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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1910
Page
5
A blend of medical ad copy and local notices notes doctor endorsed remedies like Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, plus local social items, obituaries, and medical advice on La Grippe remedies and Chest coughs. The column preserves period product pitches and community notices.
Our teachers and pupils have resumed their work again after the holidays. L. H. Marsh and wife were guests of John Wethoft and family last Sunday. Lena and Flora Wood have returned from a week's visit with city relatives. Miss Ethel Meek has returned to Elenor after spending the holidays with home folks. Mr. Wittcamp of Cincinnati is visiting B. F. Kain and family. Protracted meeting is in progress at this place. Come out and hear a good sermon.
Ad claims Dean's Ointment cures piles and similar conditions. It asserts thousands of obstinate cases cured and offers product for sale at 50 cents in drug stores.
Mrs Phebe Dill returns home after a week with relatives in Blanchester. Ed Oligee and Eva of Marathon visit Mrs Mellie Brunk. Mrs Lou Sweet from Milford visits Mrs Rachel Pierce. Various locals and travelers are noted, plus a funeral in Cincinnati and health tips endorsing Foley’s Honey and Tar and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
John Williams and family spent Sunday in Belfast. Mrs. Philip Kuhn is sick. Miss Ida Montgomery has returned to Bethel after visiting friends. Walter Reed nurses a sprained wrist. Rev J Meyers of St Thomas church has received a call from Hamilton for January 2. A West Post Memorial fund event drew a good crowd. Various visits and social updates follow including a bankruptcy sale of Walter Frits and travel notes from Madisonville to Ripley.
Wallace Morgan of Farragut and Mabel Bordwell of this place wed Wednesday evening January 5 at the M E parsonage with Rev H H Compton conducting. The Angola Encampment No 248 banquet followed with a hearty supper for about forty five and an old time play by members.
In Mt Holly a New Year Eve celebration by the Ladies' Helping Circle at M Edwards' home featured music games and oyster stew. A lantern on a schoolhouse flagpole falsely appeared as the Bethlehem star, drawing crowds before noon when it vanished, leaving a local tale of the Bethlehem star. Rev I W Williams of Huntington WV endorses Foley's Kidney Remedy in a testimonial sent to Bunn's Pharmacy.
National banks across multiple towns held annual meetings Tuesday to elect directors and officers. Listings include FIRST NATIONAL NEW RICHMOND and FELICITY BANK with named directors and officers such as Frank Davis Geo W McMurchy and D H Hoover.
W Hartwell of Art Manufacturing Co. transacted business Monday. Dr Moser of Covington preached Friday evening at the M E church. A one day teachers institute is planned at the M E church January 15. Mrs Augusta Judd and daughter hosted a six oclock dinner last week. Mrs J D Fee and son Dart returned home after a visit with her parents Miles Brown and wife of Gallipolis Ohio. B Day and wife hosted guests Mrs Will Thoms and family of Miamisburg. Mrs Olga Bleher attended Miss Anna Lloyds funeral in Cincinnati last week as a Loretta Lodge Eastern Star representative. F F Hall and wife plan to locate here after a short wedding tour. Miss Helen McMurchy visits Indiana. Misses Agnes Clasgens and Helen Fridman depart for New York to be guests of Allen Ashburn and wife. Misses Rachael and Avna Wyatt return home after visiting aunt Mrs Frank Thuyber of Evanston. Mrs Jacob Light entertained the Misses McNeil of Laurel at Sunday. Farmers meet in the opera house next Saturday to arrange for the agricultural extension school starting February 21 for one week. If not joined, send name to C W Dawson, president.
A Batavia Ohio woman Mrs Susan Day reports kidney trouble caused back and hip pains dizziness and fatigue. After using Doan's Kidney Pills she improves noticeably, saying one box helped and two brought full recovery. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Last week Frank and Milt Brannen bought the J. W. Corbin property and store room and will take possession in two weeks. A daughter was born January 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Cal Jones. The infant was buried at Monroe cemetery last Sunday. John Taylor visited Cincinnati for a day. John Jackson and wife visited her parents at Salt Air. Several attendees joined a protracted meeting at Laurel Sunday night. A. E B. Boggs Frank Gardner and wives and Miss Laia Phillips dined with J. W. Corbin and wife.
A girl observes a palsied old woman at a marble table and a strong young man beside her. She assumes the man is the old woman’s son and feels relief she isn’t alone. They pay separately at the desk and part, revealing he is not her son.
A king visiting a Paris artist in the Latin quarter accepts a porter’s request to carry a bag of washing to the fourth floor. The artist is amused and apologizes for the mix up, but the king explains the moral of always helping others and not refusing a favor.
A Paris ball hosted by the young Charles Edward attracted many Partisans and beauty. Lady Mary Touchet won his notice and received the star from his breast. She died young and the star passed to her sister, then to Philip Thicknesse who kept it for his nieces. The star is now in a family collection as a valued curiosity.
A petition to the French colonial office requests protection for the lion from hunters. Colonists say lions must be kept to spare herbivores and fear overpopulation after stricter limits and high license costs led to more lions being killed. Only La Fontaine could capture this paradox.
An observant woman notes increased walking noise among women this year and blames high heels for the louder impact. She explains the body’s balance shifts with higher heels and predicts relief if low heels regain favor, reducing the nerve-racking “plunk” of weight on footsteps.
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