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02 May 1877
Page 1
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1877
Page
1
Misread OCR fragment shows price terms stating $61.50 per year paid in advance. No additional context or names appear to indicate the subject.
A poet observes a Roman convent garden from a window chair. The scene contrasts fading daylight, ivy sways, white clouds drift, and a gray walled tower with sculpted saints marks the hours. The poem ponders cloister life, vigilance, and questions whether inner longing or forbidden love touches the nun’s vows.
Eve Wilton discovers a torn overcoat lining and finds love letters from another woman hidden in her husband Tom's coat. Blinded by jealousy she reads ten letters signed Your own Nellie and contemplates suicide while plotting how to avoid confrontation and protect his reputation.
Eve buys poison from a kindly druggist to end her life after accusing her lover Tom of infidelity. She swallows the powder but is interrupted by Tom returning home, who rushes to a chemist for an antidote. The chemist refuses to help women who fear the rat’s blackened face, sending them away with sugar and harmless substances. Eve’s plan collapses as Tom learns the truth and hurries back.
A fashion column highlights Paris inspired neck trimmings a tulle scarf bonnets and garlands of buds with sundry colors including yellow sultane and mandarin tones. New trends feature imitation coral jewelry made from sour milk and revived silk circulars while health notes link diphtheria prevalence to coal stove gas in poorly ventilated rooms.
A Brooklyn correspondent describes a crowded scene at Plymouth Church as 2,800 attendees jostle for space before a Beecher sermon. The piece details Beecher’s dramatic delivery, humor, and audience reactions, contrasting with Dr. Storrs. It also notes a Norway tragedy where 16 children died in a log house fire during a school examination and cites Beecher on marriage roles.
J. K. Upton named Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department. A Kentucky bishop bids farewell at age eighty three. Miscellany includes a river conductor described as hard to define, critiques of General Pleasanton, a sheep investment tale, anecdotes involving Wendell Killips, a drowning in the Wabash, and other brief items from politics, royalty, crime, and culture.
In the Ah Moon murder case a Chinese interpreter explained that all people sharing the same surname are considered cousins under China’s social laws. He said Chinese across the world feel a duty to support each other, even to seek revenge if a family member is harmed, illustrating a widespread expectation of collective loyalty.
Charles Williams recounts the New London Northern steamboat train’s flood race from New London to Tolland. A bridge near Stafford collapsed as driftwood and lumber bore down. A man on a high land bridge at Tolland faced rising water until railroad workers hurled a rope and rescued him with a rock-weighted line.
A Wisconsin company operates three mills turning out paper for building with a capacity of sixteen tons daily. Started by two Yankees in 1857, they produced over twelve thousand tons in nine years. The thick hard paper is pressure warmed into a tight, air resistant sheet, offering warmth in winter and coolness in summer with low shrinkage and improved fire resistance.
A San Francisco chiropodist travels four miles in heavy rain to treat a suburban client who demands liquor and resists foot examination. The patient threatens violence over socks removal while the doctor exposes corn-removal methods. The piece ends with a humorous note on a Boston professor’s Week reconstruction joke.
The Senate and House advance or amend various bills from criminal statutes to jail and penitentiary codifications, road and tax laws, school districts, and public works. Notable items include the Stryker gas bill amendments, state land sales for sinking fund, creating a State Board of Medical Examiners, and numerous county and municipal road, tax, and police provisions.
The Naturalist discusses Howgate plan for a 50 man Arctic colony at Lady Franklin Bay to support a future North Pole reach. It proposes US command, two surgeons, an astronomer, naturalists, meteorologists, and telegraph ability with three year supplies and annual visits.
The Baltimore Gazette extols the Baltimore girl as the peak of beauty nurtured by Maryland shores, comparing regional feminine charms and critiquing Western notions. It praises Boston and Cincinnati traits before lauding Chesapeake Bay as the ultimate standard of female beauty. A note recalls cleaning the Great Eastern and a quip about kerosene oil near a mule’s hind leg.
A terse fragment notes that some element can be drawn from all forms of malevolence, hinting at a broader philosophical or ethical claim without detailing specific events or figures.
Legal and transient advertisements cost 1.00 per square for first insertion, ten lines. Each additional insertion 0.50. Yearly reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines priced at 6.00 per year.
A lyric contrasts a humble cottage bathed in sunlight with a grand mansion shaded by costly drapes. The speaker pleads for sunshine to transform his cottage into a palace, praising simple beauty over opulent wealth.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from a late 19th century periodical. It quips about thrift and truth, thrift and luck, law in Siam, love’s power to move the silent, and the perils of travel. It cites Emerson, Harvard Lampoon, and Keats with satirical observations on social norms and human behavior.
A historical note traces Irish roots for Robespierre and Chateaubriand. The Chateaubriands stem from Brian and Irish origins, while Dumas suggests Robespierre’s line may also be Irish, possibly driven from Ireland amid sixteenth century religious strife.
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