23 Oct 1878
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1878
Page
1
Fragmented verse recalls bygone days and memory’s pull. A narrator gazes across life’s sea, noting time’s currents, compulsion, and the hope that love's voyage will anchor at a cherished pier with a treasure ship of gold.
Ike Marblehead a secretive Pittsburg storekeeper hides a dangerous past and a scheming partner Theophilus Broughton. Alice his niece and Ralph Peaton face ruin and love as a deadly secret unravels in a dramatic tale of murder and escape Ralph saves Alice then marries her while Marblehead dies leaving a manuscript revealing his guilt and theft against John Geary
A collage of notes on crime punishment abroad and in the U S, social curiosities, and notable figures. Mentions of Mona Antoinette Sterling in London society, Vanderbilt rail capacity remarks, Tilton family abroad, a centenarian Boone Iowa incident, Mrs Mackay gems, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantine, a London firm’s job ad response rush, Ostend siege bread incident, a Georgia mock court, a cannons arm tale, a Quebec sentinel, a Newfoundland toy dog, Beech er’s taunt to Tilton, a Berlin family reunion, a Tokugawa heir in Paris studying, a Pu laski thief, stovepipe escape quip, and a Boston man bitten amid a curious gold coin deal.
A satirical piece ridicules current fashions stockings wallets and male vanity. It mocks men with painted coats and penny-pinching fathers in law prospects for women and compares divorce to a railroad crash while quipping on wills and lawyers.
The table lists Secretary of State and Supreme Judge majorities and shows congressional races by district with Butterworth, Young, Shultze, Keifer, Wilson, Holgate, Foster, Neal, Van Vorhes, Morton, and Monroe among others. It notes district margins and overall majorities across counties.
In Rimouski Quebec villagers still gather with sickles and handrakes while oxen pull plows and carts. A former member of Parliament once arrived at the session in a traineau with butter pork and stores, expecting Queen's lodging and to manage his own home. When fall comes fall leaves.
A crowded K D M A R coach sees a bemused elderly man offer a seat to a woman with a baby and a bandbox. He asks the baby's age, provoking sharp retorts about ears and propriety. The exchange escalates with comic frustration and calls for the conductor as the car rattles along.
A collage of moral observations on parental neglect and child training, with quips about mothers and hired nurses. Scattered newspaper blurbs joke about editors, poets, and public life, mentioning Nebraska smothered baby cases, Edison fame, and local oddities.
The advertisement rate card specifies legal and transient ads at 1.00 per square for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. A yearly discount is offered. Business cards up to six lines cost 36.00 per year.
A dragon-fly darts along the waterfall in vivid jewels of green and gold. The poem warns the delicate insect to beware the hungry trout lurking below the lakelet and the coming autumn wind that will end its brief bright life.
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