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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1920
Page
2
Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago denied a rehearing for Big Bill Haywood and 98 co defendants convicted in the district court for espionage act violations. Also noted are estate rulings, robberies, fatalities, wage cuts, and early political moves ahead of Harding's inauguration.
A special message cites com expenses of the American peace commission at 1 651 101 transmitted to the Senate. Nearly 200 warships were completed for the United States Navy in the last fiscal year.
A Vienna dispatch states Dr Michael Hannisch is Austria’s president elect while martial law is proclaimed in parts of Ireland. London reports an Italian submarine chaser crew attack and a Greek recall of Constantine. Debates over US notice on anti-British activities surface as Nobel laureate Wilson is set for December. Casualties in the Japanese front total over 2,000. Sinn Fein raids surface. Famine grips China with tens of millions affected. An Albanian quake devastates 15,000 homes and a Red Cross team departs for aid work.
Secretary Daniels urges Congress a three year program for 88 vessels if the United States stays out of the League of Nations. The plan includes three battleships, a battle cruiser, 30 light cruisers, 18 destroyer leaders and submarines, with total annual naval costs around 679.5 million. He cites expanding Pacific coast shore facilities as the top defense need.
William A. Brady president of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry denounces blue law Sunday advocates as self appointed guardians of morality. He calls the effort a menace and accuses backers of the film trade of religious hyping and exploitation.
The Netherlands Reformed Church in Passaic New Jersey expelled Mr and Mrs Marinus Hanenberg, parents of Miss Trina Hanenberg, after a quote about repentance was read. The couple and pastor Rev Cornelius Densel disappeared November 12 and returned recently, stirring local controversy.
Five people were killed and 28 injured when a one man operated street car ran beyond control on a steep Kansas City grade. The car struck a switch and was demolished with no passengers escaping injury, according to official reports.
Shifting financial struggle in New York centers on Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America rejecting the Clothing Manufacturers' Association proposal to return to piece-work wages. The dispute foreshadows a fight over closed or open shops.
A blaze at Walter Reed General Hospital damaged two psychopathic wards. Sergeant Alzin Messenger, formerly of the Seventh Coast Artillery, is believed to have perished in the fire, with several other patients injured though none seriously.
Federal prosecutors seek Henry Ford and New York representatives as part of a national manhunt connected to the trial of Dr. Edward Rumely. Efforts to serve subpoenas on Ford were ongoing for a month, with attempts to reach him in Detroit.
The article recalls Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson’s hospitable yet irritated stance toward sightseeing crowds at Vailima, where curious visitors encroached on her island home. It also recounts John Greenleaf Whittier’s discomfort with fans, illustrated by two women seeking his house and a barroom scene where locals joked he would avoid visitors.
In a rural chat at Fiddle Creek, Gap Johnson on Rumpus Ridge reports a house full of illness with five or six children with measles, several with mumps, the wife with a head fever, the narrator with rheumatism, and a pervasive sense of a stubborn skunk under the house, yet life otherwise proceeding.
The narrator and his boy gaze at a starry night from a balcony and discuss the scene. The boy compares the sky to an old tin pail punched full of holes, a simple, practical image that captures a child’s perspective. The line reflects quiet wonder and everyday insight.
The grasshopper produces its shrill sound without using the throat. Wings generate the noise with one wing rib acting as a file against another wing part like a drum. Movement of the upper wing over the lower causes the drum to vibrate, producing the sound.
The phrase seven seas refers to the global ocean regions including the Pacific Atlantic Arctic Indian and Mediterranean seas as well as the China and North seas.
Market report lists corn with varying No. 8 and No. 3 prices, timothy hay around 27.50 per ton, clover hay at 28, oats and wheat values mixed, butter and egg prices, live poultry rates for broilers fryers and fowls, calves and lambs price ranges, and hogs with sow and pork prices noted. Details reflect regional grain, feed, dairy, poultry, and livestock value shifts.
An advertising blurb touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It claims the remedy is gentle effective and widely trusted and offers a sample bottle by sending ten cents to the company in Binghamton New York with a note naming the paper.
A lighthearted quip notes kangaroo farming catching attention in Australia while a commentator jokes that the trade keeps workers constantly in motion and ready to leap into action. The exchange highlights fringe industry chatter and humorous wordplay.
An ad states Ball's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh or deafness caused by catarrh and clarifies it does not claim to cure other diseases. It describes internal action through the blood to mucous surfaces, reducing inflammation. Druggists offer the product and circulars are free from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. On the job, a joke about a doctor prescribing.
Reading a dull book is a profitless activity and memory of its contents is likely to fade. The passage argues that even if some content is worth recalling, most of the book will be forgotten.
The ad touts the Cuticura Toilet Trio for daily skin care with soap ointment and talcum. It claims cleansing purifying soothing healing and fragrance benefits and notes the trio is 25 cents everywhere.
A judge notes a grandmother who rejects beauty aids and modern dress yet remains practical and devout. She attends church, knows nothing of theaters, and would reject current fashions. She dances the minuet and adheres to modest attire while awaiting her husband.
At the musical event some guests praised the chiara oscuro, while a non musical attendee admitted preferring the chicken salad. The exchange shows differing opinions on the evening's offerings.
The Kansas City Star notes Gocklebur as a double barreled weed. Each bur bears two seeds with only one sprouting first year. Even after one plant is killed the other seed may sprout next season, per a USDA circular on cocklebur eradication.
A humorous line notes the perk of going to a moving picture show with a spouse. The quip contrasts cinema outings with the obligation of dining at a fancy cafe after. The remark reflects social attitudes toward date nights and entertainment etiquette.
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