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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1924
Page
7
A Vermont reader recounts relief from prolonged backache and illness after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter claims the product strengthened her and enabled better household duties, noting a country-wide canvass reports 98 of buyers benefited.
A plan to flood London’s inner area with artificial moonlight will be presented to the Institute of Public Lighting Engineers. The scheme envisions eight constellations of electric lights atop 500 foot towers, dispersed across the city to provide better lighting and near total shadow elimination after dusk.
An advertisement for Dr. Peery's Dead Shot claiming a single dose expels worms and tapeworms. Located at 372 Pearl Street, New York.
The weather bureau notes that forecasts beyond several days are highly uncertain. National weather services avoid detailed forecasts more than a week ahead. Beyond a week, conditions are not reliably predictable by sound science.
Recent investigations suggest insomnia relief from pillows stuffed with watercress. Researchers report potential calming effects and improved sleep quality through natural remedies.
In 1852 Baptist settlers near Santa Rosa began meeting in a ranch house, moved under a large oak, then built a new First Baptist Church of Santa Rosa using lumber cut from a single giant redwood tree 18 feet in diameter yielding 78 000 board feet. The 40 by 60 foot auditorium was completed with this one tree’s product.
The New York Historical Society museum displays include a library of 140000 volumes and 155000 pamphlets, a gallery with over 1000 paintings, and portraits of notable figures. Exhibits feature heirlooms such as a Lafayette dinner punch bowl, a 1791 Vermont state ad-mittance mug, and a 1789 federal congress table, along with letters by Patrick Henry and Washington.
The scene opens with life and fame as a narrator jokes about a physician drafting his life story. The exchange occurs as a butler informs the "e eminent personage" that his physician wishes to see him, prompting a wry remark on biographers and life histories.
Indiana farmer Lewis G. Reynolds of Wayne County describes a milk cooling tank made from a section of red drain tile filled with Portland cement and water. The setup uses evaporation to chill the milk, potentially reaching 55 to 65 degrees with a light breeze, at little cost or effort.
A dairy barn visit shows liberal feeding with alfalfa and silage yields high records. Cows are fed per milk output with generous rations, boosting total production while keeping costs lower per unit. Mineral feeding is noted as delivering the best results for heavy production.
In three year feeding trials, corn silage ranked 1 percent more valuable than kafir silage, and kafir silage 10 percent more valuable than cane silage for milk production. However, cane silage yielded the most milk per acre, with cane 80,000 pounds per acre, corn 22,000 pounds per acre, and kafir 21,670 pounds per acre.
Fall freshening cows are fed dry feed through winter to improve milk flow later. Milk output declines later in the period, but spring pasture stimulates it. Calves remain in good condition to start grazing in spring, reducing care needs compared to spring calves. Winter offers more time for calf care and extra milking.
London Answers laments the decline of heartfelt letters. It cites famed correspondences from John Churchill and Sarah Jennings, John Keats to Fanny Browne, and William Hazlitt to Sarah Walker, showing passion and devotion once poured onto paper.
Historical note traces opium’s rise in China to the Ming dynasty, 1318 to 1644, with the Elixir of Gold pill and later mass imports from India. It records initial country cultivation, the shift to smoking, and the Philippines tobacco’s introduction in 1620, with broader opium smoking emerging in the eighteenth century.
Tortoise shell is used as veneering in fine cabinet work and cut like other fine woods. Two thickness grades exist: saw cut from 1-82 to 1-16 inch and knife cut from 60 to 100 sheets per inch. The knife, acting like a plane, is mounted on a table with the blade moving back and forth. Previously hand cut to about one eighth inch and planed, shell can be softened with gentle heat for easier cutting.
The Continental divide marks the watershed along the Rocky Mountains guiding waters to the Pacific and Atlantic. A vast Montana Wyoming region is called The Great Divide as North America’s natural geographic center. Water from the Great Divide reaches the Atlantic Gulf of Mexico Pacific and Arctic Ocean.
Omar Khayyam's chequer board of nights and days is realized in the palace of engineering at the British Empire Exhibition. A group of model cottages sits in rural scenery with an automatic illumination system showing miniature days and nights. The exhibition prompts mathematical speculation on how many miniature years the days represent.
An advertisement urges readers to treat an itching scalp with Cuticura Ointment by rubbing the affected spots and then washing with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It claims daily use will give clear skin and soft, white hands.
A Sportsman's Digest item describes making a simple camp bed from saplings and branches. Four eight foot saplings are set in sod around a log, crossed with lashings and poles laid across, padded with leaves and moss to form a bed. It notes the method is quick to construct and provides a small comfort for travelers and sportsmen.
A quarantined professor fifty miles away in Iowa used long distance telephone to conduct daily classes so the course continued without interruption. The ad notes Roman Eye Balsam as an antiseptic ointment for eye healing.
A Boston Transcript quote notes an advertisement praising imitation diamonds from Paris asserting identical weight and sparkle to genuine stones and selling at the same price to deter buyers from noticing the difference.
Promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a leading cure for kidney liver and bladder issues with quick gentle effects. Available in drug stores in two bottle sizes with a sample offer of ten cents upon request to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and mention of this newspaper.
The account notes a severe stance against chocolate in the seventeenth century. Jean Fran Rauch urged forbidding monks to drink chocolate due to its perceived violent passions inflaming effects.
A playful exchange has a teacher asking who first made nitrogen and a student jokingly answers Paul Revere. The moment captures student humor in a chemistry lesson.
In Linn Creek, Representative Roach criticizes oil scandal coverage and warns that growing scandals may provoke harsher public opinion. Judge Higgley debates a quarrel with Doc Cutler over truthfulness, while the general storekeeper vents skepticism about both sides.
A report notes many men cannot even sit in their canoes, much less paddle. The piece highlights challenges faced by paddlers amid difficult conditions and the practical limits of skill and endurance.
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