Be John R Woodlief Or And Proprietor Merchandise Terms
Be John R Woodlief the proprietor lists terms of sale with wear in advance and payment within a year at a price of two dollars.
12 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1879
Page
1
Be John R Woodlief the proprietor lists terms of sale with wear in advance and payment within a year at a price of two dollars.
A narrator reflects on love and loss as she rereads a marriage notice. She recalls a past romance with Simee, contrasts it with current happiness of another, and admits lingering sadness at the faded memory as she contemplates the revealed union.
A poor laborer, unnamed and poor, lives beside a great river and endures a pestilence among workers. The Bigwig family, loud and controlling, fails to aid him or his children through education and dignity. He learns that neglect and unequal power cause suffering. the tale ends with Nobody becoming Legion, forgotten in the mass.
A tramp at a Danbury back door offered to do any weeding, earnestly declaring he was the man for the job. He received a snow shovel from the resident, reported by the Danbury News on Thursday.
The February session notes daily actions from February 3 to 8. House activity includes temperance petitions, tax and road funding bills, constitutional amendment proposals, and local option measures. Senate action covers anatomy study debates, criminal bailiff bill progress, and land sale conveyance reforms. Several amendments and votes shape governance and public works.
A survey of global commerce and agriculture reports California wine at 60 million dollars, Cuba sugar output at 700 thousand tons, apples to England at record levels, Minneapolis mills exporting flour to Europe, and Otumwa porkPacking to Liverpool. It notes Florida orange crop value rising, 186 whaleships totaling 40,608 tons, and New Bedford owning 132. California wool deficit in 1878, Brazilian coffee exports refined to the United States, and oilfield pipe line plans in Peru. It also cites coal, oil, iron exports, Detroit lumber and building stocks, oleomargarine company failures, and global wool clips for 1877 and 1878 with Australia and River Plate figures.
Detroit Free Press recounts Edward Henderson who, while being arrested, tries to borrow a quarter to bury his dead father and then claims his dying grandfather Bozer asked the judge to send him to prison for thirty days. The judge humorously upholds the leniency, noting the grandfather’s death and sentiment, and Henderson admits the trick, recognizing the old man’s influence counts little in court.
A student shot by a City Guard officer in Warzburg Germany sparked mass protests and a demand for punishment. Nearly a thousand students and faculty attended a state of mourning with torches and flags as the funeral procession moved through the city. The event ended with Gaudeamus sung and torches discarded in darkness. The tale notes dueling challenges directed at the garrison commander amid public dismay. All Parisian theaters now offer Sunday morning performances.
Hartford Journal notes a provocative maxim on memory and grievance, reflecting a moral stance that injury lingers longer than faults forgiven. The piece underscores a cautioned view of personal balance and moral accountability.
The article reviews the Black Death as a global scourge in the mid fourteenth century, detailing European and Asian mortality, associated omens, and theories linking celestial events and atmospheric change. It compares past plagues to recent planetary approaches, then shifts to France adopting a laurel crest replacing the eagle in heraldry and laments the departure from historic symbols.
A Hebrew wealthy man near death gifts his five sons silver donkeys and a tale from Bashra to Bagdad. The tale shows a silk merchant swapping stones for silk to ease burden, a wayfarer’s counsel, and a Caliph’s palace delay. The lesson: never heed advice from an unfortunate man.
Circulation says Wilhelmj was hired by a Jewish banker in Vienna for a private evening from seven to ten. He played Mendelssohn an andante while the host, unfamiliar with classical music, whispered to guests that he paid by the hour and heard the musician play slowly.
Dr Hagen addressed the Boston Society of Natural History on carpet beetles and fleas. He traced early cases to a large carpet store with imported stock and noted broad international damage to wool furs and hides. Remedies vary. kerosene or benzine are risky and costly, candle tallow works, airing sun beating carpet helps, and fleas may be corralled by a lit basin of water at night.
A modern household can be run with few utensils and little knowledge of cookery. Gas stoves replace ranges. ready to use foods and canned goods abound. Self rising flour, pre ground coffee, prepared spices, and pre cooked meats let the novice dispense with a cook book.
In Weaverville and Trinity County mining camps early settlers trusted gold stored in secret places. A few fledgling fortunes led to mislaid dust, mistaken theft accusations, a lynch law fear, and later a surprising recovery of funds. A plains migrant lost a purse and faced a staged trial, then a hanging, until the true thief confessed. A crowd raised about 1800 dollars for the wronged teamster to return East.
Professor A P Fisher discusses belief in demonic agency from early Church times through the eighteenth century, noting how diseases storms and misfortunes were ascribed to Satan. He contrasts ancient demonology with modern views where Satan is seen mainly as a tempter aligning with human propensities.
A humorous catalog from the New York Express humor column lists everyday hardships. It covers beard cultivation, crowded ferries with a baby, colds without handkerchiefs, clock confusion with an uncle, coal duties, a loud carpet complaint, a timid dating moment, and clumsy shoe noises in a stairway.
The Clermont Courier outlines advertising prices for legal and transient notices at $1.00 per square (ten lines) for the first insertion and $0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines cost $84.00 per year.
A lyric poem by Eben E Rexford reflects on enduring love beyond death. The speaker recalls past summer happiness, vows love survives grief, and imagines a future reunion as violets, pansies, and longing color the memory of a departed beloved.
A collage of quips and brief items from various papers, including jokes about pairs and sleighs, a remark on a ship carrying rum and a missionary, a Norristown sleigh tale, and a Beecher lecturing note. The column blends light humor with social observations and a short verse.
The New York Commercial urges strict quarantine as plague spreads in Brazil and Russia, citing the Czar’s stance on harsh Hippocratic remedies and the burning of plague villages. Ships from certain Brazilian ports raise concern while five doctors are sent to Ceara as Rio Janeiro dispatches report the outbreak.
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