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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
3
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal tonic for kidney liver and bladder relief. It is sold in medium and large bottles at drug stores with a sample offer of ten cents and a sworn purity statement with each bottle. The ad includes a quote about life and alimony.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle night time cleanse for liver and bowels promising a sallow skin, upset stomach, and foggy head will improve. claims no griping unlike Calomel or harsh pills and that benefits come while you sleep.
The advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion, cleanses the stomach, stimulates bile, and aids liver function. It claims wide use for indigestion, nervous dyspepsia, constipation, and related issues, sold by druggists worldwide for over fifty years. It adds a social aside about a woman preferring poor marriage to being left.
Joseph D. O Brien becomes secretary of the New York Giants and takes charge at the Fifth Avenue offices. A familiar figure to New York fans, he previously served as club secretary with John T. Brush and preceded Foster. Foster retires after lengthy service noted for Polo Grounds Army Navy games.
A compiled roster of 1919 champions across archery billiards cycling boxing football golf tennis and more. Names include Ralph Greenleaf Willie Hoppe Tommy Milton Walter Hagen Vincent Richards Norman Ross Benny Leonard and Barney Oldfield among others with various events and organizations.
Gilmour Dobie will return as coach of the Naval Academy football team for another year. Officials confirmed that the contract for the season of 1918 covered three years, not two, so Dobie will be in charge again next season.
England eyes a 1920-21 cricket eleven to Australia while baseball sits reshaped into business and battle. Harvard to run intercollegiate air races. Ivy League ties to Virginia northward tour with Harvard Yale Princeton Amherst. Boxers G Descriptions include Julliard vs Wilde in Britain. Dempsey Carpentier bids underscored. college coaches added or signed at Oxford Illinois Princeton. suspensions and resignations pepper the season outline with various sports figures and movements.
Clark Griffith has purchased the controlling interest in the Washington baseball club with about four-fifths of the 20 000 shares for 400 000 dollars. He will be president and remain manager for the near term as the purchasing syndicate plans major personnel changes and a shift from economy toward building a winning team for 1920.
Skater Bobby McLean values his legs at 25000 dollars confirmed by manager D R Scanlon and has insured them with Lloyds. He sails for Norway to defend his title against Oscar Mathieson, regarded as Norway's skating wizard.
An old advertisement extols Pape's Cold Compound as instantly easing a cold with a dose every two hours for three doses. It claims relief of congested sinuses, runny nose, headache, feverishness, and sneezing, touting low cost and no quinine.
A vintage ad urges prompt action against colds and coughs with Dr King’s New Discovery. It claims rapid relief for grippe attacks and croup and notes the product is available for 60 cents and 1.20 dollars. It states it is suitable for children and adults and that druggists carry it.
An agricultural prospectus offers low price farms in Kentucky and Ohio with rates from 30 to 300 dollars per acre. It also promotes tonic remedies and liver health products from Dr. Kins, inviting readers to send for a farm list to Hamilton Warren Clermont Butler, Boone, Kingston Grant and Campbell counties.
Mrs Emma Vosburgh of Connneaut Ohio shares a testimonial praising Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for a granddaughter’s scrofulous neck swelling and overall health gains. Akron Ohio resident Mrs Mary H Ring and John M Kahl of an unidentified street also cite relief from liver trouble nervousness and headaches using the remedy and Pleasant Pellets.
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