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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1940
Page
8
Local papers including Clermont Courier and Cincinnati titles advertise subscription options. The snippet lists terms such as one year six months or three months and prices like $1 and 4.25 7 and 5.25, reflecting periodical pricing and package details.
A Bible verse exhorting readers to focus on truth virtue and praise. It urges contemplating things that are honorable just pure lovely and of good report as guidance for thought and conduct.
Social and personal items list Mrs Wallace Carroll and Mr G Wilkie funeral attendance Miss Amelia Griffith hosts Broadway Club Cora Townsend hosts Cincinnati niece Rev Spangler vacationing at Lakeside Allen Taylor Nichols returns from Fort Knox Clinton Curtis home from hospital Mrs Owen H Jones visiting relatives in Arkansas Randolph Reynolds attend Columbus Indiana fair Milford group visits Old Man's Cave Sterling Moore Billie Moore Robert Nichols at Camp Freidlander Garden Club meeting at Mt Washington Nichols and Rush families visit Linton Hotel crowd Ohio State University Education Honor Roll spring quarter for Mary Louise Gunderley Batavia daughter of Pete Gunderley
Spanish explorers introduced orange trees to Florida near the start of the seventeenth century and missions introduced olives figs and other fruit to California toward the end of the eighteenth century. Today California and Florida together grow about 97 percent of American oranges. Grapefruit cultivation began in Florida but has expanded most in the last twenty years in Texas, mainly in the Rio Grande valley.
James W. Walker argues that Franklin D. Roosevelt mirrors dictatorship tactics by surrounding himself with loyal followers, seeking power beyond a mandate. He cites past associates like James A. Farley and John N. Garner and predicts use of martyrdom to seize absolute presidential authority.
Ohio reports sweeping War Department rules curbing married men in lower National Guard ranks and awaiting mobilization. Rainbow Division legacy revival urged. Pension rolls reach 126 760 as aging aid expands. Ohio’s farm base pivots to emergency readiness with vast acreage and diverse crop leadership.
Ohio ranks among the top states in multiple crops and livestock, with milk, hogs, oats, tobacco, pears, cherries, potatoes, sheep and lambs, all cattle, and chickens noted. The state also leads in fresh vegetable canning, underscoring its preparedness to feed and clothe civilians and armies in an emergency.
WCKY's Studio Plane de luxe mobile unit begins its first swing around the Ohio Indiana Kentucky area. It will appear at Owensville Xenia Wilmington West Union London Harrodsburg Eminence Brodhead Lawrenceburg and Osgood during the coming weeks. A crew of announcers and engineers travels with the unit and a program about the exhibits is transcribed at each fair for broadcast over WCKY the next night.
A report states that state gasoline taxes vary between two and seven cents. It notes the range by jurisdiction and hints at differing rates across regions.
Advertisement lists a fresh cow with calf for sale described as a good milker. Contact H Newberry in Williamsburg Ohio at Crosstown No 2. Address 2411.
The Ohio Amateur Softball Association district tournament for District 9 will be played in Greenfield at the new ball park during the week of August 12. J Roy Duffield will manage with his committee. Teams from Highland Clinton Warren Brown and Clermont counties are urged to register now. The winner advances to Massillon for the state tournament August 28 24 25 with expenses paid.
U B Church led by Rev. Smith with Walter J. Bauer as Sunday School Superintendent. Sunday school at 9 30. Prayer meeting at 8 00. Morning worship at 10 30.
Multiple houses with 6 to 7 rooms electric city water baths garages and large lots priced from 2500 to 3900. Listings include 23 acres near New Richmond and 7 acres Route 74. Separate ads for hay rigging pullets and fryers, spotted Poland China yearling, and a 1931 Chevrolet roadster trade option. Contacts include H. E. Lindsey Batavia Mary Ludlow Williamsville and J. H. Patrick Newtonsville.
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