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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1925
Page
2
Washington reports the first steps toward building the new 5 599 000 dollar Coolidge dam on the Gila river canyon in Arizona, with funds for surveys and contracts made available. The item lists multiple other federal actions and appointments affecting prisons taxation and international arms talks.
Ohio lawmakers advance five bills embracing home rule for cities. Tallentire Dodd and Krueger measures gain Senate approval, permitting city levies, bond issues, and budget flexibility with voter approval for increases. McDonald bill on real property reappraisal also before the governor. High court rules 99-year leases are freehold estates with dower rights in widows.
Springfield burglars knocked the combination off the safe in a Boston store and escaped with about 500 dollars. The item notes other Ohio notices from Napoleon to Fremont with brief local arrests, deaths, and public matters.
A stockade fort was erected about the year 1800 near the mouth of Swan Creek on the Maumee, per War Department correspondence cited by Waggoner in Lucas County history. The fort, ordered by Wayne after Fallen Timbers, safeguarded Fort Miami. The exact erection year remains uncertain.
A fragment notes a location on Summit Street in Toledo where the area was named Fort Industry. The text references Mee River as part of the nearby landmark and identifies the historical naming context for the fort site.
The passage likens the spirit of the age to a fleeting cloud picture rather than a fixed system. It argues the age’s essence dissolves as light reveals fragments of its image, never forming a complete, definite whole.
George Kruck Cherrie, veteran explorer, will depart April for India to organize support for a Roosevelt brothers expedition into southwestern Asia with Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. They aim to collect specimens of the king of mountain sheep, the markhor, long haired tiger, snow leopard, and goitered gazelle while navigating hostile terrain and unknown routes in south western Asia and Chinese Turkestan.
The Hayford ellipsoid defining Earth's equatorial and polar diameters was adopted as the international reference after a Madrid meeting. Director John F. Hayford, of Northwestern University, fixed measurements at 7,926.678 miles equatorial and 7,899.964 miles polar, with a 26.714 mile flattening. The standard, announced two hours after his death, will guide future global boundary surveys.
Dr. Ralph L. Power notes Calico also known as Ghost City may revive as boarding house, stagecoach depot and other structures reopen. J R Lane, owner of the Oriental mine, acts as town official and foresees the old boom returning with renewed prospect of silver wealth along Wall Street.
A land dispute at Wisconsin Point in Superior Bay pits Owagie descendants against U S Steel long opposed by an old treaty. Attorney John A. Cadigan recalls a 1916 warning that graves must remain undisturbed, a warning that foreshadowed the 1918 Cloquet fire and flu pandemic while Meuse-Argonne hostilities raged elsewhere.
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