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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1907
Page
4
The Clermont Courier denounces attacks on Bible and creeds as destroying church foundations and moral order. It notes Senate debates on the Brownsville case, reports on Mrs Eddy’s health rumors, and a Kalmazoo revival testing media and labor patience amid religious fervor.
The article argues Uncle Sam struggles to recruit as peacetime prosperity reduces appeal of army life. It cites abundant civilian work, low soldier pay, strict discipline, and the closing of soldiers clubs as disincentives. It suggests patriotism and glory as the only sure motivators during war times.
The fragment notes Castoria with the familiar slogan The Kind You Have Always Bought and mentions smoke and soot being absorbed by water while remaining gases escape as a small cloud of steam on the water.
In 1868 a nickel pattern featured Liberty with a coronet on the obverse. The reverse showed a V within a laurel wreath and a scroll bearing In God We Trust with a Maltese cross. The pattern is now valued at two dollars.
The excerpt discusses the origin and meaning of scot and scot free. It explains that scot derives from the old English sceot meaning a tribute portion, notes its survival in Scandinavian languages, and describes current usage in the legal phrase pay scot and lot and in scot free.
The excerpt shows Rupert Hughes in a Broadway depiction of Texas oil fields with local dialogue. A native character remarks on the sound of oil rising from the ground, calling it gluggle-gluggle and notes that every four gluggles equals a dollar, adding a humorous local color.
Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral preserves a cannon-ball as a relic. Believed to be the ball that killed Lord Loftus at the siege of Limerick, it rests near his rusty spurs, and the cathedral shelters his tomb nearby.
The article recounts trials of taming a humming bird. In several recorded cases success came by placing tubular paper flowers with sugar water in the cage and renewing the nectar. The bird gradually fed on the sugar solution and seemed content.
The annual fur harvest in British America has surged over the past 50 years with muskrats now the dominant species in Canada, producing about a million pelts each year.
A Munich mechanic claims a simple device to curb smoke nuisance uses a series of small tanks filled with a liquid through which smoke passes and escapes. The system promises an easy, practical remedy for pollution in urban areas.
Suburban Life suggests using ordinary cooking soda as a silver polish substitute. Use small quantities exactly like the standard polish and also employ it for cleaning around the kitchen sink.
Dunchurch in Warwickshire asserts its smithy inspired the famed verses on the Village Blacksmith. The picturesque village features the spreading chestnut tree in front of the smithy as a living link to the poem.
The Clermont common pleas court orders sale of Lot 38 and 39 in Miawiville addition Clermont County Ohio on Friday January 25 1907 between 1 and 2 pm at the premises. The property appraised at 2800 with terms one third cash and two deferred thirds secured by mortgage at 6 percent. Sheriff James R. Gorman and Davis & Davis represent the plaintiff.
Public auction of real estate in Jackson township Clermont County Ohio on January 26 1907 between 1 and 2 pm at the Batavia courthouse front door. Four tracts totaling about 134.7 acres are offered in parcels described from Francis Taylor John Irwin Stewart Shields and others and the sale includes a $70 000 cash portion with the balance in two deferred payments.
The next annual election will be held at Boston Ohio on Saturday January 26 1907 from 1 to 4 p m for the election of one director from Miami Goshen Wayne Williamsburg Franklin Pierce and Stonelick townships to serve two years B KE Gardner J Johnson Secy President
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