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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1889
Page
3
A note toward improving home lighting describes making decorative lamp shades from satin or velvet ribbon. The piece discusses pleasing effects for those without electric light and offers practical steps for a simple, stylish upgrade.
A description of decorative ribbon shades with color gradations and a back elastic, plus a spool and needle book built from gray chamois skin with red silk cord seams and a pasteboard bottom. Also includes an upright photo display stand with brown linen casing and satin embroidery, plus design notes for painting or embroidery.
The article details color and fabric choices for girls and boys, favoring sarah and Henrietta cloths in pinks and blues, and describes dress ages from five to fourteen. It notes white accents, ribbons, lace, empire styling for older girls, and dressy shoes, gloves, and accessories. For boys, the Fauntleroy velvet suit and Spanish cavalier dress are described as the most dressy options.
A collection of old time kitchen formulas including Lemon Cheese using sugar butter lemon juice rind and eggs, Wine Whey with milk and wine, Snowflake Cakes with butter sugar milk and eggs, Sopa Biscurr dough from sour milk and soda, Crap JounNy Cake with meal flour and brown sugar, Rice Puppine with rice raisins and milk, and Apple Meringue Dessert made with tart apples and meringue. The list ends noting to serve cold with good health.
The article argues that both farm and city homes can successfully support flowering plants with careful temperature control. It notes coal or wood heating can maintain balance, acknowledges the effort required, and asserts plants greatly enhance home cheer during gloomy winter days.
In a troubling domestic scene Matilda confronts John Hawkins about repeated drunken incidents. Hawkins agrees but later coerces the boys to carry him home in a wheelbarrow as his wife objects. A judge oversees the unfolding tensions.
A German girl Plinkle and her white horse Kate are featured in a village vignette. Kate panics at a swinging sunshade top on a baby carriage, recovering at the stable. The tale ends with a moral about fear and curiosity and a second note about a boy named Ted learning not to meddle with unknown parcels.
A three year old named Theodore known as Ted teases a tempting parcel at home. He resists breaking the string until alone, then quietly unties the pink cord and peeks inside, recalling a previous pepper incident and hoping this time for candy from the mysterious box.
A Popular Science News write up explains earth curvature limits vision. It gives two simple rules: distance visible equals the square root of one and a half times observer height in feet, and height needed to see distance equals two thirds of the square of the distance in miles. Examples include a 100 foot deck seeing about 12 miles, and a 552 foot Washington Monument requiring about 294 feet of observer height at 50 miles away.
Dr Paterson of Cardiff reports on fourteen patients given chloralamide for insomnia including cases with phthisis and heart disease. Sleep began within 30 to 60 minutes and lasted about eight hours, with some dizziness dryness of mouth and mild delirium in higher doses. Dosing suggested: 30-45 grains for men 20-30 grains for women. note limited relief for pain related insomnia and sweating in phthisis.
Popular Science describes making an electric bell using an old attic bell, a four by six inch base, a six by one and a half inch bolt and wired coil magnet. The article gives steps for mounting with tin plate belt and describes forming a lever with brass spring, a wood block and a soft iron core for the magnet system.
Instructions describe building a magnetic bell with a brass wire setup, magnet, rivet and bell, powered by a Ledlandio or a single battery. It explains the circuit, vibration mechanism, and a fruit-jar style bell using carbon, zinc and ammonia solution with an annunciator switch.
A Pennsylvania establishment reportedly markets tempered copper after an apparent rediscovery of the process. Observations note wind erosion shaping Cape Cod glass and Rocky Mountain sandstone. The Eiffel Tower will host three labs for astronomy, physics and meteorology using central bureau sensors, biology, and micrographic air study, with a monometer to measure pressures up to four hundred atmospheres.
In a lighthearted exchange, Mr. Nigh confesses he twice wore a black lamp mat on his head this week, mistaking it for his wig, eliciting humor from a friend and Puck.
Mr Batchelder, twenty six, probes Miss Van Wrinkle about marriage while she hints at her debut and a younger sister. The dialogue centers on waiting for a suitable match and a possible family arrangement as time passes.
A playful dialogue reveals a heroine mocked for marrying a professor after a Greek proposal and a mix of negatives. She proclaims lifelong commitment, while a cousin from Boston and others tease her about pride and blunders, ending with an emphatic life vow.
In Munsey's Weekly a couple quarrels over a newspaper prediction that the world ends next week. Ephraim laments paying off the last thousand dollars of a mortgage just yesterday, while Palmer Sparrowgrass vents in anger.
Dialogue from Munsey’s Weekly features Mrs Swellington and Mrs Upperton discussing a guitar and Mandolini. Uncle Silas teases about hearing, while Gazzam jokes about the spirit world and explorers reporting agitation at the idea of a proposed World’s Fair.
A tattered individual asks a citizen for a quarter, claiming his wife and children are starving for two days. The tale recalls a prior fifty cent donation the man says he spent to buy meat for his dog, highlighting domestic hardship and a moral dilemma.
A jumble of old time quotes and gags features a barber shop of lines about doctors hospitals and whisky ribbing a judge and a tramp. The snippet contains references to Hobson's Choice Miss Tender and other stray names suggesting a collage of era humor rather than a single narrative.
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