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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
3
J A Warren of the US Department of Agriculture weighs the trade offs between large shared hog houses and individual cots. A mixed system using both improves year round use, aids farrowing and disease control, while individual pens ease sow separation but require more work and careful ventilation.
Advertisement-style note advises not to buy incubators with less than 100 eggs capacity. Mentions two hundred eggs as a benchmark and notes costs are modest but slightly higher for larger units. The text appears as a brief product tip from a periodical.
The White Star liner Titanic struck an iceberg two days before arriving in New York, sank within hours, but all passengers were rescued by lifeboats as wireless distress calls drew other ships to aid. Titanic measured 882 feet 6 inches, 92 feet 6 inches wide, 66 000 tons, with 3 000 passenger capacity and a crew of 860. Captain Tea Smith, formerly of the Olympic, commanded the vessel amid treacherous ice fields described by Cunard Carmania crew as among the most perilous in memory.
Rome. Pierpont Morgan faced a volatile mob at a Paris station as hundreds believed he would smuggle out an old master. The crowd pressed the carriage, police cleared a lane, and Mrs. Burns was rough handled while Morgan hurried to his car with exits secured and blinds drawn.
Miss Mathilde Moisant nearly died when her aircraft hit a ridge near the baseball park and caught fire. She escaped unhurt as flames consumed the wreckage, leaving the plane a total loss while her clothing burned but caused no serious injury. In Lima Ohio a burglar entered Mrs Jones’s home, stole a $400 diamond from her husband’s shirt and rifled her dress, then fled silently.
A tornado ripped through Delassus and Knoblick and Farmington in St. Francis county killing three and injuring over twenty, with two perhaps fatally. The disaster occurred a year after a prior tornado in the lead belt caused wide deaths and injuries.
Dr Louis Nelson, pharmacology instructor at Harvard, died at Eliot Hospital back bay Boston after a gas bacillus experiment. Officials say the incident was a martyr to medical science as the new agent drew attention in the medical world.
Farnum T. Fish, the world’s youngest licensed aviator and Los Angeles native, set the American cross country air records by flying nonstop from San Diego aviation field to Dominguez field in 2 hours 26 minutes. At under 16, he reached 7000 feet altitude flying a Wright biplane with double propellers.
Before the fire on Christmas eve two old maids discuss holiday gifts. The younger asks if a long stocking would hold all she wants while the older replies a pair of socks would.
G Bau mel of Chicago describes three years of facial acne, severe itching, and disfigurement. After trying pills and remedies, he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following a booklet and was cured in weeks. Free samples offered by Cuticura, Boston.
The line In the Clutches of a Loan Shark is too long and should be shortened. Consider Jaws as a substitute to convey the same threat with fewer letters. The rest notes pure remedies and ad style lines about Garfield Tea and Mrs Winslow's Syrup.
A Cambridge kindergarten teacher, dressed in a close-fitting skirt, notices a pupil staring and asks about his distraction. The boy blurts out that her skirt is classy, creating an unintended moment of flattery as she continues her duties.
An old advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Ease lets you wear a smaller size by shaking it into shoes. It promises instant relief for aching feet, bunions, and dancing parties, with an address in Olmsted, New York.
A matron recited a Marie Tempest bon-mot at a Waldorf-Astoria Lenten musicale about her pug nose. She quoted Tempest joking that Creator picked the first nose that turned up for her, prompting a lighthearted remark on the actress. Also promotes Paxtine Antiseptic for dental care, 25¢ a box at druggists or by mail from The Paxton Toilet Co.
Fragmentary quips hint at literary humor and adage style. Mentions Dawber's wife as a cook, Snow as impressionistic, and a claim about Bromo Quinine as a laxative. A signature by E W Grove appears, with a one day cold cure claim.
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