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18 Jul 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1877
Page
1
A weekly notice from Browning appears to list Wednesday publication timing. The fragment indicates recurring Wednesday releases or events but details are unclear and incomplete.
Notice fragment shows price terms for a publication at $1.50 annually in advance. No other readable details available.
A maiden at dusk mourns a lost child and a beloved husband as she clutches keepsakes. The poem traces remembrance through a flower, a boy’s hair, tiny pink shoes, and a silvered grandparent, linking mortal loss to heavenly companionship.
A woman recalls a doomed youth with Ivan Gray and a close marriage to Roscoe Arnold. When Roscoe’s sister Ora arrives fleeing a brutal husband, Ora reveals the past, confirming the husband’s identity as Ivan Gray. Roscoe seeks Ora’s divorce while Constance preserves her bond with Roscoe.
An elderly passenger in a depot buys a newspaper for tales of Bashy-Bezooks and Muhater Pacha. She searches for war news, finds none, and accuses the boy of swindling her while rushing to catch a train. The crowd smiles at the farcical scene and she departs.
A personal narrative from St Nicholas recounts a near shipwreck and the skill of swimming. The author argues swimming saves lives, boosts self reliance, and is a learned life skill, necessary in dangerous sea and river situations, with emphasis on education and civilization.
A Paris Figaro correspondent reports that Russia bought a large batch of shells from an English firm at high price, ordered them to be badly made so they would not burst, then gave the shells to the firm to sell. The shells allegedly reached the Turks and were used against Russia, an claim seen as savage cunning.
In a Rochester Democrat and Chronicle report during a severe storm a 19 year old woman named Carpenter, daughter of David Carpenter of Holley, was struck by lightning while walking with her sister in law and pushing a baby carriage. She died instantly. her companion was stunned but unharmed and the baby escaped injury.
An English correspondent describes crowds preparing Plojesti for the Czar, with streets dug up and carts moved as the royal procession arrives. The pageant includes a high escort, four-horse chariots, and a dust-filled, circus-like display of horse and rider spectacle.
The Erie Gazette reports that Yale College conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws on Artemas Martin of Erie Pa. A market gardener by trade, he is known in mathematical circles for contributions to Educational Times Messenger of Mathematics Analyst and related publications. He also edits the Mathematical Visitor.
In a tale of a notorious hard man the wickedest neighbor in a small town begins attending church after a cow swallows a swill barrel and barges into his home during a dramatic scene. A second block reports Montenegro resisting Ottoman sieges as Suleiman Pasha leads a large force but the mountaineers hold firm since the fifteenth century.
A collage of brief items spans travel, crime, science, and daily life. Notes include mule teams crossing to the Atlantic, a Lake City proclamation against loafers, a Wisconsin eagle shot with bullets, Vermont’s constitutional anniversary, quail eating concerns, coal finds along the Yellowstone, a Siamese twins offspring divorce in North Carolina, and various light anecdotes about drinking, guns, adverting, and city fires.
Constantinople correspondence notes daily arrival of newly recruited troops marching through the city toward the front. The travelers are described as brutal and insolent, striking pedestrians and provoking clashes in the streets. A Damascus bazar incident shows a Turkish soldier killing a Jew, then paying for a sword and leaving. authorities do little beyond summoning the assailant to join his regiment. The writer uses these scenes to illustrate life in the city amid wartime realities.
The London Court Journal prints an extensive survey of ladies dress trends, noting cross barred stockings, olive brown suits, Cromwell collars for linen and lace, sprigged muslin with Clovis lace, jungle silk wraps, twisted or Nottingham looms silk, rich fringed mantles, silk leaflets bound with satin, white muslin trims on hats, and wreaths gaining favor for evening wear. The issue details thirty columns describing about thirteen dress types per column, all paid notices.
In Fort Capron Florida on February 10 1877 Commodore Thomas J Falls and crew aboard the Louise harpooned a colossal sawfish driven by a strong current and shoal water. After a multi rifle assault the fish finally sank, leaving a five foot long serrated saw and a mass of flesh hauled aboard before sharks closed in. The tale notes the sawfish weighs around eight hundred pounds and likens the creature to a submarine man of war.
The article argues that under modern planetary development views the Moon likely began as a hot gaseous world with dense atmosphere and seas. It suggests the Moon may have supported life during an early habitable stage, though whether it was inhabited depends on views of nature’s purposes and the universe’s design.
Erzercum reports from Hamburg that a Turkish corps of divers, mostly Lazistan Mohammedans, attach to Black Sea squadron ships. They approach suspected torpedo sites in light boats, one diver cuts the torpedo’s tether, the crew tows it aboard, and the divers are paid forty five dollars plus half its value. No accidents have occurred.
Legal and transient ads priced at $1.00 per square for first insertion and $0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly ads receive a liberal reduction. Business cards up to six lines priced at $86.00 per year.
A reflective meditation on how time, sorrow, and inner battles imprint the soul more than the face shows. The poem questions whether outward calm masks loneliness and pain and suggests the heart’s depths persist beyond visible expression.
A collage of short prose, aphorisms, and light sketches from various papers. It mixes reflections on love, silence after injury, and social manners with humorous vignettes about bees in a wagon, linen dusters, and a farmer’s sale pitch. References to classical imagery and satirical quips from editors appear throughout.
A historical puzzle text presents verses about punctuation to reveal truth in claims about a lady's nails and a satire on mispunctuated phrases. The challenge extends to a scene with Lord Palmerston wearing odd items and a string of absurd imagery.
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