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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1889
Page
3
Nostalgic verse recalls that no song or friend compares to old times. The speaker laments aging, mourning friendships long gone and days when youth shone like golden rays. A wish to return to childhood paths and dewy mornings highlights loss and memory.
Miriam, cousin of Allan Percival, travels to London to tend him as a curse and legend threaten their family. Allan, sick and hopeful, finds renewed life through Miriam’s care, while Miriam contemplates leaving for America to start anew.
An English clergyman tells a St Louis reporter about a sixteen mile underground canal between Worsley and St Helens in Lancashire. Coal mines fuel the tunnel with men crawling on their backs to push boats along cross bars on the tunnel roof as boats pass in two sections. A Pasadena dentist has contracted 2,000 horned wads to be sent east.
A St Joseph man John R Lewis Jr marries Louise Quarles. the couple are stated to be first second and third cousins. The kinship traces through Charles Quarles and two sisters connected by Civil War era marriages creating an intricate family link. Both families are prominent in Missouri and the paper notes the lack of Missouri law against such unions.
A Vienna correspondent reports a banquet for Czar and Emperor William where a grenadier provided a rusty pocket knife to cut a cigar end. The knife prompted laughter from all, and the soldier received twenty marks after the moment. Long distance telephony between Vienna and Prague began.
A large mastodon bone discovery is reported near Canadian City Texas. The account notes excavation details and relates to a period when mastodon remains were commonly found in the region.
Timetable shows Hillsboro accommodation and Batavia Newtown services with AM and PM departures and arrivals. It notes connections at Sardinia Mt Creb Winchester and Batavia Junction linking to Columbus Maysville Little Miami and other lines, with express connections to Xenia Dayton Columbus and points north and east.
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