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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
7
The piece compares human growth to refined metals, arguing that enduring afflictions and divine hammering forge finer steels. It suggests that difficult experiences reveal a sacred purpose and shape character for delicate, high uses, while easy lives yield brittle outcomes.
A man in Brooklyn plans Santa’s delivery of a silver watch to a New York boy, but the boy’s mischief with candle grease and a toy phone upends the plan. The family debates discipline as the boy asks Santa to ring again, while the coat is finally salvaged with a hot iron.
Nikaleiff Petrovich Starodvorsky, jailed in April 1884 at age 21 and released decades later, recounts grim conditions in the Saints Peter and Paul prison. He describes flood-prone cells, rats, a child in a sentence, scant food, cockroaches, and mental illness among inmates. Five prisoners killed themselves, three were executed, and nine died from illness or madness during the year.
The Yale club in New York and the university bureau of self-help in New Haven report rising demand for Yale men. Harvard faces the same trend. A wealthy Harvard graduate in Cambridge connected a western Harvard graduate entering law school with a business opportunity.
Priscilla secretly visits a small friend and returns to find her moth er Mrs Parsons troubled by a soiled child’s dress. Priscilla asks what Mrs Blakeslee would think, and the girl guesses Mrs Blakeslee would not mention it if she saw it.
Mrs Joannah Straw of Canton South Dakota says after three years of rheumatic pain in limbs and back she began taking Dean's Kidney Pills. At 81 she reports being as well as a 50 year old, working well and sleeping well. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Pennsylvania clergyman at a Philadelphia house party observes the young son’s habit of biting bread before grace. He folds his hands and prays with emphasis, asking the Lord to be thankful for what they are about to receive and what the youth has already received.
In a flat building last night a racket caused screams from a rear flat and neighbors gathered at windows. Women cried in sympathy as a deep male voice groaned in the dark that he would seek a policeman if he could locate his pants.
At an evening service in a Maine village the senior deacon Dominicus Jordan spoke about Miss Simpkins’ death. He said the town and church respected her, but she has died and gone to the Lord, citing that the Lord shows no respect of persons.
A mother asks Uncle Josh about cultivating Daisy's singing voice and he approves to cultivate it a while before settling it. He notes a humorous contrast as she remarks on the warmth of the locals and the narrator jokily mentions steam pipes for heat.
A group of traveling men in a Chicago hotel boasted of their firms. A drummer claimed his company sold more men and women on its line of goods than any other. When asked what he sold he shouted baby carriages and fled the room.
A reader testimonial touts Grape-Nuts as a remedy for indigestion and weakness from heavy meat eating. A Illinois man recalls losing health until starting the cereal, gaining weight to 126 pounds, and his wife following suit. A neighbor aged 68 claims lasting relief, with others also cured. the ad ends with “There’s a Reason.”
A tale from the San Francisco Argonaut recalls Mrs. Blank cooking for a week for Judge Blank on Pacific Avenue. The judge rewarded her with an ermine cloak, provoking envy among social circles. Mrs Jerome later asks her husband what she would receive, and he jokes about a long crepe veil.
A mother recalls her son, now 22, suffering eczema from four months old until age three years four months. After trying many patents and then Cuticura remedies, the condition improved in two months and he was well in six months, as reported by Mrs. R. L. Risley of Piermont in 1905.
A man wronged by a boarding house proprietor later prospered as a popular dentist. He opened a new practice directly opposite the boarding house and posted a bold sign in the large window reading Steel pointed boarding house teeth a specialty, effectively ruining the landlady’s business.
In a morning class the teacher printed two sentences for correction on the board. Ignatius spent 15 minutes and replied with the corrected form “He didn't done it, God done it.” This example shows pupil humor in a grammar lesson.
Advertises that deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money offer for catarrh cases. Claims deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube and catarrh and urges constitutional remedies with circulars and testimonials.
A poetic verse tracing daily joys and small sorrows from school days through later years. It smiles at play and laughter while noting love, strife, hope, and the steady march of life.
A speaker recalls money troubles with George and his absence. Mrs Highflyer says she pressured him by writing a letter threatening to return to him, prompting a change in his stance. The Platonic Friend notes the tactic used to sway him.
Citizens reminded to inspect each CASTORIA bottle for the signature and the phrase In Use For Over 80 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought to ensure a safe remedy for infants and children.
A varied collection of quotes and maxims appears, including a lighthearted sign about Belinda and love, a reminder that effort and struggle yield victory, and a line urging self-reliance and dignity by Marcus Aurelius.
A barbershop tale contrasts a barber and an Englishman over one branch of business on a night out. The barber’s patient reader prompts the Englishman to demand service elsewhere. A surgeon’s quip about a long journey ends the exchange. Also features medical ads for nerve restorers and a shopper’s rueful remark about value.
The ad promises cure for itching blind bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days or money back. It notes that a crank is someone who calls others a crank.
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