19 Jan 1881
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1881
Page
1
The image shows a fragmentary newspaper notice for the Glermont Courier. It lists publication frequency as weekly on Wednesdays and annual subscription terms at 1.50 dollars in advance with a paid-within-the-year option.
Researchers investigate rubber waste heating and drying to create edible-like masses. Experiments led by M Moride aim to absorb water and form solid cakes or cubes that could be used as sauces or sustaining food.
A chaotic backstage tale ends with Gallagher’s overacting wrecking the play. He sabotaged the villain’s fall, caused a stage collapse, and sent the company into chaos as laughs turned to disaster.
The article describes a mixture of essential oils resins and herbs ground into dust or incense sold by perfumers for burning in Catholic churches and for satchels in ladies' boxes and drawers. It notes use with handkerchiefs and gloves to impart fragrance and perfume.
A poetic fragment presents a child named Gertie who wore a glove kept warm from a couch. The verse wonders how the glove held its shape, praising the delicate skin and scent of a garden girl. The speaker reflects on gentleness, memory, and the small intimacy of a preserved moment.
In Brownfields valley, Jimmie Gordon, a poor fisherman’s son, wins the interest of Miss Etta Larton, Cleveland’s heiress, at Montrose and a hotel hop. He schemes to secure wealth by posing as a broker and gains her love as plans to marry unfold while her father travels to Europe.
The narrative follows Etta Larton Gordon and Jimmie’s conflicted elopement, betrayal, and eventual consequences. Fatherly pride, detective reports, and social ruin ripple through a web of lovers and loss, ending with a cautious, hopeful reunion of forgiven kin.
The item recalls regretful musings on past chances including a mule certificate scheme in the army. It contrasts a schemer now owning wealth with a moral takedown. An Arizona man Perry Martin climbs a tree to shake a coon, only to discover a bear and suffer a fifty foot fall.
In the Gambia field notes risks and methods of monkey hunting are described. Monkeys are labeled vermin harming groundnut crops and plantations. Hunters discuss stalking from riverbanks and nocturnal shooting amid swarms of mosquitoes and protective nets. Lon don Field.
A father and son hunt rabbits in deep snow near a hollow chunk by a negro cabin. The son cuts into the hollow, pulls out fat rabbits, and later the man from the cabin releases two captives who are cooked and served as a meal.
A maid quotes a mistress regarding the goose intended as a piece de resistance and the tough bird is described as capable of breaking teeth in a light domestic exchange.
A stiff varnish on church pews caused a comical scene as the minister read the hymn and congregants rose with rattling chairs. The audience hissed with noises like muskets and a tenor and bass added odd sounds before the choir finished with Hold the Fort.
The Rochester Democrat notes a $100 reward for any man who starts a reply in a newspaper with a formal phrase and implies that public figures never read papers. It questions whether any reader, especially public men, fails to see their own name among vast articles and treats deceit as a monument to the liar.
Ohio legislators discussed printing the journal of the State Board of doctors and professors of colleges ineligible for school boards. The House agreed to an amendment on Lorain County Court House completion and passed various bills on judges, taxes, bonds, and local option amendments.
In Galveston a man charged with shooting a neighbor argues the dog bite provoked the incident. The recorder quotes the exchange as the prisoner claims the dog attacked before the shooting, while others doubt the defense.
The notice lists rates for legal and transient advertisements at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 64.00 per year.
Partial column from the Columbus notes reports a thief lifting Representative Covert’s $65 overcoat and sealskin cap from the Capitol, discusses Su Sullivan’s bill on oasis habitat sales, and notes W. Mn. Barrox’s witness fee request in a criminal case. It records debates on abolishing the Railroad Commissioner office, county-seat relocation talks for Belmont County, Gov Foster expectations, and a proposed tax on telegraph and telegraph companies. A local convention gathered four to five hundred attendees, with various statutory amendments and canal-related projects discussed, including a Cincinnati belt railroad proposal and canal drainage plans. Mentioned are D. O. Pope’s report on expenditures and outstanding checks totaling 419 97.
The Cortland Standard explains droughts are worsened by forest removal. It argues trees release dampness aiding cloud formation, and without them moisture rises from soil deeper than plant roots is drawn up, reducing surface evaporation and drying streams.
A New York citizen known for private virtues dies leaving a sorrowful widow who receives a condoling visitor. The widow laments with her child nearby as a young boy asks if a secret can be shared. A stray scene references a boy named Ike and a guitar from childhood, with scattered images of a cider mill and straw bundles.
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