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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1913
Page
8
Voters may request sample ballots by sending orders to the election office at once. Forms will not be reset after removal. The rate is 50 cents per 100 ballots, and payment must accompany the order by courier.
A scattered stream of society items notes relatives visiting in Cincinnati Franklin and Newport. Mentions include Mrs Chas Mitchell and Nellie Gilfillen guests, E B Holmes visiting Louisville, G A R Post meeting, and the M B Guild preparing for a Christmas sale. Also ads for Dean’s Ointment and Chamberlains Tablets and church festival profits.
A coat manufacturing concern will locate at Batavia if sufficient help can be secured. Wages paid while learning. Competent hands can earn $0.01 per week for forty four hours. Electric power sewing machines used. Work is done sitting in a comfortable room. Limited number to start. Those seeking employment in this line may address or call at the given location.
The Ohio Farmers' Insurance Co. has moved to the Courier Building at No 3 East Market Street Batavia Ohio with L L Johnson named as Clermont county agent. Johnson promotes prompt service and reliability of Ohio Farmers and invites business or social visits at his new office P O Box 227 Batavia Ohio Bell 152.
Local social column lists guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Johnson from Cincinnati and Findley, plus Montgomery and Waukegan visitors. An editorial aside compares diet advice to tariff and wage concerns. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised as a digestion aid and blood purifier with a one dollar price.
After November 4 the Attorney General ruled that dining cars passing through Ohio must stop selling wet goods. The constitution forbids a moving saloon in the state. If a traveler needs such refreshments he must carry them or go without, a hardship for some people.
Obscured OCR reads Dr J J Werner posted at Batavia M E Church schedule stating meetings on the ninth and next day monthly. No clear dates or full sentences available.
Abridged remark about stage life from Madame Judith notes the sting of aging in performers. The quote laments appearing on stage looking older than one feels.
A Paris boy aged under fifteen, expelled from home at thirteen with 500 francs, travels across Europe by theft and begging, ending by the Seine after a long crime trail. The piece compares juvenile crime to a historic servant problem and notes wide use of white indentured servants in colonial America, highlighting labor needs and social implications.
Edmund Gosse recounts Swinburne at age twenty three sent to study history with Bishop Stubbs in a Essex parish. He rises in scarlet slippers and a crimson gown to lean over a gate as villagers hesitate to pass, bells stop then resume as a brave parishioner bolts past.
The article extols a diary titled Petticoat Commands detailing Boer women who aided their country alongside a widowed mother. It praises their wit patriotism and resourcefulness and argues women show equal or superior strength of purpose.
The Orange Street Chapel in London, once owned by the French Huguenots and later by the Church of England and Congregationalists, is set to shut down. Notable preachers include Toplady, who wrote Rock of Ages, and Rev. Samuel Luke. his wife penned a famous hymn line now preserved as a church treasure.
The London Telegraph argues quality must lead British farming as the nation relies on modest land to supply crops. It notes wheat oats and barley dominate arable areas and the market prices are heavily influenced by crop quality.
Hunters note that hounds may abandon a pursuit when the target wolf is female. In some cases a female hound is removed to ensure the capture, reflecting the instinctual chivalry described in this account.
A writer argues many executives waste time by doing tasks subordinates could handle. The bank treasurer boasted of better work but the bank president ordered him to sit and think. The point: use detail skill to propel thinking, not chase tiny tasks.
A baboon escaped from a Dudley show in Worcestershire, attacked three people in the main street, and fled up walls and onto roofs before being shot. The animal had been moved from Lichfield barracks that day after travelling from Gibraltar with the regiment. A boy was severely bitten on the leg and hospitalized. a woman and a girl suffered lesser injuries. The pursuing crowd challenged the creature as it fought to avoid capture.
A newspaper invited readers to answer in a few words what they found most beautiful. First prize went to a respondent who wrote The eyes of my mother. Second prize praised the dream of the impossible, while an amusing entry claimed the beauty lies in a man carrying his mother-in-law across a dangerous river without dropping her.
The London Evening Standard notes Bradshaw timetables show a religious bias with month names referred to as numerals like 1st mo and 2nd mo. Quaker objections to heathen emperors names led to this practice, continued for several years.
In 1912 British trolley lines carried over 3 billion passengers on 2,642 miles of track and nearly 13,000 cars. Horses used in hauling street cars dropped from 87,000 in 1900 to 1,600 by 1912, highlighting a shift to powered traction.
An advertisement claims People's Liniment pleases all users for rheumatism and aches and pains. It states internal use for Cholera Morbus and bowel disorders and urges asking a druggist for the product and taking no other.
Last week clerkship notices show Clermont county postmasters re appointed Harry D Ely Bantam O A Fagin Mr Holly E J Avey Olive Branch W A Grissel Summerside replacing F B Holter who resigned The moves reflect routine federal staffing changes in local mail service.
On Tuesday October 28 1913 Norman Sapp offers at his residence mile north of Afton station at 10 o clock two work horses cows farm implements hay rigging and pulleys harness 100 bushels oats hay in mow corn fodder in field many other articles Bills for particulars Auctioneer H R Sweet. The work of a home keeping woman takes a constant call in her strength and vitality and sickness comes through her kidneys and bladder Foley Kidney Pills will invigorate and restore her and weak back nervousness aching joints and irregular bladder action will all disappear when Foley Kidney Pills are used A C Nash.
The Clermont County Club will host a Halloween party Friday evening October 31 at the home of Jas R Hicks. Admission ten cents includes a generous lunch. Tickets are on sale at the Post Office with attractions like a gypsy tent camp fire fish pond and an evening of fun. Also advertised is a loan offer of 1300 with a first mortgage on real estate handled by Edwin C Ely Batavia Ohio.
P F Bastiams of Prince Albert Cape of Good Hope recounts a nighttime croup attack on his son. He used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, followed directions for about an hour and twenty minutes, and the child recovered. Sold by all dealers.
The Clermont county grand jury indicted three men on rape with consent charges involving girls aged 10 to 15. McClelland pleaded guilty to one charge and four bills against him. he received a maximum sentence of ten years. Jones also pleaded guilty with a maximum twenty year term. Frey pleaded not guilty. The note calls for a board to arrange castration and treatment for the guilty, and the three men were sent to the penitentiary Tuesday by Sheriff Williams and Chas. Crane.
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