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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1919
Page
3
Victor Lawton a respected lawyer and sought husband is enlisted by Cecile Van Dusen to help her family resolve inheritance misuses. Lawton discovers Cecile intends to marry him to access Madge's fortune, revealing Cecile's scheming and the hidden marriage. The scene ends with Cecile declaring the fisher caught.
The piece cites Queen Jezebel and David to warn that written words can deceive and ruin lives. It recounts Jezebel sealing letters in Ahab’s name to condemn Naboth, and David's letter to Joab that led to Uriah’s death, urging care in what one writes and noting how good letters and thoughts yield good outcomes.
In a discussion of boyhood the wealthy Wyoming senator recalled his father, noting he was only twenty years older. The exchange centered on labor and freedom, including a claimed debt of eighty five dollars for oxen and a pledge that leaving home meant no return unless ill.
Dearborn returns from New York with tales of crowds and no hotel rooms. The traveler says they slept at a cinema due to packed rooms in the city.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports 165 field veterinarians and equal state staff tested about 500 purebred herds as tuberculosis free. Certificates issued cover owners with accredited herds. An additional 2,000 herds were tested in preparation for accreditation. Since July 1, 1918, 800 accredited and 1,000 one-test herds added. Estimates cite annual losses of 25 million dollars.
Iowa State College experiment station outlines a fly spray for dairy cows mixing coal tar dip fish oil coal oil whale oil and oil of tar with dissolved laundry soap to make thirty gallons with soft water. Cows are to be sprayed twice daily and a half barrel cart with pump enables two men to spray about forty cows in five minutes.
The text describes the cow as a living machine converting feed into milk. It argues that generous feeding yields higher output, while a cow that does not repay such feeding should be disposed of. It notes inherent qualities may be addressed but feeding matters most.
Good silage can halve feed costs and a cow with a strong appetite outproduces a finicky one. Well fed cattle before heavy forage reduces bloat risk. feeding at milking time may encourage slow milkers. Summer heat requires extra attention. older cows sold cheaply are rarely a sound investment for dairymen.
An old advertisement touts August Flower as a remedy for indigestion sour stomach and constipation. It claims the product renews liver function cleanses the intestines and eases tired overworked stomachs during the summer picnic season. Sold everywhere.
Workers at a Matehuala mine near San Luis Potosi report a newly found cave over 300 feet below surface and 15 feet wide. Explorers plan surveys. a sulphurous blue fountain is among its striking features, with potential to rival Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
Turin craftsman M Felice Gilardini markets parchmented leather combining strength with reduced elasticity. Deep trelliswork impressions leave compressed portions unaffected by tanning while mesh interiors tan normally. Belts may be much narrower yet retain strength.
A military aero nautics director warns birds have right of way in air while towns along the Atlantic report dead bird showers after aviators fire on flocks. A prominent citizen injured by a flying bird prompts a Department of Agriculture inquiry and a note that shooting birds from airplanes violates federal migratory bird law between the United States and Great Britain.
An electric fan placed in an open doorway or window quickly drives away flies and mosquitoes and likely scatters mischievous microbes.
Waste from cleaning Bahamas sisal fiber is used as a substitute for horsehair in upholstery. The article notes the material’s suitability and potential as a filling or padding despite its origin.
An elderly English castle caretaker was laid low after a facetious visitor demanded to see a room once occupied by the Kaiser. The remark and subsequent incident disrupted the historic site and caused the caretaker to collapse.
The Wisconsin Magazine of History recalls the Potter Pryor duel from Civil War times. Congressman Roger A. Pryor, the Virginia figure in the episode, died recently in New York, and the piece frames the affair as a ridicule that deflected a deadly combat.
A remark argues that the word tack masks genuine mental effort and frames laziness as a softer trait. The assertion challenges polite labeling and calls for clearer, more direct language about motivation and discipline.
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