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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1930
Page
9
A fashion piece notes a move toward stiff satins, velvets, and bold metal fabrics debuting in evening wear. Felts and brims influence new silhouettes including minaret flounces, princess lines, and long panels, with hats featuring felt bows, pyrography, and decorative trims.
Julie Tyson reads aidingly through Help Wanted ads in a city paper and, despite bias, secures a general manager role at Tyson & Co. She reveals past deceit by agent Lewis and negotiates a one week trial period. Walter Yates falls for her while marriage remains blocked by a mutual consent contract they now discuss breaking.
Charles Little arrested in Charlotte after a nationwide manhunt for a fraudster who used 40 aliases to file 800 to 400 claims totaling 35 000 to 50 000 dollars. Insurance officials say he staged trips in stores and hotels to extort settlements of 27 to 400 dollars and will serve a six year prison term.
Pauline E Fessler twenty the daughter of East River Sheet Metalworks repels three armed men and a fourth intruder in a payroll office. She hurls objects at attackers and blocks a safe, four shots ring out with minor injuries to her finger and head.
Antal Sztefanek and Janos Leiser two Budapest tailors settled a quarrel over a girl with a real duel Instead of sabers they used scissors Leier lost part of his nose Sztefanek part of an ear both bear multiple facial gashes and will face police magistrate after hospital recovery Duelling remains illegal but is still practiced in Hungary.
In Oconto Falls Wisconsin neighbors rally to rebuild the home of widow Ernestina Schindel and her eight children after a fire. Her husband died three years earlier and she continued farming to support the family with seven children before the eighth was born.
A Meriden barber announces his shop will be stag with no services for women, making the establishment men only.
An advertisement touts TO HAIR as a remedy to stop hair loss and dandruff and to regrow hair on the bald head. Available at all dealers in toilet articles. notice directed to W. H. Forst, Msgr. Scottdale, Penna.
Representative Virgil Chapman of Kentucky recalled a visitor’s trial ride with two restive horses. The groom controlled the pair as the cart overturned. When asked how long they had been harnessed, the groom replied half an hour, promising the boss would buy them if the rider stayed safe.
In 1900 the incandescent lamp with carbon filament was seen as nearing perfection and research began. Since then lamp efficiency has roughly quadrupled, raising artificial light intensity and driving new industrial applications that boosted prosperity.
A. T. Fish of Industry Maine brings a basket of whiteberries to Madison Maine. He found the unusual white black berry bush in the woods years ago, planted it at home, and it has spread into a large patch. The berries are small but very sweet.
Herbert Graham entertained at Novato California with prolonged wit until his jaw locked. Bystanders summoned help and he was hospitalized where doctors restored jaw function. Quote about literature and talent follows.
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