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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1919
Page
6
An advertisement urges parents to use California Fig Syrup as the best and safest laxative for children, promising a fruity taste and clear dosing directions on each bottle. It instructs mothers to say California to ensure recognition.
The quotation argues that intelligent agricultural policy supports industrial health. It claims land backs labor markets during downturns and trains workers who sustain other industries, insisting agriculture is essential to a living industrial system.
Senator Sorghum deflects questions on a speech under consideration. He says writing the hard speech is difficult because he keeps conjuring strong arguments for the opposing side.
A chatty parlor exchange notes a "terrible wowser" and satire on a woman traveling with a man on a plane without a chaperon. The editorial tone riffs on family divisions as an unsatisfactory kind of arithmetic.
An old advertisement promotes Mustarine as a fast pain killer claiming relief in six minutes. It markets the product as superior to substitutes for headaches neck pain earache and related discomfort. The notice lists J C Wells & Co of Le Roy as the seller.
The American embassy in Mexico City announced the release of William O. Jenkins, Puebla based Consular Agent, from a penitentiary where he faced charges of false information about an October abduction. Diplomatic efforts and Mexican investigations led to his freedom amid testimony of duress and threats by witnesses.
The annual report of Secretary Daniels praises the U S Navy for wartime and postwar work, especially troop transport and minefield cleanup in the North Sea, and argues demobilization preserves unity and readiness. It emphasizes no loss of adaptability and no fragmentation in naval organization as the force shifts to peace.
Washington reports that an anti dumping bill to shield American manufacturers was ordered favorably reported by the House Ways and Means Committee. The measure would ban sale of foreign made goods in the United States below their country of manufacture with penalties including fines and imprisonment. House leaders intend to bring the bill up for consideration.
Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington told the Hamilton Club that current unrest stems from national and international communist propaganda aimed at nationalizing all property and destroying the wage system. He warned the result would be a class dictatorship with the laboring class as the main sufferers.
Henry 8 Mitchell special assistant to Attorney General Palmer arrived in Indianapolis to aid the federal grand jury investigating alleged Lever Act and anti trust violations. A special session was ordered to hear a suspected conspiracy between miners and operators to limit coal production.
Leaders of Ohio revenue reform expressed astonishment as the House rejected the first tax bill from the Special Joint Committee on Taxation to raise license fees on autos. Critics blamed poisonous partisanship and obstinacy, while state automobile clubs opposed any change in the license law.
Washington reports Secretary Carter Glass states no appreciable tax reductions will be considered. He urges keeping government receipts at current levels to end borrowing as deficits loom with estimated expenditures of 5.02 billion for year ending June 30, 1920 and 4.48 billion for year ending June 30, 1921, calling for strict economy.
Federal Trade Commission files formal complaints against five large Chicago meat packers alleging violation of the Clayton act through control of 31 food and supply firms. Respond within 40 days. public hearing to follow. Complaints name Swift & Co, Wilson & Co, Cudahy Packing, Armour & Co, and affiliates plus associated companies across multiple states and products.
In St. Louis Missouri United States District Court Judge Paris issued a temporary injunction halting enforcement of the Volstead act as to whiskey and wine. The restraining order benefits four St. Louis whisky dealing firms and corporations and would allow sales through the Eastern District of Missouri including St. Louis and 54 counties.
Mexican bandits raided the Clareno ranch on the American side of the Rio Grande 11 miles southeast of Zapata escaping with provisions from the ranch store. They bound and gagged the storekeeper but harmed no one else. The raiders numbered unknown but appeared heavily armed no identity clues were obtained.
The report argues coercion may force Germany to accept the Versailles peace terms with Marshal Foch at a secret council session. London observers cite possible threats to occupy Essen and Frankfort if terms are not agreed. Field Marshal Wilson's Paris trip and Bonar Law's Glasgow speech amplify pressure signals.
In his annual report Secretary of Agriculture lauds U S farmer effort in wartime and projects 1919 wheat up one million bushels and corn 300 million more than 1918. Meat milk eggs and poultry likely to exceed last year as well with calls for rural credit unions marketing aid road funding stockyard control and rural sanitary improvements.
Washington reports that the Internal Revenue Service expects a $6 billion yield from the new revenue law in its first year. Commissioner Roper notes March 15 and June 15 payments total $2.6008 billion, and early reports on the September 15 third installment bolster the estimate.
An article discusses Lydia E Pinkham's remedy for women in detail. It notes large annual use of herbs, careful seasonal harvesting, and sterile production methods including pasteurization and sealed bottles. Reader letters attest to its health benefits for female ailments.
A stagecoach travels a rugged mountain road toward a town famed for holdups. Passengers grow uneasy about highwaymen, but a pompous elderly traveler reassures them claiming he carries two loaded revolvers hidden in his trunk.
A teacher recalls a dinner with colleagues where a hostess urged extra food. He declined with a blunt remark about his own burden, provoking laughter and a self conscious realization that it was the most embarrassing moment of his life.
The report notes the removal of a man who claimed he could eat 30 quail in 30 days, ending the controversial wager. No further details on participants or outcomes are provided in the surviving text.
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