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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1930
Page
5
Jimmie Stone, newly turned forty, recalls moonlit kisses with Helene Davenport at a party. A feverish morning confirms his guilt as Helene’s message forces truth on his sickbed, while his wife tends him with care and a mustard plaster.
The Bahanga, a little known Central African Bantu group, spit soil toward the sun to honor God before wrestling. They worship one benevolent creator and revere ancestors to avert illness, viewing sunward spittle as life given by God.
At a Kiwanis banquet in Chicago F W Parker wraps up with a witty anecdote about Cornelius Husk Jr. A New York visit yields the joke about peanuts and a New York post office. Husk hails from Croydon Four Corners and humorously notes a multitasking local post office selling flour chewing tobacco reaping machines dress goods soap and more.
The piece notes Sir Richard Steele died at Carmarthen on the Wales border two centuries ago. It recalls his Charterhouse schooling where he met collaborator Joseph Addison and the 1709 launch of The Tatler with Addison as a regular contributor.
Bertrand Russell criticized the modern girl at a Boston dinner. He called her a frightful cynic and noted her views on immorality as startling. A Rotarian kissed a modern girl during a moonlight car ride, she smoked, and challenged his boastful sense of wasted life.
The piece argues tropical regions are not flat as previously thought noting Jamaica rises 7 800 feet and Caribbean mountains are the highest east of the Rockies. It also comments on contentment offering joy in poverty and grief in wealth and defines sophistication as feigned knowledge.
The excerpt outlines copyright distribution for library books, a Queen Victoria quote on printed works, and explains the origin of the term jobber. It also describes the Swiss panorama from Rigi near Lucerne and clarifies that Indian summer is not a season but warm weather after a cold spell.
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