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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1906
Page
8
Mrs. Gus Haye and daughter visit Batavia relatives while Bell Telephone installs 9 200 switchboards at New Richmond. Other items praise snow, comets, holiday sales, sidewalk improvements, and public notices. Public figures and local vendors are referenced with ads for remedies and separators.
A mixed clipping cites Dr. David Kennedy A Favorite Remedy with testimonials from C E Bartholomew Kalkaska Mich and mentions Bright's disease and a fever sore. It advertises Ely Dream Balm for nasal conditions and lists prices and distributors. It notes Mrs Babbit circulating a New Jersey petition seeking commutation for Mrs Tola with a 12th instant execution.
A head master in Ancoats Manchester criticizes local youth as stay-at-home with vague knowledge of the country. Ancoats lad described as a stay-at-home with nebulous country knowledge.
The next election for the Clinton County Agricultural Society will be held in Boston Ohio on Saturday January 27 1906 from 1 pm to 4 pm for one two year director from the townships Scnoelick Jackson Batavia Monroe Olive Washington Union and Tate and one director for Franklin township for one year. GM Roudebush president John Rowan secretary. Janior J L A Barr attends cement users convention in Milwaukee page.
The London Chronicle recalls whisky's elusive inventor, tracing its spread from England in the eleventh century to Scotland in the fourteenth. It credits Scotland with popularizing the drink as a cottage industry and notes how excisemen spurred smugglers, citing Glenlivet’s fame as tied to Georgian licensing laws targeting individual stills rather than overall output.
The Boston Herald recounts a local incident in Lee Massachusetts after Garfield’s election news arrives late. A mill owner named Garfield and his son Henry sparked confusion as townspeople asked which Garfield had been elected.
The article explains that upon his election to the throne the nation acclaimed him as king of the Greeks, while the great powers recognized him as king of the Hellenes due to sensitivities of the Ottoman era. This distinction was made for official purposes while Greece remained under Turkish rule in spirit.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes that sea life is gradually safer based on past experience. Seamanship improves, ships are sturdier, safety devices increase, and wireless distress signals aid rescues. Innovations include the patent sounding machine and Lord Kelvin's compass, with better speed measures and fog navigation.
In a San Francisco Chronicle joke, three friends at a club face a forfeit if they fail their wives orders on return home. Smith trips on a cat and snaps it, Brown knocks over a piano, while Jones slips on stairs but chooses to pay for the supper first.
The article describes how crickets and grasshoppers produce chirps using a violin like mechanism. Males are the musicians while females are silent. Locusts have violin bones with ridges and two growths attaching to wings. Cavities and membranes act as resonators and a parchment abdomen serves as a sounding board.
On opening day a Senate exchange recalls 29 years of service. Senator Teller tells Senator Allison that only they were sworn in then while no current senate employees were there. The moment moves both to tears as they confront aging and change in the chamber.
While snakes show rudimentary hind limbs, whales lack external hind limbs. Their forelimbs are flippers, yet skeletons reveal a haunch and a rudimentary thigh bone with a distinct shin bone. This indicates evolutionary traces of the hind limb in certain whale species.
The new Mexican ambassador Casasus is described as amiable and accomplished. A landed proprietor, lawyer, banker, political economist, and practical financier, he speaks English and French, reads German, and his Spanish translation of Evangeline is highly regarded in Mexico. He abstains from liquor and tobacco and is an early riser and hard worker, bearing a resemblance to Rev Dr Parkhurst.
Egypt's governor general promotes an ordinance giving the government power to possess any archaeological remains found in Soudan. The decree aims to end a fraudulent trader's traffic in coins papyri and spurious antiquities sold to credulous tourists during the winter season.
Grand jury convened while petit jury delayed until January 29. Multiple actions listed with verdicts for defendants and plaintiffs, orders to show cause by February 3 1906, temporary restraining order in OC C Kearns case, and leave to file petitions noted. Parties include Sauer Haefner, E H Smith, Fridman Seating, American School Furniture, Cincinnati & Columbus Traction, and Milford & Loveland Traction companies.
The last will and testament of James L Brannock of Felicity dated December 20 1905 was filed January 3 1906. It directs debts be paid first then widow Jennie Brannock receive her statutory share and the residue be divided equally among six children. Executors empowered to sell real estate as needed and account for funds. Jennie L Brannock named executrix. Witnesses were George C Longworth and W H Alken.
A series of land conveyances lists buyers and sellers including Alexander Kk. Price heirs to Francis M. Fisher for 31 acres at $900 and Jacob W. Hopper to Charles W. Cross for 113 acres and 20 poles at $3000, among many others with varied acreages and prices in Milford, Amelia, Moscow and New Richmond areas.
C. (Kearns) the newly elected prosecuting attorney and Eli Speidel, attorney at law, have rented the first floor of the old bank quarters. Judge Davis & Son will occupy the upstairs apartments, offering excellent rooms for the service.
Bethel residents honor the memory of merchant Joseph Clare by naming a new street after him. Clare, a pioneer citizen who helped build the town and served as a leading local merchant for many years.
Fragmentary ad copy touts Kennedy laxative honey tar with Red Clover Blossom and Loney Boo on every bottle. Mentions a hunting booklet and Frisco routes. Requests mailing a booklet titled Peathers and Finy on the Frisco to readers with a general passenger agent contact.
The pension office in Washington lists Albert F Springsteen as the youngest regularly enlisted and mustered Union Army soldier in the Civil War. He enlisted in Indianapolis on October 16 1861 at age 11 years 2 months.
Millicent cites the quip about aging as an idle aside in a humorous column. The piece quotes a sly remark about “us girla” from a Puck cartoon caption and reflects on long standing audience banter.
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