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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
4
The Clermont Courier from Batavia Ohio publishes on Wednesdays, dated June 10 and June 19 1907. Contents reflect typical small town notices and community notices of the period.
The article contrasts changing trades with heavy use of machinery, noting shoe production and other crafts now rely on distant specialists. It laments reduced wages and prospects, the decline of small producers, and the rise of large corporations while acknowledging some wealth creation amid hardship. It also covers political notes on Brownsville, Senator Foraker, and Secretary Taft, plus a science curiosity about parasitic spiders and solar nourishment.
A new prize of 10 000 francs is announced in France for the invention of a dirigible aircraft. The incentive targets inventors and calls for practical solutions to improve air travel and lighter than air craft design.
The London Express reports the annual conference of the British Undertakers Association held in Liverpool included a genial luncheon and a lecture by Dr Nightingale on corpse treatment. The Serpent Mound in Adams county Ohio is noted as the country’s greatest mound. An ad in a Glasgow paper describes a three year old wandering child found on Castle Street on a recent Saturday evening.
An English paper urges regular training of coal miners in rescue work. It proposes organized rescue companies with life saving apparatus, drilled for systematic action in disasters, emphasizing that first aid matters more than later scientific skill.
A collection of humorous snippets from 19th century politics and law. Bronson Alcott on cannibalism prompts debate about meat, a politician likened to a piano exposes public perception, and a magistrate disqualifies a Chinese wit for answering death with Peking. A girl’s candid death question elicits the judge’s dry remark.
Wellington patient Harley Williams suffered a severe foot burn and hand injury. Surgeons wrapped the soleless right foot to Williams inner left thigh to grow skin there, then detached the thigh skin with the foot. The procedure enabled healing and the patient recovered.
Prof W H Schofield prepares two more volumes of Literary History of England to finish the series already contributed by Stopford Brooke Prof Saintsbury and Mr Gosse. A healthy man can work a full day yet another reader notes his gratitude for Foley's Kidney Cure after illness. At Boons Pharmacy.
Florence Frazier files to partition or sell real estate in Clermont and Brown counties in case No. 12608 against Joseph R Stockton et al. The estates include parcels in Williamsburg and Brown County described by deeds. Defendants must answer by August 17, 1907.
Eliza maps files against George Cox Jr and others in Overmont County Ohio seeking to quiet title and declare mortgages null. The case describes a property on the Ohio River part of Lawrence Butler survey No. 415 bounded by landmarks, containing about 10 acres, with defendants to answer by July 9 1907.
An appointment notice names Nellie Zimmer as an executrix or similar official in the estate of a deceased individual. The document references the county, state, and involved parties, with dates indicating a formal appointment process and eligibility by law.
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