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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1919
Page
7
A flyer forecasts transatlantic air travel within years, with morning departure and afternoon return. The note jokes about high fares leaving travelers with nothing to do after crossing the Atlantic, as quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure all for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming it corrects urinary troubles neutralizes uric acid and relieves rheumatism. It urges readers to send ten cents for a bottle via parcel post and mentions drug stores stock the large and medium sizes.
An old advertisement notes that genuine Bayer Aspirin must bear the Bayer Cross on unbroken packaging with directions for relief from headache toothache earache neuralgia and colds. It promotes handy 12 tablet tins sold cheaply at drug stores and explains aspirin as Bayer’s trade mark for monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid.
Belle remarks that the declaration is merely an idol remark. An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap promising double razor efficiency and skin health for shaving bathing and shampooing with no irritation. The piece notes a woman would worry more if listening to everything she says.
For summer colds and nervous headaches Vader Balm relieves superficial inflammation quickly. It treats mumps hay fever or any pain. request a free sample or send 50 cents for 225e tubes. Avoid imitations from B W Vacher Inc New Orleans.
Finley recounts a long journey from Aleppo to Damascus Jerusalem Haifa Beirut and Tarsus tracing early Christian routes and biblical sites. He describes travel by freight cars a trawler and a British destroyer and notes the lack of direct routes in the region. The piece blends travelogue with historical allusions to St Paul and other figures.
The Huguenots emerged in France during the sixteenth century amid religious wars led by Coligny and Henry IV. The St Bartholomew massacre in 1572 marked a turning point, followed by the edict of Nantes in 1598 granting rights, and eventual loss of protections after La Rochelle’s surrender and the 1685 revocation. Many Huguenots fled abroad to Prussia Holland Switzerland England Scotland and America.
The interior ministry issues a nationwide circular via the Peking Daily News to Shenchangs and Tu tungs, restricting tobacco use. Prohibitions include under eighteen smoking, punishment for military or naval personnel, and bans in all government settings, as part of a broader effort to curb tobacco consumption.
A member of the Argentine Chamber proposes paying deputies per day rather than a lump sum to force attendance. The plan says failure to answer roll call equals absence and no pay for days missed from regular sessions.
The reservation commission approves purchase of 48,581 acres for national forests in the White Mountains Southern Appalachians and Arkansas. Major tracts lie in Carroll and Grafton counties New Hampshire with 81,022 acres and 1,220 acres in Oxford County Maine at an average price of 7.15 per acre. The lands include Mount Chocorua and Mount Pas?mouth area trails maintained by clubs.
A fragmented 1890s style jostles jokes about a smart crook who cleaned out a bank and a conscientious one who did so. It notes indigestive pills and a newsroom typewriter quip, then a wry aside on marriage and death, reflecting streetwise humor and social observation.
A Perth Amboy man says he took his cat on a 99 mile trip to Pennsylvania and dropped her. The cat returned home with sore feet and cried for food, and he notes no one would likely believe the tale, a stance we share.
A village derides its town as exhausted and unable to muster a full attendance for a lynching bee, lamenting waning civic engagement and distress over the community mood.
In a satirical Life item a director’s meeting reveals that the Ainsworth children’s family is judged by social standing due to their notably poor cellar. Betty notes Billy and Anna should be warned about their company.
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