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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1920
Page
2
A neighbor’s close clipped mustache and a smooth face of the father stir Mary Ellen with awe and longing. She enters the room as he prepares to shave and begs him not to shave, voicing a desire to keep a whisker.
Mrs. M. M. Minsker testifies that using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Preserp and Golden Discovery cured her after two bottles. She reports renewed strength and the ability to leave bed, and offers her name to recommend the medicines.
A reminiscence on H. G. Wells and his Martian invasion tale The War of the Worlds. The author recalls Wells’s life, key works, and the vivid, terrifying siege of London as Martian cylinders unleash heat rays, black smoke, and giant tripods across a devastated, postwar landscape.
The article outlines Fanny Crosby as a prolific hymn writer with over 6000 works. She became blind at six, met composer Alexander Van Alstyne twelve years later at the New York Institute for the Blind, and married him. Crosby taught at the institute, and her hymns appear in Moody and Sankey books and have endured in song and phonograph recordings.
A Birmingham Age-Herald clipping recalls a boxer who boasted he would not enter films for a high weekly salary. The manager later proved the fighter was inebriated and not responsible for the remark. The piece ends with a quip about friendship and patience attributed to sayings.
The article notes Lithuanians avoid killing bees because it is a sin and highlights beekeeping as a widespread practice. Honey exports are substantial, many citizens maintain hives, and midus, the national drink, is made from honey.
Returning soldiers recount a mule driver in France who, while guiding an eight-ration wagon, wandered into No Man's Land by night. A lookout signals him to silence as he narrowly avoids the German lines, declaring he must turn the four-mule team around.
The famed sleeping tramp Julius Mercier, nicknamed the sleeping tramp, is arrested in Versailles on charges of rabbit theft. Found asleep on the Grand Route by a carter, Mercier woke briefly in a police cell then slept again, remaining unarousable at hospital. doctors rule out drunkenness or lethargic encephalitis as causes.
A century ago Kansas faced millions in winter wheat losses from grasshoppers. Scientists created a large scale bait called grasshopper bait using lemons arsenic and other ingredients. The method successfully reduced grasshopper numbers and the state reports no grasshoppers this year.
It is certain we can make life hard or easy through choices and effort. The statement invites reflection on personal responsibility and the impact of mindset.
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