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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1916
Page
7
A light humor item notes a shop clerk offering dog biscuits as a substitute for rolls, highlighting a humorous mismatch between customer request and store offerings. The exchange underscores the store’s inattention and the customer’s persistence in a brief vignette.
A historic advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic. It claims quinine and iron strengthen the livage, drive out malaria, enrich the blood, and build the system, priced at 50 cents.
Reports say Dobbs was injured when he tried to pick up a piece of wire in the street. The wire is described as energized, leading to his hospitalization. Details on his condition were not released.
Public health notice urges mothers to examine each bottle of Castoria for safety and authenticity. The advertisement touts the remedy as safe for infants and children, claiming use for over 30 years and noting that children cry for Fletcher Castoria.
A witty note suggests New Year resolutions let overworked bartenders take two or three days off, offering a rare pause amid bustling shifts. The quip frames the holiday as a relief for service workers.
A speaker declares a decision to save money in the coming year. The conversation notes that previous spending was rapid and left little reserve for plans such as a New Year's Eve table. The tone reflects personal finance resolve and lessons learned.
A Mobilian living in the suburbs welcomed a Jersey calf to the barnyard and, a week later, a 10-pound daughter was born at home. A downtown encounter followed when a longtime acquaintance asked if he owned something long awaited, to which he replied that he now had a full-blooded Jersey heifer calf.
Severe rain and January thaw flood Joliet and Chicago suburbs with Desplaines river and Hickory creek swelling streets. Over 1,000 people displaced, hundreds of basements flooded, and millions in property damage expected as rail yards and power are disrupted. Fox River rises eight feet threatening Aurora and Mooseheart area. Peoria suffers crippled rail, telegraph, and road links with livestock losses and washed tracks and bridges.
In New York on January 19 Edward Weber Paul Schmidt Max Jaeger and Richard Wahlberg pleaded guilty to conspiring to ship four and a half tons of contraband rubber to the German government in violation of customs laws. They were fined 1500 for Jaeger 750 for Weber and Schmidt 100 for Wahlberg and 50 for the Rubber and Guayule agency. Mrs Annie Dekkers was ill and to plead later.
A board of inquiry reports battery trouble caused Saturday’s explosion that destroyed submarine 2 in the New York navy yard. Five men were killed and nine others seriously injured. The findings were sent to the navy department.
About 1,300 delegates attend the twenty fifth United Mine Workers of America session in Indianapolis as President John P. White opens the convention. The meeting aims to outline policy affecting up to a half million miners across the United States and Canada with wage demands and a possible basic wage scale for bituminous fields. Ohio miners seek a 10 percent rise on the mine run basis as part of the expected wage scale.
President Wilson will launch his swing around the circle next Thursday, traveling a week through New York, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Davenport with Mrs. Wilson expected to accompany him. A subsequent tour will reach Denver Minneapolis Milwaukee and then the southern states including Dallas and Birmingham.
A year ago this week German bombardments hit Flanders while Allied forces evacuated St Georges. Russians halted in Transylvania and Turks halted near Erzerum as British naval actions repelled a German coast attack.
report of January 27 1915 describes Kaiser's birthday attack between La Bassee and Bethune and indecisive fighting near Ypres. Austrians recaptured Uzsok pass while Russians seized Pilkallen and Italians mobilized. British defeated Turkish guards on Suez, Germans check Aisne crossings, and Carpathians see Austro German advances. Jan 30 reports Russian advance into Hungary and Canadian troops reaching France.
Chicago January 21 Herbert and Irving Updike were indicted on six charges of conspiracy to murder. Three indictments were returned against each brother for allegedly plotting to kill their father their mother and their sister. Oak Park Chief of Police Lee reports the father fears release on bond and suspects another attempt to kill him.
A sweep of notes covers military conscription in Canada with 1,415,000 men and 75 percent fit, Russia's gold leaf method, a proposed 15 mile tunnel to cut detour time, auto seat drawers, respiration mechanisms, insect mirroring processes, social insults in France, Indian footwear design, Colorado cliff dwellings revered by natives, and prophecy about red men affecting telephone lines at Mesa Verde Park.
Berlin reports that Capt. Franz von Papen the recalled German military attache in Washington denied paying men to blow up U S munition plants and Werner Horn to blow up a railway bridge on the Canadian border. The denial was transmitted to the Overseas News agency.
A collection of short, disjointed lines touches on freedom of speech, public life, and political rights. It contrasts private status with public privilege and mentions debates about individual rights in a free country. The fragmentary text includes unrelated medical ads and historical slogans about voting and representation.
A Cornell professor and his wife entertained guests when a child’s voice cried from upstairs asking to start a towel since only clean towels were in the bathroom. The anecdote, told in Harpers Bazaar style, captures a light moment at table.
Stop terrible rheumatic pains with true Mustarine in the original yellow box sold at druggists for about a quarter. Rub on inflamed joints or muscles to relieve agony and use for aches throat bronchitis and pleurisy. Begg Medicine Co Rochester N Y asserts no age limit for generals in the British army, only efficiency.
Mrs. Ida Ford of Cuba Missouri endorses Vicks Vap O Rub as a safe quick remedy for croup in children. She reports dramatic relief after external application and explains how menthol camphor eucalyptus thyme cubels and juniper vapors travel to the lungs. The ad touts Vap O Rub for many conditions from colds to skin inflammations and lists three package sizes.
An advertisement urges readers to try Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder health. It claims widespread kidney disease underdiagnosis and notes benefits in numerous symptoms from urinary issues to fatigue. Readers can buy bottles or request a sample by mail with old newspaper ad copy tone.
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