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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
3
An advertisement claims Sarsaparilla acts directly on the blood to purify enrich and revitalize it helping build up the whole system. Available in liquid form or chocolate coated tablets named Sarsatabs.
A conversation questions firing a cook named Ara bella Gunn within city limits. One speaker cites an ordinance against discharging A Gunn, prompting unease about the procedure and legality of dismissing the employee.
Warning label urges mothers to examine every bottle for Castoria safety. It highlights the genuine remedy for infants and children, noting over 30 years of use and the must see signature. Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A freelance stenographer describes typing toasts on thousands of paper napkins for a club women's outdoor summer entertaining plan. She notes ink may smudge purple on guests, despite using non copying ink to match the sentiment.
The exchange depicts Senator Sorghum denying a request from men while noting his visible sorrow over not being able to assist. He claims the men left sympathetic after witnessing his apparent grief.
Methusalah jokes about a summer 700 years ago as others retreat in embarrassment.
Knicker asks how to identify an umbrella. Bocker replies by pointing to the man from whom he took it.
Munyon's Paw Paw Pills billed as a tonic for stomach liver and nerves. Claims to invigorate and enrich the blood, aid digestion, and soothe bowels without calomel or dope. Regular bottle of 45 pills priced 95 cents from Munyon's Laboratory Philadelphia.
Secretary Harry Thomas says the federation will take the first violation of the nine hour workday law to the Ohio Supreme Court as a test case. Louis D Brandeis may be retained to defend the law, following Brandeis's prior Oregon case success for labor.
Fear of losing business in Ohio prompted a prompt $25,000 payment to the state treasury from the Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance Co. as surety for a $75,000 Farmers & Merchants bank deposit in Cleveland that failed. The remaining $50,000 is expected from Empire State Surety Co. The deposit was made by Charles C. Green during his brief tenure as state treasurer. Within 60 days the bank assigned. A dispute arose among the surety firms and the assignee, with the state retaining the proceeds of securities pledged as collateral and sold after the failure.
Workmen digging a trench at the penitentiary uncover three coffins containing bones of cholera victims from a 40 year old outbreak. The remains, well preserved, will be cremated and interred in an urn with a memorial tablet. Warden Jones notified health officials who ordered reburying or cremation.
Liquor tax deputies from the dairy and food commissioners office visited Coshocton during races and found nine premises selling liquor. Commissioner Stroke verified proprietors, and State Auditor Fullington will instruct the county auditor to place their names on the duplicate for a $1,000 liquor tax collection.
Ohio State University College of Agriculture will run five agricultural special trains in August across rail lines Big Four Nickle Plate C H D Panhandle Pennsylvania Company and B and C. Each trip covers topics such as corn wheat sugar beets drainage and dairying with instructors from the College of Agriculture. Plans also include more trains later in the year. Hogan rules that the Green law regulating hours for women is constitutional and enforceable per Oregon precedent.
The board announced 164 applications, 37 passed for pharmacist certificates, 113 succeeded, 3 absent, and 11 earned assistants diplomas. Among assistant applicants, 41 passed and 17 failed.
Secretary Sandles of the state board of agriculture states that the state portion of show license fees should be deposited into the agricultural department fund under the 1882 law. Previously these fees went to the general revenue fund. Revenue from circuses and shows is split half to counties and half to the state.
Reports allege mistreatment of inmates at the penitentiary as Warden J T H B Jones takes over prison court duties. He investigates unreported punishments while deputy wardens enforce penalties, with claims that favored guards were shielded. Julius Huntmaker, a three year larceny convict, allegedly beaten by Guard E Billderback. Oliver Allison and Charles Wiggins also reported beaten in separate incidents.
Seventeen Columbus, thirty five Cleveland, twenty one Cincinnati, eight Toledo, three Dayton, two Springfield and seventy seven from other Ohio cities gained medical licenses. The total includes twelve osteopaths among the new practitioners.
Miss Ellen Hunt sues the state in Cuyahoga common pleas to recover 15000 dollars for alleged wrongful incarceration in Cleveland State Hospital while declared sane. Governor Harmon and Attorney General Hogan served with copies of the petition. the suit stems from a special act granting her right to sue the state.
Ohio Attorney General Hogan holds that a phone paid by the public in a servant’s residence is either unjust or graft. The ruling concerns Ed W Horn, clerk of the Cuyahoga county board of elections. The old rule allowed public phones at residences if needed for public benefit. Hogan pays his own phone but does not apply the hours rule to himself.
Six building and loan inspectors in the state insurance department drew 468.98 in improper street car fares meals and lodging as traveling expenses in their home cities. Attorney General Hogan orders repayment to the state and identifies individual overcharges including DeWeese Richardson Kennon Hook Short and Hughes with amounts ranging from 3.99 to 104.10.
In Piqua a blaze killed thirty three horses and damaged Robins & Miles livery barn Zig's theater municipal building and K of P hall Toledo a man identified as Antonio Versacchia shot himself in Akron after murdering his wife in the morning Police had tracked him from Akron to Cleveland after the earlier crime.
Delaware reports Earl Norris 19 struck by lightning and killed in a harvest field at Harry Gooding’s south of the city. Norwalk notes Thomas F. Bishop 81 died after long service in area shops. Akron reports a young woman attempted bank robbery in Cuyahoga Falls to fund clothes. Columbus records Otto Weber 32 died after attempting a bath tub cool down. Findlay notes William Dorsey 74 died from frozen feet. Sandusky adopts Aldrich central bank resolutions. officers elected. Chardon publishes 1911 Geauga maple statistics on forest decline due to foreign influx. Zanesville reports 12-year-old David McCammon fatally shot by Rosemary Sears 11 in Woodland. Hudson covers a murder mystery with a body found near the Pennsylvania railroad. Akron Sheriff in Hudson detains William Murray for Frank Price murder. body identified in Cuyahoga Falls. Akron reports Benjamin Colby 50 dies after ingesting laudanum at Ravenna infirmary. Napoleon notes severe storm with cyclonic winds. crops and property damaged across county. Bellefontaine area hit by hail and wind. Fremont barn struck by lightning causing fire and $5,000 loss. Youngstown reports a sparrow ignite fire on a residence causing roof damage. Millersville notes Joseph Arrestuck injured after fall from barn.
R G Dun reports demand improving in steel and textile markets as mills resume operations and inventories recover. June orders for steel rise sharply while pig iron demand grows. textile curtailment remains heavy though building trade turns a corner. Exports show wheat and corn activity up. U S business failures rise to 196 for the week ending July 13.
The Cincinnati market lists flour, wheat, corn, oats prices and live stock values. Grain items show ranges for winter patents up to 5.25 and various red and white wheat and corn grades. Cattle and hogs cover shippers to packers with price bands across steers, heifers, cows, bulls, calves, and sows. Poultry eggs butter apples carrots celery and others with per unit or per crate quotes.
Ottumwa Iowa readers hear a testimonial from Mrs Harriet E Wampler describing relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges women to try the remedy before surgical operation and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
In Tuskegee during hard times Washington considers using an old chicken house as a classroom. He asks an elder to help clean the henhouse at nine the next morning, but the elder cautions against such a daytime task.
Hiram Davis of Newburg vanished eight years ago during a walk with his father. The father paused to speak with a friend and the boy, then ten, disappeared. Police across the east hunted him, the Hudson River was searched, and he was presumed dead until he returned home recently. He had been out west.
A Florida reader shares how coffee caused bilious spells headaches and nervousness then switching to Postum led to complete health restoration. The letter from Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan endorses the product and cites the book The Road to Wellville. There’s a reason.
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