18 Oct 1849
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1849
Page
1
The notice states price details: one dollar and seventy five cents if paid within sixty days, two dollars if delayed beyond that. It warns the paper will not be discontinued to a subscriber until all arrearages are paid and mentions miscellaneous inserts at usual rates.
An elderly narrator recalls a lone female traveler who circumnavigated the globe, detailing a 1841 voyage from Constantinople to Jerusalem with Madame Ida Pfeiffer cited later in New York. The piece blends travel peril, maritime life, spiritual encounters, and bold endurance against deserts, mosques, and perilous ravines.
An old alchemical claim says alum ground with salt forms a powder mixed with spirits of wine that, when spread on the palm, allows grasping a red hot iron without injury.
A gentleman touching a lady’s knee is called savage by the offended woman who declares his rudeness belongs to the Pawnees. The exchange unfolds as a sharp quip on tribal labels and manners.
A traveler discovers Cumberland Works, a once bustling iron and mill town between Millville and Tuckahoe New Jersey. Now dilapidated, with idle water wheels and silent furnaces, the village sits beside a lake as timber regrows, recalling Goldsmiths Deserted Village while noting the decline of Edward Smiths Camden iron works thirteen years past.
A man from Albany recalls a four year old missing three years ago. A newspaper note tells how a six or seven year old was found in Syracuse sheltering from rain in a dry goods box and identified by flesh marks. The child had been kept by a woman who claimed him as an orphan from England. He had lived with her partner, a Oswego property owner, and found a way to the Syracuse State Fair to earn pennies.
A back-of-ticket proclamation from Richmond Indiana recounts Zacary Taylor being indicted by a Philadelphia grand jury for attempted rule over the United States. It orders his removal from Louisiana with guard to Washington DC and confinement for four years to labor, with a formal prayer for mercy.
A West correspondent describes traveling toward a small town near Holstein. He jokes the place resembles a mashup of Kickapoo Objibbeway Ompompanoosuc Pas samaquody and, if pronounced backwards, lands within six miles of the actual name.
H. Robinson of Ohio writes from the Lancaster Eagle to the Cincinnati Enquirer dismissing the idea of slavery in California as foolish. He argues the California public will reject slavery in convention and constitution, and that nature would repel it. He urges not to waste ink or blood on a nonissue.
A Boston clergyman recounts a century‑old marriage covenant text showing distinct vows for groom and bride. The ceremony binds them by sacred oath before God and witnesses, declaring them husband and wife and invoking lasting fidelity till death.
A husband dies after a long illness leaving a final secret for his wife. On a ring he promised she would read one day he had engraved, I have loved thee on earth I will meet thee in heaven. The dying man reveals the message to his wife shortly before death.
The Cin. Gazette notes a single white resident in Milwaukie in 1835 but reports 21 000 bushels of wheat received in one day. At 40 bushels per wagon, 525 wagons were needed, plus 175 teams with other produce. Five loaded wagons entered the city that day, illustrating American industrial progress.
A report on spring transplanted orchards from 1848 notes vigorous growth after top-dressing and earthing up to deter mice. It describes cross plowing, intercropping with carrots and beans, and washing stems with soft soap. An Hudson River orchard regularly yields 500 to 700 dollars annually with simple care. Another old four-acre orchard, once barren after 30 years, revived to 280 barrels after thorough plowing and manuring.
A London Times correspondent suggests scoring potato skins both lengthwise and across before boiling with salt. The technique allows moisture to escape, preventing soggy results and is said to greatly improve the quality of otherwise watery potatoes during a season of scarce good crops.
A reader reports a new beet preserve idea described as delicious and easy to make. The process involves boiling beets for skins removal, slicing, then simmering in molasses until ready for jar storage.
A recipe from Amer Agricultural notes to purify Tatlow by melting five parts beef tallow, three parts mutton tallow with water, adding tartar and ammonium salts, potash, boiling, then forming a cake and air bleaching. Candelry uses a fine yarn wick burning about fourteen hours per pound.
The New York Tribune reports a new curing machine in the city that speeds meat prep beyond the old method, claiming ten days versus sixteen. It is being exhibited at the Institute Fair.
A man injured when his leg was caught between railroad cars yesterday withdrew his crushed limb and hobbled off using a cane after fellow passengers offered sympathy. The injured leg appeared to be wooden.
A captain being at a ball is accepted by a noble partner who hints he should wear gloves. He quips in elegant fashion that he will wash his hands when he is finished dancing, leaving the room amused by his sharp humor.
A young student is asked how many genders exist and answers with a contrived division. The teacher commends the attempt and asks for definitions noting the masculine equals men the feminine equals women and the neutral equals old bachelors.
Fragmentary OCR text describing a metaphor about a “great thee tin” and a young goat skin with imagery of fresh onion peel. No identifiable people, places, or organizations and little factual content to summarize as a news item.
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