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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
7
A worker protests living costs while the employer retorts that the business operates independently of wage needs. The exchange reflects tensions between workers and management over compensation during inflationary times.
The total gold supply in the United States fell by 73 million dollars in the past year as exports to other nations outpaced its imports, driven by countries selling more merchandise to the United States than they buy.
Red rough itching skin in infants eased by warm Cuticura Soap baths and Cuticura Ointment applications. Occasional use of Cuticura Talcum powder provides fragrance and dryness as part of the indispensable Cuticura Toilet Trio.
A newspaper editor asks Baxter to research angina pectoris for a piece on tobacco’s heart effects. Baxter reports no such name in local and London directories or key biographies, suggesting a mistaken name or a maiden identity.
Pansy Pyetin objects strongly to how the old gentleman uses English noting his grammar is uniformly correct and suggests he avoids theaters cabarets and similar venues.
A reader recalls Garfield Tei as a traditional stomach remedy for constipation and stomach ills. A mathematics teacher challenges students to value math, prompting Max to quip that public men need arithmetic to keep accounts straight.
An ad touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills for liver health. It notes English film companies buying Oatlands Lodge estate, a twenty acre site once a royal manor home to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, with a subterranean passage now seen as filmable history.
A hotel coffee shop popularizes a quirky refreshment: quarter slices of open-faced apple pie half-submerged in milk. A woman waiter recalls serving four bowls in a row and jokes about the crowd as young women on committees plan future parties.
Mr. Stormington Barnes remarks Hamlet is among the longest roles in English drama. A weary businessman replies he has not measured it but concedes the sense of length when listening.
Agriculture findings from Wisconsin diagrams show five generations of purebred bulls produce calves approaching thirty-one thirty-seconds full blood by generation five, while grade three-quarter full blood sires fail to fix desirable traits. Scrub stock traits persist and a single three-quarter-blood bull can undo years of selection. Conclusion urges use of only purebred sires of good quality in grading up livestock.
A five day buy a fence campaign across Mississippi farms aimed to raise fence quality. Local USDA and state college teams organized county committees to spread the message. The effort highlighted saved forage and labor, and encouraged neater fields and homesteads, with hopes of lasting farm improvement.
Calves born in fall can be fed and cared for so they are ready to graze in spring. This early growth aids the first year, a key factor in rearing a high producing dairy cow.
The dairy bull is described as more active and alert than beef-breed bulls, and less dependable. Dairy bulls are noted as very nervous, while beef bulls are comparatively sluggish.
The article highlights Point Elizabeth South Africa famed snake park with 17 African snake varieties. Curator F W Fitzsimmons demonstrates venom extraction and advocates laceration with potash and antivenom for snake bites. Smithsonian expedition plans permanganate and serum instead of whisky.
A man returning to town at a club chats with friends about whether Goodfellow is married. The group notes his habit of keeping personal troubles private, while discussing wives as a habit or blessing and preferring pleasant talk over debate.
Pernambuco rises as the third largest city in Brazil and top commercial center in the north amid ongoing building and road work. Wealth concentrates with plantation owners cotton dealers and merchants despite wartime difficulties. A Paris League Against Jazz forms to oppose what is called exotic jazz music with daily concerts at Taverne de l Olympia.
Market listings show hay and grain quotes with corn and oats prices varying by grade, butter and eggs prices per dozen, and live poultry and cattle figures. Shippers, butchers, and hogs are priced by weight and quality with ranges for common to extra grades.
Advertising copy touts Cascarets as a gentle overnight digestive cleanser that cleanses the stomach removes sour fermenting food and foul gases relieves constipation and carries waste and poisons from the colon promising the user will feel great by morning with no griping or inconvenience and at low cost.
A witty exchange notes that rich men claim they will wear patched trousers. The reply adds they can afford the patching, reflecting thrift humor and social class commentary.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes for dyeing all fabrics including wool silk linen cotton and mixed goods. It promises a new rich color and includes guidance from the Diamond Dye Color Card and Direction Book with each package. The note ends with a line about wealth and welfare.
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