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A humorous Pearson's Weekly snippet shows Bertie reacting to a cupboard caper as he pretends to be a thief while digging a jam pot with a spoon. The exchange captures a lighthearted domestic moment.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
3
A humorous Pearson's Weekly snippet shows Bertie reacting to a cupboard caper as he pretends to be a thief while digging a jam pot with a spoon. The exchange captures a lighthearted domestic moment.
A dialogue critiques Hard appa likened to a busy bee. Blobbs questions the industriousness, arguing the pattern shows many whom he touches get stung. The exchange highlights caution in comparisons and the risks of overworking.
A fragment quoting the Boston Evening Transcript recalls a dialogue about horse ownership and a nightmare. The text then mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children as a teething aid promising gum relief inflammation reduction and pain alleviation with wind colic cured.
The snippet shows a shoe shop clerk questioning a customer about worn socks and a man explaining holes in the toes. A Red Cross Ball ad promises double value for money. A graduate jokes about her new A B degree, clarifying that she is a Bachelor in a playful twist on degrees.
J Busher of 268 Harrison St Chytig Ohio describes a ten year scalp condition with itching shedding and hair loss. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment twice daily the scales faded and hair regrew over two months. Ad promotes Cuticura products and offers a free Skin Book sample.
A six foot clock in Carlisle Pennsylvania has run on electrical power drawn from the earth since 1870. A wire links the ground to a magnet inside the clock providing a nearly perpetual energy source. The device allegedly operated continuously since its invention.
Fragmentary lines name First Cinder and Second Cinder with a note of anger and wasteful time in a glace eye, hinting at a dispute or confusion over identity or sequence. The text reads as clipped dialogue or cryptic theater shorthand from a larger piece.
Ohio report recalls Judge R W Tannehill of Holmes County who died after a 32 year tenure as probate judge unique for keeping no office staff and doing his own clerical work. Gov Cox weighs filling the vacancy as state auditors scrutinize campaign expenses tied to Perry’s centennial project.
Ohio Attorney General Hogan ruled that changes in civil service law do not remove protection for chiefs of police and other officials from August through year end. The issue arose before the new law takes effect on January 1. In a separate update, Ohio recorded 46 758 marriage licenses in the year ending March 31, up 3 421 from the prior year, with 45 501 white and 1 267 colored marriages.
At a New South Wales mining district meeting the chair, an athletic miner, keeps order as a candidate is heckled. After promising questions, the Irish-accented master asks for questions. A Welsh miner attempts to ask but is struck. the chair then offers further inquiries, but none respond.
A luncheon featured a ham prepared from the Thomas Jefferson recipe handed down in a family. The cook, a young colored woman from the mountains, vows the ham must simmer two hours and never boil, while the mistress admonishes keep it from boiling.
A widower experiences a renewed warmth as memories of an old relationship surface, bringing unexpected comfort and gentle reflection during a solitary period.
A Michigan woman recounts how ditching rich greasy foods and dairy, embracing Grape Nuts with sugar and cream while avoiding meat pastry and hot biscuits, restored her digestion and nerves. She reports a clouded brain cleared and health back to normal after following the regimen.
The fragment offers maxims on thrift and living wisely, urging punctuality, frugality in small tasks, and avoiding waste. It includes a rhyme about time and a joke about aging, plus a nod to using Red Cross Ball Blue for bluing.
The quotation laments the saddest sight as a living humanity buried alive by indifference and apathy. It attributes grave consequences to inaction and calls attention to moral decay and social neglect.
For acting sore feet use Tyree's Antiseptic Powder sprinkled into shoes or used in solution. Never fails to relieve. 25 cents at all druggists or sample sent free by J. B. Tyree, Washington DC.
The exchange shows Thomas defending himself against his mother’s claim he disobeyed his grandmother by swimming. He insists his grandmother did not explicitly forbid swimming, only advising herself not to go in.
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