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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1889
Page
7
Chicago hosts two large telegraph offices with about 700 workers handling messages daily. Six hundred main wires totaling over 200000 miles converge on vast switchboards, connecting with 202 branch offices citywide, with the Board of Trade area employing nearly 100 operators each morning amid constant machine noise.
A Chicago office tour reveals a centralized telegraph network powering city and delivery operations. Operators relay Brighton Beach race results to the Western area. dynamos will replace costly batteries. The piece also covers money orders, identity checks, and telegraph delivery challenges caused by misaddressed notes and faulty names.
The Sioux City corn festival runs September 23 to October 6 with the new corn palace to be kept for two extra weeks for visiting South American delegates in Washington. The $53,000 structure, built of pine and covered in corn, wheat and grasses, features a 185 foot tower, multiple smaller towers, and extensive ornamentation in corn. The piece also includes notes on historic world colossi and a few humorous vignettes from contemporary papers.
A dam burst at Hibernia in Pennsylvania sent a wall of water down the Brandywine, washing away a bridge and flooding Coatesville streets. No lives reported lost, but meadows flooded eight to ten feet and creek roads flooded. Separate reports note a Del cloud burst causing railroad washouts near Coatesville and further floods in Plainfield New Jersey with bridges washed away and dam anxiety.
Frost damaged vines and late tobacco and corn in East Tawas Michigan and nearby areas. Snow and a cold wave followed, with frost also reported in Dunoque Louisiana and along the Illinois Central line. Kentucky crops mostly safe though some late tobacco and corn near cities face risk. rain delayed ripening in river lands may cause losses.
The London dock laborers strike is nearly settled with most workers returning. At West India docks clashes occurred as strikers drove out substitutes, police intervened, and order was restored. Albert docks saw a harsher clash with attackers injuring several substitutes who were hospitalized. those who assaulted were discharged.
An editorial praises marriage as a foundation of the nation and warns of female disorders. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a guaranteed cure for ailments such as leucorrhea prolapse and bearing-down sensations with money-back guarantee. Also mentions Dr. Pierce's Pellets and London fashion trends among theater folk.
The page promotes Excelsior Springs Missouri as a premier health resort with promises of cures for kidney and liver diseases and related ailments. It advertises a descriptive pamphlet, the Wabash Line excursions to distant western points, and several patent remedies. It also notes flood losses in Pennsylvania and features various quack claims, generic health tips, and a range of products from soaps to tonics.
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