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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1902
Page
8
Batavia is listed with a local time table for trains to and from Cincinnati. The items mention travel times, stations, and Sunday notices. Also noted are upcoming traction line work, visits from named individuals, ads, and local notices about health products and events.
The column lists timetable changes on the C G and P road due to electricity and new stations. It notes photo sittings by Well Dickinson in Batavia August 4 through 10, a U B church picnic July 31 at Boston fair grounds, and Mary Wasner returning to Washington to resume treasury duties after visiting Batavia. It mentions an August 16 Sunday school celebration for Washington and townships at Schwab's grove, a lecture on Egypt and the Holy Land at Mt Olive July 8, Lebanon ladies attending church without headwear, Goshen schools chief Fred B Bishop visiting town, a Williamsburg brick yard strike of about thirty workers over a five cent per thousand wage dispute, plus expected settlement.
A lighthearted item critiques a westward candidate using a farm hand as cover to gain farmer support. The report also covers Rev Billman’s Kentucky trip, the Batavia electric plant tour by visitors from Manchester, Mrs Jessie Baum’s Philadelphia visit, and local notices including former Ohio soldier James Rust, real estate offers, Foley kidney care endorsement, and dentist schedules across Batavia Williamsburg and Marathon in 1902.
A collage of small-town items from Batavia and nearby areas. updates include crops, teaching appointments, a funeral and army news, a birth, a traveling engineer’s pay, visits from Cincinnati, a judge’s travels, a bicycle accident near Olive Branch, a new grandpa, Akron youths in bathing trunks, a power-line route description, and a testimonial about Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with Beck's Pharmacy as seller.
An advertisement claims a home cure for drunkenness, presenting it as a pleasant, nonnarcotic remedy that neutralizes poison and eliminates cravings. It promises rapid, private use, physician support, and world-wide mail delivery for one dollar with full directions and confidential correspondence. It also includes a brief note about Clermont County Teachers Institute opening its 521st session in Williamsburg on Monday, August 11.
Deposits and certificates across numerous banks in the sixth district are listed with figures for First National Wilmington Clinton County National Lebanon and others including Ripley Xenia Milford Georgetown and Georgetown bonds. Court actions include demurrers judgments and restraining orders with stated sums and deadlines. Summer illness notes mention Chamberlains Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a local testimonial.
A grand display of vegetation, products, and crafts opens at Sardiola September 2 and runs to September 5. Features include a balloon race, horse races, high diving, band contest, and free vaudeville each morning. Excursion trains stop at the gates. Admission is 25 cents, with free entry all day September 2. Kennedy's fair draws thousands.
A new state law funds two normal schools, one at Miami University Oxford and the other at Ohio University Athens. The Oxford campus opens September 10 with free tuition and modern facilities. Courses aim to train teachers for all classes, with a special faculty chosen for both scholarship and practical teaching needs. F Dyer, a Clermont County native and former Batavia schools superintendent, is dean at Oxford.
Herman Bernstein of Owensville Ohio warns the public that Gold Stein claiming to be an optician from Cincinnati is traveling the county selling optical goods using Bernstein’s name without authorization. Bernstein states he has no business connection with Stein.
Regional advertisements and notices from Batavia Ohio include salt price claims per barrel and sales pitches by Wendell Kline. trade lines for Queen & Crescent service, promotions for wagon purchases from Rapp and Coyle. and loan, law, dental office notices with Batavia branch details and dates. The items mention Cincinnati, Atlanta, Jacksonville routes and Asheville access. various dates and prices appear throughout.
Last Friday a dog ran through Loveland causing chaos as residents formed a defense line and exchanged volleys with the animal. The beast bit 17 dogs and struck a stray shot at a little girl, while the mad creature resisted capture before being confined in an out-building for possible disposal.
Rapp and Coyle advertise 500 sets of carriage wheels buggy wheels carts and light wagons priced from 4 to 8 dollars a set. Odd wheels sold at the same price. Also note a salt sale at 90 cents per barrel. Barr Baos. Allen Glancy and Moore and Hugks, Batavia, offer these items.
Doan's Kidney Pills sold at all drug stores for 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y file notice ad style announcing availability and price in concise circulation blurb
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