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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1883
Page
4
A Toledo Blade poetical piece portrays Poverty as a gaunt, leering figure haunting the speaker. Described as a knight without a nickel, Poverty exposes the world’s hunger, ruin, and hollow promises from childhood to old age.
A narrator and companion near Athens encounter brigands during a ride from Piraeus. They are captured after meeting ragged bandits, held in a mountain camp, and later join two English sailors aboard a brig as ransom negotiations unfold amidst danger and dark humor.
A nautical adventure unfolds as Will Johnson and Captain Jenkins plot a daring night raid on brigands guarding valuables. After stealing arms, freeing their own horses, and disabling sentries with stealthy blows, they outrun danger, capture the brigand leader, and finally reach Athens to safety with their spoils.
To keep the name of Penn remembered Pennsylvania has been sown upon thirty four avenues eight streets twelve miles two and eight alleys and many hills creeks shops schools fields and forests in a wide public display across the state.
An Iowa farmer argues that exclusive corn diets cause hog cholera and that hogs need a varied diet for bone and muscle development. The piece cites seed postage costs, a New Jersey station on sorghum meal’s effects on dairy, and cautions about milk cleanliness. It also includes recipes and cooking tips from multiple papers, detailing cake and salmon dishes with step by step methods.
A reflective piece contrasts strict tidy housekeepers with warm homekeepers, praising a mother whose home offered comfort, love, and stability over perfect cleanliness. It urges mothers to prioritize sons' morals and a welcoming, enjoyable home life, even amid disorder.
Dr. Carl Seller spoke to the Philadel Pharmaceutical Association at the College of Pharmacy on mouth breathing. He warned that habit linked to nasal underuse can cause nasal catarrh and related ailments, noting air should be moisturized and warmed in the nose before reaching the lungs. He outlined a cauterization method using a platinum wire as a painless treatment, destroying nerves to stop formations.
Henry L. Goodwin of East Hartford Connecticut built an eightieth foot well in a California town after a water price dispute. He opened a free public fountain while selling water six gallons for a cent. Cattle owners paid fifty cents per yoke weekly for stock watering, yielding him a substantial fortune.
A collage of brief clippings discusses Washington lottery players, umbrella thefts leading to fines, a Bradford chimney collapse killing forty, an actor seeking jail to curb drinking, Florida orange grower using skimmed milk for tree washes, Langtry’s remark on society, and a Pittsburgh detective citing slimmer criminals as the rule.
A big Chicago firm plans to process beef for the eastern market on a huge scale. They claim capacity to handle a thousand cattle daily and chill three thousand, charging only the ice handling cost. The chilled meat would travel east in large quantities in refrigerator cars.
San Francisco papers report Rear Admiral Schenck, recently deceased, as the first to carry gold from California to the East. Then a lieutenant, he was sent to report the discovery by Commodore Catesby Jones and carried three claret cases of gold chunks on the journey.
A hotel man at Ogden Mr J G Tyler chief clerk at the Union Depot Hotel reports rheumatism in the chest and shoulder fully cured by three days use of the Great German Remedy. He calls St Jacobs Oil unmatched for pain and notes the remedy also treats burns and sprains. Tom Turums tried to knock down a Chicago hackman and was angry that the man did not know it.
A passage notes deadly venomous snakes in India and compares consumption to a persistent scrofulous disease. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure for tubercular consumption and other blood and skin diseases, claimed to cleanse the blood and treat king's evil. The ad-like text ends with a throwaway line about pawn-shop loan exhibitions.
A letter from Amianna K Ennis of Fulton Michigan thanks Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo for the Favorite Prescription relief after seven years of illness including a year in bed. The note claims movement resumed after one bottle. Also a Baltimore News quip about a boy avoiding wood sawing due to the saw’s toothache.
The pamphlet addressed to Buffalo readers from the World's Dispensary Medical Association promises information on vehicle hacks and coupes. It notes successful treatment and invites interest in the pamphlet stamped for mailing. The fragment opens with the question that excites drivers of pots carriages about class and design.
A Lancaster, Pennsylvania resident, Mrs. Harriet Orr, describes ten years of back pain and kidney weakness ending with renewed health after using Misbler's Herb Bitters. The item lists various remedies and advertisements, including patent tonics, throat drops, salves, and medical claims, reflecting a period newspaper mix of personal anecdote and product promotion.
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