09 Oct 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1878
Page
1
The reader sees a poetic reflection on nature and aging, contrasting winter scenes with spring, and the speaker prays for a life well spent in service to God and humanity. The lines express gratitude for beauty, faith, and renewed inner peace as seasons change.
King Coriander hails Prince Ironarm who enters the Palace of Perils via a magic mirror. He defeats the enchanter Jackopanzee, frees Princess Selina with aid from a fairy, and, after a perilous ascent and climactic duel, returns to court with the princess as Faustus and Monkeys are transformed back to their human forms.
In a grand castle ceremony the brave Prince Tronarm takes the hand of Princess Selina after claiming the prize from the reigning king. The union marks a celebrated alliance within their realm as subjects cheer the matchup.
The essay contrasts American democracy with European traditions, mocking baggage checks and aiming to assert U S superiority. It praises American policy independence and warns against learning from other nations while lauding national achievements from the Revolution to the Civil War.
A collection of humorous and moral proverbs from Oil City Derrick. The quips cover prudence speech debt and behavior with playful wordplay. The piece ends noting Paris contributed twelve thousand dollars for yellow fever relief in the United States.
A row of sensational claims touts Lindsey's Blood Searcher as the greatest EB of the age with cures for Aerof aln and Erysipelas. Testimonials from J. Fr. Brooks of Paineville and Mrs. B. Seltzer of Lavre praise its powers, with price listed as 81. R. ERS & CO. advertise distributors and druggists selling pills and tonics.
A newly married widower passes a street crowd when a stranger jokes about his second wife. The stranger sighs, admits pain, and reveals a dented ear from a rolling pin, showing the hurt behind the quip and the crowd’s sympathy.
The National Bank of Toledo was robbed of 1500 dollars during a recent military demonstration in the city. The writer calls for legislation addressing the issue in the interest of the public.
A quip from Puck extols a pale wild rose by the dusty road, a beauty spoiled for a man who breaks his back suspender-buttons stooping to pluck it. The line hints at humor and precarious effort, framed in a playful verse mood.
A reader shares a massachusetts cor respondent recounting a hot Sunday church scene and a review of recent manners. The item includes jokes about fashion, a parson’s handling of deaf-mute children, a Lafayette anecdote about a boy named Allie, a Arkansas judge addressing a felon, and Tom Corwin’s quip about the Whig party on a train in Chicago, reflecting 19th century humor.
A Kentucky servant debates a Methodist sermon and faces a nine and thirty stripes sentence then eight and thirty are doled out. In Indiana a town backs foreign missions with regional zeal and Alaska China and South America missionaries are praised. A Scotch druggist serves a dose of salts to a night bell customer, sparking a quip about profits.
A collage of anecdotes from New York and Boston era life including drunks and deceptions. An Irish graveyard tale, a sign reading Quincy Tufts, and a Jamestown pastor story highlight social quips and humorous reflections on everyday folly.
Narrator recounts a dramatic whaling encounter as a massive whale thrashes, lunges, and finally dies after a furious tail strike. Boats near the whale suffer near-ruin, harpoons pierce its frame, and blood and oil mix with spray before the creature sinks belly up.
A collection of whimsical notes on Ada Cavendish in New York, baseball and polo players, a comical essay on earning a living, post office privacy rulings, dancing roosters in saloons, and a Welsh church harmonium charm incident with a venomous snake.
Guests joke that Chester resembles a Marmion ancestor as he charges high rates at the last summer resort and treats visitors as if descended from Scott’s chief.
The piece critiques how English punning relies on italics and parentheses for comprehension, with examples from London weeklies. It contrasts американ readers’ instant recognition with British gentility and notes American editors would face mockery for such devices. It cites sample jokes and a diary sketch, concluding many English jokes are mild and often copied from American papers.
The Abbeville Press notes General McGowan’s report on the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. The oak stump, split by musket balls, was moved to Washington and displayed at the War Department after showing at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition. The tree stood near the Confederate trenches, struck by Federal bullets. Colonel A. P. Butler witnessed the scene as the tree fell and wounded men. The 20 inch diameter was measured by General Wilcox. The piece is described as authentic and notable in war annals.
The Clermont Courier lists ad rates: legal and transient ads one dollar per square of ten lines for first insertion, fifty cents for each additional insertion. Yearly ads receive liberal reductions. Business cards up to six lines cost eighty four dollars per year.
Fragmentary poem lines describe winter and summer, longing and rest. The narrator imagines voices, birds, and the triumph of summer, meteoric warmth, and a promise that across strange waters the listener will hear a cry.
A collage of misc items from several papers includes jokes about whisky factories, bone weather forecasts, a Boston saloon case, and notes on editors and readers. Humorous quips touch on peacock feathers, boomerang bootjacks, and mischiefs from towns like Whitehall, Adrian, and Turners Falls.
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