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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
7
An old style ad touts Sloan's Liniment to ease neuralgia, neuritis, sciatica, and rheumatic pains. It promises quick penetration without rubbing and recommends keeping a large bottle for family use with price points of 35c, 70c, and 1.40.
Purely vegetable remedy from S.C. Wells & Co. claims to drive impurities from the bowels and improve well being quickly. Suggests brewing a cup for colds fevers and general malaise and for sick headaches to provide relief and clear skin.
James P. Hornaday reports on the U.S. Shipping Board’s postwar programs. Thousands trained in apprentice seamen, firemen, and stewards. chief engineers for turbine ships trained. medical departments staffed aboard training vessels. air mail prospects and Alaska railway progress also detailed.
Albert Hjorth proposes a 60 million dollar tunnel from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea to harness water power. The shaft would pass under Jerusalem, increasing the Dead Sea by about one fifth and supporting lime nitrate production, mining power, electric distribution, irrigation, salt works, and asphalt exploitation.
John Payne, praised by Swinburne, famed as a translator of Wilsons poems the Arabian Nights Omar Khayyam and Decameron, inspired a dedicated circle including The John Payne society. Thomas Wright, longtime friend, wrote The Life of John Payne after Payne’s death in 1916, gathering firsthand facts and opinions for the biography.
In a playful domestic exchange Mabel and her mother discuss gas usage and the notion that lowering gas pressure leads to higher pressure from the gas company. The mother wryly notes the inverse relationship and the daughter deflects with a joke about waist size.
The Boston Transcript recalls Doyle joking about finding words not in a dictionary while noting his fondness for word play and language observation.
The Florida Metropolis argues there is nothing new in slang as the New York Tribune notes Burke used the phrase I should say they did. Dickens sketches show a street urchin telling Mary to put the kyebosh on one fighter woman.
A health note explains malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax and transmitted by mosquitoes. The reference mentions symptoms such as ague and fever and urges control measures.
The Cincinnati market page shows corn prices for various grades from No. 2 white at 1.66 to white ear at 1.58, hay values around 30 to 37 per ton for Timothy and clover, oats bids from 87 to 89 1/4 cents, butter and eggs with Firsts and extras, live poultry prices by weight and type, and cattle and calves bids ranging from common to good to choice, with figures listed for steers, heifers, cows, stockers, and calves. It also notes heavy shippers at 15.25 to 15.50 and fat cattle pricing variations.
Mrs. Charlotte Cameron, a Royal Geographical Society fellow, describes Malamute dogs as man’s brothers in Alaska. The sled dogs wintered and hauled mail from Seward to Nome, covering 40 to 50 miles daily, and faced mosquitoes in summer mud near the Yukon.
The Zionist Organization of America outlines a comprehensive plan to prepare Palestine for Jewish immigration from Russia Poland Galicia Roumania and other pogrom ridden countries. It seeks large land purchases water power sanitation irrigation forest development laboratories and technical schools with loans hospitals housing and malaria control in Jerusalem Jaffa and other cities.
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