wife endorsing the remedy.
William Fagin his wife and son Paul of Cincinnati visited Dr Dean and family. James Gardner Ludlow visited friends. Mrs Hera died Sunday morning of pneumonia and funeral set for Tuesday at 1 pm at the Baptist church with interment at I O C F cemetery. Interurban station nears completion on the old foundation.
An advertisement claims a remedy for a life threatening liver and bowel stop page condition. It promises quick relief and guarantees satisfaction with money back in all drug stores priced 2c.
The second quarterly meeting of Laure nbarge will be held at Spring Grove Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning December 14 and 15. The item lists attendees and notes community events including funerals, visits, and local notices.
An advertisement touts Swamp-Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder trouble serving both men and women. It claims quick relief, offers sample bottles by mail, and invites readers to write to Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York for pamphlets and testimonials.
White marble monument to Empress Elizabeth stands in Vienna. Hans Bitterlich designed the sculptural figure and Fritz Ohmann the surrounding architecture. The empress appears seated in a hemicycle with a reflecting pool and shrubbery backdrop.
The piece contrasts modern dandies with disciplined military figures and historic fabled heroes. It praises immaculate personal neatness and fit, cites Ladysmith officers as examples, and lauds self respect as a form of dignified dandyism echoed by Caesar and Montrose, ending with a tribute to gallant hearts.
Charles H. Wilson recalls a discharged groom who pretended horse knowledge, comparing him to a false blacksmith. A witty tale follows of a bluffer who claims eleven years experience yet cannot shoe a mare, exposing his lack of skill.
Quote from O. 8. Woolever of LeRaynville New York touts Bucklen's Anica Salve as the cure for piles, claimed to have cured him 20 years ago. Advertises it as guaranteed for sores wounds burns or abrasions offered at 25 cents by all druggists.
F S Dawson opens lumber yard with 1000 feet hard lumber. Several social items recount weddings gifts and visits among residents like the Pestrup Townsley wedding in Cincinnati and birthday celebrations. Obituaries, farm moves, school events and civic group activities fill the page with local life.
A London Tit-Bits note recalls English travelers in New Zealand giving a toast to their vessel. One teetotaler refuses alcohol but accepts a water toast, only to splash and cry out its odd taste. A friend reveals the joke that water was the liquor the ship floats in.
A shopper recounts seeking English shop girls, noting about a hundred dress styles and fifty viewed before selecting a white evening dress. She apologizes for the trouble, and the clerk replies that it was no trouble and a pleasure to assist.
In Breslau Zoological Garden a monkey with cataract induced vision loss had surgery but still weak sight. Keepers fitted glasses which the monkey initially resisted, then accepted, now placing his spectacles on each morning and storing them safely at night.
After a misremembered recitation, La Hilary described the prodigal’s return as the father breaking his own neck to kiss him. The mother corrected that the father kissed his son’s neck, prompting a humorous exchange about the older man’s imagined injury.
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