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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1912
Page
2
The writer recounts a month spent in the Great Altai searching for Ovis ammén, noting the lack of native guides and the unusual Hassack footwear hindering travel. He reflects on thirty years of hunting experience and the unique challenge of tracking the sheep alone.
A narrator recounts a grueling chase after two rams in a high valley. He battles half frozen streams, steep ridges, and shifting winds while losing his Mongol escort and ponies. After long efforts he and Husein finally corner and kill a ram. the other eludes capture.
Capt Einar Mikkelsen the Danish Arctic explorer and engineer Iversen were found by Norwegian fishermen on Bass Rock island after more than two winters in Greenland. They had built a cabin and left a wooden bar dated 1912 as a signal, signaling human presence before rescue.
A Lake Shore & Michigan Southern train hit a nine person automobile at a grade crossing near a corn field in Toledo. Six occupants were killed and two others fatally injured with one more hurt as bodies lay along the right of way over 100 feet.
Lawrence Mass. 11 year old Outlouis Dion obtained written permission to shoot from Henry Talbot, 12, then was shot through the heart by the Talbot boy using a rifle from his window. Dion’s request to prove the gun’s “good” nature led to a fatal result authorities investigate.
Washington report on the failed blood transfusion to Jean Searles, secretary to Congressman Gordon Lee of Georgia. Her brother Thomas Searles endured 30 minutes of transfusion at Providence Hospital, but she died.
Market report lists Wheat with No. 2 red at 1.06 1.08, No. 3 red at 1.00 1.05, No. 4 red 0.90 1.00. Corn prices cover No. 2 white 0.82 0.88, No. 3 white 0.81 0.81 3/4, No. 4 white 0.77 0.84 4, No. 2 yellow 0.76 0.77, No. 3 yellow 0.74 0.75 3/4, No. 4 yellow 0.71 0.74. Oats and hay values shown for multiple grades. Cattle prices include shippers 6.50 8.15, butcher steers 8.10 8.25, heifers 7.35 7.60, cows 5.50 5.75, calves 9 9.25, hogs and sheep figures noted as well.
In the St Lawrence estuary the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Britain collided with the collier Helvetia in dense fog. The Helvetia sank but crew were rescued. The Empress of Britain was badly damaged and returned to Quebec with 700 passengers aboard.
A Life magazine remark on the idea that every man is destined to meet his best girl, assigned at birth by fate and time's vast factory. It notes that the imagined pairing may be homely, irregular, or even someone else's wife, but true love will prevail when paths cross.
A tall thin man on Washington Street says he has been tired from helping Brother Smith measure a house for new carpets. He claims to be exactly six feet tall and has been lying down and getting up all over their house to oblige.
Mrs. BE. F. Sulzberger recounts a baby's severe eczema starting at two weeks with white pimples and blood crusts that spread to the head ears and body. After trying an ineffective eczema advertisement they used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, kept the baby covered at night and washed twice daily, and the child was completely cured. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold worldwide with free samples via Cuticura Boston offer.
The lovers plan a night elopement using a runabout monoplane at the father's hangar. They switch plans to hide the craft in a stable and walk to a trolley. A pursuit with racing monoplane propellers follows as the father gives chase.
An old advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as a liquid additive for laundry. It claims to whiten clothes more than snow and marketed as a costly blue enhancing solution for water and glass cleaning.
In a Boston transcript a guest quips about rare roast beef while host refuses to admit affordability, prompting a witty exchange that highlights the dinner table banter and social tone of the scene.
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