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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1938
Page
5
Personal items from Clermont County list social events in Williamsburg and surrounding communities. Activities include club entertainments at Vesta Club and 500 club, church group gatherings, family visiting in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, holiday meals, and upcoming P T A and quilting details with multiple local residents named.
Hamlet and Mrs B L Ketchum Mr and Mrs Edwards and families shared Christmas meals at their Forestville home. Kelsey Gates dined with Paul Jones family in Lockland. Anna Jones visiting Mt Wash. Witt Campbell with Ted Hyde Park visited relatives. Ludlows hosted sister for Xmas. Brumagens to attend Rebekah Lodge Xmas party. Ling’s young son listed as sick.
Thursday opened holiday vacation for tobacco workers as all four Ripley market houses suspend sales and will not resume their regular auction schedule until January 2.
Bethel news lists dozens of Christmas and holiday visits as families from Cleveland to Cincinnati, Maysville, Norwood, Ripley, Berea, and Wind then share meals and calls. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Maynard, Miss Dora Parker, J. C. Scott family, Dr. H. M. Wymer, Earl Cook, and many relatives visiting in Bethel and nearby towns.
The slogan Guard Against Syphilis will guide National Social Hygiene Day on February 1 with about 5000 meetings across the nation. Dr. Walter Clarke of the American Social Hygiene Association notes rising interest from health agencies civic groups churches schools and youth organizations. The plan emphasizes education prevention and laws requiring exams for marriages and pregnancies to curb the disease.
The article explains that different kinds of atoms have different sizes, while atoms of the same kind maintain uniform size and properties. It notes atomic structure influences overall dimensions and the consistency within a given element.
Oakland engineer John C Williams advances a 10 ton undersea dredge to exploit Stevens Passage near Juneau Alaska. He envisions nine hauls per hour at depths to 3000 feet with electric winch and master clock timing. Williams aims to launch a mining expedition aboard a 9000 ton freighter carrying ten dredges.
Akron, Ohio, resident Paul E. Tichon creates lifelike jungle animals from discarded tinfoil, gum and cigarette wrappers. A toolmaker by trade who lost his job, he has been crafting foil creatures for 30 years and hopes to turn the hobby into a livelihood. He paints many figures to enhance realism.
Dr. Leon Mooney, an Ozark hunter from Mountain Home Arkansas, improvised a turkey call using his false teeth. He discovered the trick after forgetting his cedar box caller, scraping the tooth edge with a knife to produce a gobbler attracting sound. The next day he ate the turkey that answered.
In East Boston a wooden statue of tenible Old Hickory Jackson remains in a front yard. Commissioned by Daniel D. Keley three-score years ago to defend his views the statue bears the word Constitution on its base. Despite fading paint the figure endures as a silent political statement.
An Indians legend of two giant turtles shaping Lake Michigan dunes is retold from the Detroit Free Press. The tale describes turtles spawning dunes from St. Joseph to the Indiana line, decoy nests for eggs, and dwindling sizes until a hand-sized land turtle remains, with a 14 by 12 foot shell found near St. Joseph containing a human skeleton.
The Bay of Fundy tides create dramatic shore changes at Minster Island near Saint Andrews, making an inland route by ox cart impractical at high tide. A boat crossing is needed across a 30 foot deep inlet, while low tide reveals a pebbled sea bottom. The Reversing Falls near Saint John also show extreme tidal moves as the Saint Croix River meets the bay.
An eyewitness report from June 28 1876 describes the burial of Custer's command after the battle. Troops buried 212 dead where they fell with limited tools as ground was hard, Custer buried under a large mound, and efforts were made to mark identified officers and enlisted men.
The Detroit News notes language expresses thought through sounds from babies to dogs and songs or math. It suggests primitive language may have been gestures and cries, though this remains speculation about how language evolved.
A Washington Post writer notes ventriloquists speak without moving their lips by special breathing and mouth control. The practice traces to ancient times when statues of pagan gods were believed to utter words, and the skill can be learned by anyone with healthy vocal organs.
Inca capital Cuzco features the gigantic fortress Sacsahuaman with immense stones set without mortar or cement. The medieval Spanish city sits atop ancient ruins and showcases stuccoed stonework, balconies, and grilled windows.
The Puritan minister Roger Williams refuses to submit to religious persecution in England and Massachusetts. He clashes with Salem leaders over compulsory church taxes and land claims, is banished, seeks refuge with the Narragansetts, and later helps found Providence with a charter from England, establishing Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as a haven of tolerance.
The article notes two graves for Mad Anthony Wayne and states he lies officially in Old St. David's churchyard, Devon. It recalls his death from a leg wound, his demand to be buried at the flag staff, and mentions his original grave near Presque Isle. The state later erected a Wayne statue at Valley Forge in 1908.
The Waitomo cave in Auckland is lit by millions of glowworms rather than artificial light. Visitors yearly glimpse the glowworms lining the roof while silence preserves the glow, a natural protection. Glowworms and fireflies occur in tropics and have been used for night shooting in India.
Historians say Gaspe’s oldest rock formation dates to early North American history and was possibly visited by explorers from Iceland and Greenland in the 1100s. The coast features rugged scenery and Perce’s giant rock where herring gulls and cormorants have bred for centuries.
A list of land and water formations on the Virgin Islands map features tropical names such as Privateer Bay Compass Point Whistling Cay Lagoon Point Mermaids Chair Rendezvous Bay Fla Point Limetree Bay Chocolate Hole Cinnamon Bay Watermelon Cay Prune Bay Grapetree Bay Sugar Bay Ramgoat Cay Cowpet Bay Lizard Rock Hogsnest Point Sharks Land Ram Head Turtleback Rock.
The article traces marijuana usage from Asia Minor and India 3000 years ago where priests used it to induce frenzy. It notes a 1845 French doctor study on hashish and insanity, then claims global spread and a claim about killers for hire using a muggle to boost nerve.
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