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Newspaper

The Clermont Courier

Location

Batavia, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Feb 26, 1879

Page

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Terms: One Fifty Per Year If Not Paid Within The

The notice states a yearly amount of 1.50 dollars and warnings for nonpayment within a set period. It indicates late or enforced collection upon failure to pay by the specified deadline. The item appears as a brief public notice or financial notice.

Garfield Acklen Louisiana South Foster Hale Keifer Banks Conger Sam Cox Ben. Butler Charlie Foster Charlie Rice Sayler Tom Ewing Wood Hooker Tucker Blackburn Senate Soldiers’ and Sailors Xenia Dodds Dem House Salzgaber van Cleaf Michael S. Creamer Fayette County Messrs van Cleaf, Hitchcock Morey Quinby Hitchcock Wright Board of Public Works Paulding County Paulding & Antwerp Railroad Company House Committee On Soldiers’ and Sailors M. S. Creamer Virginia Sherrick Committee On Temperance Howland England Committee On Insurance Steedman Erastus F. Blair Brown County John W. Boyd Committee On Soldiers’ and Sailors Orleans Dalzell Congress Bloom Soldiers’ Orphans

The Broad to Slumber Land Poem Fragment

A poetic fragment describes a baby traveling to Slumberland as night falls. A mother’s arms cradle the child while the sun sinks, the land of nod and dreamland await. The poem evokes a tender bedtime scene with a mother’s kiss and a peaceful journey.

Stargut Slumberland

A Woman's Deed and a Secret in the Parlor

Grace Halden, a governess with a hidden crime tied to her past, confronts Mrs Belmont about a dark secret while planning escape. Grace flees by ship to London, where she unexpectedly encounters Dalton Dial, who recognizes her and prompts a decisive conversation.

Mrs. Belmont Gracie Oscar Grace Grace Halden Belmont Dalton London Grace Haldon Dalton Dial

Grace Halden's Reckoning and a Perjured Conspirator

Grace Halden confronts Dalton Dial over a murder claim and vows to prove his perjury. The governess uncovers a web of deception linking love, exile, and a fatal crime, leading to Dial's arrest and Grace's reunion with her forgiving father and former lover Oscar Morgan.

Dalton Dial Grace Halden England Grace Oscar Morgan Grace Haldon Bright

Nellie and the wild boar joke at Woolf’s Wild Animals

In a Boston Commercial Bulletin snippet Nellie jokes about a wild boar in Woolf’s Wild Animals. Mr Jorkins is asked to explain a picture and Nellie quips that it doesn’t look like him. The guest responds and the scene ends with Nellie’s mother announcing her time.

Nellie Woolf Boston Commercial Bulletin

Ham Purchase Change Sparks Gentle Euphoria

A humorous piece contrasts a man’s swooning over a soft spoken woman with the joy of buying ham and receiving eight dollars and thirty five cents in change from a five dollar bill.

Aftermath of Venezuelan Earthquake Joins Myriad Scenes

Survivors recount the Cua disaster with vivid images of a sofa crushed by a wall, a boy beneath it saved after two days, and a mother found kneeling with her children. Authorities blame dust suffocation for many deaths as ruins yield tragic scenes.

Cua Venezuela

Lecture at Sorbonne on Africa exploration progress

M de Lesseps lectured at the Sorbonne on Africa's civilization progress and the continent's unknown interior until the 19th century. He traced exploration from Egypt through European powers and noted plans for colonies, expeditions, and railway projects to the great lakes from Zanzibar.

M. de Lesseps Sorbonne France Africa Egypt Nile Gordon Pasha Italy Livingstone Burton Speke Grant Cameron Great Lakes Zanzibar

Argument in company and in books

A brief nugget notes that argument in company is viewed as the worst kind of talk and in books the worst form of reading. The remark contrasts social talk with literary consumption, suggesting a negative judgment of argumentative discourse across settings.

Nazare Aga Portrait as Persian Ambassador in Paris

The Persian Ambassador Nazare-Aga in Paris is described as majestic and aristocratic in appearance. He has a sallow complexion a small brown beard expressive eyes and a gravity softened by polite charm. His voice is harmonious and he is reported to be communicative speaking fluent French English and Russian. Elocutionists might polish his delivery if conversation is finely turned and ornamented.

Nazare-Aga Paris

Note by suicide victim Barry left for coroner jury

Cons F Barry, who killed himself in New Orleans, left a note to the coroner's jury stating he took morphine and laudanum, tried to live but failed, had no compassion or employment, and left no money to bury him.

F. Barry New Orleans

Brazilian Donor Offers Eight Ton Stone for Monument

Dom Pedro of Brazil presented a stone weighing nearly eight tons to the Washington Monument to perpetuate the memory of the illus trious father of the American Republic and to express warm admiration for his legacy.

Dom Pedro Brazil Washington Monument American Republic

Natural bridges span deep chasms in global locales

A gallery of astonishing natural bridges describes arches and caverns where streams disappear and reappear. Highlights include the Valley of Icononzo in Mexico with a 326 foot chasm and 43 by 39 foot bridge, the Bridge of Arc in Ardeche, and the Virginia Rock Bridge spanning Cedar Creek.

Icononzo Pandi Mexico Rio de la Summa Paz Arc Ardeche Vera Verona Virginia United States Cedar Creek Lebanon Beirut Ain-el Liban Leontes Tisr Kuraene Wady el Teim Nihah Dog River Niban el Liban

Zulus Rise as Military Power in South Africa

The Herald recounts the Zulus as a branch of the Caffre race who under Chaka Dingan and Panda built a strong military system with bands of one thousand men and colored shields. By 1840 they could field forty thousand warriors, challenged by the Boers near Natal, and later faced renewed British hostility as Cetywayo led renewed war. The campaign, nearing a year, reached a major stage on January 27.

New York Herald Chaka Natal Dingan Panda Dhaka South Africa Transvaal Kaffirland Cetywayo

Emaciated Man Arrested After Stone Thrown at Lamp

John Petersen told Police Justice Kilbreth he threw a cobblestone through a green lamp in front of the Eldridge Street station to seek shelter and food. He described extreme hunger and exposure and was remanded to the Commissioners of Charities rather than Island confinement.

New York Sun Kilbreth Essex Market Court Eldridge-street John Petersen

Aquador and Donkey Duel at Vera Cruz Fountain

A Vera Cruz correspondent recalls a street contest between a water carrier and his donkey. The man drags right while the beast resists left, forming a human donkey‑shaped V as onlookers hear cries and the aquador laments the animal’s stubbornness and his own harsh lot.

Calle Centrale Vera Cruz New York Evening Post Caapita Bonito Senor Caramba

Perilous business of torpedoing oil wells explaine

The Pittsburg Leader details how torpedoing oil wells became a large, dangerous trade. It explains why wells are torpedoed to crack rock and clear paraffin clogging, describes explosive costs from nitroglycerin, and notes Roberts Torpedo Company monopolies and the rise of moonlighters. It also covers nightwork dangers, law enforcement, and coroner delays in oil regions.

Pittsburg Roberts Torpedo Company Roberts E. A. L. Roberts Wildom Roberts’ Torpedo Company Peter Triangle

Poisoned weapons of the Narringeris in Australia

The Narringeris of the Lower Murray District use a weapon named mejeri, an enemy killing speartip of bone six to eight inches long smeared with fluids from a decomposed human body and fat soaked hair or feathers. A single prick can be fatal.

Australia New Zealand Taflin Lower Murray

The Elusive Nature of Perfume and Odor

The piece ponders why perfume and odor resist measurement and analysis. It notes that gas can be weighed yet perfume cannot, and that tiny creatures reveal secrets under a mictoscope while the scent from musk deer and summer flowers remains incomprehensible to instruments and senses.

Clermont Courier Advertising Rates

The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction is offered for advertising, with business ecards up to six lines at 94.00 per year.

The Old Man's In The Way Poem Fragment

A fragmentary poem recalls a man lamenting his wife and aging partner. He imagines departure to join a blessed state beyond this world while noting the old man is in the way. The speaker longs for reunion with his late mate and a home not made with hands.

Grandpa Christ

Ocean of Random Snippets From a Turbulent Era

A collage of quips and anecdotes from newspapers recounts eccentrics, misprints, and satirical jabs. Notes on manners, politics, petty crime, and curiosities reveal a bustling urban filter of 19th century life with brief jabs at public figures, crime, and society.

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