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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
6
An essay argues hat handling signals breeding and respect. It contrasts well bred manners with boorish behavior, recounts scenes of respect toward women and mothers, and notes the hat as a social barometer in refined circles and daily life.
Textile and metal artifacts reveal Ireland’s durable craft in Brehon Laws and Book of Rights eras. Gold, silver and bronze pieces survive, with sources in the Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and the British Museum.
A Chicago Tribune style tale recounts a salesman's snobbery at a large dry-goods store. A young woman, after being snubbed, tests his stock by demanding exact cashmere matching, revealing he cannot match a superior New York sample. The exchange ends with her confident victory.
A Scotsman correspondent visits a Hindoo wedding in Bombay and portrays it as ceremony and spectacle. Lamps outline garden trees, a pond bears flags and lamps, and the bridegroom on a red horse arrives garlanded. They exchange rites with a white cloth and sari, and guests receive bouquets and wreaths. A red paint ritual illustrates local reverence and anecdote about telegraph posts painted red to deter removal for firewood.
A New York Times interview describes a Kentucky physician’s patent for a platinum tape-worm trap the size of a hazel nut. The device uses a cheese lure and a spring mechanism to coax the worm into a small opening, then is drawn out on silk cord for removal.
A Trinidad writer recounts trapping an eight foot five inch crotalus mutus in leaf litter. The snake struck with a rapid forward lunge, delivering poison through hollow fangs. A half-breed companion finally restrained the reptile, which was skinned near a stream. fangs measured one and a quarter inches. The stomach contained two wood rats.
A New York Times interview with a hotel steward reveals how leftovers from large uptown hotels are sold at reduced prices. Cooked meats are bought by camp followers three times weekly, then resold to cheap eateries, with some staff taking meals home. The practice saves costs and prevents waste.
A Brooklyn Globe Democrat correspondent profiles Stella Vilmer a Shelby born traveler who has journeyed from Peru to Alaska with her father now engaged to marry a Scotch officer’s son. The piece details her 三 wardrobe a trousseau blending India Paris and Eastern fabrics plus her athletic outdoor life and windward independence.
A Beatrice Nebraska paper recounts that thirty pigs were killed by a large turtle in an Indian creek four miles north of Beatrice. A hired hand spotted a pig squeal and found a two foot across turtle with a pig in its mouth after a search failed to reveal the culprit.
G A Frazier and W F Roudebush Purazier Roudebush attorneys at law, with offices in Dennison Building Second Floor, will practice in Clermont and adjoining counties. Loans negotiated. T P Breeding also offers law services in Clermont and surrounding counties, with office in Courthouse Row near the sheriff's residence.
Time tables state that all through eastbound trains connect at Xenia for Springfield, Dayton and western points and westbound trains connect with northbound trains on the C R R. Pullman palace cars attach to eastbound trains for Pittsburgh Harrisburg Philadelphia New York Washington and Baltimore. For fares tickets baggage checks and sleeping car info contact J B Holy Batavia Junction Ohio E A Ford Pittsburg Pa James McCrea Manager Pittsburgh Pa J B Holy Local Agent Linwood Ohio.
Trains between Georgetown and Cincinnati run twice daily with departures at 6 80a m and 4 00p m from Georgetown arriving in Cincinnati at 9 10 and 6 50 pm. Return trains depart Cincinnati at 8 80a m and 6 20 pm arriving Georgetown at 11 26am and 9 04 pm. Speed reduction near flag stations, switches by conductors and engineers must be correctly adjusted. Thomas Taggart Superintendent.
Fragmentary OCR lists railway lines and destinations including Batavia, Springfield, Columbus, Portsmouth, Ironton, and references to the Chesapeake and Ohio and other railways. Mentions the Fast Express and Little Miami route with unclear context or dates.
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