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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
8
A jumble of small items reports subscription offers for Cincinnati papers, local weather notes, postal service changes, a property occupancy, holiday visits, anniversary greetings, restaurant oyster sales, a West trip home, and charitable tips. Also includes mortgage loan ads, Preventics candy for colds, Regulat for bilious attacks, and local society updates with residents’ movements and events.
C W Brown of Milford a graduate optician will test dyes and fit glasses at Clermont Hotel Batavia on Thursday December 20 at Central Motel Boston Thursday Dec 17 at Mee Mat toxs Newheosville Thursday January 4 at Rev Duncan Williamsburg January 60 Bell phone given.
The page records court conclusions and appointments, plus a long list of real estate transfers. Names include Demaris, Miranda, Snyder, Cummins, David son, Snider, Ketchum, and various heirs. Transfers detail Martha Wyatt and others, Milford and Camp Grounds properties, with prices from $1 to $2,000. Batavia friends welcome Ruth Mavis returning with daughter Nao and son Bal, visiting Mrs. Davie’s kin.
Brown and Clermont counties agent for Star Cream Separator touts a beer tin model with a contave bottom as best and cheapest, claiming half labor savings and higher butter quality. Prices listed: 12 gallons for $3.00 and 18 gallons for $1.00. Also promotes Frost King Separator with water outside and offers home delivery. Ad by GEs Cahatine Wimms Gee.
Cure your kidneys warns Batavia readers to avoid life endangering disorders. Mrs Maggie Reiff of Hamilton Ohio testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured her backache head pain and fatigue and remains effective after five years. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
A fragmented note describes households facing limited options for a Thanksgiving meal with roast pig and Engisu pheasants as dinner, reflecting scarce resources and varied dishes.
Jacob Slade leaves the old trade to join Henry Moler in a new firm Moler & Slade. Their work is described as first class and up to date with bright young business men. References to local holiday events and various ailing notices appear among other items.
A Chicago News quote notes couples sometimes stay together out of love and contrasts courting challenges with post marriage issues. A man with three marriages remarks that pleasing a woman during courtship is nearly as easy as pleasing her after marriage.
A collection of pithy observations on human vanity fate and behavior. The remarks touch on envy pride drunkenness poetry opportunity and faith with a tone of gentle admonition and humor. Each line offers a compact vignette about character and perception.
A quote from Marden in Success Magazine reflecting on personal standards. It catalogs conditions of moral ease, tolerance for questionable stories, and shifting social associations. The passage critiques complacency and waning ambition, urging steadfast integrity and select company.
George Hoyt and Miss Bila Goodman, once lovers, were chased by a bull in a Oxford Conn field. A red scarlet petticoat waved from a wall by a passing woman lured the bull away while the couple escaped. Hoyt later placed Goodman’s returned ring on her finger and vowed it would stay there.
A fisherman notes that fish act as weather prophets predicting storms and cold spells. He observes fish stop biting before a storm and retreat to deeper, warmer water ahead of cold weather, signaling approaching shifts in temperature.
Commentary notes that women and wine differ on aging, suggesting restraint in harboring hatreds and advocacy for action over thoughts. It frames age as a variable affecting wine while urging practical conduct.
Consular Reports notes Russia establishing milling schools modeled on German examples. Courses include Russian, mathematics, physics, electro-technical, technology, chemistry, machine building, milling, mill engineering, drawing, and bookkeeping. Three grades over three years with lowered military service: two years mil-service equals two years now, complete course reduces to one year.
In 1600 London rumors swirled about Bankes, a servant to the Earl of Essex, who trained a horse to count and perform feats including climbing St Pauls. Raleigh praised him as surpassing all magicians, but Bankes and his horse were burnt for witchcraft in Rome.
The article discusses sapphire colors from soft blue to peacock green and notes yellow or white sapphires. It mentions a Ceylonese ruby and includes a dialog about mountain trips and philosophy with a humorous line about money. It highlights color variation and common misuses of color comparisons.
A reader asks about the meaning of phonetic in language rules causing a brief public discussion. The inquiry touches on spelling sounds and how dictionaries guide pronunciation.
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