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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1930
Page
3
A Shelby North Carolina sales notice promotes Hava-Rexa cigars with bold claims of high profits and quick repeat sales aimed at merchants and dealers seeking assured revenue.
The National Association of Gardeners plans an international peace garden as a permanent memorial to foster goodwill between the United States and Canada. conceived by Henry J. Moore of the Ontario Department of Agriculture. A committee aims to raise 5 million dollars by public subscription for the project and locate the garden at a site accessible to both nations.
A proposal to issue postage stamps featuring attractive Britain scenes aims to attract tourists. Landscapes flowers and animals would be used and the images could brighten stamp albums worldwide according to one enthusiast.
Senator Sorghum contends that political influence is not built solely on public speaking. He notes that the most influential words may be spoken in private, away from the public eye.
A hungry fugitive named Ted Grimes franks a starving old widow by paying off her mortgage with his loot. After dining, he dupes a sheriff by robbing him at gunpoint, then vanishes, leaving the sheriff enraged at the daylight theft of the mortgage funds.
Fall fashion turns to light weight woolens and trousered ensembles as pajama wear becomes a serious trend. Designers showcase crepe and wool blends with surplice fastenings, boleros, and flared trouser silhouettes in dark wine greens browns and off black.
Leo M. Glassman argues satire and irreverent songs ease despair in Soviet life. The piece cites jokes about Kremlin walls, leaders, and the GPU as coping tools, plus street humor about Marya and a Red Square trumpeter linked to the world revolution.
The piece notes the concertina’s centenary and credits Sir Charles Wheatstone, dating 1829 for its invention and patent. It highlights Wheatstone as a prolific improver of science who also created the stereoscope the polar clock and helped public access the electric telegraph.
The airborne luxury craft named air yacht includes bedrooms with ward robes and dressing tables a small bathroom a saloon and cook's galley. Six passengers and a three man crew can travel 650 miles at speed of 100 miles per hour.
Rand, Johannesburg, South Africa reports higher gold production in the first quarter of 1930, totaling 30,000 ounces more than the same period in 1929.
A San Francisco Chronicle remark notes that machines can produce every essential good except consumer power, highlighting a paradox in industrial progress and the ongoing gap between production capability and demand.
Iceland hosts 107 known volcanoes with thousands of craters. Quotations from Cicero, Shakespeare, Caesar, and Caesar-like adages mix with notes about habit, discretion, and the cotton industry in America’s business activity. The passage blends natural history with literary maxims and proverbs.
An OCR fragment mixes medical claims for Bayer Aspirin with a stray comic exchange about unreliable encyclopedias and biscuits, then notes a line about early English news sheets. The text references medical pains and the Bayer cross without cohesive narrative or dates.
A St. Paul Minnesota woman reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she feels like a new woman and that three neighbors have been helped and will write if it aids another woman.
The Wrexham Advertiser notes a peculiar house routine where Billy and Willy align their sleep with a baby’s schedule. The quirky habit reflects family life and household timing.
The text notes U S annual fish consumption about 2 662 billion pounds and cites Webster and Gray as favorites. It adds a grim quip on dead dogs and men and a remark that conceit is the finest armor a man can wear.
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