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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
5
A promotional note claiming doctors prescribe Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for coughs colds bronchitis and consumption. It asserts doctors trust the remedy and suggests readers ask their own physician. Calls the product the best kind of testimonial and notes over sixty years of use.
UN ION CHAPEL Oscar Smith and friends hosted a Mason City visit. Nelson Applegate's family spent Sunday at his home. Albert Seyter celebrated a surprise 21st birthday with friends. Mia, Henry Bistants, and Carl traveled to Bethel. Allen Boles vacationing with grandmother in Augusta. Catarrh cure advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with testimonials and money-back offer.
Miss Emma Shumard returns from visiting relatives in Aenia Misees Meddox and Smith and G M Need ham and wife spent Saturday in Blanchester. Miss Millie Knott Milford visitor. L M Shumard with friends in Wyoming. Quarterly meeting in Belfast M E cleared Dec 28 29 30. Wyley Starkey Pleasant Plain to spend holidays at Louise Madduxes. Mrs E Wolf entertaining sister from Lebanon. Dr Frank Anderson Decatur Ills a re bench visitor. Mon Smyner business visitor to Blanchester Saturday. James Clark Granville recent visitor. Rev Joseph Hawkins Cincinnati recent guest of Bird family. Harry Losey to attend business College in the city.
A Bowie Texas man named W. L. Hill claims dramatic recovery from consumption after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He says he rose from 90 pounds to over 180 pounds after 12 bottles and is now cured. Nash Nash Pharmacy offers 50 cent and 1.00 cures with trial bottles free.
Frank Cann visited his sister Sunday. Bert Reed of sir Stanley spent Sunday with his father Joe Reed. Bob Sargent is home for the holidays. Os Prather and wife returned from a visit with their parents. James Hggleston and wife were in town Sunday with several others including Rick Mra Henry Howe Mre Smith Mre Eldis Howe and Frank Zuge. Amanda Sanders is visiting her sister.
W L Rawls of Bella Tennessee reports two year battle with nasal catarrh. He says applying Bucklen's Arnica Salve to the nose reduced swelling and soreness, and the symptoms never returned. Nash's Pharmacy sells the salve for 250.
Lewie Addison and daughter Frances visit at the home of her mother Mrs. Kinsell. Alfred Guidari of Naples is noted as the sister, Mrs. Chas B. Moreton. Miss Elizabeth Johnston has returned to the city as Mrs. Ben Pattison and daughter visit.
An old advertisement touts Kodol Digestive Cure from Dewitt Chicago as a remedy for indigestion and related symptoms. It claims the product digests what you eat by cleansing and strengthening the stomach mucosa and suggests trial sizes and a calendar promotion.
A string of holiday visits and travel notes lists Clarence Wood of Delaware College and Frank Altman of Ohio State visiting home, others like Will Bureau in Columbus with his mother, Mrs. M O Shriver with Capt Shriver, and Maria Moreton returning from Indianapolis. Austin Buchanan and family plan a Seattle move, with Miss May Manning in Chicago and Jarman family friends in Walnut Hills. Also a local ad notes Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure as a recommended medicine with a tone of endorsement.
Merry Christmas and New Year greetings to Courier readers. Porter Beck of Pittsburg visited Mr and Mrs Allie Hair. Joe Born and wife welcome a new baby boy. Mr and Mrs C M Edwards were guests of Fred Warren in Dayton Kentucky. Mrs Peter Schaffer spent Christmas with city relatives. Rev J Walker in city last week amputated a thumb to stop blood poisoning. Mrs Dora Weseli visits friends in the city. Mrs Luchner and children spend holidays in Dayton and Columbus. Mrs will attend Selina Miller and John Anderson wedding at Rossmayne New Year’s day. Mrs H C Warren of Hamersville a recent visitor. A F Tatmen Hamersville a rent collector at C M Edwards’s. Henry Herget recovering from illness. Mr and Mrs Sesse Winburn grieve the loss of their babe. Lloyd Fay of Denver visiting brothers. A friend in Florida says spring there will be done by January 6.
Mrs. Austin of Leavenworth Indiana fell into a severe stomach and bowels trouble. Doctors urged an operation but her husband postponed it fearing danger. Electric Bitters cured her completely, with claims of curing torpid liver kidney disease biliousness jaundice chills fever debility nervousness and blood poisoning. Nash's Pharmacy offers the tonic at 50 cents.
The Epworth League plans an entertainment at M E church on Tuesday evening in January. Invitations are extended to all. Chad Vogt left Thursday for Hascreed Georgia. Mrs Lange won the Chas Vogt bugey. Recent guests at Mr and Mrs Joseph Schimmer included Harry Snider and wife Price Hill and Miss Julia Schimer Avondale. Misses Hoefelaier hosted A a Schimmoeller Emma Vogt Gertrude Geyser Boyce Geo Nussinger and Fred Zeller. Ora Metz and wife Dr Miller and wife were guests as Jamez and wife Mr McDaniels and daughter Tille visited Mrs Henry Young Mt Washington TBE. Williams and wife visited relatives in Walnut Hills.
A Watertown, Ohio reader praises Dr King’s New Life Pills for curing his daughter’s epilepsy for over two years. The ad also touts Kodol digestant from DeWitt Chicago, with Bunn’s Drug Store listing as local seller. The piece ends with unrelated proverb-like lines.
A column of proverbs and ad copy presents two lines of traditional sayings about cows and hares, followed by an ad for DeWitt's Galve for piles burns and sores. The snippet blends cultural maxims with medicinal product promotion.
An itemized note highlights the Niagara suspension bridge opened 1852 completed 1855 at 245 feet above water and 821 feet long, the Forth bridge near Edinburgh spanning 1,710 feet per cantilever with 51 000 tons of steel, and a tubular Menai Strait bridge 1 500 feet long weighing 11 000 tons. It also promotes Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup and Dr Shoop Catarrh Cure with claims of safety and rile to National Pure Food and Drug Law compliance.
Notice to Taxpayers lists township by township dates for tax book distribution across Milford Williamsburg Bethel Loveland Laurel New Richmond Felicity Edenton Oweensville Marathon Moscow Locust Corner Goshen and surrounding areas, with January deadlines noted by township. T. G. Foster, Treasurer.
An old advertisement touts Shoop’s Headache Tablets as a cure for headaches sleeplessness nervousness and blood pressure. It claims quick relief in minutes and promotes blood pressure balance, pricing the product at 25 cents and urging readers to buy.
An Exchange questions Moses strength by combining Talmudic dimensions of the stone tablets with biblical references. It estimates the tablets at nine by nine feet and four and a half feet thick, weighing about 28 tons, prompting debate on Moses's size and accuracy of calculations.
A Denver druggist explains that chewing gum helps people quit habits such as smoking, drinking, or drug use. He claims many buyers are men seeking mouth activity to avoid cigars and notes women also chew gum, predicting future uses to curb gambling and domestic quarrels.
A poet laments a line altered by a compositor in a recent work. The editor counters that the compositor has extensive poetry experience and has altered many poems, suggesting criticism is misplaced.
A bureau of agriculture expert extols Russia's black earth region as near six times more fertile than any other land. She notes 150 million acres between the Carpathians and the Urals with crops grown for 60 to 70 years without fertilizer. Soil is dark brown and rich with high nitrogen content.
An optician notes that many people have uneven vision with the left eye sharper when a person writes with the right hand. The expert suggests daily outdoor sports in schools to prevent shortsightedness and claims the race will not become as short-sighted as the Germans.
The piece notes historic tobacco restrictions: a 1629 English school forbids teachers who are neither grave nor temperate, Turkey bans pipe smoking with nose insertion as punishment, and Russia enforces nose cutting for smokers by royal decree.
A dialogue notes a landlord asking if the widow is the applicant for a flat and whether she can pay rent on the 10th rather than the current date, citing a check for alimony as the source of funds.
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