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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1902
Page
8
Local items: guests from Cincinnati, sales at Kline's, health ads for Foley's remedies, gardening notes, and notices of Miss Lena Pen joining Ohio Soldiers' Home staff. Posts about telephone connections, coal oil sales, and a party for Mrs. Conklin. County book audits and a proposed traveling auditor bill close the column.
The M. E. church at Bainbridge burned last week on a site that formerly housed a saloon said to be cursed by an angry woman. The report notes the sequence of three churches burned at the same site and speculates on retribution.
The M. E. church was lit by electricity for the first time last Friday night. The building is thoroughly wired with chandeliers in the nave, bracket burners on each side, and smaller chandeliers in the lecture room. Numerous switches control each chandelier for partial or full lighting.
An advertisement extols the Home Gold Cure as a home treatment curing drunkenness, claiming thousands have been transformed to sobriety. It details ease of use, cost of one dollar, and offers confidential mail order from Edwin B. Giles & Company Philadelphia. Also notes local commerce items and loan ads.
A fragment notes shipping clerks kept dumping goods as workers jump to meet demand and markets are flooded with oversupply, signaling tension in production and distribution during a turbulent period.
Court matters list multiple actions with orders, verdicts, and divorces. Includes last will validation for Alexander Maham, alimony and custody ruling in Katie Apple vs Lemuel Apple, and sales orders in several dockets. New cases: Levi Stultz vs G F Callon for 345.50 plus interest, and Martha Derricks vs Thomas South et al for partition.
A mid century classified notice announces a large stock of small paper items and preview of latest designs. The seller states prices will be the same for border and walls and ceilings, signaling uniform pricing for interior finish materials.
The Bethel Journal urges readers to favor the Citizens Telephone Company now on the ground with tall poles and fifty wires. It promises rapid, affordable service with no individual wires to the exchange and no crowding or extra expense, urging patronage of local enterprise over the Bell company.
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