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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1909
Page
8
The Courier announces a one month promotion with Cincinnati newspapers including Courier and Weekly Gazette for a year, Courier and Daily Times-Star for a year, and Courier and New York World thrice weekly for a year, with specified prices.
The Clermont Courier and Cincinnati Enquirer offer a combined subscription rate of $1.25 per year paid in advance. This deal pools both publications under a single annual price for readers in the region.
Local items report a $2000 loan secured by first mortgage with F C Ey Attorney Batavia Ohio. Church services set for September 11 in Catholic chapel on Main Street. Charley Woodmansee, cashier of Fe-Nelty bank, reported Batavia business yesterday. Visits by William Tribble and wife from Springfield to their niece Mrs E8 Rush. Dr Van Horn and Mr Jones families enjoyed an automobile trip. Community ads tout Dean’s Ointment and Dean’s Regulets. Several locals travel or plan events, with notices of employment, school duties and kidney health from Foley’s Kidney Remedy. Citizens of Felicity prepare for St regiment reunion October 2. legal gentleman John Q Brown visits Clermont relatives. Reverend Geo Lee Games receives unanimous call to Presbyterian pastorate for the coming year.
News fragment highlights Fletcher's Castoria caution from Barns Pharmacy and local business notices. Includes references to Mark Kidd leaving Buna for Cincinnati as a prescription clerk, contractor H Barr's success, and Electric Bitters touted as a health tonic with broad claims. Also mentions Batavia home for sale and Dayton property inquiry.
The Cincinnati Methodist Episcopal Conference finished its sessions at Greenfield, declaring the Milford district appointment changes and moves of well known preachers as noted, with general satisfaction and pleasant proceedings throughout the meeting. Mr Burdsall returned amid the orderly close of labors.
Notice to county and local unions of the American Society of Equity in Ohio and Kentucky region grow white burley tobacco. A meeting of the Ohio Burley District Union will be held in Sardinia Brown County Ohio on Saturday September 11 1909 at 10 o clock a m to complete organization and adopt a pledge. Each local union should be represented by at least one delegate. W K Thompson President L H Satterfield Secretary.
Quinlan Leonard married Goldie Wallace on Tuesday September 19 in Covington Kentucky. Rev Davidson officiated. The couple’s friends in the area extend congratulations.
Prof. Oppitz began his duties as Batavia schools superintendent amid a large, enthusiastic student body and orderly classrooms. New staff includes Miss Ina F. DeNune and Miss Florence Glancy, while Miss Cecile Halick's principalship salary was raised to 70 dollars monthly. Three study tracks high school programs offer classical, Latin with German, and commercial options, with plans to install stenography and typing labs. A pamphlet detailing changes is available from E. K. Parrot, clerk of the board.
Paris reports reveal Greek dress 2000 years ago included corsets and cycling skirts, as designer Mme Paquin used ancient sculptures and vases to create costumes for Jules Bois in La Furie at the Comedie Francaise. Bois argues Greeks wore modern female styles in ancient periods.
A young man in a corner drug store near a soda fountain reports a birth and shows a child weighing eleven pounds. He reassures a mother figure and promises to come down at once, while shoppers listen with smiles as he ends the call and exits proudly.
A London hostess teases Mrs Cash about a winter tour to Rome. The widowed Midlands manufacturer’s wife, lost in memory, questions whether they went to Rome while her daughter recalls buying silk stockings at a large place there. The exchange hints at past travels and lingering impressions.
At Fleuris on June 26 1794 the balloon Entreprenant first served the army reports say the captive airship rose to 300 meters over Austrian lines General Cobourg angrily cried questioning what the French would not invent in war as he watched the device above the battlefield.
A literary reflection by Longfellow notes time rips pages from the Book of Human Life to fuel passion and shows that the remaining leaves are few. The image evokes the fragility of existence and the urgency to value life.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a correspondent known for exaggeration claims zinc coffins are gaining remarkable popularity in Vienna. The remark is treated skeptically by readers and editors alike.
Epictetus urges maintaining just relations with people regardless of their wrongdoings. The message emphasizes personal duty and integrity over external inputs or provocations in social conduct.
The Lytle family picnic on Labor Day gathered 56 relatives who shared a large dinner. Two balloons attached to cattle were sent aloft and vanished southwestward. anyone who finds them should send a postal to J. A. Lytle, Batavia Route 2.
Jacob Ansteatt Sr a prosperous German farmer aged about seventy died on Monday morning after a sudden heart spasm while in his yard He leaves a widow and a large grown family The funeral is set for today at 9 80 at the U B church
Citizens attended the funeral at the MBE church to Laurel on Friday afternoon. Elizabeth Hantty is very poorly. Mrs George McNair visited Newport Ky last week. Sam Powers of New Richmond transacted business here Saturday. Frank Wilede and John Knowles paint a new coat on their houses. Mrs John Jarkeon visits Cincinnati relatives this week. School begins Monday September 18 with Miss Walla of Amelia in charge. Rev David Norris spent last week in Franklin as guest of Wm Duan.
The article lists historic wine nicknames by year such as 1529 Baptist for bad water, 1860 Garibaldi, 1894 Weihaiwei, 1896 Li Hung Chang and Moses, noting these monikers reflect events and traditions tied to each vintage. It discusses long standing practice of giving memorable epithets to vintages.
Scotland hosts a rich ghost lore with many castles and ruins claiming haunted stories. Dunrobin castle, home of the Duke of Sutherland, features a haunted room whose invisible specter marks presence with a chilling laugh. The legend ties the haunting to a prior rival clan chief starved to death and doomed to haunt the chamber.
The article recalls the 1698 penny post system where ships carried letters for a penny or two under coffee house bags, a historic method of transatlantic communication. It also notes William Patterson’s 1494 Darien scheme aiming to secure Britain’s access to both oceans and global commerce.
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