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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1933
Page
8
A collage of verses praising trees and civic virtue followed by brief local notes. Mentions J O Fuhr Williamsburg cement blocks, Batavia Library hours, Easter bake sale at Flora’s drug store Amelia Ohio, and several visits and errands across local residents and businesses.
Batavia Presbyterian Church led by Samuel Huecker announces Sunday services on April 80 with Sunday school at 9 80 and morning worship at 10 45. The sermon is Jesus and our Modern Age. Wea ver family sympathy noted for the sudden death of the father. May 7 Spring Rally planned by the school. U B Church led by Rev Ludwick lists Sunday School 9 80 Junior church 10 16 Morning worship 10 80 Evening 7 30 An evening with Fanny Crosby and The Unseen Bhores referenced.
In spring reseeding is tough but September offers better success. For lawn renovation, focus on fertilizing top dressing mowing and watering. Use high nitrogen fertilizer like 68-6 or 10-64 at 1/4 to 1/2 lb per 100 sq ft and spread evenly. Maintain mower height around 1 1/2 inches and water deeply about weekly.
Final tabulation of State Eighth Grade tests shows 464 pupils participated. Median score listed as 1144 with top six schools named by medians and contestant counts. Six honor students named with schools and total scores, led by Orpha A. Gatch of Milford scoring 173.
A director of a voice and dramatic school states that studios require actors to abandon regional accents and speak pure English. Southerners, Yankees, and Westerners must remove provincial speech traits to be cast in varied roles, as enunciation is deemed essential for contract work.
The Big Ben bell in London weighs 13% tons with a 700 pound pendulum. Its four dials are 22% feet across, figures two feet high, and minute hand 14 feet long, but it is not the largest clock. The record holder is a Colgate Building clock in Jersey City New Jersey with an 88 foot minute hand and a 27 foot hour hand, a 50 foot dial, and a quarter horsepower motor to wind it.
The piece lists major and smaller exhibitions in the United States prior to the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It mentions Chicago's 1898 Columbus celebration, Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial, and transmississippi and Pan American shows such as Omaha 1908 and Buffalo 1901, with Seattle 1909, San Diego 1912, and San Francisco 1915 noted.
The globes show a figure eight shaped analemma extending between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. This diagram helps locate where the sun is vertical on Earth at any time and determines the equation of time, the difference between solar and clock time.
Islandmagee is a peninsula near Larne in Ulster Ireland once home to the Magees. The Gobbins, cliffs on the eastern shore, were opened to the public in recent years and hold caves vast precipices and seabird colonies with legends of men being hurled from the top.
The article lists depths of the Great Lakes noting Lake Superior as the deepest with most areas over 600 feet and a maximum depth of 1 200 feet near Otter Head Ontario. Lake Erie reaches 210 feet and averages about 60 feet with its deepest point near Long Point Ontario. Additional figures show Michigan at 982 feet Huron 750 and Ontario 738.
A rare 87 inch high bell cast by Paul Revere sold for 1300 at a Boston auction. The bell, diameter 45 inches, came from West Newbury church burned about 25 years ago, with the inscription Revere Boston 1828.
Readable text blends several curiosities from a past era. It notes a Kimberley diamond find in 1808 after a child picked a stone, mentions a 214% carat weight, and an early rough sale price of 2500 dollars. It also cites Tibet’s Ma Chin Shan as a purported giant peak and a siege era currency note sold in London for 7.40.
The Peerless Creamery Co of Batavia was dissolved Monday by order of the Common Pleas Court. L. Larkin was continued as receiver. The property will be sold to a creamery company and operated at Batavia if possible.
Friday evening April 28 the Annual Senior Dance will be held in the local Armory Cliff Burns Orchestra will furnish the music dancing from 10 until 1 Admission 60c.
A thought experiment states if a tight earth circumference tape is increased by 25 feet the new circle would sit four feet from the earth everywhere. Thus an earth circumference increase of 25 feet corresponds to a radius increase of four feet.
The Rev. Lewis G. Ludwick of Batavia is asked to address the Blanchester Rotary Club Friday evening April 28. He is also invited to speak to the Royal Daughters of America at Sardinia on Saturday evening April 29.
Seventy nine Hillsboro High School seniors will graduate at commencement on May 18, one of the largest classes in the school's history. The United States land office is custodian of 173 million acres of public domain under active land laws. Brantwood, John Ruskin's English home since 1871, was sold privately. The first university in the German empire was Prague Bohemia in 1348. Heidelberg University was founded in 1880. Gulls along the Louisiana coast increasingly ride the tide at sundown instead of flying home. Floor sanding offered by Wilke Coaley.
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