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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
3
State exam questions test grammar analysis, parsing, and arithmetic for elementary teaching certificates. Items cover phrases parts of speech and sentence syntax, plus agriculture terms, measurements, and simple interest.
The reader surveys Perry on Lake Erie and its strategic impact in the War of 1812, Johnsons reconstruction aims and challenges, the 1846 Oregon boundary dispute and its settlement, the Wilson–Gorman tariff features and presidential signature status, Lincoln’s early political path, succession rules, 1896 presidential candidates and issues, methods and pay for Congress, Emerson as nature poet with works, Hiawathas tale and quotes, Parkman works and life, Whitman and poems, authors of classic novels, Macbeth, Burns quotes, and leading magazines with notable contributors.
Comprehensive prompts cover planning, laws on janitor work and institute attendance, recitation objectives and requisites, and teacher oversight of school conditions. It asks for reading instruction methods, habit formation as character, immediate and remote tests, and personal preparation. It also requests population figures for Ohio cities, geographical locatees, trade data for New Orleans, and reading methods.
A quotation from Copperfield extols punctuality order and diligence as keys to achievement. The speaker claims total dedication and wholehearted effort in all pursuits while noting humility and perseverance. The fragment ends with a remark about women and storms.
The convention committee debates how to present proposed amendments on a one sheet ballot with cross marks for approval and blanks for disapproval. Some want liquor license and woman suffrage on separate ballots. others favor a single column. Confidence grows that Ohio will approve the new constitution.
The circuit court reversed the Common Pleas ruling and deemed Section 12 948 of the General Code unconstitutional which bans discharging workers for union membership. Saul Berger and William Skahn of Roth Shoe and MacDonald Kiley were arrested for such dismissals. Judge Jones dissented and will publish memorandum. Judge Gorman had upheld the law in Common Pleas.
Columbus reports that Delegate William Davie presented President Herbert Bigelow with a gold watch as a symbol of individual subscriptions from delegates. The body adopted a plan to hold a reunion at Put-in-Bay in 1913 for Perry centennial festivities and noted a remaining balance around $20,000 after appropriations and expenses.
The excerpt argues that no process can mold all people alike. Each person should develop a distinct character and pursue personal duties, with unique beauty and glory in diverse manifestations. It emphasizes inner work, personal conscience, and individual contributions beyond conformity.
Evidence shows the tool used in break ins was crafted in the Ohio penitentiary stamp shop for guard Gustav Ohlrich. Ohlrich, arraigned on burglary tool charges with a $1,000 bond, denies guilt. Detectives link the tool to a Cramer house break in and to a stolen diamond case, with deposits made shortly after the theft.
Columbus reports a busy forthcoming federal grand jury with charges likely to be presented. Assistant District Attorney Harley Burns visited Cincinnati to confer with District Attorney Sherman McPherson as investigations into Ohio railroad combinations by the U S Department of Justice continue. An Alderman case from Marietta as former postmaster is anticipated among the appeals to the grand jury.
A posse of about 200 farmers led by Sheriff Al Lawrence and officers searches for a man accused of an attempted attack on Mrs Otis Miller. A second attempted attack targeted Mrs Cynthia Butcher of South Charleston.
Miss Margery Bell, a Cleveland high school girl who caused a sensation by running away after being told she would not graduate, has been located in Columbus at the home of Mrs. C. W. Wells, 135 West Spring Street.
William Kerns aged thirty five a married man was killed in an explosion at the Miami Powder Co plant at Goes Station near Xenia He was the only person in the building and the cause of the blast is not known
Mrs A Summer aged sixty awoke to a burglar in her home seized a revolver and chased the intruder in her nightdress through the town’s business section. In Cleveland Norman M Hicks forty four, a fraternal order promoter, drew two years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses.
Two boys outside the Youngstown Ohio Telegram bulletin joke about a treaty with Russia. They compare threats of trouble to a potential war and quip that Uncle Sam could defeat Russia with the Salvation Army.
Mrs M E Fairchild of Wichita Kansas credits Cuticura Ointment with stopping pain and accelerating healing after a fall caused a deep leg sore. She praises Cuticura Soap for facial cleansing without smarting and notes samples are mailed from Cuticura Boston.
A humorous exchange presents Mrs Hewligus asking about her husband’s stance on woman suffrage. The husband is described as “one foot in the air” and “one of the chronic kickers,” indicating a reluctant or playful ambivalence.
A garbled block of lines touts eye care and herbal products, mixing odd spellings and stray phrases. It includes a quote about women’s virtue and ends with a remark on excessive liver care and a Garfield Tea pitch. The overall fragment resembles an 19th century advertisement or mixed prose snippet.
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