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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1913
Page
8
Advertises bundled subscriptions with yearly rates for Courier and Weekly Gazette at 150, Courier and Weekly Enquirer at 150, Courier and Cincinnati Post at 275, Courier and Cincinnati Times Star at 275. Details list partner papers and price points.
The notice lists club subscriptions including Reg Price Per Year and six publications such as Weekly Enquirer Farm & Fireside Poultry Success Woman's World and Farm News. A 60 day window is noted with a bundled total of four dollars for six titles arranged through Clermont Courier.
Bethel Roller Mills advertises better wheat prices and features in town notices. Local residents share visits, births, travels, and professions ranging from Bethel to Cincinnati. Other items include health tonics, family news, and a new baby Dorthea Belt born to Mr and Mrs E S Vickrey.
The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co relocated to the Courier Building at No 3 E Market St Clermont County new agent L L Johnson will meet clients and handle business from Batavia Ohio Johnsons contact details are P O D No 227 Batavia Bell 152 Also notes Len Ebrnsberger of Fort Thomas Ky visited his mother and returned with his daughter J E Ockerman named to Sandusky county school examiners board for three years marking his eighth year as Woodville schools superintendent Belle Fisk Lytle visits Clermont relatives Mrs Frank Fisk to join family in the west Itch Itch Itch ad for Dean's Ointment and Dr Thomas Electric Oil listed Batavia teachers started duties at Milford Amelia Mt Washington Kings Mills Little details on visitors and a Bethel barn struck by lightning with near fatality
Prizes were awarded to Emma Rapp Geo.rgel Clara Dietz Charles Moore Mary Anna Bernstein Will Heilig for entries at the Highland Park outing on August 30. The events included a sofa pillow hand painted picture center piece silk shawl and a barrel flour, with participants from Stonelick Cincinnati Perintown Batavia and Afton.
James N. Lewis and a group of men and teams graded Boston Hill last week under county commissioners' orders. A county road roller assisted to give the road a fine crown and ditches to carry off water runoff.
In parts of the state farmers were convicted for selling eggs unfit for food and fined $256 and costs in each case. E. Strode of Columbus plans to collect samples statewide to force better egg quality. A fine of $26 is suggested to curb the habit.
The Clermont County Creamery at Batavia reports strong demand for its high grade butter. Since opening, farmers receive a three cent advance for their butter fat, with competition driving this growth. Farmers are urged to bring their fat to Clermont County Creamery to retain the compliment.
The Pomona Grange of Hamilton and Clermont counties holds a picnic and basket dinner on September 18 at the Pinkham farm opposite Bantam fair ground. It honors the farm's 100th Pinkham family occupation with stories, games, and at 2 p.m. Rev. Herbert S. Biglow to speak on cooperation. Members urged to attend with baskets.
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The Panama Canal will feature two vast coal basins at Cristobal and Balboa to supply ships worldwide. Each basin will hold hundreds of thousands of tons, with underwater and above water storage, plus a large crane and conveyor system. Cristobal unloads 1 000 tons and loads 2 000 tons per hour. Balboa 500 and 1 000 tons. Barges will coal ships midstream.
Western Texas hosts several wax plants using the wild candelilla plant. Originating in northern Mexico, the wax is refined after initial challenges but now ships to New York and Europe. Texas lands once deemed worthless yield the weed, harvested cheaply by Mexican labor, with leases sought to secure raw material for high grade vegetable wax used in phonograph records and other products.
A dealer once believed a Gainsborough portrait of a boy in a hat hid a girl beneath. He bought it cheaply, only to learn the hat was added and the sitter a beautiful girl. The tale hints at a disinherited daughter and a damaged painting reborn through a country restorer. Walter Siebel cites the incident in T. P.'s Weekly.
The piece cites Lord Alverstone noting judges often produce their finest work in extreme old age. It recalls Lord Hidon at eighty-five in the House of Lords with eighty-four or seventy-nine reasoning, Lyndhurst at eighty plus delivering keen speech, and Halsbury-London Tit-Bits as a contemporary example.
A bride opened a package on her wedding day and found a dozen corks of varying sizes tied with ribbon. The sender learned that when a dispute arose over the cork size for the jar, the humor broke the tension and the quarrel faded away.
Cumberland Md correspondent reports Captain Tom Moore of canal towage boat No 8 on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal recounts luring a 300 pound carp with a mule collar and line. The giant fish pulled the boat toward Cumberland before Moore killed it and fried a portion as proof.
In a Panam a canal history note M Bunau Varilla recalls sending stamps showing a volcanic eruption to ninety U S senators as part of his lobbying for the Panama route. The St Pierre catastrophe heightened volcanic fears and a four vote margin chose Panama over Nicaragua.
The piece notes that umbrellas are common among Boers in South Africa, seen as a mark of distinction much like in the narrator’s country. The large alpaca umbrellas with faulty catches were kept in guestrooms and carried in the spider for town trips, rarely opened in public, and sometimes used as a whip on steers.
A Sunday School Times reflection warns that habitually pointing out others faults dries up one own good. Praising and noticing the good in others awakens positive life effects that otherwise would not exist.
A New York World reflection praises invalids for bearing suffering with patience. Their hours of quiet resolve turn sorrow into comfort, as friends visit to wipe tears and offer solace. The piece elevates the invalids as unsung heroines in every home.
Last Monday Fritz Burkle, a resident on the Williamsburg pike above Batavia, was bitten by his horse while tending others. The horse struck his hand, ripping a large wound, leaving Burkle in painful condition though previously unlucky with accidents.
Last Thursday night at midnight filing closed for fall election candidates. Ballots will show no party emblem and voters must mark crosses for each candidate. Offices may have up to a dozen contenders with instruction read vote for one. Sample ballots suggested. Also notes on real estate loans and local money lenders in Batavia Ohio.
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