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12 Sep 1877
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1877
Page
1
The notice states Browning Br charges $1.50 per year in advance for a subscription or service. It outlines payment terms and renewal expectations, indicating annual upfront pricing.
At a masquerade ball, the narrator mistakes Laura Clyde for his sister Fan during a promenade with her. After an impulsive kiss, he discovers the object of his flirtation is actually Laura's sister, causing shock and humorous relief at the masquerade.
A sensational frontier yarn recounts Lung-Sing the Chinaman who camps near Boston Town in the Black Hills and defeats Indian attempts to drive him out. He fortifies a cave named Chin-Lung, nets rich quartz, fends off attackers, and ultimately returns with a fortune while miners debate the tale.
The St Louis Globe Democrat reports Albert Rhodes a mulatto ventriloquist whose whistling mimics river boats and a funeral moan at a Vicksburg burial. After the coffin was opened the corpse showed no signs of life. crowds fled as the body appeared to revive before police and skepticism spread among local colored residents. Rhodes fled the city to avoid reprisals.
The article traces the Guard from its Voltaire noted Praetorian origin to Catherine II’s era and its rise around a core household brigade. It grew large by Napoleonic wars, stood out in fierce battles, but played only a nominal role in the Crimean War and has not fought since. experts believe its quality remains strong should it be deployed.
A tale from High Street recounts John William’s romantic visits to a girl he adored, ending in a comic disaster when he confronts her mother and flees in a frenzy. The piece shifts to a neighbor's rambling money-and-piper grievances about neighbors who borrow everything from poker to doors and baby furniture. It then reports on new telephone tech and a Charley Ross search, followed by odd local notes and curiosities including a kerosene scare and a recovered deaf man.
A Cincinnati woman sought a child matching a rosy description from a New Orleans foundling hospital. The Adams Express carrier delivered a live baby girl with an express label, shocking the recipient yet receiving a warm welcome amid the modern tale of intercity infant transfer.
Epitaph recalls George Washington Brown steam engineer of Cincinnati Ohio aged 46 who died in a boiler explosion April 14. The coroner found the deceased blameless though the iron failed. The verse notes his skill, precision, and safety measures that kept him accident free until the disaster.
A National Republican roundup notes Secretary Evarts will present his eleven daughters to Washington society this winter. Other items recount Paisello’s operas and Donizetti Gounod Handel Mozart Mendelssohn outputs, Wrangel’s Berlin stance, George Walton’s Riverside elopement tale, jailbreak by fake revolver, Bret Harte’s portrait, Cedar Point quarry crews, Sumner’s etiquette pronouncements, Putnam’s 1776 dispatch, Evarts’ rumored brood, an Austin oxen team named after locals, and the Newark statue fate of General Phil Kearny.
A column notes states Vermont New York Ohio and Michigan lead in sheep numbers due to diligent husbandry rather than climate. It argues Western farms lack time money and knowledge for wool growing, urging steady, disciplined care, proper facilities, shading, water, and timely feeding as keys to success.
An narrator recounts bargaining in Constantinople with a Jew interpreter over a centuries old English clock, noting taunts and sly tricks as they push the price from twelve to two pounds, then depart. Also mentions Lon HuBBELL of Putnam County once famed in circuses and cites Paris population at 1,988,800 in December 1876, now over two million.
Legal and transient ads priced at 1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly liberal reductions offered. Business cards up to six lines 6.00 per year.
A light verse by R H Stoddard celebrates carefree merriment. It mocks sighing and sorrow, urging a cavalier to wear a long feather in his hat and enjoy May day dances despite loss or misfortune. The playful cadence invites readers to sing and laugh.
Worcester and Caicasco items share a celebratory knot tale. The piece wields humor from a string of quips and short miscellany about marriages, names, word play, and history figures like Tchayshevadzenischze and Victoria.
A Marseilles girl engaged to a sailor pursues him across Canada and the Pacific. In Broadway New York she nearly meets him, then learns he drowned off California. A sailor’s clothes body is buried. a coroner’s letters reveal she shares his fate and finally finds his grave.
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