Clermont Gourier Publication Notice
Clermont Gourier listing published every Wednesday by Browning Bros. Terms: 1.50 per year.
23 May 1877
Page 1
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1877
Page
1
Clermont Gourier listing published every Wednesday by Browning Bros. Terms: 1.50 per year.
Poem fragment about Bertha and Grandma Bertha weaving baskets and garments. Notes aging, memory, and life as a journey marked by a basket, with vivid imagery of beads, linen, and small garments.
A Stillwater man, Thomas Brown, receives a letter inviting him to stay with the Judkins family in B- under the pretense of being a friend of a husband named Hiram Judkins. Brown travels to meet the Judkins, flirts with Miranda, and nearly reveals his ruse before the wife exposes the error. He is exposed, dismissed, and returns to Stillwater vowing never to repeat the prank.
The subject avows his determination to stay single and suspects Miranda Judkins would sue for breach of promise if he marries again, revealing a domestic dispute scenario.
In a Boston firm’s packing box a five foot rattlesnake and a wharf rat battle ends with the rat striking the snake and escaping. The rat bites the snake’s jaw and tongue, then settles in, freely roaming the cage and showing immunity to the rattler’s venom, a remarkable and unexplained oddity.
In New York World's report of G F T's lecture Mr Train rails at imitator Mark Twain and defends his own fame. He recalls a punchy anecdote about the law of hen tail and recalls stamping Mark Twain as a copy. A hotel fire blocks Kate Claxton's planned stay in St Paul as she arrives.
The Gulf Stream is traced from the Gulf of Mexico through the Atlantic to mid ocean where it divides. It warms the Azores and British Isles while another branch heads toward the Polar Sea. Temperature, width, and cold-water walls are detailed, along with seasonal limits and possible Arctic undercurrents.
The New York World cites a Secretary of the Interior table showing 19,500 new Homestead farms started in the year ending last June. Excluding timber and tribal lands, these 160 acre farms imply roughly 19,500 new homes and, with proper management, potential output of 20 million bushels wheat and 40 million corn annually, plus 400,000 cattle or swine.
A New York World physician links the oyster superstition about months without an r to ancient Egypt and the Rha symbol on prescriptions. The piece notes oyster religious significance in St James Day customs and its appearance in family crests of pilgrims to Palestine.
Details from Madrid journals describe a fatal confrontation in a Caballero de Gracia shop where Gasso, the father, shot his daughter who wished to marry a government clerk before killing himself. The daughter, gravely wounded, was treated in hospital but surgeons declined bullet removal. she married in extremis and made a will for her husband as doctors weigh if she will survive.
The article argues that facial features mirror a person’s life, noting laborers show sturdy but dull expressions while the intellect gives a bright gaze. It suggests intellectuals possess inward light and that sensitive people may appear plain yet hold moments of beauty, ending with a proverb on a fat dog and sleepy cat symbolizing peace.
The article describes birch canoes on the St Lawrence as fragile yet agile crafts, steered by skilled paddlers and poles through rapid rocks. It then shifts to Parisian rat utilization, detailing traps, bone and skin markets, and a prophetic note on profits from Simmonds proposals for large scale rat commerce.
The Chronicle recounts a provocative tale of Capt Bob a Virginia vagabond who robs a stove with his wife on a street journey tying the stove to his wife and her papoose, plus other peculiar local anecdotes including a St Petersburg girl outwitting a robber and a name change for Thomas W. Piper’s brother to Raymond.
An elderly Rochester man reports a remarkable find while exploring southern Colorado. He claims petrified fruits and shells, including a nearly perfect sea turtle fossil, embedded in quartz. The mounds suggest ancient island shores and an ancient ocean. Several locals plan to visit the site with him.
In Berkshire Massachusetts farmers discuss cultivating the sugar beet and forming a cooperative sugar manufactory run on the same management model as local cheese factories.
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A fragmented verse set depicts a wartime broadcast vibe with a singer performing about war starting and boots on, while stray names and strange phrases drift through the page. The garbled text hints at a city scene and a marchlike chant amid conflict images.
A humorous fragment presents a playful conversation with a Hinglish speaker mispronouncing words. The exchange centers on spelling Idaho as Hidaho and the pun about hiding a hoe, reflecting language mix and mock misinterpretation.
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