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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1849
Page
4
A fragment from Prom Graham's Magazine features Miss Augusta C. Twices’s verse. The poem paints moonlit scenes with flowers, nymphs, and nature’s prayerful calm as night deepens and mortals fall asleep.
The piece extols temperance and benevolence urging youths to heed parental guidance. It praises farming life as pure and healthful, contrasts city confinement with country air, and reflects on nature as a divine testament. It closes with a meditation on transformation in science and poetry.
A serialized list traces a young woman's life from age 17 to 50 through changing romantic aims and social ambitions, highlighting shifts from tender affection to independence, flirtation to marriage, and eventual disillusionment. The passage contrasts this with literary notes on Burns and Coleridge.
Consumers who do not notify contrary are deemed to want continued delivery. Publishers may bill and send until charges are settled. Neglecting to take papers from offices keeps subscribers liable until bills are paid. Moving without notice still holds them responsible. Courts treat refusal to take a paper as evidence of fraud. Postmasters asked to keep and show rules to those who refuse delivery without paying arrears.
Notice announces a petition to Clermont county commissioners for altering a road from Cincinnati road near Bennet's mills through lands of Forter Hardin heirs Johnson Stark and Johnson to Kite and Thomas mills road. Alteration starts at Elizabeth Johnson’s lane, west about 20 roads then north about 50 roads to intersect current road. March 15 1849.
Readable fragment notes a drug and book store keeping various prints on hand for sale as of March 1. No further details on titles or quantities are provided.
In the Court of Common Pleas Clermont County Ohio James W Gray Jane Gray Smith Miller John A Miller Hester Nadenboush and John Quincy Adams Nadenboush are notified of a March 21 1849 filed bill in chancery by John Jolliffe of Hamilton County. The bill seeks partition of a 361 acre tract with multiple prior transfers among heirs and others. Readers are warned that absent appearance the bill will be confessed and partition decreed.
Ebenezer Hadley and Sarah his wife file a chancery petition in Clermont County Ohio seeking assignment of Sarah Hobson widow’s dower in a 112 acre estate on Grassy Run. Defendants named include J M Hobson E V Hobson Wm Hobson Catharine Hobson Ann Hobson J W Hobson Mary Ann Hobson James Jester Rosanna Hobson and heirs of Josiah Hobson. Respondents must plead within sixty days or bill will be confessed and decree entered.
List of accounts and vouchers filed for settlement in Clermont County Common Pleas March term 1849. Includes administrators executors and guardians such as John Dickey Ellenor Mack John Fallen Joseph Woodmansee McKibben Huber Coombs Witham Utter Jones Whiting Binkley Kinnear Moyer Rogers Leeds Jordan Covall Martin Teal Trees Abramis and others. Clerk R W Clarke signs.
An 1848 Cincinnati pamphlet extols Dr North's Expectorant as curing coughs and colds from wet cold weather. The letter credits the remedy with restored health and cites availability through Dr Hall's Balsam for the Lungs and agents A A North & Co and Howell's New Drug and Book Store Batavia March 1 1848.
A dated 1849 notice lists numerous agents and locations in Clermont county for external remedies and internal uses including Cholic Spasmodic Flatulency and Cholera Morbus. Names cover Batavia California Williamsburg Clover P.O. Noble Sargent Swing Johnson Sinks Clarke Bethel Moses Garkin Felicity Witham Withiamsville Mount Carmel New Richmond Moscow Neville Smiths Land and many others. The notice bears the date January 25, 1849.
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