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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1907
Page
8
Local ads list subscription offers for Cincinnati papers and various goods. Batavia notes include school enrollments, farm wagon sales, and farm equipment prices. Community items mention residents visiting Washington DC, plant builds, and a new telephone company. Health ads promote Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup and Dr Thomas's Oil.
A Dangerous Friend will be presented at the Opera House in Batavia Ohio on Saturday night September 23. The author Fred Conrad has written an up to date play set in California and New York with lifelike details and distinct characters. The piece aims to attract audiences amid the season’s fairs reunions and approaching holidays.
A Cincinnati shirt building firm offered a Bethel factory with a promise to hire 159 girls, but the deal collapsed as the supply could not be guaranteed. Meanwhile a carload of Buggy and Wagons on Wheels is offered at a sale price from 4 to 3 dollars per set. The Coyle Bunoy & Imp. Co. and Dr. J J Werner announce dates for dental visits at Central House Boston and Clermont House with specific days in 1907.
On Saturday August 31 1907 neighbors and relatives gathered at Wm Moore’s home near Hamersville to honor Mrs Moore on her 53rd birthday with dinner and many greetings. Attendees from Elmwood Place New Harmony Mowerystown Batavia Springfield Bethel and Hamilton area joined the celebration. The note mentions a hospital head injury near Forestville and updates on local electrician Iles now with a Hamilton firm.
The West Union Record recalls a Sherman family link to West Union around 1850 through the widow who remarried Spriggs after her first husband’s death. It notes Burdock Blood Bitters as a national cure for dyspepsia and mentions the village school bell signaling a Monday morning bell in the school scene.
Moody Drummond resigns from Greenbriar schools and is replaced by Miss Louise Goodwin daughter of George Goodwin formerly county recorder. Norman Lee returns from Kentucky to care for a sick relative. Superior wheat drill to sow wheat and oats for sale at Rapp Bros Batavia on July 24.
Mrs. George Devine and daughter Verna visited relatives in Hamilton. Mre Fred Devine and children stayed with relatives in Trenton. Rev E Bardeall and family return to Chillicothe as M E Conference opens in Oxford. No church services Sunday at M E church. worship at Presbyterian church. Monterey Cortesian church rally Sunday September 15 with Rev Henry and Pendleton and Mooinger speaking. dinner and supper served. bring baskets.
Readers are urged to view Daniel's comet at 3 am as it grows brighter and longer. the head reaches second magnitude with tail ten degrees long. It nears the sun today at about 48,000,000 miles, while remaining about 100,000,000 miles from Earth.
Park and Cemetery reports Cedar Grove in Brooklyn faces agitation over a rule to level all grave mounds. Some lot holders object to leveling unmaintained plots, calling it a mean outrage, while others recall Lakewood Minneapolis where mound lowering eventually improved landscape and cut annual care costs.
A New York Weekly column argues that marriage does not excuse neglect. It urges both partners to maintain courtesy and tidy habits at home, stressing fair dealing and mutual respect as keys to lasting happiness in marriage.
In Southport some years ago two families shared a house. Twins and a single birth were placed in one bed to fool the father into thinking his wife bore triplets. The ruse worked briefly, but when separating the infants, the attendants could not identify which child belonged to which mother. A Liverpool paper reports the identification remains unsolved, a puzzle even to a Solomon.
The article proposes keeping all paid and unpaid bills in a large scrap book laid out in alphabetical order by claimant name. It notes steel bill files are adequate but messy and endorses an address-book style system to quickly locate any bill, offering it as a cheaper substitute for a formal letter file.
The Nevada supreme court defines the slang phrase all in in state v Hennessey, explaining that spoken under threat of death it means the speaker believes life is practically at an end. The ruling concerns admissibility of a dying declaration and how the term signals impending death.
In a tense classroom moment the professor laments no ventilation and asks students what it does to a man to stay in such a room. One daring student quips that it fills him with hot air, highlighting the humorous exchange.
A witty exchange unfolds as a daughter asks what defines a womanly woman and her father offers a blunt reply about producing a granddaughter like his wife. The dialogue reveals expectations around female roles and traditional values in a humorous frame.
A chicken raiser describes limber neck a disease spreading in the region. He observed a hen setting on eggs and losing food through her breast as maggots bore holes in the crop and breast, preventing nourishment. Several fanciers report losses and seek a remedy.
An advertisement highlights the rise of kidney disease and urges using Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy. It claims the product cures back and kidney pain, helps hold urine, and reduces nocturnal trips to the bathroom. Sample bottles and a free book are offered by mail from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York.
Private money available to loan on real estate security in amounts of $500 and up. Interest rate stated at six percent. Contact KEARNS at Batavia Ohio. Written offer dated February 7, 1874.
Legal notice announces sale of village bonds to cover cost of cement sidewalks. Proposals due by noon October 7 1997. Bonds total 172100 five hundred seventy two and ten cents each 572.10 with interest rates and delivery terms specified. Bid must include certified check for five percent payable to treasurer.
Simon Kline Spellacy of Lima visited Batavia relatives yesterday and called on Con. He is the eldest child of Simon Spellacy and Ella Kline Spellacy, once Batavia’s reigning belle, now reading law in Lima at 23. He was accompanied by his uncle Captain John Kline of the Kline Engraving Company in Cincinnati, a familiar figure in Batavia.
Secretary of State outlines election years for township trustees elected in 1905 1903 and 1904 with terms and succession dates. Elected in 1905 serve until 1909 with successors in 1909 and term to 1910. Those elected 1903 and 1904 align to November 1907 successors, serving two year terms beginning 1908.
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