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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1889
Page
8
Readable items include Oysters in bulk from Tat man, harness and lap robes by George Beacham, photo studio opening by Well Dickinson, and various local notices. Mentions medical remedies, insurance agents, a Derby style society note, and community events with Batavia as the hub. The column moves through commerce, health tips, housing, and civic life in Clermont County.
Miss May Rodrick of Peebles visits Mrs. John Bunn. James Crane of Bethel transacts business in Batavia. Mrs. Ackerson of Walnut Hills visits her niece Mrs. Albert Heinrici. Belle Glenn visits Miss Rachel Danberry and Batavia friends. Mrs. William B. Moore and children from London stay with her parents. Frank Darling and daughter Katy of Prairie City and Estelle Peterson of Williamsburg guest at Clermont House.
Notes detail several deaths and assaults including John Wallace killed at Urbana while walking on railroad, Rudolph Snider's infant scalded at Wabash, a farm hand Whitehead assaulting Dr Boyd at Wilmington, Milton Brothers killed by cars at Minerva, and Benjamin McIntyre's suicide at Ottawa. Also reported are a Kentucky saloon murder, counterfeiter Crockett arrested in St Joseph, miners resuming work in Clay County, and numerous political and civic items including a Democratic conference in Columbus and a Lexington internal revenue post.
A list of commodity prices showing butter and eggs per unit, flour per barrel, meal by sack, coarse meal by ewt, various grain and feed items by cwt, and meats including whole hams and sliced breakfast bacon. Sugar priced at 9 cents per pound or ton equivalents.
Social happenings include a nine pound boy born to Mrs. Will Gest and a serenade for J W Nichols and wife. Miss Anna Sinks visits from Connersville as a party honors her. The Ladies' Dorcas Society met quietly at Mrs. Hulick's. Carrie Beagle hosts a taffy party. J P Curry sells farming goods. John Nichols and bride back from wedding trip at his mother’s. Carrie Beagle and Charles Mittendorf wed in Dayton. Brass band reorganizes with Malott as president and new officers. leader Eugene Dial receives a coronet. Miss Lizzie Johnson returns from Illinois. foundation work begins on a new town hall. Gussie Curry stays with Dr F C Curry. Howell & Co ships 4000 plus barrels of apples from Milford. Leonard H Clutter weds Anna B Clephance on Indian Hill. Florence Shafer departs for Logan County. Cynthia Lawyer named administratrix of Michael Lawyer estate. Jefferson I Davis real estate sale set for December 16. Emma Adams plans to join sister in Denver.
An 1889 Moscow Ohio widow thanks readers for aid after the illness and death of her sons How ard and Guy. The note appears with a weather forecast and an advertisement for Charley Griffis carriage repository offering bargains on carriages and buggies.
Mr C H Morris of Newark Arkansas says he was rendered incurable by abscess of lungs and physicians. After using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption he recovered enough to oversee work on his farm. He is now on his third bottle.
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