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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1925
Page
3
Mrs. Jos. from 147 W Summit Ave, St. Paul, Minnesota writes that since illness at her three year old’s early years she suffered back pain and bearing down. After trying multiple remedies she took Lydia Pinkham’s Liver Pills and reports relief and plans to tell other women.
In Greenwich Connecticut jewelry silverware cameras and other items vanished from James Malone’s home over months. Mrs Malone found a pawn ticket in the cellar tied to Alice Munson the maid. Police say she confessed to thefts sent via parcel post to New York pawnbrokers. A rat dislodged a ticket that Mrs Malone found.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness and itching followed by Cuticura Soap bath and hot water. After drying, a light dusting of Cuticura Talcum leaves a fragrance, priced at 25 cents each.
Women travelers and smugglers face new searches by female inspectors at select Canada U S border posts. Rising female smuggling prompted override of previous male screening norms. Miss M A Jamieson becomes the first woman inspector in the Canadian service.
The guidance warns that a person who suspects they are becoming dull should start by spreading flattery immediately to bolster their social presence. This advice frames flattery as a quick remedy for perceived social impact.
C B AUOL, President of the National Safety Council in Chicago, outlines a national effort to cut preventable accidents. He cites 85,000 annual fatalities with 20,000 children and millions injured, and cites community safety councils in 60 cities tackling school programs, highway safety, home safety, driver education, and plant safety to reduce deaths. Early results in St Paul and other cities show reductions in 1924.
H A Snow, a naturalist and explorer, returns to New York from the Arctic claiming to have ridden a mile on a whale’s back and to have posted a U S annexation proclamation on Herald Island. He brought motion pictures and a photo of Old Glory over snowy rocks.
The excerpt notes a whaling scene with a mate or calf unknown, a boat riding the whale’s back as a leviathan sometimes dives, and a keel placed squarely on the whale. It also mentions Snow refusing an island gift, bones found of dead explorers, and Gazetteers attributing the island’s 1849 discovery to an Englishman.
Greenfield Indiana preserves the Riley family haunt along Brandywine Creek as part of Riley Memorial Park after ending litigation over 40 acres. Citizens contributed 12,500 dollars for the land purchase. The tract includes the famed swimming hole used by James Whitcomb Riley and his friends sixty years ago and referenced in his poem The Ole Swimmin Hole.
Heat of the sun is believed to have caused an explosion of a tank car holding 8 000 gallons of gasoline at the Crystal Gas and Oil company siding. George Simpson, 43, a worker, and Andy Tarchewan, 7, playing nearby, were probably fatally burned. About 50 000 gallons stored in nearby underground tanks did not explode.
A Department of Agriculture release shows 15 108 farms reporting an average cash margin of 1024 with 181 in inventories and 266 in food and fuel produced on site. Land values average 808 acres at 14828, with capital 17260. Grain prices fluctuated independently of rail rates, which were largely steady.
The town of Braman Oklahoma plans an oil well on every one of its 24 blocks with one in each church yard and in the high school yard. Two wells will be placed in town parks and each alderman will have one in his block. A gusher near the town border sparked the oil boom.
William McIlvane aged seventy, retired after 44 years with Du Pont, died in Paulsboro New Jersey after falling from a cherry tree at his home. He sustained a broken neck and perished within minutes. He had been among the first powder line foremen and had no prior serious accidents.
Washington reports the issue of government meal reimbursements may be appealed to the Supreme Court. The case centers on Herbert B Ward who billed 1.50 for a meal in Alexandria during a government trip, denied by the controller general though the Court of Claims sided with Ward. The matter tests whether meals during travel near a permanent station can be reimbursed.
The city of Mount Gilead Ohio closes its jail to tramps by mayoral order after council protests a $50 gas bill from last winter for hoboes housed there. The action ends the jail’s function as a free flop house amid public cost concerns.
The public record notes Michael Faraday first announced the discovery of benzene about a century ago on June 16, highlighting Faraday’s role in early chemistry.
The piece humorously lists office antics and self help routines for executives. It describes Bond and scissors in a steam room, opening safe deposits, pushing buttons, pounding desks, and petal picking as odd exercises. It ends noting the author is A. H. T. from the Kansas City Star.
Senator Edwards argues that prohibition cannot be fairly judged because everyone harbors bias. He cites a juror joke about Mr Jones who claims no prejudice or objections to capital punishment, illustrating the ease of bias in decision making.
The harvest of cultivated edible snails for European markets has begun in Switzerland and France. About three million pounds are produced annually in both countries though demand exceeds supply. Adulteration with meat scraps, usually veal, is reported. Snail farms are set along woodland edges with sandy, limed soil and surrounding walls several feet high.
AT&T president Walter S. Gifford, 40, cites a New York death by own action of a young lawyer to warn that many failures precede success. He says even successful men endure more setbacks than triumphs and that a man is never too old to learn yet often too young to realize it.
A gymnasium will be provided for Harvard University's new medical school dormitory. Donor H. Vanderbilt offers $125,000 and says the facility will benefit students' minds and bodies by hands on learning and healthy development.
The Colorado Agricultural College athletic department orders over 100 female students to play marbles with their toes as a corrective exercise citing posture and improper footwear concerns.
A Detroit News recounts a street scene where two ladders leaned against a downtown building. A young couple walked beneath them, triggering a superstition, prompting the woman to reverse the spell. Pedestrians laughed as others chose to walk around the ladders.
A recruiter from a large New York firm seeking farm men to train as salesmen invites responses. The ad pledges honest merchandise and real service, notes hundreds already in the program, and promotes the Colt Lighting and Cooking System. applicants must be over 25 and able to drive their own car.
A quotation contrasts poetry and printing with sums of money. Henry Longfellow and Henry Ford are used as examples of genius capital, while a workman’s steel springs and a merchant’s advertising illustrate skill and business profit.
A heterogeneous crowd gathered in Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. Spectators arrived by airplanes, private railroad cars, limousines, paddle-wheeled river boats, shags, and on foot, reflecting the era's varied travel.
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