20 Dec 1876
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1876
Page
1
Poem describes dawn in a home as two children appear at the stair, like Christmas fairies and angels bearing wishes of goodwill. The verse imagines holiday symbols such as mistletoe and cherubim, and ends with a warm greeting of Merry Christmas to all.
In a late 19th century tale set at Worthington Brothers, Old Joe Darling and his employer face ruin but uphold honor. A Christmas tree brings a revelation when a missing son Edmund returns, sent via a Cedar tree tale told by Uncle John. Daisy’s secret letter proves Edmund alive and home. The story closes with the family united and prospering, year later.
A long essay extols the Christmas tree traditions in Germany and Sicily, noting boughs laden with gifts and family merriment. It catalogs a vast array of toys from dolls to mechanical devices, china sets, dolls, tops, drums, and saddles, arguing play shapes imagination and urging lavish adornment with sweets and candles.
A traveler notes Berlin hosts many horse butchers with profits from dead horses valued at twenty to thirty thalers and hides worth eight to twelve dollars. Bones go to glue makers, flesh feeds dogs, and the rest to the poor. An ass formerly ruffled from a Swiss garden is now said to be used for sausages.
A collection of admonitions offering worldly wisdom for young men and elders. Advice covers relationships, attire, modesty, independence, charity, and caution against vanity. Includes cautionary quips about riches, fame, and work, with references to biblical Lazarus and humor from Josh Billings.
After General Hawley spoke, attendees sang My Country Tis of Thee as a window opened above the platform revealing the Paul Jones flag from the Bon Homme Richard. A gray dressed elderly woman, granddaughter of Paul Jones, stood beside it in tears. The small flag bears thirteen stars and eleven red and white stripes in fine condition.
A historical note records that sane individuals may suffer vivid hallucinations from hydrophobia fears to masked crowds, whispers of others, or imagined devils, with some cases leading to self harm. It also details a stranded Amsterdam boy, Karl Seufert, found in New York, seeking to return home, under care of authorities and Dutch consul.
The article argues Constantinople and Gibraltar are strategic chokepoints, likening their command of adjacent seas to national power. It recounts Gibraltar’s history of sieges and British defense, then describes Constantinople’s strategic position on the Bosphorus and its long history of sieges and demographic makeup.
Samuel Chute, a 30 year old Maine Central Railroad fireman, learned his father survived a California gold fever era and owns a princely fortune in San Francisco. Father and son will depart for the Golden City on the first of next week. Mrs Lincoln wintering at Pau near Spain.
Colum bia Statesman reports executors sold a mad stone once worth three hundred dollars for ten dollars. Barnett shows a larger family stone offered for bites by rabid animals or poisonous snakes. The process uses heating in a milk solution, scratching the bite, applying the stone until saturated, then repeating until it no longer sticks.
A collage of quips and vignettes reflects social foibles from drunkenness to church clashes. Anecdotes cover irony, hard times, misread props, misadventures in travel, and a Maine teacher candidate flubs a geography question amid humorous wordplay and proverbs.
The article explains how body weight varies with weather and seasons. It notes fattening in summer due to more intake and beverages, while winter increases heat needs and intake but also raises expenditure, leading to net leaner outcomes. It discusses carbonic acid exhalation and changes across months.
The Clermont Courier lists advertising prices for legal and transient notices at $1.00 per inch for the first insertion and 10 cents for each additional insertion. New yearly rates offer a reduction, business cards limited to six inches cost $6.00 per year.
Poem reflects on youth fading into aging with shifting hopes and fears. A dusty token or crushed flower revived from a cherished book stirs sorrow and memory, bringing a glimmer of hope as autumn light breaks through gray skies.
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