The Glermont Courier Reported Local Notes
Fragmentary OCR from The Glermont Courier mentioning names and year related snippets. Unable to extract a full event, place, or clear actions due to damaged text.
30 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1879
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR from The Glermont Courier mentioning names and year related snippets. Unable to extract a full event, place, or clear actions due to damaged text.
The text lays out card play guidance focusing on leading with strongest suits and managing trumps. It emphasizes signaling partners, avoiding weak trump plays, and holding enough trumps when unsure. It also notes rhythm in leading sequences and cautions against discarding weak suits in certain situations.
A traveler records frontier life in Kentucky through old timers lore including panther encounters, horse profits, bounties, and harsh mountain hunts. Stories recount painter fights, lone hunts, and the rough honesty of pioneer living with frontier hospitality and danger.
The Cincinnati Times proclaims no reduction in size, telegraph terms, or state news. It touts full coverage with Associated Press dispatches and complete departments, offering yearlong mail postpaid service and broad national and local reporting.
A lively courtroom anecdote recalls a witness faking a swoon during a trial. The opposing lawyer’s attempt to mock the plaintiff backfired as a later witness exposed the ruse with a witty remark, provoking laughter and the lawyer’s loss of temper.
A physician devised a ventilating apparatus for ships using a copper cylinder linked to the rudder to pump foul air out as the vessel moves. Government experts endorse the principle as the only true method, though tropical calm seas may pose challenges requiring further tests.
A chaotic sequence of violent incidents unfolds across multiple locales. In Charleston a 10 year old shoots a man after taunting remarks. In Millville a husband’s hasty remarriage leads to church expulsion and alleged insanity. A Tex courtship ends in a pistol confrontation. A Los Angeles mother starves a child, hoping for a spirit translation, while a New Mexico coach robbery ends in a deadly shootout. A Virginia preacher fights, a Minnesota lawyer faces mistaken target shots, and a Richmond station marriage rush ends with a train-side ceremony.
Abolished capital punishment in Switzerland four years ago amid rising violence. Council reviews 30,000 petitions for restoration but finds four-year crime data insufficient. Similar increases in murder reported in England Belgium France and other nations. poverty and misery linked to crime. Paris opens a new club named International entertaining strangers.
In Davisville Kentucky July 10 1879 Mr Peter Peggoty a former merchant narrates his rise and fall from easy credit to bankruptcy after the Civil War. He describes borrowing in 1873 and lavish living financed by Louisville debts and a collapsing currency, leading to a Sher men backed foreclosure and mortgage seizure.
The piece criticizes Democratic actions in the South and North, accusing them of suppressing fair elections. It cites removal of guards, intimidation of electors, and threats toward returning supporters, while denouncing ballot fraud and armed intimidation near polling places.
A Friday evening procedure at St Luke’s Hospital saw Dr Dedolph and colleagues transfuse about six ounces of sheep blood into William Boeckler to halt severe hemorrhaging from quinsy. Boeckler showed rapid improvement and doctors deem recovery likely, claiming the operation to be the first of its kind in the state and among the first west of Chicago.
At Lambeth Baths London Captain Webb won the six day swimming contest finishing with seventy four miles. Fearne was second with sixty two miles thirty lengths, Beckwith thirty eight miles twelve lengths, Taylor twenty six miles eight lengths, Rowbottom ten miles after early retirement. Webb swam fourteen hours daily on the first two days then thirteen hours on the next two with long sessions Friday and Saturday. A bouquet and medal crowned his achievement.
The Berkeleyian view that matter is an idea faces fresh attention despite ridicule. A Princeton tale recalls Dr. Withessogee opposing it, joking that an idea of matter results from banging one’s head against walls. A student triggers laughter by swallowing a “red hot idea” at supper.
A Darmstadt gymnasium professor's son and his betrothed walked to a nearby pond on December 10 and tied themselves together to drown. The man escaped the icy water but the woman died. He was tried and sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
The Che Glermont Courier advertises legal and transient notices 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 may be inserted at the rate.
The text presents a jumble of topics including hospital fever chambers plants, religious icons, road extensions, apocalyptic dates, humorous quotes, a French cemetery incident, violent acts, quirky post offices, aristocratic attire, a cider-drinking family saga, and sleep science notes. It reads as a collage of unrelated items and sensational snippets from a historical newspaper.
The text notes large houses feature a four square hall with a wall built mirror and a square table with heavily carved chairs. Smaller halls use hanging racks or small English stands with a carved frame and a closet below for brushes, with a divested frame for hats and coats.
In 1877 Jacksonville Florida reported about 14000 residents and now the city has reached 17000. The town shows rapid growth with a notable increase in inhabitants and prospects.
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