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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1916
Page
3
Mrs J Pugh of Putton and Mrs Mary Bolton of Putton report Vap-O-Rub as safer and more effective than internal medicines for children's colds. They describe rapid relief from coughs and breathing trouble, noting its double action as a vapors inhaled and skin absorbed. Available in 25c 50c and 1.00 sizes at druggists.
Advertisement urging households to keep Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh for cuts burns sprains and bruises. Blurb promotes quick relief and practicality in daily injuries. Ends with a humorous line about clever people.
An old advertisement touts Othine double strength as a guaranteed freckles remover. It instructs applying one ounce nightly and morning for a clear complexion, noting most customers need little product and promising a money back guarantee if results fail.
Ad urging gentle care for babies with tender skin highlights Cuticura Soap and Ointment as soothing cleansing products. Promotes free sample by mail with a booklet from Cuticura Dept. L Boston and notes availability everywhere. A closing line offers a proverb about fools not recognizing their folly.
Canada enjoyed strong prosperity in 1915 with record agricultural and industrial growth. Nearly a billion bushels of grain were produced and Western taxes on land were modest. Soldiers helped harvest, with future leave to plant seeds in 1916, while Canada sought 50000 US farm workers to meet labor needs.
This passage outlines grammar topics such as noun inflection verb conjugation and adjective comparison. It asks for four adverb classes with example sentences and labels, defines complex sentences and parts of speech, and requests parsing rules and examples including passive voice formation.
Columbus reports uniform examination questions for county teachers’ examination for elementary school certification. Prepared under the direction of the superintendent of public instruction and issued from his office per Section 7819 of the general code.
A collection of arithmetic problems and teaching prompts for primary and grade eight classes. Topics include price changes with storage losses, time zones and longitude, unit conversions, land area work, drill in arithmetic, bond tax impacts, volume of a cone-like apple pile, and connecting geography to daily life. Includes questions on war influence, city locations, climate factors, canal impact, and major markets.
Discusses correct pronunciation marking in dictionaries, purposes of dictionaries, and exercises to build accurate spelling habits. Includes a long list of sample words to indicate pronunciation and spelling difficulties, plus methods to teach and reinforce accurate usage.
The piece argues using local history phases and current events to teach national history. It weighs George Rogers Clark as a top event and asks for agreement or disagreement, outlines secretary of state and war roles, compares anti slavery and abolitionism, and requests a plan for eight to ten weeks of writing instruction plus classroom strategies and handwriting specimen. It ends with a poem excerpt for stylistic context.
A comprehensive set of student prompts asks for book names read in the past year, the most profitable choice and rationale, 10 recommendations for middle schoolers, Shakespeare works read with favorite, wartime literary influence, 16 liked poems, 10 notable fictional characters with books, a brief novel retelling, favorite author/book/play/poem/story/hymn/quotation, a 200+ word appreciation, and essays on ventilation, lung health, nervous system, hygiene, drawing in physiology, causes of colds, school responsibility, digestion aids, and arterial-venous connections.
A synthesis of two groups from Parker and Morehouse addresses Lancastrian methods in U S public schools and Pestalozzi based arithmetic work Colburn’s presentation, with critique of extreme oral instruction, Salzmann’s school, and discuss of objections to strict rules and teacher qualities for effective discipline.
A cynical aphorism notes that lacking work, a man has two options: seek political office or risk imprisonment. The quote reflects social critique of employment and governance.
A San Antonio letter from January 11 1916 praises Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as the top kidney remedy. The writer notes twelve years of handling the product and reports strong customer satisfaction and wide demand across the country.
Proclaiming a ten cent sample size bottle from Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY as convincing, with a booklet of kidney and bladder information. Aimed at readers of this paper, with available regular fifty cent and one dollar bottles at drug stores.
Readers are advised not to close the stomach while treating pleurisy bronchitis and sore throat. Rub on true Mustarine nightly for quick relief. sold in a yellow box for about 25 cents by Beggs Medicine Co Rochester NY. It stops rheumatic pains and neuralgia and reduces congestion with a blessed relief each rub.
Dear Mr. Editor describes chronic backache and fatigue and credits Anuric tablets from Dr. Pierce as the remedy. The letter claims sluggish kidneys cause backache and lists pains like lumbago rheumatism and gout. It urges readers to ask their druggist for Anuric in 60-cent packages.
The fragment shows Biggs and Diggs arguing about mis information and how a reputable motor truck might speed up when facing another person. The text lacks clear event details or outcome.
The fragment presents a cynical aphorism about motivation, contrasting paid virtue with worthless behavior, without identifying people, organizations, or events.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe remedy for all female ailments from puberty to old age. It claims the medicine acts as a temperance helper, lists common symptoms, and states ingredients are printed on the wrapper.
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