30 Nov 1848
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1848
Page
1
Timntev and Potrermicers set payment terms as fifty five cents per month in advance or within sixty days, and two dollars for delayed payment. Subscription continues only after all arrearages are settled. Advertisements run at usual rates.
A Quaker and a merchant witness a public sale of unredeemed pledges on a New York curbside. A young woman bids against a rough man to redeem a mother’s miniature, revealing a history of Mary Belgrave and a 반환 promise. The encounter leads to a future reconciliation and moral reflection on charity versus alms.
English surgeon James Yearsley reports a cure for deafness after scarlet fever using a moist raw cotton pellet inserted gently into the ear canal to reach the eardrum. The pellet is adjusted for best hearing and replaced each morning, with many cases cited as proof.
Grace Greenwood laments the paradox of beauty paired with selfishness, asking where heartlessness appears so strongly in a beautiful woman. She questions societal ideals and the moral weight of feminine virtue.
A legend describes the Alpine Horn carved from cherry bark used by high peak shepherds to send a devout cry praising the Lord across valleys. Echoes repeat the name of God as the sun lights the Alps, inspiring travelers with solemn awe and reverence.
A lady suggests soaking rice in cold salted water for seven hours then boiling for ten minutes. She shares to place the rice in a kettle, cover with heat, then serve. The grains are described as double the usual size and clearly separate.
The Washington Union notes a bold break into the Patent Office. Thieves used a skeleton key and a hidden window escape, cracking double glass cases with paper barriers to steal a gold box pearls and a scabbard. They left a knotted rope and a leather‑bound bludgeon, with a light seen near the porch about midnight, suggesting a calculated night theft.
Baltimore Sun reports a home remedy for lockjaw. insert a lit tobacco-filled compton smokepipe into a nail or sharp wound and cover with cloth to force discharge. The method, claimed by the writer and tested on five others, supposedly provides immediate relief and may reopen older wounds.
Melt white wax and spermaceti over gentle heat then mix with almond oil. Pour into a bowl and stir until smooth and cold. Add gradually a large spoonful of distilled rose or lavender water for fragrance. Used to soften and keep skin pliant.
Correspondence from Jamaica reports an almost complete inability to realize production, with the island described as entirely red and prospects of improvement bleak. Planters grow poorer daily and money circulation among laborers dwindles as cultivation declines.
An 1832 Dublin Mail item relayed by a Newark Advertiser correspondent claims a Lady Ffppsonhaye’s remedy cures cholera. It prescribes 10% spirits of wine with camphor, heartshorne tincture, and a sequence of doses with hot water, repeating until three cycles and 15 minutes rest, then repeat for half an hour.
An exchange extols the husking season as ideal for securing durable idert beds made from inner cor husks. The filled sacks make a bed for life, light in weight, resistant to matting, clean, and insect free, with a long lasting tough texture.
A person argues with a friend about fashion follies as a fop defies social opinion. He declares he does not value the world’s view and insists others are ridiculous. The exchange turns humorous with the tease that he must be the merriest man alive.
A down east town debating society weighs whether intemperance or slavery is more evil in the United States. A deacon argues intemperance harms its victims in eternity, prompting the chairman to call out that such a claim is outside the United States.
The article notes the recent presidential election returns from Philadelphia and New York, highlighting that the vote totals in the two largest cities are very close with only a nine vote difference. Philadelphia city and county cast 83,167 votes while New York recorded 53,158.
Fragmentary OCR notes recall a Whig faction claim in va capitals about Old Zack, described as omnipresent, with uncertain context and wording across the fragment.
Before the Presidential election the Locos argued there was no Whigarty and doubted party strength, now they face defeat by no party at all.
A fragmented Washington article cites a New York paper debating the idea that boxes govern the world. It lists the cartridge box the ballot box the jury box and the band box as symbols in a pointed quotation.
Fragmentary text reports a private purse source for funds and doubts any reimbursement in the form of allowances or extra pay. The damaged lines offer no names, dates, or clear context to identify persons or organizations involved.
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