21 Oct 1837
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1837
Page
1
Samuel Lewis appeals Ohio school officers and district directors to accelerate schoolhouse construction and funding, urging timely reports, site decisions, and stronger support for universal education amid school district delays and funding gaps.
In 1777 Frances Slocum, youngest sister of Jonathan Slocum, was abducted from Winkes Barree, Pennsylvania, after Indians attacked the Slocum children at play. The Delaware captors killed a boy and seized the other child, Frances, as the family was away.
The article chronicles multiple balloon flights by Mr Durant and Mr Clayton in the western states, with cascading descents near Cincinnati Pittsburg and Jolestown. Mrs Warren at Fair Mount near Rock Hall ascended to over two miles, crossed Chesapeake Bay, and landed near Rhind farm with calm composure amid mild numbness. crowds offered hospitality and praise.
The passage extols farming as a lofty profession valued by Romans and admired in republican America. It argues agriculture offers honorable reputations equal to or surpassing trade, noting great leaders and philosophers practiced it, and ends with a sharp jab at a ragged printer returning from a dunning expedition.
In Hancock Henry Hardin Allen Williams Van Wert and Paulding counties the soil and rivers Maumee and Auglaize offer vast natural advantages for farming and industry. Roads hinder progress. residents urge early action to inform the next Legislature and expand markets for year round produce.
Describes vast waves rounding the Cape of Good Hope, their heights and effects on ships. Explains that large swells move at 30 to 40 miles per hour while water itself does not advance, and compares waves to ropes and theatre planks. notes when shallow banks alter wave progression and the sea becomes truly progressive.
An odd technique for extracting a tooth is described using twine and a heavy stone. If the tooth is upper jaw, stand on a fence and drop the stone. for lower jaw, the stone is dropped from a point beneath the fence. The report uses crude language and a slang term for men of deceit.
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