21 Nov 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1877
Page
1
An OCR fragment notes terms: an annual price of $1.50 and a single advance option. The text is incomplete and provides minimal context beyond the price and one advance. No names, dates, or places are given.
A poem in(dialogue) form where the speaker rejects wealth and luxury. He favors contentment, a simple home, a loving sweetheart, and a future with a wife and children over riches, stressing happiness from humble comforts and honest labor.
In a late 19th century tale four sisters in Lowbridge live near an heiress Aunt Betty. Gertrude schemes to trap Mr Gage Redmond away from Patricia’s fortune, flirting to keep him hopeful while Patricia marries Clyde Sherrington. Redmond proposes, Patricia wed Clyde, Gertrude’s plan collapses as lovers shift.
A Boston Transcript Paris letter satirizes an American “self-made man” in Paris who flaunts wealth and chases prices. The guide recounts a Louvre visit with talk of Veronese and Murillo works, jokily contrasting the man’s brash questions about cost with a later impromptu quip about a Cincinnati painting showing hog slaughter.
In Mount Holly, New Jersey, the Bonaparte will and related papers are preserved. The will of Joseph Bonaparte is recorded by Burlington County Surrogate in English French and Italian with an 1846 Florence copy, and a London certificate copy of Mary Penn’s will spans nine sheets of parchment.
A Norristown Herald item reports a man was brought down after walnuts were scattered on stairs at night claiming such acts can quickly ruin a man’s standing. The anecdote illustrates the supposed consequence of the prank.
In 1873 at Rosendal Palace a quartet of Stockholm Conservatory graduates captivates European elites and a Swedish prince, who pursues one flattered artist. After years of refusals and royal pressure, she tours the United States with John Mishler, while a royal emissary shadows them, seeking a throne match.
The article describes Norse holiday attire with velvet bodices laced with silver chains and bodkins. It notes wedding customs including lavish gifts from groom, such as meat tubs and an elaborate clothes press, and a sober Norwegian bride gleaming in rainbow colors with silver gilt crowns. The district owns the bridal attire and hires it for the day.
The article describes table decor changing with the seasons. It recommends blossoms and fruit trees in pots as centerpieces, from strawberry and cherry in spring to apple, peach, pear, apricot, and plum later, plus trained vines and orange trees in winter, paired with Pompeian patterned pots to soften a white cloth.
A collage of brief items touches on Great Britain’s population subsisting on imported food, Oxt0’s vast apple acreage and harvest, humorous quips about Mormon wives, chestnut crops, boardinghouse chickens, fashion at weddings, and long lists of curios from buffalo trade to Icelandic butter. It reports exports, church tales, and civic notes with a stream of scattered anecdotes and observations.
Washington correspondence recalls Joaquin Miller’s eccentric charm and blunt manners at a Washington dinner. Two ladies discuss the Sierras poet’s behavior, from flirtatious lines to crude remarks about bread and poems. The piece questions how his genius sits beside social missteps and public adulation.
A humor column recounts a failed purchase of a telephone from a slick salesman. The device triggers romantic, political, and religious taunts through the line, ending with seven editorial teeth knocked out by an electric shock and a warning against new inventions. The piece mocks self seriousness and calls for restraint in embracing gadgets.
The piece recounts Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic voyage in the Erebus and Terror, the subsequent search efforts led by figures such as McClintock and Hobson, and the discovery of Franklin’s death date. It highlights Barrett’s claim of buried white crew journals at Cape Eaglefield and plans for a Newark expedition to seek the records.
An eleven year old girl, barefoot and lightly clothed, walked from her home to Goderich jail to see her father George May serving a one month term for wife abuse. She traveled on foot via Clinton, survived on beech nuts, stayed with a farmer’s wife, and was briefly kept at the jail before being taken home by her mother.
Legal and transient ads priced at 1.00 per square for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly ads receive liberal reductions. Business cards up to a full column priced at 6.00 per year.
A poetic fable recounts a hawk courting a dove then wedding feast among birds. The dove dies after a life of harsh hawk-harshness. an owl declares the cause is too much hawk from family and friends. The inquest reveals the tragedy arose from unkindness and strife.
A collage of light humor and editorial riffs from New York Graphic to Boston and Louisville papers. Jokes on abstinence, rulers of church and state, poetry flourishes, journalism quirks, and a mind-reading gag tied to a newspaper trade show a snapshot of playful 19th century press culture.
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