Selling the Farm and a Web of Deceit
Nina, a silk worker, faces debt pressure and a creeping romance with Victor Blumenthal while Grandelaw schemes to wed her for money. Stella exposes Victor’s concealed marriage to his cousin Theodora, revealing Grandelaw’s betrayal and leaving Nina to choose between mercy and revenge.
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Victor
Nina
Seodark
Aler
Vic
Nins
Victor Blumenthal
Milene
Fiamenthal
Stella
Stella Grandelaw
Ieee
Wad
Fiasus
Ciandelan
Grandelaw
Ted Nina
Ried
the Tribune
Nere
Theodora
Valley of Shadows
Eariet
Laurel Lodge
Mrs. Grandelaw
Victor Blumental
Laurel
Blumenthal
Theodore
Rdon
Nira
Portraits of Undine and Nina in a Garden Scene
In a vivid dialogue a painter contemplates Undine while a girl and her mother observe. Victor recalls unfinished canvases as Undine's face haunts him and Nina urges painting the moment. The garden setting frames longing and artistic fixation in a quiet, intimate mood.
Sheep That Thinks: Orchard Apples From Shaken Trees
A Groton New York Journal story describes A H Clark's sheep and calves feasting in an apple orchard. The sheep bucks a tree to shake down fruit, then eats the fallen apples repeatedly until trees are protected to prevent bark damage.
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Groton
N. Y
A. H. Clark
Sanctimonious Minister Turns Father Into Devil
A tersely worded line notes how many preach on virtue yet condemn fathers, exposing hypocrisy within clergy. The remark frames a moral critique linking religious figures to parental judgment.
Divers search Tay wreck carriages in muddy river
Four divers Fox Simpson Barclay and Gray hired by the railway work in the Tay to locate the first class carriage. Fox reports the carriage is on its wheels with roof and compartments gone and no bodies found after an hour and a quarter underwater. Barclay adds he found a carriage lamp in a silted girder and brought it to surface. The report ends with a separate note on Blind Tom a Georgia musician known for his unusual sonic abilities and lifelong pianistic talent.
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Fox
Simpson
Barclay
Gray
Barclay Maxes
Blind Tom
Georgia
London
Tom
Washington
Leagel
David Harmon
Delphos
Poland
Linton Township
Coshocton
Richard
Tom McGehan
Hamilton
Stys
Wm. Crum
Youngstown
August Scobber
Monday Creek Coal
Iron Mining Company
Thomas
Clumbus
Judge Friesner
Logan, O
Wolfe
Mt. Vernon
Ravenna
Elizabeth McGowan
Donaldson
Lima
Cardington
Rogers
Chesterville
John Orr
Stephen Taylor
Atlantic and Great Western
Warren
Caldwell
Bellaire
Waddsfield
Beverly
Woodefield
Marietta, Pittsburg
Cleveland
Mysterious Mountain Tale Stirs Mexican Population
Arizona Herald reports a Mexican prospector arriving from the Reno Mountains recounts a near naked escape from fifty to sixty cave dwelling Indians after finding gold in Salt River area near Superstition Mountain. He and a companion collected about $600 in half a day before his partner was killed and he escaped with wounds. Indians seized their camp and the pair’s gear was lost.
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Phenix
Reno Mountains
Salt River
Arizona
The Goose-Bone Weather Prophecy For Kentucky Farmers
The article explains reading the goose breastbone as a predictor of winter in Kentucky. It describes using a last spring goose bone divided into three parts to forecast cold weather and warm spells, with coldest days around mid February and increased fires early spring.
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Kentucky
New England
Granger Outsmarts Three Card Monte on Train
A Granger ran a three card monte game aboard a Boston express near Blackinton. A would be sharper bet $25 but lost twice, then offered a check. After a confrontation and a punch, the con man withdrew $25 and vanished aboard the Troy bound train wearing a new ulster, ring bright and gone. The scheme, aided by two companions, is described as an old country dodge.
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Troy Press
Boston Express
Blackinton
Monte
Granger
Troy
Ulster
Union
Ohio State News highlights and varied incidents this week
A compilation from Marietta Ravenna Findlay Cleveland and several towns reports a six year old girl burned in Marietta diphtheria fears near Ravenna fires losses in Cleveland and incidents across Ohio including robberies floods mining ventures and a railway meeting efforts to extend lines and regulate schools and burying grounds plus legal and political notes from Columbus Urbana and other locales.
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Eli Dye
Marietta
Ravenna
Ohio
Findlay
Betrayal and Death in a Bath Scandal
A Bath woman dies after learning her husband George Youngs forged a marriage with Alice Beers of Bath. Investigations reveal the Banghamton certificate was forged and the ceremony a mock affair at a disreputable house. Youngs fled and clues to his whereabouts are missing. He already had a wife and two children in Schenectady.
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Will Carle
Wille
Ana
Uae
Meebo
Bellefontaine
Hayes
Wra
McDowell
Carrelton
Pusyiwe
J. R. Fudge
Eldorado
Norman Rood
Ravenna
Patrick Hanrahan
Delaware
Isaac Peace
Commodore Perry
Somerset
Columbus
Richard Derthick
Alliance
Nonse Williams & Co
New York Sun
George Youngs
Bath
Alice Beers
Youngs
Miss Beers
Young
Oungs
Schenectady
Paris Journalism by Shared Printing Presses
In Paris a printer rents a large building where a steam engine and multiple presses operate. A central room houses the compositors for several journals printed on the same presses, with separate offices for editorial staff. Mixed copy and accidental intermixes occur due to near by divisions.
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Paris
Female authors and artists in France revealed by Gazette de France
The Gazette de France reports about 2150 female authors and journalists and around 700 female artists. Provinces supply most writers, while Paris dominates artists. Among writers 1800 are novelists, 200 poets, 150 educational writers, and the rest various authors. The artists include 107 sculptors and numerous painters across all branches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Gazette de France
Paris
Ohio Legislature Aflame With Bills on Divorces Roads and Railroads
The Ohio Legislature debated many measures including to include incurable insanity as a divorce cause and to provide relief for the sick poor via a physician. Bills covered county seats, hospital boards, school books, female voting rights on school boards, and humane death penalty inquiries. Senate and House advanced road, railroad, and tax proposals, plus county courthouse funding and transfer of railroad stock.
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Millikan
Fayette County
Brownfild Towship
Lagxe
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Senate
Cae
House
Scino County
Joy
Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee
Scott
Guernsey County
Warren
Committee On
Federal Relations
Secretary of the State
Hooper
Henry County
Atkinson
Beaver
Wayne, Seneca and Buffalo
Noble County
Central Ohio Railroad Company
Union Township
Lawrence County
General Grant on Reconstruction and Southern Progress
The General discusses policy of conciliation toward the South, the limits of Northern action, and the value of military rule. He argues suffrage for freedmen was a mistake, praises Southern material gains, and cautions against repudiation and overzealous critics while stressing labor dignity and national unity.
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Mr. Hayes
Hayes
Mn Hayes
Lee
Mr. Lamar
Jon. Davis
South
Shermen
New, York
Jon
Sherman
North Carolina
Arkansas
Alabama
Missisippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Florida
New England
Middle States
Iowa
Kansas
North
Andrew Johnson
Greeny
AaSna
Republic
Gladstone
Aioe
Toombs
Georgia
Advertising Rates in Clermont Courier Classifieds
Legal and transient ads priced at one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. Annual reductions offered, with business cards over six lines cost sixty dollars per year.
Suggestive and Good Miss Mamie Smith Admitted to Kentucky Bar
The Indianapolis Herald comments on Miss Mamie Smith being admitted to the Kentucky bar. It questions whether a capable woman should be known by a diminutive name. It cites historical figures like George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant to argue for or against such naming.
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Mamie Smith
Kentucky
Mamie
George Washington
Horace Greeley
Charles Sumner
Rufus Choate
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Ward Beecher
Oliver P. Morton
Thomas A. Hendricks
Conrad Baker
Jonathan W. Gordon
Dordie Washington
Groclegy
Charlie’ Sumner
Livesie’ Grant
Harrie’ Beecher
Nellie’ Morton
Sammie’ Hendricks
Coonie’ Baker
Jontie’ Gordon
The
Indianapolis. Herald
Stabbing Reported in Brooklyn Sparks Citywide Alert
A stabbing occurred in Brooklyn with limited readable details. The text shows garbled fragments mentioning a person and possible writerly note, but no clear names, times, or outcomes are discernible. Further verification is needed to confirm suspects and casualties.
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Saresndt
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Tiffir
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Napoleon
New Philadelphia
Eli Winters
Tiffic
Chas. Townsend
Athens
Clement
Urbana
Champion Mining Company
Colorado
John Ervin
Plymouth
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John Russell Youngs
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Grant
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