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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1923
Page
3
Billie Brownie visits a zoo and converses with white headed sea eagle and Asiatic White Crane among other birds. They describe home regions, feeding habits, nesting secrets, and striking plumage while pelicans, gulls, and a pink legged stork are observed and talked about.
Senator Albert B. Cummins of Town is expected to preside over the Senate in the Sixty-eighth Congress replacing President Coolidge as vice president and presiding officer in the prior session. Cummins, a veteran since 1906, has roots in Carmichaels Pennsylvania and Iowa politics, with a background in engineering and law.
Frank W. Stearns, a Boston merchant and Amherst graduate, became an early admirer and ally of Calvin Coolidge. Judge Henry F. Field praised Coolidge at Amherst alumni events, and Stearns began backing Coolidge for state senate president, lieutenant governor, and later supported his 1919 gubernatorial campaign. Stearns and other Boston merchants joined forces at the Republican convention to back Coolidge for president.
Rev Dr Russell H Conwell, founder and longtime Temple University head, was named recipient of Edward Bok’s annual $10,000 award for outstanding city service. The 80 year old lecturer has earned an estimated $5,000,000 on the platform, most funds devoted to Temple and aiding poor students.
Rear Admiral William N. Rodgers spoke at Williamstown where he condemned the law not war slogan. He argued war is integral to law and that internationalism remains unlikely while nations retain divergent interests and armaments deter oppression.
J N B Hewitt, ethnologist, reports from investigation among the Iroquois that a sixteenth century league among the Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga and Seneca granted chieftainess rights to women and used initiative referendum and recall. The league aimed to extend to all tribes and promoted peace righteousness justice power and health. Modern devices threaten to erode these laws.
Harlow Shapley discusses the possibility of life in the solar system in Harper's. He says Venus best satisfies conditions for life after Earth, Mars may host simple life, while higher forms are improbable. Other planets are unsuited to protoplasmic life.
An old lady visiting her daughter's home entertains guests as her grandson Theodore brings a zinc bucket and asks grandma to kick it. He explains he heard his father say they would be awfully rich when they kicked the bucket, prompting amused reaction.
In Crawford County Indiana Kentuckian farmer Lewis Owen buys a cow from neighbor James H. Clay. The cow prefers Clay’s pasture and stays put, so Owen trades farms to keep Bossy. The move satisfies all, especially Bossy.
A man asks a doctor if he will live to ninety and insists he has no vices. The doctor questions age and habits before bluntly noting the irony of seeking a longer life despite a likely limited time. The exchange highlights humor in aging and health skepticism.
A Villager invites Monsieur Paul into his home for a chat at the gate. The neighbor asks if the dog will bite. The Villager explains he only got the dog this morning. Paris.
Reginald, on his first airplane ride, warned the pilot as the craft dived toward the ground. He cried that the earth was rising like a balloon and could burst any minute, prompting a frantic demand to pull away from danger.
An experiment at the Connecticut station compared cows calving at about 2 years 1 month versus 3 years 1 month. Late calvers produced nearly double in the first lactation and 60 percent higher in the second. in the third, early calvers caught up. Though limited, results suggest late calving may be sound dairy practice.
The Dairy Department at North Dakota Agricultural College discusses concentrates and roughages. Corn supplies carbohydrates and partial protein but needs minerals and mixing with other feeds. oats provide balanced protein to carbohydrates and are best for milk cows. wheat, bran, and middlings have varying value and cost considerations. barley should be ground or rolled to supplement corn.
The piece argues that heavy grain feeding can boost milk output yet does not guarantee higher net profits. It notes profitability hinges on nearby markets with high hay and dairy product prices. When roughage is tough and fibrous, farmers must use more concentrates to balance rations.
It is the cow that gives the milk that makes the money and naturally the more milk she gives the more money she makes. Efficiency in the use of her food is what makes a cow a good one and lack of efficiency marks a scrub. Feeding corn to scrubs wastes resources just as burning fuel in a poor stove.
A $1,000,000 California Palace of the Legion of Honor is planned atop Lincoln Park in San Francisco to commemorate 3,369 California boys who died in France. Adolph Spreckels funds the memorial, with art donated by foreign governments. The Paris duplicate will house sculpture medals tapestries and other treasures including General Joffre’s sword and uniform from the Marne days.
A London playwright famed for tearing down others plots but never creating a hit attacks Shakespeare as the immortal bard of Avon. An elderly critic retorts with a sharp challenge to the critic: write a play based on one of Shakespeare’s plots to best him.
A jeweler answers a customer question about watch guarantees. He says the duration depends on living in a daylight saving neighborhood and needing to reset the time, implying longer wear leads to shorter guarantees.
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