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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1942
Page
8
Hamlet sees an ice cream social hosted by the young people at the Christian Chapel Friday July 17 at 8 p m. The town notes several family visits and local moving happenings including Bud Pollitt joining the army as a welder.
Norris Brock Co. promotes lawn watering in the early morning as the best time. The ad proclaims the company as a customer first seller on the nationwide market and invites readers to become customers at Union Stock Yards Cincinnati Ohio.
Manager of large feed company seeks two men for good pay in localities where this newspaper is circulated. Duties include service and sales work. Farm or any sales experience helpful. Must have car. Pleasant permanent work. Send name and address. Personal interview arranged. Write Box 197 Batavia Ohio.
Court notices report marriages licenses for Samad and Dorsey Sarver in Perintown and Swagger with Marford in Batavia. Other business records show Estem Leppert inventory approved. Estates and letters of appointment filings include Claudie Cleaver Bee Parker Behymer Snider Gentry Talley and Henry Hodges.
The record lists several civil actions including foreclosures with claimed amounts such as 60 dollars from 1942, 5833.35 dollars, and 255.89 dollars with interest. It also notes alimony disputes, a divorce granted with child custody to the mother, a divorce denied for lack of duty, and remands for retrial. Numerous property transfers list parcels in New Richmond, Union, Williamsburg, Bethel, Goshen and other townships, with buyers including John and Augusta Schnitz, Mae and Bernice Schon, or heirs and trustees, and titles conveyed for lots and 480 acres.
Woodland Park resident William Roudebush of Milford called at his farm Sunday. Frank and Mrs Dimmitt visited friends in Fayetteville Sunday. Everett Haines and family visited sister Mrs Floyd Ott in Fayetteville. Floyd Clark broke his arm last week while cranking a machine. Mrs Freida Haines learned of her mother Mrs Leeds death in Miami Florida. Locals buying Charles Dumfora farm repair porch and paint house and barn. They visited daughter Mrs Cliff Rosselot in Owensburg Saturday. Harley Steward and wife attended Farm Bureau Council at John Haywoods Goshen Monday night. Clarence Marshall and Mr Wilkers will report for army service next week.
A playful note catalogs oddly paired place names with unexpected state matches, listing Norway in Michigan, China in Maine, Corinth and Hamburg in New York, Scotland in North Carolina, Denmark in South Carolina, and Berlin in Wisconsin and Connecticut. The quip highlights unusual geographies.
We express deep gratitude to relatives and friends who remembered us after the tragic loss of our little son Glenn. Special thanks to Reverends Fred C. Moore and L. G. Ludwick, Kennedy Funeral Home, the singers, and the donors of flowers for their warm sympathy and kindness. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Be Pattison and Family.
A Philadelphia barber Richard Milburn credited with whistling the tune Listen to the Mocking Bird during a library exhibition where Septimus Winner helped write down the notes. The 1855 publication credited Milburn with music and Alice Hawthorne with words, with Winner later recognized as originator.
Yellowstone became the first national park in 1872 and Yosemite followed as the second in 1890. The two icons anchor early U S conservation efforts and park designations guiding later protected areas.
The X in X-ray marks the unknown. Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, a German physicist, discovered radiations in 1895 and named them X-rays for their unknown nature.
Edison era advertisement by Edgar L Walker agent for Wilkin Hosiery Co of Greenfield Ohio offering guaranteed silk nylon and rayon hosiery for all ages. Also table mats leather goods belts billfolds cigarette cases and made to measure shoes and suits. Located Main Street Batavia next to Kramer’s Restaurant with home residence above store and postcard contact.
Experiments by T Johnson and A M Brown in Scientific Agriculture show blast in oats rises when spikelet development and panicle emergence are nourished poorly. Tests include reduced water, withheld minerals, artificial leaf injury, rust leaf damage, and shortening day length.
A Kansas campaign urges big trucks to wear rear wheel aprons to shield cars from muddy showers, arguing the devices reduce spray and improve road cleanliness. The effort targets improved safety and reduced roadside mess by limiting spray from wheel wells.
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