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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1909
Page
2
W J Henderson in Seattle reports farmers in central Canada growing wheat oats barley with yields of 20 30 bushels per acre wheat and 35 oats per acre. He details sowing five acres wheat ten acres oats and profits from stock cattle horses pigs chickens and eggs plus a homestead patent after three years.
Miss Marjorie aged five visits a kindergarten and begs to attend regularly. She praises teacher Miss Lee for kindness and learns a moral twist about growing up. The child imagines Miss Lee being naughty, reflecting a playful parental exchange from The Bohemian.
A passerby recalls a cordially comic exchange on Broad and Lombard in Philadelphia. A sewer worker draining alimony to a laboring refrain meets a stout woman with a large market basket who replies she is spending it.
A daughter asks if George Washington was an Israelite after Sunday school. Her brother replies Washington is in the New Testament, not the Old. The piece contrasts two eminences and hints at simple living versus luxury.
A growing number of people report relief from chronic ailments after switching from coffee to Postum as a daily beverage. A young woman shares that coffee caused stomach issues insomnia and headaches, but after trying Postum she sleeps better eats without pain and feels overall improvement. Her brother also improved after replacing coffee with Postum from Battle Creek Michigan. There's a Reason.
A historical piece traces the Washington lineage from William of Wessyngton in 1183 to George Washington. It details Saxon origins, ties to the Spencers, and loyalties during Cromwell, plus enduring family landmarks at Sulgrave, Brington, and Mount Vernon. It notes heraldry, manor histories, and Washingtons business life and public image.
An advertising notice urges readers to take Peruna for grip symptoms claiming fast relief. It touts Peruna’s effectiveness and offers a free illustrated booklet from The Peruna Co. of Columbus Ohio by mail postpaid.
A noisy office scene features a porter asking for one of the boss’s old letters to mail to his mother in North Carolina. The piece blends humorous quips with patent medicine ads and miscellaneous tidbits, including an anti itching cure, a soothing product for babies, a remark on Roman history, and a note on crooks exploiting financial trouble.
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