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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
8
Local notes from Batavia Ohio dated February 5 1902 report the finest sleighing on record and a program of events including the Holy City at the opera house and a McKinley monument collection of 10 dollars. Also listed are club meetings church notices farm plans ball team reorganization and various local curiosities and advertisements.
Local society ladies in Hillsboro sponsor a minstrel show with a cakewalk, praised by the press as a charming affair. Other items note Gid Law of Lebanon winning the state checkers championship, court actions in West Virginia related to the Augusta post office robbery, a Batavia jail witness in Thiel case, and various society notices.
The Ladies Missionary European guild hosts an all day luncheon on Wednesday February 13 at Mrs T P Breeding's home from noon to 2 30 p m. The event is public with affordable dinners and a cordial welcome for all citizens.
An advertisement touts a self cure for drunkenness called the Home Gold Cure. It claims disease status, no dangerous doses, and a tea or coffee–ready formula sold for one dollar with discreet shipping from Edwin B. Giles & Company in Philadelphia.
Local newspaper ad column promotes stock sales at Johnson Stables on the third Saturday monthly and February 15 sale. It also lists money loans at 5 6 percent, insurance, lumber, wagon wheels, and medical dental notices from Batavia Ohio businesses and professionals.
Charley Browning of the Clinton Republicans is urged to visit Batavia to view the gift of a bright Christmas poem and the updated power house and Olive Branch works. The West Union Defender mocks Clermont Republicans while praising county offices won by Democrats. The State game commission may try prairie chickens, with past Mongolian pheasant failures shown. Michael Lairey of Youngstown injures himself cutting his throat over corn pain. Salvo’s misreadible coin tale ends with decapitation. The Olive Branch–Batavia turnpike bears heavy brick traffic aiding winter work for farmers. An Indiana style bid for county stationery ends in a costly dispute over a ledger charge.
An advertisement argues a cycle of illness where weakness and disease feed each other. It claims Scott's Emulsion can break the pattern by first fixing the stomach, enriching the blood, and strengthening the body so it can recover without further medicine.
Jessie Benton Fremont widow of John C Fremont and daughter of Thomas Benton lies in want and ill at her Los Angeles home. She has a claimed government debt of 50 000 dollars, urged as just and should not wait for payment.
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