03 Jan 1883
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1883
Page
1
The Clermont Courier issue notes its Republican alignment and is dated Wednesday January 3 1883 from Batavia. Pricing states $1.50 per year with late payment surcharge.
A weekly review notes Senate action on a bill to hold a term of the U S Circuit Court at Wachita Kansas, and the Civil Service bill discussion featuring Hoar and Butler. House adjourned early. other items include fort funding, a Missouri Pacific derailment near Atchison, and multiple criminal cases and local incidents across the nation.
Washington December 41 1882 Commissioner Mudiey replies to a city gentleman about using agents for pension claims and how dishonest attorneys fleece soldiers. The letter explains Sec 4 748 requires free instructions and forms, filing and processing delays, and the role of pamphlets and judgments to guide claimants.
The report traces Drake’s well near Titusville in Pennsylvania and the birth of the oil era. It notes land speculation, leasing, and the shift from frontier territory to a busy oil district driven by the new resource. Mrs. McClintock’s fatal experiment with oil is recounted as a cautionary tale.
The piece discusses Bagdad sand flies and a skin ulcer feared by newcomers, likened to date sores, with wary medical notes on their course. It also recounts a Macon Georgia divorce caper where a couple split assets, then sought court approval, only to learn the divorce had no legal effect.
A survey of concerns across science and industry covers Lord Houghton and sugar culture in Jamaica, the use of waste animal hairs for felt, and hat making. It notes Ambulence Association lectures for workers, pin manufacture in New England and export to Cuba and South America, and amber handling changes in Dantzig to avoid lead poisoning. It also gives flour storage guidance to prevent taint, with temperature and humidity cautions and methods to improve dough through proper mixing and sponge preparation.
Legal and transient advertisements priced at eight per square ten lines for first insertion and five cents for each extra insertion. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines placed for six dollars per year.
A collage of wry remarks and snippets from various newspapers. Notes on Mrs Langtry birth year jokes, straw pails, bears and opossums, dark fears, fashion and poetry quips, and a moral fable about a grave of a child.
A chaotic scene described by Detroit Free Press notes a young man with a disordered look requesting venesection and blood written love letters in blood. The absurd exchange ends with the doctor not drawing blood and a remark about brass bedsteads rising in popularity in America.
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