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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1921
Page
6
In a whimsical exchange, Mr Caterpillar explains his life cycle from egg to butterfly while Peter Gnome and others mock arithmetic and share garden sightings. The tale blends natural change with country life and playful curiosity about flowers and city differences.
A collage of notes on Tris Speaker and the Indians, umpire lineages, player moves between leagues, and managerial opinions. It mentions Edgar Willett managing in Ogden, Patton to Victoria, a Quigley connection, Rays of moves in Seattle and Portland, Babe Adams balk stat, Wallace Laws at first base trial, Heine Scheer praised, Shangstroth as a pitcher, Lutzke’s Three-T stint, and Ebmke injuring several players.
Clyde Mayer of Williamsport Pa. will assist coach Dobie with the Cornell football team. Mayer graduates this year after two seasons as varsity halfback and acting captain last fall. He captained the baseball team this spring, led the student council, and is an honor student.
Lucian E Williams wins the Connecticut state tennis title. Brookline Country Club in Massachusetts awarded the 1922 amateur golf tournament. Fred Walker to be athletic director at DePauw. Orville Hewitt elected captain of Pittsburgh track team. Nyemi claims long distance records with six miles in 20 minutes 41.2 seconds and 80 minutes 40.2 seconds for 6.21 miles.
Chicago mentor A A Stagg argues college summer baseball should either be fully professional or remain amateur. He contends players may earn money now but not as college athletes and warns against cheating to preserve amateur principles. He favors abandoning conference intercollegiate baseball if amateurs lose core standards.
The piece argues falling turnout troubles magnates as inconsistency and rising homer rates confuse fans. It contends fans prefer steady form and a championship mindset over erratic play and slugging. If teams play gilt edge ball, attendance may rebound.
President William Veek of the Chicago Cubs opened a 1920 and a 1921 ball to satisfy curiosity about the new ball in use. Witnesses say the 1921 ball was rubberier than the 1920. He also opened two 1921 balls and found corks in the center of the rubber not the same size.
Tanlac, the celebrated medicine, has sold over twenty million bottles in six years across the United States, Canada and beyond. The tonic is claimed to restore weight, health and strength in patients with stomach liver and kidney issues and to relieve indigestion headaches and fatigue. Tanlac is sold by leading druggists nationwide.
The British ambassador at a New York luncheon mocks peace advocates with silly arguments and notes a girl in a toyshop saying a swear word to a salesman. He presents the tale as a snapshot of a perverse modern world.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness and itching with a curing routine. Recommends Cuticura Soap for bathing and Cuticura Talcum for fragrance. Priced at 25 cents each.
Novelist Katharine Haviland Taylor says she found a desert island of peace in Philadelphia's Hell's Half Acre district after choosing an apartment sight unseen. Two limousines parked out front misled her about the area, but she embraces the solitude for work and plans to stay despite the district's social stigma.
Daily letters to postmasters in large cities include many frivolous cases. One letter complains the carrier is engaged to a woman twice his age and requests he be told to break off the engagement or be dismissed.
Mason Mount, superintendent at the Howe button factory in Peters burg, reads his evening paper as his six year old daughter Mary plays nearby. She asks if the bad man gets all bad people and where they go after being burned. He mutters a series of suppositions, and the girl jokes the task must be a heavy load to carry ashes.
Two inmates in an Irish asylum puzzle over a passing airplane. One boasts he dreamt building a contrivance to fly to Australia in sixty minutes, another claims Melbourne in sixty seconds. They realize each other’s fantasies expose ignorance, not genius.
A darkey extra on Hal EB Roach lot tells film actor Harold Lloyd of a sweeping loss. Lloyd asks if the movers took everything and the reply is that they did not take the sidewalk, vowing to return.
A witty adage notes that if individuals lived by their own counsel, the world would face an advice famine as many fail to practice what they preach.
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