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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1877
Page
1
A speaker compares two loves Kitty of a farmer’s family on the Brandywine and a Philadelphia debutante from wealth. He ponders choosing between a refined city life and a plain rural happiness, seeking a pathway to a lifetime with either. Locals and suitors weigh social lattices and personal longing in a lyric narrative of romance.
In a bright June afternoon Nancy snatches a bloom and flees toward the path while John Armitage calls after her with reproach. She vows it is over, suspects he will attend Sarah Anderson’s engagement, and later plans to provoke jealousy by visiting town in blue. The scene shifts to a village street before the blank facade of Dr Iles Gray’s office.
Nancy Evans vacillates between Dr Gray and John Armitage in a provincial romance. A midday ride sparks confession and heartbreak as Nancy faces engagement, parental wishes, and social gossip, while a midnight confession leads to a risky rescue and a fragile vow to tell all.
In a San Francisco Post item a Vallejo grocer hosted a party where the daughter of a nearby carriage painter drew attention by dancing the “dance of death” and showing silk stockings. The scene escalates with fashion slips, observers reporting later and a failed pursuit as the party ends.
New Haven readers witnessed Mr. C. L. Rodman’s Teany the trick dog display and Ethan Allin’s Cossey the setter. Teany performs tricks on command without a whip, including arithmetic feats and counting while noting ages with bark replies. Cossey exhibits natural pointing on stage, holding a chicken on command, a testament to bloodlines and early training.
A midnight scene in Constantinople captures a city-wide celebration for the repulse of the Russian army from Plevna. Lamps on minarets form Arabic phrases and declarations of faith as crowds cheer in the streets, believing divine sanction rides with the Ottoman triumph.
An American engineer, Mr Unthank, surveyed the Great Wall of China for a Chinese railway. He found the wall stands eighteen feet high with a fifteen foot top width, towers twenty five feet high, and a granite foundation. The wall spans over one thousand three hundred miles across plains and mountains with towers at intervals and arches over streams.
A New York City public school teacher conducted an in class exercise prompting students to form sentences with nouns and pronouns. Twelve year old Johnnie struggled, finally pointing to hens in the street and declaring Them is hens, and they're as she with uncertainty.
The article notes German adoption of patent publication practices and a new imperial patent office inviting international input. It mentions a fossil Calistoga tree with possible evidence of pre-glacial humans, locust plagues in China, and meteorological thoughts on Indian rainfall cycles. It also outlines Paris Exhibition jury rules and a French prize system totaling 100 grand prizes and 8,000 honorable mentions with $300,000 devoted to awards.
The article crowns Baltimore as the country’s gastronomic capital, praising Maryland kitchens and Chesapeake seafood. It contrasts Baltimore’s culinary richness with dishes associated with many cities and regions, noting transatlantic visitors and recent dinners in London and Paris featuring American foods.
A historical warning notes that tight belts cause chest and abdominal pressures affecting breathing and circulation. It criticizes belts used by schoolboys, youths, and workers for sport and labor, arguing they may provoke hernia and other injuries. The piece cites dissenting quotes about women and a call for restraint in self binding.
A long-compendium item from a 19th century issue features a collage of aphorisms, anecdotes, and short notes. It includes remarks on self conceit, parental conduct, notable quotes, humor about butter fairs, a joke about a potato name, a sailor’s duty, and social vignettes. It also records brief notices about Budd’s tastes, Blondin on a rope, a Nebraska judge, a Brooklyn editor's death, a Providence fruit stand sign, and Boston birth statistics for the prior year.
The speaker rejects the idea of cultivating happiness as a task or crude product. Happiness is described as a divine, heavenly glow, a dew from paradise that the soul senses rather than a cultivated possession.
A Honey Lake man described his first sight of a railroad in Reno, recalling with humor that the engine “gave a couple of coughs” before the train rolled on. The anecdote captures small town awe at modern transit.
J W Wilson known as Quartz Wilson rode to the headwaters of the Whitewater for stock feed in a secluded valley. A grass fire trapped him in a stream as embers scorched his hair and ear, with burns over his body. He crawled to the Maxwel ranch on Santa Anna, and after treatment, he slowly recovers from injuries.
The Cincinnati Times highlights shocking self inflicted deaths from New York to San Francisco. A 70 year old man hanged himself near his wife’s grave, a Brooklyn man died after submerging his head in suds to claim life insurance, and in San Francisco a wife drank corrosive sublimate to end her life. The tale ends with her denial of despair and claim of paradise, while her husband dismissively notes the bottle was labeled ten dollar brandy.
A collage of humorous snippets from Easton Free Press and multiple papers. Jokes about death, bracelets with music boxes, American depots in London, rain storms affecting attendance, and satirical quips on public life. Mentions of Anna Dickinson, General Butler, a drug clerk and opium case, and a mix of light political and social vignettes.
Dr. F F Maury of Philadelphia examined twenty seven people in Reading harmed by a tramp’s tattooing. He reported constitutional syphilis in worst forms, with over one hundred possible cases in Reading. Infections spread via contaminated ink and saliva, affecting arms neck face and genitals. A fifteen year old girl, daughter of a saloon keeper, suffered severe systemic disease. Other cases included eye damage hair loss mouth decay and swollen glands.
A Whitehall incident records a man attempting to halt a vehicle with his foot. He collapsed to his knees and prayed aloud for mercy as the scene unfolded, reflecting a dramatic yet nonviolent moment in local news.
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional, with yearly reductions. Business cards up to six lines are 6.00 per year.
A humorous lyric about affection for a woman described as sensible and good, contrasting traditional beauty with inner qualities. The speaker proclaims love despite lacking overt charms and adds a playful line that she is "my muvver."
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