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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1927
Page
2
A foreign paper reports an American publisher cabled Dean Inge offering two thousand pounds to write his life. Inge declined. The publisher then asked for a life of Christ at lower terms, prompting another reply.
The origin of corporations is traced to ancient Greece in 604 B C with earlier Phoenician and Babylonian precedents. Ginseng grown in Manchuria was once a forbidden imperial medicine in China, reserved for the household.
Two Hongkong dock workers recall travelers and locals in Asia as they riff on tall tales. The piece Mexico Los Angeles Times quotes a Singaporean tale of a man so black a candle is needed, and a Formosan man so thin he must pass twice through a doorway for a wife to credit him.
A bank teller recalls a woman altering a balance in her ledger after an imbalanced review. Another client reacts with fury claiming the bank incorrectly shows her account overdrawn and vows to withdraw funds immediately.
The Pasadena California American Legion post pistol team issued a nationwide challenge in a contest “under any conditions.” In a meet with Hollywood post, Pasadena scored 1,295 of 1,500 across slow and rapid fire on 25 and 50 yard ranges.
A man traveling on his hands from Dublin to Belfast drew crowds and required police control as he crossed the route. He uses special sandals to spare his hands and travels with a goat hitched to a small cart carrying camping gear.
A Santa Rosa man named Buddy Honca slipped a note into a cabbage in a Texas valley. A buyer in Newfoundland wrote back to the sender, replying to the note found inside the vegetable from far away.
A mourner recalls Dey throwing water on Sam Johnson to wake him at his wife's funeral. A friend asks if Dasso fainted, and is told he is an unusually sound sleeper as noted in American Legion Monthly.
In a terse exchange, Ted notes lawyers took most of the estate while Marie unexpectedly received one of the lawyers if only as a figurative prize.
The United States remains active in invention with around 35 000 patents issued annually. This sustained rate underscores ongoing innovation and the breadth of American inventors in diverse fields.
The exchange features a man claiming clever hunches come in sleep and a woman retorting that his main issue is sleeplessness. They spar with witty lines highlighting dream logic and humorous medical digs.
A 1927 Western Newspaper Union kitchen column offers seasonal menus and simple recipes. Recipes include Veal Croquettes Lemon Sherbet Cherry Pudding Vegetable Dish Picnic Lunches Nut Bread Potato Doughnuts Lunch Cake Beef Fricadelles and Frizzled Beef With Eggs with brief instructions and basic ingredients.
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