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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1925
Page
7
A puzzle-style list mixes definitions for words on affection expressions land terms and academic and legal references. It includes clues for prefixes suffixes and names and ends with note that solution appears in the next issue.
A essay exploring how infant hand lines vary with growth and personality. The author notes hands show strong individuality from infancy, with a critical indeterminate period between seven and fourteen, suggesting lines may predict neither heredity nor fate. The piece cites Ethel Watts Mumford and the idea that no two hands are alike.
The guide explains filling white spaces with dictionary words, using numbers to mark initial letters. Horizontal clues define words up to the first black square and vertical clues define words down to the next black square. Black spaces stay empty and only readable words fill the grid.
The Toronto Globe reports a wedding where the bridegroom, a word purist who preferred between over betwixt, stumbles as the clergyman says betwixt thee and me. After four attempts the marriage proceeds to a happy conclusion.
The column presents a springtime lecture equating practical yard work with citizenship. It argues that skills in seeds and bulbs matter as much as stock knowledge and business policy, promising the value of domestic expertise with a lighthearted tone.
Six year old John Limpus Harrell, son of Crawfordsville clothing man J A Harrell, sneaks to vaudeville with his father and fixates on the orchestra bass viol. He jokes that the musician has a big saw and bows with a pole as he mimics bowing high above his head.
Dorothy Anne at four causes a stir on the back porch by tugging a long stepladder from the door. She misinterprets her father being up a tree and offers to assist, delighting her mother with the child’s earnest mischief.
A Kansas City Star quip mocks Bolugee claiming hypocrisy for driving a car yet saying he would rather pick up a pedestrian than ride alone. The remark highlights a public dispute over his stance and behavior.
Duffus argues in Century Magazine that civilized man in the twentieth century enjoys unprecedented health. Mortality rates fall in major regions from 1898 to 1923, infant death declines, and diseases like typhoid and tuberculosis are greatly reduced. Advances in surgery, drugs, and sanitation make medical science highly effective and widely accessible.
The 1924 import record shows more bananas entering the United States than ever before with total value at 22,674,000. Ten years earlier in 1914 the value was 16,398,000 and in 1904 it was 7,710,000. bananas average about 125 per bunch from 47,000,000 bunches imported last year, reflecting extensive investment in cultivation railways steamships and distribution networks.
An unnamed actor recalls Lotta Crabtree leaving a four million dollar estate to charity. He shares a quip about her oil shares bid and a comic tale of an art student presenting a French franc to a composed old lady who would have preferred a Latin quarter coin.
Reverend Olney I Darling found a group of rats tangled tails in his Warren hencoop. The rats could not free themselves and one last rat failed to exit through the hole. A witness corroborated the minister details his strange discovery.
A fully welded oil-tanker, the first built in the United States by electric welding, was recently launched in Providence. Electricity generated the heat to fuse steel sheets and angle iron in its hull and frame, creating a rivetless structure.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder issues without realizing it. Symptoms include back pain headaches fatigue and nervousness, signaling possible kidney disease. Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root offered by prescription or sample bottle by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. and noting the newspaper.
Clarence asks about a matrimonial bark as his father jokes that fault finding makes marriage hard for men. The narrator grouses that if husbands stopped growling wives would stop barking, highlighting the playful domestic quarrel between husband and wife.
To achieve clear smooth skin, use Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness or itching, then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Rinse thoroughly, dry gently, and continue the treatment as directed.
A French mechanic built a home made aircraft in a cellar using a motorcycle sidecar, a second hand engine, and scraps. The quirky craft flew 25 miles at 50 mph then covered 150 miles across country to prove its performance.
An advertisement promotes Dr Peery’s Dead Shot claiming it expels worms including tapeworms and cleans mucus in which they breed. It also tones up digestion and states one dose is effective for a dog.
The census shows women taking up roles once reserved for men. Among the occupations listed are 150 undertakers 78 race track bookmakers 23 lady chimney sweeps and 500 barge workers with women also employed as plumbers riveters and gunsmiths.
A lighthearted Colgate Banter line features a chorus of playful zingers about belief in dreams and the idea of marrying one, capturing campus wit and humor in a short joke.
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