The Glermont Courier Batavia Ohio 7 7
The Glermont Courier from Batavia Ohio dated July 7 reports local happenings, community notices, and brief updates reflecting daily life in the village with concise items and civic reminders.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1883
Page
4
The Glermont Courier from Batavia Ohio dated July 7 reports local happenings, community notices, and brief updates reflecting daily life in the village with concise items and civic reminders.
Poignant reminiscence by Josephine Pollard from the New York Ledger reflecting on childhood home life. The speaker recalls joyful summers, family warmth, and harmony, contrasting it with later separations, loss, and the memory of a once vibrant house now a distant vision. The piece laments how time and distance dim the ideal, questioning if the world remains as fair as those bygone days.
Colonel Harvie hosts a dinner where Tom Harvie, Captain Morton, and William Staines discuss Harvie’s India adventures. He recounts his perilous bicycle chase against a tiger near Calcutta, aided by a skilled shikaree who shot the tiger just as it toppled him, saving his life and earning a place as the tale’s centerpiece in London Society.
A Smyrna Delaware church service sparked confusion when the preacher’s cue to pray was misheard as praise. Congregants briefly knelt in reverence before the minister clarified the intended sequence and the crowd returned to seating with puzzled expressions. Workmen in Montgomery County Pennsylvania unearthed bones believed to be Indian chief Choo roorah. The valley tale says Choo roorah was killed 239 years ago by his own people while defending the home of a whitish betrothed.
Advice from the era on farming discipline stock care and household chores. It covers humane animal housing feeding programs, safe handling and sanitation, wood stump eradication methods, carpet and marble cleaning tips, potato prep with beef gall, and training a horse to harness without fright using progressive exposure.
A meditation on aging urges acceptance of waning powers and slower pace. It advises matching activity to capacity, avoiding forced speed, conserving energy, and shifting burdens to younger, vigorous hands while simplifying diet and seeking rest for a peaceful old age.
The South lacks an automated cotton picker while the West uses machines for planting cultivating harvesting and threshing. A New Hampshire born resident of South Carolina has created a device that could harvest 3 000 to 5 000 pounds of cotton per day, potentially replacing many laborers and saving millions amid chronic labor shortages. If perfected it could transform cotton farming nationwide.
A curiously biographical tale recounts a Dutchess gifting two vast estates to a pope. A young duke renounces wealth to teach in Nice, later becoming a nobleman yet choosing village life. Immigrant families arrive bearing twelve children from England. The Pope orders a Vatican archives collection on England’s split from Rome. Folklore cures persist in Schleswig, while a Brooklyn divorce appeal faces a massive 2,800 page referee report. A New Orleans seller touts $50 down quilts and a man breaks two legs by a chair.
A Chicago Times excerpt cites General Leib praising St Jacobs Oil as a remedy for rheumatism and neuralgia. The endorsement notes personal use aligning with proprietors’ claims and mentions a New Jersey man who talks through his nose to protect false teeth. Huntington Democrat quote referenced.
A jumble of patent medicine pitches and humor quotes. Notices tout Mishler's Herb Bitters as a cure-all for biliousness and cholera, with other tonics and elixirs like Wells' May Apple Pills and Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya advertised alongside a joke about war and a reference to Frazer Axle Grease.
The Voltaic Bet Co of Marshall Michigan offers thirty day trial of Dr Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances to men of all ages suffering nervous debility lost vitality and direct troubles. No risk is charged as a full thirty day trial is allowed and guarantees speedy restoration of health and vigor. Address as above.
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