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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1892
Page
3
A fragmented verse from New York A Advertiser reflects on youth, sex, and knowledge with sardonic tone. The speaker laments wasted time, two years of useless study, and romanticized notions as they ponder why the poor remain enslaved while freedom seems distant.
In 1734 Joistette and family settle on Shenandoah soil near Woodstock. Aaron and Peter Hite are captured by Indians. Peter is slain while Aaron is bound and dyed Indian. Aaron grows up with the tribe three years, then helps avert a raid on his homeland but is spared. His father Azries as Aaron’s life is saved when the father shoots another attacker near their home.
The woods buffalo, a larger northern bison, roams across the Northwest Territory between the Great Bear and Great Slave lakes. Naturalists note straight horns due to sand-digging absence, with 1500+ counted in reliable Canadian sources. The creature yields thicker fur and heavier hides than plains bison, weighing at least 200 pounds more.
An 1849 Shanghai printed narrative translated by Dr. Nedhurst recounts Ong-Tae-Hae’s travels in the Malay archipelago and offers blunt European caricatures. It describes Dutch traits, English presence, French dispositions, and social dances tied to marriage and festivities. It notes a Chinese proverb linking foreign music to sorrowful feelings.
A Philadelphia newspaper describes a Chinese table turning practice where a table balances on its head with chopsticks across water, four children grip legs, and, under a moving incantation, the table spins rapidly. The piece notes locals view it as devilish or spirit driven yet performed only as sport and without attempting to contact the spirit world.
The turquoise is described as a talisman in Persia, valued for protection and sentiment. It is praised for its supposed preventive powers over accidents and affections, linking its worth to memory and personal symbolism like a forget-me-not stone.
A private charity operates a nightly bread dole in New York City, where 100 to 200 destitute men and about 30 women queue before a door on East Tenth Street to receive stale bread from three workers. The system, started in 1877, distributes roughly 100 loaves daily with coffee and costs about $100 monthly, aiding 180 to 200 individuals from hunger.
Experiments with the new photographic dry plates made with collodion in Germany yielded highly satisfactory speed and detail. The orthometric effect was remarkable with colors reproduced by value better than on plates using traditional chemicals. The collodion plate grain under the microscope is finer and more regular than that of the gelatin plate now widely used.
The article urges women to master silent listening as the core of good conversation. It contrasts the aggressive talker with the refined listener who asks thoughtful questions, adapts to guests, and uses tact to draw out ideas, with preparation in current topics and genuine interest guiding the exchange.
An old column blends sensational patent medicine claims with social commentary on lorgnette culture. It touts Golden Specific as a permanent cure for drunkenness, claims harmless powders, and offers a free 48 page booklet from the Golden Specific Co. at Cincinnati. It then shifts to a portrait of the “Lorgnette Girl,” praising flirtatious devices as social weapons and noting how a cold gaze can cow others while suggesting cruelty in social settings.
Dr Miles’ nerve and liver pills claim a new principle regulating the liver stomach and bowels through the nerves. A discovery promising speedily curing biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation for men women and children. Smallest 60 doses 25 cents samples free at Dr Jot Bunn Batavia.
A Dublin citizen known as Half penny, a snuff and tobacco dealer, lived well into old age. His descendants altered the family name by dropping letters and adopting a Celtic flourish inspired by Sir Walter Scott. The piece notes public interest and promotes Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for immediate use, listing local retailers.
Executor Chase Vanosdol offers two tracts of real estate in Williamsburg Township Clermont County Ohio at 2 pm on the premises. About eighty acres known as the home farm of the late C W Vanosdol and eight acres adjoining bounds by Baywood Bethel roads and nearby properties. Appraised at 1408 dollars subject to life estate of Frances Vanosdol aged seventy two. Terms: one third cash, one third in one year, one third in two years with interest six percent secured by mortgage.
Benjamin F Pierce files for divorce in Clermont County Ohio cause 9817 alleging Judith E Pierce adulterous acts in 1890 at Batavia and 1891 near Afton with Randolph Carter and others. Hearing set for July 29 1893 following March 22 1893 adulterous conduct. ADITH E Pierce named as residence unknown.
Samuel Hunt, president, discusses railroad policy with Train Master Gleasorx and other officials as negotiations on general passes advance.
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