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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
2
The notice claims the first dose eases your cold and a few doses taken every two hours can break up a severe cold. It promises relief from nasal congestion headaches feverishness sneezing and running noses and claims the product costs only a few cents at drug stores.
A historical note explains that China played football long before Japan with a hair stuffed ball, and only by the fifth century did the Chinese begin inflating the ball, showcasing early football innovation.
An advertisement urges readers to use Danderine hair tonic to restore life color and vitality to dull lifeless hair. It claims long thick lustrous hair with a single 85 cent bottle available at drug or toilet counters.
Fragmentary text suggests a drama or satire about arranged marriages and costly matches with a line about a father paying a large sum for a husband. The readable bits reference a husband valued at a large sum and a dialogue exchange about worth.
Quoted remark challenges ethics of doctors and killing when cures fail. The debate asks if physicians have a right to end life as a last resort, reflecting longstanding tension between medicine and moral boundaries.
Thousands of women report kidney and bladder trouble and relate backache headaches and fatigue as symptoms. Dr Swamp Root, a physician's remedy, is sold in drug stores and may help when kidneys are not healthy. Send ten cents for a sample to Dr. K Co. Binghamton NY with paper mention.
An ad-like fragment touts internal remedies for catarrh and asserts a cure. It references testimonials and a proprietors name with uncertain details, offering various preparations and a sales pitch without verifiable medical claims.
A garbled line hints at a Poem inquiry about a child linked to a White House context. Readers question meaning as the fragment circulates amid broader discussions on policy and symbolism.
Dispatch from Teocelo through Vera Cruz reports a powerful earthquake centered near the Vera Cruz Puebla line. Twenty villages were destroyed completely and about twice that many damaged, with 200 deaths reported near San Miguel and Cordoba area towns as panic spreads in Cordoba and Orizaba.
Harriette Seres aged 15 emerges from a windowless tenement room after fifteen years of confinement by her mother Mrs. Margaret Seres. The mother is believed insane and will be admitted to Bellevue Hospital psychopathic ward. Father Howard Seres and grandmother Mrs. Ellen Seres face no prosecution due to maternal dominance of the household.
The inaugural flight left Grant Park at 8 29 carrying 400 pounds of mail and a ten pound package of sweetbreads for a banquet in Omaha for General Pershing. An eastbound plane from Omaha is due this afternoon carrying a dressed pig addressed to Major Reed Landis.
Dayton Safety Director Harry James prepared a letter to City Manager J. J. Barlow urging an inquiry into charges that the Police Department raided minor gambling venues while neglecting major games, adding a new chapter to the Dayton gambling dispute.
Federal agents arrested five members of the Communist Labor party in Rockford Iowa including Mrs. Alice Deal Parsons wife of a prominent businessman and Dr C Alfred Olson a noted physician who has previously run on the Socialist ticket Parsons and Olson were released on bonds of five thousand dollars each
Atlantic City N J church leaders approve a 1 400 strong conference plan to spend 1 330 000 000 over five years on evangelism in America and abroad. Funds will finance hospitals combat social unrest improve minister and missionary wages aim to coordinate Protestant energies for world evangelization.
The Senate reopens efforts to ratify the Versailles treaty with compromise reservations. President Wilson signals taking the issue to voters in the campaign. Senator Hitchcock and Republican leaders back ongoing talks to craft a plan the President could accept.
Washington reports that failing to obtain relief from the high cost of living may push railroad workers to pursue self help. The plan centers on cooperative buying, production and distribution by shop crafts affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
Washington subpoenas were served on Ludwig A. K. Martens, the self-styled Russian Soviet Ambassador to the United States, and his secretary Santer Nuorteva. They were summoned to testify at the initial hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigation into Russian propaganda in America and both accepted the summons.
In a brutal fight on a 150 foot high bridge scaffold, Mathews Chambers suffered a broken shoulder and severe head wounds after a fellow steel worker attacked him with an iron bar. Spectators watched as a crane was swung within reach and the victim swayed perilously on the frame above the Chicago River.
William B. Colver of the Federal Trade Commission told the Senate Agriculture Committee that arrests of FTC workers were frame-ups intended to stir Bolshevism rumors. He linked Chicago packing houses and Ludwig Martens and his secretary Nuorteva to efforts to prove the claim. Colver urged federal action to regulate the meat industry, citing a packers DOJ settlement in anti trust cases.
Washington reports the 1920 Democratic National Convention will be held in San Francisco and open at noon on Monday June 28. San Francisco defeated Chicago and Kansas City in the first ballot for hosting the event, marking a westward political precedent.
The steel mill strike began September 22 with 367 000 workers and is officially ended by the National Committee after an all day meeting in Pittsburg. J G Brown of Everett Washington will succeed W Z Foster as secretary treasurer February 1.
A Moscow wireless dispatch reports Krasnoyarsk in Eastern Siberia captured by Bolsheviks and the first three armies surrendering. It cites 60,000 prisoners so far and large booty on the Southern front, including 400 guns 1 000 machine guns 11 000 rifles 18 armored trains and 85 000 prisoners in the present offensive.
Discovery that 61 barrels of whisky vanish from a Louisville warehouse prompts federal and city detective activity. Dr. Henry Harthill the 86 year old veterinarian was arrested on possession of stolen property charges and released on $500 bond.
Gifford Pinchot, president of the National Conservation Association, objects to Attorney General Palmer's December 4 decision turning over 160000 acres of California lands worth about 5000000 to the Southern Pacific Company without an appeal from a lower court ruling.
Washington report notes a proposed interstate transport ban on blood and thunder moving pictures. The bill targets films that depict former convicts bandits train robbers or other outlaws and could impose fines from five thousand to ten thousand dollars or imprisonment upon conviction.
Michael H. Spellacy testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee examiner that Tampico oil companies must either fight Mexican forces or bribe officials. He claimed such bribery involved Carranza government officers and that Americans in Mexico believed the government knew of the unrest.
Ottawa reports eight battlefield sites in Belgium and France have been secured as memorials to the Canadian armies. Brigadier General Hughes, who led the arrangements, announced on his return. Belgium donated three sites celebrated by Canadian divisions as part of the memorial program.
Congressman James W Godd chairman of the House Appropriations Committee told the Kinoy Manufacturers Association that the estimated needs of the United States Government for the next fiscal year excluding the Railroad Administration amount to 5 250 000 000 in a speech promoting a budget system.
The Russian newspaper Prisyne reports the execution of Admiral Bakhinoff, famed for his 1917 battles against the German fleet. The official charge cited is plotting against the Soviet Government.
Bolshevik wireless report from Moscow says Koreans have started an anti Japanese uprising in Korea. The dispatch notes growing resistance against Japanese rule and signals continued activity in the region.
Muskegon Michigan woman Mrs G Schoonfield reports six years of back weakness improved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the medicine made her strong again and allows her to resume all work and recommends it to others.
A period advice piece urges women to protect health and says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has aided many. It invites readers with doubts to write to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for confidential guidance answered by a woman.
Fragmentary dialogue shows tension as one character discovers another confined in a box and labels it a hot box, highlighting a charged moment of confrontation.
A classic remedy claims to ease coughing and throat irritation from colds and bronchitis. It notes influenza fatalities exceeding wartime deaths and cites fifty three years of use in homes worldwide.
A dinner gathering features stories ranging from humorous to odd as guests share offbeat memories. Relatable humor and unexpected twists keep conversation flowing and lighthearted.
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