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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1902
Page
4
The Clermont Courier reports a January 10 1902 item noting Ida McKinley pension and franking privilege bills, interurban railways talk, a Detroit scientist’s satirical 260 year prophecy, a Bowling Green tax remorse tale, Cincinnati streetcar lines and an Ohio legislative probe, a Austrian archduchess love tale, Pan American canal debate, and Caleb Powers defense fundraising amid Kentucky court doubts.
George H Beal proposes a two year wait before ward elections on liquor, urging willpower over evil while clashing with Clark bill. The Sun and Courier spar over yellow journalism. Kentucky opposes Uncle Tom drama. Push to elect US Senators by direct ballot gains ground. Congress weighs moving Presidential inauguration to April 30.
Itching scalp and scald head are common in children and can become chronic eczema if untreated. Physicians favor Dr. A W Chase's Ointment as the sole effective treatment, claiming rapid relief from itching and a thorough cure. A Detroit man reports three years of intense itching ended after using the ointment.
Mr F S Rose of 133 Sixteenth Street Buffalo New York reports his baby suffered eczema and could not find relief. A few applications of Dr A W Chase's Ointment stopped the itching healed the sores and left bright natural skin. Available at all dealers or Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY Dr John Bunn Batavia Ohio.
The Milford district saw numerous civil actions disposed with dismissals or settlements. Notable entries include settlements in the Milford B. and L. Co. v OCon nor case, dismissals of State v Carroll for lack of contract, and several costs assigned to defendants. A. D. Barrow and Boston B. L. Co. cases were dismissed at defendant costs, while Lytle et al received a fee simple conveyance after a commissioner’s report. Jane Williams v Moorhead resulted in quieting title and partition decree.
The Courier reported a successful long distance test between Wilmington and Batavia via the Citizen's Telephone Company. The line connects Clermont area centers and beyond, with 100,000 phones in 1,400 towns. Also notes W R Ely buying a buff Plymouth Rock rooster Ruby and Gold and offering buff hens later.
The Big Four adds two new private compartment sleeper cars, the Carolina and Arkansas, operating Cincinnati to Chicago daily at 8:30 p.m., via Central Union station and Pullman connections. Cars feature en suite rooms on one side, with full mirrors, washstand, hot and cold water, curling iron heater, and高级 finishes in birds-eye maple and other woods. These are described as the finest Pullman cars yet built.
The Ohio editor William Millikan, 96, hospitalized with severe illness linked to extreme old age. He built Fayette County Herald and influenced state legislation while in the Legislature. a Republican since birth, he remains invested in the paper. The Cosmopolitan’s February issue features Midwinter Fiction with tales by Zangwill, Janvier, Bret Harte, and Kemble.
The piece lists wartime wholesale prices for fabrics and goods such as prints, ginghams, striped shirting, ticking, canton flannel, brown and bleached shirtings, sheeting, and Coates thread, with retail marks markedly higher. It notes sugar and coffee costs and claims salaries did not rise correspondingly, urging readers to consider the contrast in making judgments about current prices.
Proposals will be received at the Auditor's Office until noon February 14 1902 for furnishing materials and labor for road construction around Breckenridge Bethel Nicholsville Elklick Edenton Pleasant Plain Marathon Lorado and others A certified check of 80 required with each bid to guarantee contract and performance Bond. The Commissioners reserve right to reject all bids and bids must conform to specifications on file with the Auditor.
Sale notice lists three draft horses: a 7-year-old mare, a 3-year-old gelding, and an 8-year-old mare. Sold by Janda T. A. of Goff Ohio in Mt. Orab.
In New Orleans on February 11, promoters advertise the Queen and Crescent Route as the greatest midwinter fete with low rate excursions and two last hour trains daily. The copy touts the line as the finest in the South and invites readers to request free printed material from W Q Binearson G P A Cincinnati 12218.
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