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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1922
Page
3
A London Daily Mail piece reports on the improving precision of deep sea sounding with heavy leads and auto sampling, noting Shackleton’s seven mile depth ambitions and future discoveries. It also surveys a renewed public interest in Dickens and quotes judges and magistrates citing Dickens.
A garbled 1st department scene shows a young girl attempting to slip a package past a clerk. She mutters to someone and is surprised to discover the beige figure in a pink apron marked $1.98, a comical misread in the crowd.
Long list of 1922 sports notes features Jim Barnes on correcting faults after twenty years, Morris Rath retiring, Yale Oxford rifle cable match, Dartmouth wrestling debut, Dartmouth freshmen adding skating and skiing, Holy Cross captain William Healy, and various college transfers and schedule hints for fall football and boxing.
The Yale Daily News condemns professional football and its capitalization as evil. It warns that organized brutality could become linked with the sport and argues that commercial football lowers standards, unlike clean amateur play.
Attendance figures show Yale football games drew 811000 fans in total with Princeton 80000 West Point 70000 Harvard 55000 and Brown 40900. Yale’s gross revenue reached 6800.
President Heydler reported at the annual meeting that 33,100 and ninety-two baseballs were used in the National League last season. On practice and 154 scheduled contests, clubs used about 215 balls daily during the season.
In a retrospective view the article argues that selecting an All America eleven is impossible due to football's dispersed growth. It traces how early 20th century picks centered on a few schools but expansion across regions now makes a single all star team impractical and likely a historical relic.
Princeton and Yale push to rotate the annual football slate with Harvard. The current pattern has Harvard Princeton Yale in sequence, giving Harvard two weeks rest while Yale and Princeton play consecutive Saturdays.
The article notes that watching moving goldfish calms patients and convalescents, a phenomenon explained by Dr. Edward N. Leavy, who cites the appeal of moving objects for the ill. Canaries are mentioned as sharing this pastime as chief animate entertainment for the sick. It ends with a brief aside about Que and laws.
A telegram from Babu station master reports an incident in which a man in a box dressed in a naked way was mistaken for a passenger. The master slapped him and was then arrested when the man donned a policeman's uniform and produced a badge. The note ends with an illustrator’s quip about misjudgment.
The rose is England's national flower chosen after the War of the Roses. The shamrock is linked to Ireland from St. Patrick's sermons. The thistle became Scotland's emblem after a thistle moat helped defend a fortress during Danish invasion in the era of Malcolm II.
In New York streets many signs read Watchmaker yet fewer than a dozen workshops truly craft timepieces. The path from sign to skilled artisan remains the longest.
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