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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1923
Page
7
A field report notes a local remedies claim from Glenallan Alabama. The testimonial mentions pain relief and strength, with references to a product sold in the Ram area, highlighting household use and family benefit.
A reader explains the four bed spring types woven wire fabric spiral and box springs. It notes the pros and cons of each including sagging repair options cleaning challenges and cost ranges. Emphasis on avoiding stretched springs and choosing a design with easier maintenance and proper support.
The article explains practical tests to judge color fastness for fabrics. It covers rubbing a sample on white cloth to see color transfer, wearing a sample near the skin for days, testing with acetic acid, sprinkling with water to check spotting, washing with hot suds to check wash-fastness, and braiding dyed and white strips to see if colors bleed. It also notes tests used by Uncle Sam to assess perspiration resistance.
A Fieldman from the Colorado State Dairy Commission lists essential questions for dairy operators. He asks about cow records, feeding a balanced ration, regular milking and care, cleanliness, use of purebred bulls, shelter and bedding, calf care, pasture, and willingness to work. A farmer who answers yes to all is not far from the right dairy business.
The article explains that bacteria multiply rapidly in moist dairy utensils and stresses thorough drying after sterilization. It recommends sterilizing milk cans with steam or boiling water, allowing ventilation to remove moisture, and storing cans on racks in a well screened milk house to protect from flies and dust. It notes covered cans dry less effectively and that dry cans reduce spoilage risk.
The article urges feeding roughage of succulent nature such as silage and hay to dairy cows. It notes typical intake at three pounds of silage and about one pound of hay per 100 pounds live weight, plus one pound of grain per every 3.5 pounds of milk produced, given current prices.
Prof A Baer of Oklahoma A and M stresses purebred bulls to improve dairy herds. He cites profitable dairying requires good breeding weeded poor cows and proper feeding. He notes a herd bull from a tested dam with a solid record is best and that farmers can pool to buy a superior bull.
Thoroughly wash and scald after each use all milk palls strainers cans and separators and milking machine if used. Use brushes and a good washing powder and avoid dishrags. Discard the cloth strainer for the wire one unless it is washed and boiled daily.
A quip on heredity notes a father with three daughters who all smoke, prompting a lighthearted exchange about family behavior and parental influence.
A Portland man reports Tanlac cured his stomach trouble and gained eighteen pounds restoring health. He says prior to Tanlac he suffered gas bloating biliousness and constant laxative use. The ad notes Tanlac’s broad sales and druggist availability. A separate humorous vignette shows Arnold asking to attend a free basketball game after being told no.
A short excerpt shows a grocer asking for more, a young bride inquiring about suggestions, and a palmist framing multiple lines of his work, highlighting the varied nature of fortune reading.
Mr Nicholas Coundouris a Greek born American citizen started cigarette making in 1858 by shipping ten bales of Turk tobacco. He recalls Prince of Wales and Lady Mordaunt among early adopters and notes cigarette smoking grew with patience and perseverance. He is eighty seven and fluent in twenty languages according to London Tit-Bits.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment to treat pimples redness and itching followed by Cuticura Soap to bathe with hot water then Cuticura Tal gum for a fragrance. Product lines priced at 25c each and marketed for general skin care.
A college student recalls carrying a frying pan on a crowded downtown streetcar. The pan slipped from a paper bundle with a clang, drawing widespread attention before a passerby retrieved it and returned it.
Prayer books may get a revision to include a petition for those who go up in airships. Applause is forbidden in Russian theaters. People who look for trouble never look in vain.
J Murten reports 2,000,000 census workers survey about 819,000,000 Indians in 1921. Illiteracy forces nonhouseholder enumeration while some are attacked by suspicious Hindus and bribery attempts cause false entries. Bengal shows the highest density at 608 per square mile.
The piece blends humorous praise for dye products with a playful ad tone and an essay on Puritan Massachusetts and immigration. It notes demographic shifts from the 1920 census and includes a quip about New York City’s diverse populations and native-born shares.
A student in an Indianapolis Greek history class vividly retold the battle of Thermopylae. The tale captured the heroic stand and culminated in a striking image of fighters resorting to hand fighting after their arms were gone.
A playful line notes about ten thousand varieties of fish as a metaphor for love and forgiveness. A man in love gives a woman in love forgiveness, framing affection through nature’s abundance.
Leonidas W. Van Quentin writes to the dictionary maker complaining that common words like eat dog and house are defined while new or obscure terms are rarely included He urges production of a dictionary focusing on the words readers actually want to look up and omitting trivial terms, a view echoed by the Kansas City Star.
A comic exchange shows a Black man explaining to a new arrival what a hospital is. The foreigner asks, What is a hospital and the response describes it as a natural museum of misery.
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