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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1912
Page
7
A fable-like tale describes the weary giant Labor sleeping while commerce and industry stall. When Commerce awakens him, Labor agrees to return on one day each year to celebrate work, proposing a yearly holiday named Labor Day with privilege and play balanced by mutual concessions.
The labor movement seeks equal livelihood opportunities for every family head and education for every child. Unions push a shorter workday and compulsory education and child labor laws to withdraw children from factories. They demand fair distribution of benefits from labor-saving devices and a society without vast inequality, aiming for global brotherhood and justice.
The piece frames Labor Day as a trophy of battle and victory, stressing the rights and struggles of workers. It calls for recognition of the Federation as the sole contract making body in the railroad industry, representing 250,000 shop men.
An editorial views Labor Day as a national, forward looking holiday that honors manual labor, asserts it as a right rather than a gift, and links strong unions to peaceful, productive negotiations with employers. It emphasizes responsibility, unity, and the role of organized labor in progress.
Columbus. Charles E. Thorne of the Ohio state experiment station in Wooster argues that with proper drainage and soil care Ohio farms can reach high yields. He cites seven year averages of 73 bushels of corn and 36 bushels of wheat per acre on test land and notes many acres remain undrained and unprofitable, wasting effort on poor soils.
Nearly $85 000 of state highway contracts attracted no bids for $20 000 plus work and must be re advertised. The state let $75 000 plus in contracts including Crogham Construction Co E C Wortman James L Garver John Acton and Edward T Hoffman. Two concrete pavement tests are planned by State Highway Commissioner James R Marker to evaluate use of bond issue funds. Infantile paralysis fears prompt plans by the state board of health to stamp out the disease with local cooperation. The board also continues its anti rat crusade to guard against bubonic plague spreading to seaport towns.
The sixth national conference on state and local taxation will be held September 3 4 and 5 in Des Moines under the National Tax association. Allen Ripley Foote of Columbus presides and Foster Copeland serves as treasurer. Delegates include governors appointees and university officials along with state officials railroad and public utility officers and tax administrators. Topics include current state taxation laws taxation of public service corporations and inheritance tax. City May Sue Commission.
Ohio State league heads show 15 leaders so far this season across six clubs. Chillicothe provides five leaders including Al Newnham, current Babes skipper, with Trenton and Newark each offering three. Colts lead the circuit while Stogies sit last. several clubs have changed leaders multiple times.
After selecting Wooster for next year’s convention the Ohio Rural Letter Carriers association ended a three day gathering in Fremont naming new officers led by President P J Powers Gibsonburg and Vice President Levi Hoy Wauseon Homer Simpson secretary Findlay treasurer T J Parker Ross county with delegates to Nashville. The group opposed pensions for carriers delivering mail on holidays and 1 cent postage while backing a 30 day holiday with full pay and funding of 10 million dollars annually for Ohio roads and renaming the group the Ohio Rural Postmen association. J P Cammeron of Upper Sandusky was endorsed for treasurer of the national association.
I N Rex former chief clerk in the penitentiary rearrested at Mrs Jas C Nicholson’s request to be released from bond. Nicholson withdrew as counsel and Rex was jailed several hours before release with local bond security until his mother can arrive in Columbus.
The New First National Bank secured an issue of 50,000 dollars of 4 percent Butler County bonds at a premium of 519 dollars for courthouse reconstruction. Many bidders competed, with Merchants' National Bank of Middletown offering 505.
Two blocks of Platt iron works bonds in Dayton with a $400000 face value sold at public auction in New York this week for $2000. The first mortgage 5 percent issue carried interest coupons from September 1912 and later, still attached, and were offered with other collateral.
Columbus men form the Muskingum River Coal Co to develop 200 acres at Cedar Run on the Muskingum River in Muskingum County. The property, Blue Rock Venus Non 6 and 7, is owned by company members. The organizers are Everett A. Patterson, L Benton Tussing, F L Dean, J R Eider, and B C Kigninger with capitalization detailed in the formation notes.
In London a hunter helps a man who misplaced a five pound note. He asks for the reward but declines claiming no finders fee, noting that many have lost such notes in a large city. He records the loser’s name and address and pockets the note.
A short anecdote from Everybody's Magazine about Mike smoking at a keg moving job. The foreman warns of a past explosion that killed many, but Mike argues the risk is nulled since only he and the foreman are present. The tale hinges on a grim irony.
Mrs Mary Taylor of St Clair Missouri describes a 15 year eczema like hand disease with watery blisters cracking and bleeding. After trying remedies she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following medical advice and experienced a complete cure. Free samples offered with 32 page Skin Book from Cuticura Boston.
In a small community a man named Mr. Mips is described as singularly pure and upright. A neighbor asks why, and the reply cites rumors of a Burns detective operating secretly nearby, to which Mr. Mips dismisses the notion as nothing.
Advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue for whiter clothes and warns that many women end up delegating work to men. The copy argues blueing makes liquids blue and costly, encouraging purchase for laundry efficacy.
Classified ad for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething. Claims to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain and cure wind colic. Price listed as 25 cents per bottle.
A concise statement asserts that popularity often grows when individuals allow others to influence them. It emphasizes social dynamics where acceptance is earned through openness to external input.
Report of Martha L Holloway of Odd Virginia praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from years of uterine bleeding back pain and nervous insomnia. She says she can now work like other women in the county and endorses the remedy widely. The advertisement urges other women to write for confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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