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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1917
Page
7
The essay urges brides to judge a fiancé by his nose and septum, arguing physical traits reveal character and future happiness. It warns that a thin septum signals potential trouble, while a full nose might foretell prudence or even danger of divorce, urging careful assessment before marriage.
A witty retrospective on old time photographers who shaped portraits with odd tricks and props. It recalls pose instructions, exaggerated features like Adam's apple, and the evolving craft from antique studios to modern artists, noting comic outcomes and enduring quirks.
An optimistic note urges leaving yesterday’s quarrels behind and greeting a new dawn with a smile. Emphasizes positivity, preparedness for good or bad, and choosing hopeful outlooks over dwelling on complaints. Smiles are presented as a simple, inexpensive remedy.
The piece argues Bagdad's eternal fate tied to the Tigris corridor. It notes Armenian floods feeding the Persian Gulf, global travel routes, and pilgrimages to Muslim holy sites, all sustaining the city’s enduring self through harvests and commerce.
Opals form from silica and water, producing an iridescent fire said to arise from the water within the stone, according to traditional explanations.
Amid daily routines people find small joys that brighten the day. A simple smile can boost mood, spread warmth, and encourage kind acts among neighbors and colleagues.
A mother recalls her young daughters sleeping together when one sobbed alone after lights out. The little girl explains Ruth kicked her in the back and then apologized, revealing a tense moment between siblings in the household.
The article explains cutworms injure crops such as tomatoes cabbage and other truck plants especially under glass. It details control using bran mash with white arsenic or paris green applied at dusk and warns to keep children and livestock away. It also describes simple poultry devices like feed bins self feeders and troughs to prevent mold and contamination.
Professor A Trowbridge of Missouri College of Agriculture gives guidance on mare care during foaling. He advises limiting work to two or three days before foaling, adjusting rations to laxative foods, providing clean box stalls, disinfecting the navel, and ensuring the foal's digestive and kidney health within 24 hours. After birth, offer water in moderate amounts and gradually restore the diet.
The San Jose, oyster-shell, and scurfy scales are common in apple orchards nationwide. The San Jose scale is the most damaging, and without yearly treatment can destroy or severely injure trees. Individual scales are pinhead sized with a nipple-like center, and when abundant they crust limbs giving an ashy-gray look.
Farmers are advised to keep breeding stock and raise more hogs as prices stay high. Sows and pigs should be pasture fed on alfalfa, with rape or clover as backup if alfalfa fails, to ensure hog pasture quickly.
The article stresses that bees play a crucial role in fruit blossom pollination and advises fruit growers to keep bees if none are within a half mile. It notes bees are generally tractable and safer than poultry when left to themselves, and describes a bee veil device attached to a hat rim with elastic bands to prevent bee entry.
The article notes that many farm acres are unprofitable and should be drained or regraded. Stony or gravelly portions should be sown to tame grasses and manure applied, with remaining land converted to timber or grass as appropriate. It urges utilizing unused corners for timber before converting to profitable uses.
The droppings of grain-fed hens, preserved properly, make an excellent manure nearly equal to bone fertilizer. Sweep up each morning and pack in barrels between sifted earth layers. Sprinkle sand plaster or kalk to reduce ammonia loss. About eight pounds from 100 hens per night. When mixed with absorbents it becomes a nitrogenous fertilizer with most nitrogen lost as gas. Use with bone fertilizer rich in phosphorus and potash.
Miss Charity caretaker and self styled queen of the scrub ladies at a run down theater. Colonel Moulton from New York leases and remodels the house signing a ten year contract with Marie Jocelyn after her Siebel or Jewel Song proves her promise. Eloise Jocelyn mother returns as a memory, later revealed as Marquise De La Croix who loses memory during war.
A recent call in Britain urged absolute prohibition freeing at least 800,000 tons yearly of ships for overseas food transport. The proposal frames ban as a way to redirect merchant fleet capacity to essential food shipments abroad.
A collage of quips and mock news items mixes theater talk with a jab at medical pills. Mrs De Style agrees to pose as Minerva while a gentle warning suggests a hidden change. An ad touts Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pills as a traditional digestive aid. Eve blames the middleman for the apple crop mishap.
The Labor Chronicle argues real progress breeds opposition and that the greater a person’s achievements, the more battles they face against misconception slander envy and malice. A life of duty requires accepting inevitable battles and penalties for individuality.
A speaker asks if the national anthem remains a good song and notes varied impressions. The reply defends the anthem as a perfectly good old anthem while criticizing careless renditions by amateur singers.
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