09 Feb 1860
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1860
Page
1
The speaker asks if older poets can recount youth and love with deeper truth than later eras. They describe tender songs at midnight, maidens fair with beaming eyes and graceful forms, and wonder why human love seems light and frail as time moves on.
An adjourned meeting in West Woodville, Ohio on January 28 established The Union Agricultural Society for Southern Ohio. James Crosson was elected chairman. eight directors were chosen from Clermont, Warren, Clinton and Brown to serve until the first fair.
The article recalls early American papers lacking ads and pages. It notes England added Bible selections to fill space and questions readers would react to such scripture heavy issues. It touches on gender and medical contrasts with odd concluding observations.
A satirical exploration of westward travel timing regions and health, advising money and low fear of loss as key, with sharp jabs at Nebraska Iowa Minnesota Illinois Wisconsin and Ohio land schemes. It mocks railroads, land speculation, and unreliable information, ending with a collection of quips on love and the water cure.
The Prairie Farmer reports cotton grown in Sangamon County Illinois during the season, small in quantity but promising future trials. It recalls Gitano’s introduction to England in 1841 and the large English expenditure on its purchase through 1857. The piece also covers horse care in Flanders, sheep shelter losses, calf protection, salt in milk production, and a humorous anecdote about the actor Dick Hoskins and a tragedian named Dr Banks during a Lancashire performance.
Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham publishes in the Mount Vernon Record a full statement of the Mount Vernon Fund showing ownership by the Mount Vernon Association. Total receipts over expenditures are $232,006.08 with a $69,004.77 contribution from Everett and other sources. a $20,000 surplus exists and $120,000 more is sought to create a sinking fund. Subscriptions urged.
An advertisement extols grafted peach trees on wild plum stock as hardy and frost resistant. It claims tall trees will provide peaches annually for a long lifetime, with prices 50 to 75 cents per tree and a strong urging to buy now. An unrelated joke and a comic aside follow about a pale lady and a short bachelor, plus a tall joke about General Tom Phumb.
A long humorous paragraph recounts Old P from Oklaoma Mississippi who drinks and avoids debts, then jokes about paying a note his friend held. The piece then mocks Polish women using bells on daughters and ends with a laconic dinner invitation for a goose tomorrow.
A reflective piece on the letters if and tilde in advertising and life. It weaves philosophy, poetry, and a meditation on art, memory, and mortality, linking the motif to culture, nature, and human aspiration across time. The author, B. F. Taylor, discusses how the word if remains unseen yet shapes every human gesture and enduring work.
An Illinoisan derides a Virginian claiming first family status on a Mississippi steamboat. The Virginian asserts Virginia ties and ribs the man about aristocratic pretensions. The Sucker taunts with jokes about descent from Pocahontas and famous Virginians before they part at a river landing.
A mother warns her child and a fly about a boiling fountain. The child ignores advice and is harmed, illustrating why children should heed their elders. Short calls make long friends.
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