22 Dec 1880
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1880
Page
1
A garbled passage discusses rights in law and the idea that wisdom lies in the multitude. It recalls a historical moment when many gathered, suggesting a national debate on feudal practices and the sustainability of current laws.
Wallace Alwade, a once-burnished lumberman, braves a fierce blizzard to find Meltha Bayne, the former lover turned cook, lodging in a abandoned shanty. He saves her, they reconcile, and he asks her to become his wife despite past hurts.
The page reports a widespread health scare with the spread of diphtheria and whooping cough at Fontaine and surrounding counties. Bureau workers strain to control infections in multiple houses while a series of accidents and crimes unfold across towns like Chillicothe Youngstown and Canton, including drownings, shootings, arson, and theft.
The column reports delays and adjournments of the State Board of Equalization to January. A murder verdict in the Peel case is likely to be set aside. Townsend’s family will stay in Athens during his term. A Columbus woman nearly died from an epsom salt dose. Supreme Court judges search for an Assistant Law Librarian. Various pardons, commissions, and inquiries are noted, including notary refusals, mayoral fund discrepancies, and grand jury indictments. A rare burglary case and medical student arrests surface alongside the State Grange push for residency rules and a microscope exhibit. Governor Foster receives word of a possible Jefferson County murder involving Mars Jenkins now in West Virginia.
A tale contrasts born leaders who never seek obedience with boasters who stir up trouble. A man mocks his pigs by nightly clouting them to prove dominance, but neighbors suffer and subordinates remain unimpressed. The piece argues quiet, steady authority outlasts flashy bluster.
Nevada boy Bobby Blinkers skips breakfast and feigns illness to avoid school. His mother applies a large mustard plaster to his abdomen. He asks how long it stays on and plans to sneak an emetic, but rises and heads to school an hour late as the plaster proves the delay.
In a San Francisco Post reminiscence, old Klamscatter, a stingy mine superintendent, is remembered for o deriding his workers and squeezing pay. He dies at Gold Hill and asks to be lowered to bed rock then to the Hornet Mine cage to the Mount Davidson exit, a mistaken soul ride that sparks laughs.
A group of ladies visited a New York public school to test kindergartners on senses. After questions about eyes and ears, a four year old cheerfully declared the nose is for mamma to take hold of to pull, ending the lesson with a smile.
A wide survey of coast erosion reports details how the sea has swallowed villages, ancient sites, and land from Yorkshire to Suffolk. It cites land loss rates, submerged forests, sunken churches, ruined towns, and historic anecdotes, including Roman remains and Elizabethan-era impacts.
The article explores two proposed origins for the term under the rose. It cites ancient rites of Venus and secrecy, noting rival theories about rows in old towns and Cupid giving a rose to Harpocrates. It explains the rose as a symbol of silence and secrecy across early mythologies.
Rosseau notes neighbors offered consolation after his wife died by offering daughters, but when his cow died weeks later no one offered another cow. He argues this shows different value placed on cows and children and that refraining from meanness toward others benefits oneself.
Dialogue exposes satire on medical practice and ethics with quips about fees patients’ pockets and social pretensions. A student-sketch enumerates the stomach joke about board bills and how to cultivate a large practice including church attendance and doorbell hype.
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient advertisements at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Business cards up to six lines cost 64.00 per year.
A collage of quips on reporters pride in sharp pens flippant theater talk and rude manners. specimens include a miner who shoots a refuser to drink soup a Providence death notice a judge’s water joke and Betsy Bonster’s Shakespeare Club mishap.
The account describes a bleak wedding with a mournful mood across the assembly. The officiant faces a bride and groom enveloped in darkness, with every countenance and attendant filled with sorrow and absence of joy.
A woman named Mile X. waits in vain for her old music teacher. His daughter delivers a message that the teacher cannot come because he is dead. In another incident two men fire at each other in a Salt Lake bar and the bullets collide.
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