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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1940
Page
7
A woman who ran over a man visits the hospital to check on the victim. The injured man, heavily bandaged, quips about driving and walking, noting his fifty nine years of walking versus her seven years of driving. The exchange shows a grimly humorous confrontation after the collision.
A Quinn answers common home repair questions including treating interior paint for exterior use is discouraged, laying new shingles over old roofs is common for insulation, repairing cracked porch floors with girders and cement, mending torn documents with paste and tissue, mold on shaded exterior paint and methods to remove it, sealing leaking metal roofs with cement and asphalt or aluminum paint.
A reader describes making a woolly lamb using wire coat hangers refined with towels and hair pins. The project builds the head from a cloth ball and a towel square, with the body formed by winding toweling strips. The note mentions pride in sewing booklets and home crafts.
The line If winter comes, can spring be far behind is from Percy Bysshe Shelley and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow both cited as sources, but the well known attribution commonly goes to English poet Percy Shelley's lyric.
A list of brief factual answers covers topics from poetry and Latin terms to geography and politics. It notes Ode to the West Wind by Shelley, Circus Maximus seating around 250000, regions of Peru and Chile, a hymn, rank of rear admiral, Latin salt wage salarium, ex post facto, wine descriptor heavy and dry with color red and white, a treeless Arctic plain, a yes, and James Monroe’s 1820 election with 231 electoral votes to Adams’s seven New England casts.
A quoted line defines Fool's Curtain Gold as the fool's curtain that hides all his defects from the world, attributed to Feltham.
Quoted reflection notes life as a brief spark in divine time. The lines compare human existence to a star’s brief gleam within the vast eternal day, attributed to Bayard Taylor.
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