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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
8
Clermont Courier advertises subscriptions combos. social notes report births, visits, and church announcements. Batavia items note Chautauqua closure, farm sales, school board hires, and local appointments alongside personal visits and family news.
Pupils from Miss Mary Jeffries piano class perform a recital at the German A. B. Church in Batavia on Friday evening September 1 at 8 oclock. Names include Jonne Weaver Anne Parrott Nellie Sanders Mary Radcliffe Helen Still Grace Erion and many others. An Los Angeles electric shop owner used red sidewalk lines and ribbon bands to draw trade with window bargains.
Fragmentary lines discuss eloquence as child of knowledge and a mind like a river when filled. The text blends metaphor with misspellings and unclear references, offering no concrete events, persons, or organizations to anchor a news item.
The Georgetown I C O F lodge and the True Unity lodge in Higginsport consolidated on August 16 at Georgetown. Grand Master Reese of Cleveland and Secretary Lymman of Columbus attended the meeting where the consolidation was passed by unanimous vote.
The Clermont County Liquor License Board will meet at its Batavia office to receive apprtnties and transact business on September 15, 116. Secretary Bu Rohardt notes the session will address items before the board.
A river of mud nearly ten feet high and 100 feet wide swept into Klukwan, Alaska, and damaged the school, gardens, and homes after heavy rains. The 13 August event followed a legend of a prehistoric glacier origin and left a two foot mud and rock layer that required picks to break apart.
A Babylonian tablet recently deciphered by the University of Pennsylvania expedition links Bahrein, ancient Dilmun, to the Paradise story the deluge and the fall of man. Prof Stephen Langdon copied tablets in Philadelphia 1912 before taking the fragment to Oxford for Sayce’s examination.
A man in Union Square park New York cried out in fright pointing at rows of figures he believed to be ghosts. Passers by learned the “apparitions” were sleeping down-and-outs using newspapers as insulation since the cold snap.
At the British Association meeting in Manchester Professor W B Bottomley of King's College London discussed auximones a special substance in peat produced by bacteria that greatly promotes plant growth and appears essential to nutrition Professor Hartog called the section meeting memorable for its impact on world food supply The section president said Bottomley stood on the fringe of a major discovery
The piece notes about 8000 bison in national parks across the United States and Canada. It states the American Bison Society aims to prevent extinction and promote propagation and that its efforts are meeting with success.
Pitt Parker, a Chautauqua crayon artist, writes an unsolicited personal opinion about his performances. He notes twelve years of shows, claims he could always improve, and praises his clay modeling and varied drawing styles while expressing anticipation of future entertainments. Confidentially yours, Pitt Parker.
Kath erine, a young girl, adores the waltz The Blue Danube and asks for it whenever the talking machine runs. While a laundry tub was filled with bluing, Katherine peered over the edge and cried out Oh look at the Blue Danube.
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