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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1928
Page
6
Viola offers proverbs on courtship and marriage advising women to avoid risky games with unobservant husbands. It contrasts absence, envy, and appearance with warnings that money and ambition can corrupt, urging readers to choose wiser friends and avoid fools.
A historical note discusses two theories for the name jews harp. One ties the term to the French jeu meaning play, the other to David and Israelite use. It explains the instrument is lyre shaped, played by finger and blown through while held near the teeth.
A poem by Douglas Malloch from 1928 laments how life loses meaning when the beloved is absent. It contrasts past joys with current longing and the inability to bear life without the other. The speaker reflects on moonlight sun and sky now tainted by absence, ending with a plea for the loved one's voice.
The piece explores two regional snake superstitions linking moisture, life, and death. It traces roots to Isis Osiris myths, noting moisture as life force, the moon goddess influence, and a belief that water can revive or kill the serpent's evil, reflecting ancient symbology and magical kinship with sun and moon deities.
The piece extols willing hands and hearts as the path to happiness progress and humane living. It argues cooperation, cordiality, and responsibility sustain families, schools, churches, and cities, while urging steady effort to curb dis content and build a redeeming era.
A collection of practical ways to cook ham with tips for caramelizing sugar browning simmering shank portions and making gravies white sauce and baked dishes. Includes vegetable sides carrots onions beans cabbage and versatile uses for leftovers and fillings.
A mother Himalayan Tahr narrates to her baby about their origins in the Himalayas, their long hair, and mountain life. She explains their zoo home, dreams of wild cliffs, and those family tales to keep Tahr history alive. The baby drifts to sleep as the mother continues tales of travel, peril, and kinship.
At a Philadelphia convention of the American Society for Steel Treating Dr. Samuel L. Hoyt unveiled carboloy a tungsten carbide and cobalt alloy hailed as the hardest known metal. It can bore holes in concrete cut glass and scratch sapphire while wearing down ordinary emery wheels, marking a new era in tool materials.
Helen Woodward, noted advertising expert, tells Smart Set Magazine that for a girl starting in business the best entry is stenography provided she is skilled. In her twenty years of business life she has met only six good stenographers.
The excerpt shows a character asserting confidence in winning the half mile while another comments on color choices. The exchange centers on self belief, appearance, and social banter in a sports setting.
Dialogue captures a shopper requesting a comb for a stout man with rubber teeth from a drug store clerk in a candid exchange. The quip suggests a humorous or surreal interaction typical of everyday street reporting.
Fragmentary proverb-like line noting that improper counting harms friendships and that poor companions grow ill favored as time passes.
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