05 Jan 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1881
Page
1
The Glermont Courier announces Emery Wednesday publication details and subscription terms. W Pegg is listed in the masthead with pricing set at 1.50 per year in advance.
A jumble of clipped reports and narrative fragments describes near-fatal attempts, robberies, court actions, and sensational crimes across various towns. Notable names include Jacob Meyer of Warren and John L. Wood of Cleveland, with scenes of violence, trials, and personal tragedies interwoven with a longer poetic meditation on a town and its fate.
A sweeping chronicle lists floods fires and disasters from January to December 1880. It notes European and American calamities including fires in New York and Tokyo, floods in England and the West Indies, and shipwrecks. Interwoven are dramatic personal vignettes such as Philip Adair and Mabel Vaughn amid farm debts and offers from neighbors.
A long necrology lists deaths of prominent figures including New York comedian Kee Locke and Dalhousie professor De Mille, with a broad France population breakdown and a list of celebrated deaths across months. It notes vast population divisions by occupation and social life, and quotes M Amepee Guillemin on comets as vagabonds of the heavens. The item records numerous nears and details from March through August, including entertainers, politicians, military figures, and scholars.
A jumble of notes reports miners in the Valley paid biweekly, officials like Auditor Silas N. Freups and Trustee O. Grosvenor, canal toll figures for Ohio Public Works, a jail mutiny with nonfatal shots, and suspected crimes including abuse cases. Details cover war materiel bids, state pensions, and the annual Public Works report showing income from canals and water rents, notably the Miami and Erie Canal, totaling over 53 thousand dollars with extensive disbursements.
The fragment references a nuisance involving a chamois from a cypress root tied to a protege of the King and an employe who deciphered cruciform inscriptions. It also touches on an essay about Mexican fondness for dancing and a description of American dances, noting ballroom etiquette with ladies on one side and men signaling from the floor.
A parish clergyman uses a dark cellar rescue tale to teach four and five year olds about faith. A bright boy named Johnny adds that the girl needed lots of pluck to leap into the father’s arms, prompting a new idea for the lesson.
A Newburyport woman screams about a mouse in her pocket. Rescue attempts fail until a pocket tape measure is found to be the culprit. Ghe man of the house checks the pocket and unwound spring confirms the joke as the source of the ruckus.
Legal and transient ads cost 1.00 per square for first insertion with ten lines, and 0.50 for each subsequent insertion. A liberal yearly discount available. Business cards over six lines priced at 4.00 per year.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes a crowded street scene at a stamp window. Six women seek to mail a box, facing a charge of two cents or twelve with contents, as the clerk explains the postage rules. The passengers rummage through pockets and purses, paying cents while debating the process.
The Fort Worth Live Stock Sun estimates cattle costs in Texas with an 82 cent profit. It cites a $19.50 per head price and calf profit of 75 percent. Net profit is stated at 23 percent.
A garbled OCR fragment from a Cincinnati item mentions Anderson and cherry red lips. The readable text is incomplete, offering no clear event or action to summarize beyond a nonspecific description.
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