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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1938
Page
7
In a humorous exchange a market seller touts fresh shell oysters while a Mrs June Bride asks for enough for two and jokes about killing and dressing them. A stray line laments lost directions with a baby care question.
Read about cost savings when making slip covers at home with simple closures like slide fasteners. Instructions detail creating facing strips, preparing seams, and attaching fasteners with a sewing machine, plus tips for easier fitting and finishing.
A reflective musing on human nature, friendship, and moral judgments. The author contrasts conditional change with enduring bonds, notes the perils of youth and folly, and argues for prudent intolerance toward indecency and vulgarity while recognizing the lure of wealth without effort.
Britannica Junior describes the cat tail plant, noting its root starch used as flour by Iroquois Indians and for porridge like cornmeal, root syrup production, tender shoots eaten as Cossack asparagus, fibrous leaves for mats and seating, flower heads for upholstery fillings and wound dressing in WWI, and Palm Sunday palm substitutes in places lacking palm leaves.
A list describes oddities and errors in a staged display including a banner question mark a telephone without a receiver a day night bay window in one pane a flower in a golf bag a Rover portrait and other mismatches. Each item notes a flaw such as a nail in the wall failing to hold a frame a radio speaker showing a singer’s head a chair floating an unattached mirror a lamp lit without a plug a cane in a bouquet a growling bear rug an unshaven gentleman spotted bear skin a gentleman wearing odd socks.
When a university planned to award Thomas A. Edison an honorary LL D degree, scholars held the ceremony by telephone because the inventor was too occupied with experiments to attend. He was relieved to return to work promptly after hanging up.
Advertisement copy touts Pepsodent with Irium promising radiance and surface stain removal without pumice or bleaching agents. Claims the product safely whitens teeth like sunlight and leaves a lovely gleam.
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