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03 Jan 1877
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The Clermont Courier in Batavia, Ohio
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1877
Page
1
Spirit of the Press Spirit Poem Freeing Tyranny Across Lands
An evocative verse depicts a spirit of the press racing over mountain and sea. It carries news that awakens eyes, fuels hope, exposes hate, and stirs despotism. The piece links the press to freedom, family fears, and collective longing for release from bondage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cea
Samraniian Tate
Guaties
Aren
The Missouri River town of Sumner destroyed by storm
In Sumner a lumbering settlement along a ravine suffers a devastating May tempest. Nancy and her husband John struggle with drink and hardship, vows to stay sober, and a deadly night storm claims Nancy and their child Sammy. John returns to find his home gone and his family dead, overwhelmed by desolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumner
Missouri
Sammy
Pappy
Nancy
Jones
Leavenworth Ag
Atchison
John
Almos
Tennessee
Winthrop
Jake
Denver
Daniel Webster Statue Unveiled in Central Park
On November 25 a bronze statue of Daniel Webster was unveiled in Central Park New York City. The statue rests on a granite pedestal bearing the words Liberty and Union Now and Forever One and Inseparable. Gifted by Gordon W. Burnham, the memorial honors Webster as a patriot, statesman, orator, and lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Webster
Central Park
New York City
Liberty
Union
City of
New York
Gordon W. Burnham
Webster
Robert C. Winthrop
Massachusetts
Fillmore
Hayne
Afraid of the Gun in Yellowstone Campaign
Describes a skirmish between Gen. Miles and Sioux forces led by Sitting Bull. A flag of truce preceded a council with about 300 mounted warriors. The battle showed the gun's effectiveness as the Indians panicked and stampeded, highlighting the superiority of infantry with light artillery in the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Bismarck
Sitting Bull
Yellowstone
Alabama Congregational Churches Form New Southern Conference
The Alabama Churches sever from the Central South Conference and create a state conference as Congregational churches in the South remain strong. The winter brings ice shortages feared to worsen with next season’s famine warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Bed Rock
Mississippi
Missionary and church notes span wealth and reform
The religious column surveys Christian fundraising costs in various churches, church property in Italy, and the needs of Methodists abroad. It covers Moscow and Russian monastic costs, Boston sermon halls, Pennsylvania women’s auxiliary giving, and Italy’s ecclesiastical sales with vast revenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
W. H. H. Murray
Pennsylvania
Woman’s Auxiliary Missionary Society
Protestant Episcopal Church
Woman’s Auxiliary Society
Italy
Rome
A Business Like Couple Wedding in Quiet Country House
A preacher who recently wed a man and a woman narrates a terse ceremony at six. The bride and groom arrive, the service is stripped to businesslike efficiency, and the groom returns to milking cows with a milk pail as the cows wait, fittingly calm and unhurried. Companions in arms twins.
First Lady Freemason? Countess Initiated in Hungary Sparks Debate
A 19th century tale claims a woman hid in a clock to witness Masonic rites. The Countess Hadich is said to have been initiated in a Hungarian lodge under the Grand Orient, which later voided the initiation citing gender rules. The dispute questions whether she may still be admitted to her lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freemason
Hadich
Grand Orient
Uace
Grand Orient of
Hungary
A Smart Young Man and a Smarter Father
A Virginia Nevada Evening Chronicle item recounts Walter, a New York youth who faked his death to swindle his father out of money. The con collapses as the father exposes the hoax and a subsequent note reveals honesty from the son before a deadly mistake with hemlock-like poison ends another tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter
Virginia
M. L. Barker
Drak
Barker
Robinson Crusoe in Reverse A Londoner’s Isle Hardship
A humorous compare and contrast tale imagines a fashionable London youth stranded on a sparsely supplied island. Lacking newspapers, clothing, and social comforts, he endures crude meals, earthquakes, and unhelpful locals while his past luxuries and social status provoked bystanders spark comic reflections on modern life.
Buckskin Sam and Old Rip Escape Thunder Falls
Two trappers pursued by hostile Indians rushed through a narrow canyon on the Canadian River. Their canoe plunged over a high, roaring falls but the men survived and continued downstream, reaching Fort Sill two days later. The pursuing Indians disappeared over the falls with their craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckskin Sam
Old Rip
Forks
Canadian River
Indian Territory
Rip
Sam
Rip Ford
Fort Sill
Death of Miss SiLty Northrop at New Milford aged 100
Miss SiLty Northrop died in New Milford Connecticut recently at the aged 100 years five months and eighteen days. Her faculties were remarkably well preserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SiLty Northrop
New Milford
Connecticut
Marriage Under Difficulties in Ohio State Journal
A northern city man sought to wed covertly avoiding newspaper notices. After a Madison County license, a dark crossing into Franklin County led to a rushed ceremony with a Justice of the Peace. Complications arose over jurisdiction and authentic licensing, prompting court action and renewed attempts to marry openly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Journal
Madison County
London
Franklin
Madison
Irl
The Old Vermont Farmer and the Cattle Judgment
A kindly Vermont farmer shrugs off cattle deaths as cash value. After a dead ox is butchered for money to cover debts, more cattle die and the farmer treats the losses as profit. His pious wife admonishes him, but he quips that paying sins in cattle is the easiest method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Fletcher’s
Fletcher
Eliphaz
A Queer Pin Cushion In Lawrence County
Lydia Stokes of Lawrence County suffers a rare malady with pins and needles extracted from many body parts over two years. Headless pins and bundled needles appear, some corroded others fresh, with no clear cause or cure. She is described as delicate and believes she is bewitched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Stokes
Lawrence County
Alan
Advertising rates and rules for Clermont Cowie listings
The notice sets advertising charges: legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Redaction offered yearly. Business cards limited to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
Lovers' Quarrel lettered farewell by Kate Putnam Osgood
A mid nineteenth century aside tells of a lovers quarrel and a woman’s final farewell. The narrator retrieves letters gifts and tokens and contemplates ending the affair with a final meeting at the sycamore tree. The note hints at a future without the beloved and a desperate admission of lost trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oman
Fragmented Musings and Quotations on Life Love and Society
A collage of aphorisms and excerpts on life death and virtue, including Emerson Tyndall and Courier-Journal reflections. It questions natural living, heat as motion, and the nature of true loveliness, weaving social commentary with humorous asides about pigs and parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Brussels
Dramatic Society of Jonge Tooneélliefhebbers
Tyndall
Oaths Across Cultures From New Guinea to Germany
The article surveys diverse oath rituals across cultures including New Guinea sun or mountain swearing and weapon vows. It notes how gestures and objects, like arrows or touching the head, can bind truth or negate oaths, plus a German example of crooked one finger lies and schoolyard imitates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Germany
Macaulay Moment Taken In Waning Career
Fragmentary note suggests a man named Macaulay faces an end of medical career and lost friendships as possibilities fade amid unclear events. No clear dates or locations are provided.
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Spirit OF the Press
New York Herald
Methodist Episcopal Church
Russia
Empire
American Home Missionary Society
Lebonnard Woolsey Bacon
Geneva
Switzerland
Hyacinthe
America
Philadelphia
Montreal
General Missionary Committee
California
China
San Francisco
San Quentin
Ireland
Almshouse
Committee of Congress
Therese de Rothschild
Paris
Lady Mason
Nevada
Evening Chronicle
J. P. Perkins
Fairhaven
Hellebore
Valerian
Robinson Crusoe
Dominion
Joose
England
R. Crusoe
London Times
Bob Crusoe
Lun’un
Robinson
Mr. Crusoe
The
Clermont Cowie
Kate Putnam Osgood
Ryan
Rexta
Siemens
Odds and
Bridget
Avalanch
the Courier-Journal
Grant
Senate
House
Tilden
Sheridan
Sherman
Don Cameron
Secor Robeson
Supreme Court
Pers
Macaulay
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