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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1890
Page
3
Poem in the voice of a child named Roy lamenting losing the baby status to a new brother. He imagines bold acts and toys, boasts of masculine clothes, and ends with affection for the infant and acceptance of being no longer the baby.
A Scottish girl named Elsie wanders from chores and meets tiny woodland creatures in a heather grove. They shrink her with a hammering spell, take her to their moonlit dance, and reveal a wish to return home from their charming but restless prank. She reaches home just in time to keep the baby and chores waiting.
The gourd offers ornamental and practical uses with varieties like Pear shaped, Bottle shaped, Orange and Dipper shaped. After full maturity in frost, gourds are dried in sand, seeds removed, then decorated with varnish, metal powder, or bronze designs. Orange shapes become rose jars or small caskets, while gourds serve as powder-horns, dipper, bottles, and cups in Southern usage.
A silver or gilt folding Japanese fan is needed. Remove the rivet and stiff end-sticks, join the paper ends, and seal with mucilage. When dry, gather the bottom sticks to a point, run a wire through, and twist to secure. Weave a bright satin ribbon about a…
Instructions describe making a decorative basket with satin ribbon bows. A loop of ribbon is attached to each side of the top basket, plus a bow at the seam hiding paper edges. The baskets are hung beside a dressing table to hold scraps and useful articles.
Guidance for growing chrysanthemums in turfy loam with cow manure and sand, selecting warm sunny spots, and methods to force bloom for Christmas. It covers pinching center shoots in June and July to create multiple shoots and large trusses, pest control by pepper dust, and notes on late frost beauty.
Step by step doughnut recipe uses lukewarm milk lard flour yeast eggs sugar salt and cinnamon. Mix bake roll cut fry in lard roll in sugar cool and store. Also notes on yeast timing batter warming and using egg white to prevent greasing. Fashion makers skew aging signs and wrinkles.
A feathered curiosity details the extinct Fregilupus varius and parallels between species decline and human impact. The piece notes extinction of the great auk sea cow and various island birds, describes the nine inch bird with white and bister plumage and a hood of white feathers, and cites a Kensington Museum stuffed specimen as illustrated.
A New York Sun report describes dangerous African knives Ward collected from Stanley expedition. No. 1 cut heads of Balgala tribe to honor a chief, No. 2 from Babanzi used for beheading and finishing necks, No. 3 from Quella river region for throwing. Each blade crafted in village smithies from iron ore and ivory pestle.
The Ephemeris states it is highly probable that importing coca leaves for cocaine production into the United States and Europe is nearly finished. For over a year crude cocaine moved from Peru to markets in the United States and Europe, with rising quality. By 1888 Peruvian exports were large, with quality reaching 90 to 98 percent. Four Peruvian manufacturers thrive, Hamburg becomes a chief market, and sellers may offer better, cheaper product from Hamburg than Peru, amid a price‑keeping cartel.
In a blurred scene from A TLusus Nature a new cook tours rooms with a chamber maid during dinner. They stop before a portrait of the owner’s father aged about twenty five to thirty. The maid and cook react with astonishment at the age difference prompting a puzzled remark from Judge about a father younger than his son.
Reverend Dr. Newman who traveled with General Grant brings a modern jack knife from Jerusalem. The item mirrors knives sold in Mahometan lands with a cow horn handle and a razor-like opening, lacking a spring and stopping at the butt end by a ring.
In Texas Liftings the publisher questions the suitability of a picture shown to an artist. The artist comments that half tone would suit better and the publisher agrees.
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