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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1939
Page
7
New York features sketch Sumner Welles as a tall precise undersecretary with Edenlike flair and a sharp nose. The piece also highlights actor Walter Brennan as a tough oldtimer turning sage and humor, plus Frank J. Taylor promoting canal enlargement and a rags-to-riches career arc from Brooklyn to national figure.
George Dowd of the Bronx recalls a July 1913 Idaho Falls Development Co. dry farm incident where 28 horses pulled a harvester gone wild. Cylinders burst through the machine as it careened, wrecking the platform and showering steel projectiles, with Dowd clinging on for dear life until a repairman halted the runaway. He escaped with a minor leg wound.
Cristobal Balboa Panama City and Colon form a historic contrast shaped by four centuries of trade and conquest. The Atlantic gateways evolved from early Spanish and buccaneer activity into modern canal era military and administrative centers with bustling ports and diverse commerce.
The guide advises preparing dry soil before planting in dry weather and watering copiously to moisten soil. It warns against planting in wet mud and rotting seeds from excessive rain. It cites Gilbert Bentley of the Ferry Seed Breeding Station on seed treatment for lupin, moonflower, morning glory, nasturtium, and other species.
A nine year old girl Mary Ann inspires a revival of hand embroidery begun on a blue gingham piece. The project, framed as emblems beside an old mirror, uses outline stitches and straight leaves, sparked by rainy days and a family craft effort. Books offering more stitches and home decor lessons are advertised with a mail address for orders.
A set of ten trivia prompts asks about U S postage stamps longest street metaphor simile Romeo and Juliet family names baseball anniversary lighthouse spring wireless call at sea, largest battleship guns, and top five U S universities by enrollment.
The Goodwin lightship in the English Channel on January 23, 1899, used the old C Q D signal as the R J Matthews crew, which had run aground, were rescued. The piece notes 16 inch guns for the Washington and North Carolina, capable of firing 2,100 pound projectiles to 35,000 yards, and lists 1900 era university enrollments including New York University Columbia University and Ohio State.
The list presents a mix of trivia items and factual claims. It includes the largest stamp at five dollars, a 27.5 mile segment on Los Angeles Figueroa Street, and examples of expressed versus unexpressed comparisons. It notes Montague and Capulet, a 100th anniversary reference, Nave Sink lighthouse in New Jersey with 9,000,000 candlepower, Silver Springs Florida with 801,000,000 gallons per day, and the first wireless distress call from the East.
A fragmented quotation from Josiah W. Bailey appears, promising that enterprise will guarantee a happy prosperous America. The excerpt references U and I and speaks to national economic optimism.
The piece offers tips on chilling canned goods by removing paper wrappers, using newspapers as rug paddings, cleaning baths with paraffin, preserving silk stockings with methylated spirit, cooling wax candies to slow burning, and teaching youths money management by giving them a fixed allowance to learn saving and responsibility.
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