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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
7
Mrs W C Brown of Cleveland Ohio recounts four weeks in a hospital for severe lower body pain and fainting. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid relief after starting it that day, urging others to try it at the first drugstore.
A humorous scene shows Blunder misidentifying Daggett’s wife, calling her fat and coarse featured before recognizing her as Daggett’s spouse, prompting a self-reproachful moment. The exchange highlights diplomatic blunder and social awkwardness.
A Cincinnati authority touts freezone as a quick remedy for corns and calluses. A few drops on the affected area reportedly relieve pain and allow the root to lift out, drying quickly with no irritation to surrounding skin. Small bottles are inexpensive at drugstores.
An advertisement touts a super creamy emollient for skin troubles in young and old, claiming daily use prevents escalation and offering free samples by mail via Cuticura Dept. L Boston with a postcard address. The clipped text also includes fragmented jokes and captions.
The tariff commission plans investigations into foreign trade including Japan while others study domestic trade effects of the war. It notes global disorder makes current statistics unreliable and urges prompt study to adapt to future conditions, build a merchant marine, and face rival nations resuming business after hostilities.
The piece argues the Republican party remained loyal to national interests during wartime crises, suppressing political capitalizing, resisting calls for a coalition cabinet, and opposing bias claims against General Wood and Colonel Roosevelt. It asserts the party’s national, patriotic stance despite alleged past sins.
The article argues most tariff duties are protective, benefiting domestic producers like the wool, steel, and sugar trusts. It claims governments receive little revenue while these trusts gouge American consumers, noting cotton, woolen goods, iron, steel, and sugar as examples and suggesting benefits are limited to a small portion of imports.
The quotation argues Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood was not transferred from the East to the Southeast due to a lack of proven success. It questions why he was sent from New York where he was needed to Charleston, a move seen as serving a new brigadier general and smelling of a cheap political ploy amid looming war tensions.
An editorial argues tariffs fail to fund government or protect industry and warns of foreign competition invading the U S market. It urges appointing skilled workers to fit wartime roles and stresses proper registration to place men in war, farm, factory positions for national effort.
Painesville Boy Scouts gathered 3000 pounds of waste paper to aid the Red Cross. The report lists other Ohio items including an accidental shooting death near New Boston, a man knocked speechless in Lorain, a freight train derailment in Youngstown, calf theft near Painesville, a fatal fall en route to enlistment in Steubenville, and political events in Xenia and Bellefontaine.
Circleville and Lincoln Campbell, 32, was killed when the team he drove frightened at a train. He was thrown from the wagon and his skull fractured. Also in Mt. Vernon L G Keefer, 27, Wal nonding railway agent, wrote Ada I love you before I die then shot himself in the head.
Passengers on a city street car fled in panic when the car controller burst into flames. In the chaos Mrs. John Blackburn suffered serious head injuries while escaping the blaze.
Robert H. Markley private in the U S coast artillery drowned while bathing near Fort Dupont Delaware, according to word received by his parents Mr and Mrs H B Markley.
Gen I M Kirby 82 Civil War veteran died in Upper Sandusky birthplace Columbus he was brevet brigadier general of the Fourth division Army of the Cumberland under Gen Thomas. Former Ohioans Are Killed in Calif collision.
Four year old Luther Switzer died after being struck by a New York Central train in Sandusky. His mother Mrs Opper Switzer witnessed the accident. Separately Walter Murphy a lineman from Cleveland employed by Sandusky Gas and Electric Company was electrocuted while working atop a pole in South Sandusky.
Mansfield will run a municipal garden to store produce for winter use. Beans potatoes turnips cabbage and similar vegetables will be grown with prison labor used for labor assistance.
Washington B. Tyler a veteran Cleveland manufacturer died after sudden illness. He had led the W. B. Tyler Co. for more than fifty years and was founder and president of the firm.
Martine Ferry Clarence Duff, once a ferry boy who served in the British army and was briefly promoted, is now serving as a home guard in England after sustaining wounds earlier in his military career.
A Surrey regiment corporal reflects on dreams in trench life. He recalls a Croydon chimney sweep predicting gas exposure, a comrade dreaming of his tuberculosis-stricken sister who died soon after, a man dreaming of falling in the Lee marshes who was later nearly drowned, and the pattern of dreams rarely including thoughts of home as the war wears on.
Reports claim many electrocution deaths occur yearly yet are not tracked. New first aid involves lifting victims by the heels to shift weight to the shoulders and tapping the soles with a cane. Mouth care and tongue repositioning are emphasized as immediate steps.
A renowned scientist proclaims cubists are queer and the world is crazy except you and me. He claims dementia and mania affect many, noting mental attitudes crack soon, amid reactions to high living costs quoted from the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A reader asks about a barred zone and a buyer notes paying 20 dollars at a bargain sale today. The exchange references a belt and a restricted area in casual dialogue.
A New Jersey man attempted to corner his neighbor’s potato crop sparking a note that the mosquito, once viewed as the region’s most undesirable predatory insect, remains a nuisance in the area.
A Life magazine note recalls an Encore moment where the camera man tells Jack they must redo a stunt after the film fails. The sequence features a fall from a roof into a rain barrel and a steam roller incident, with the crew referencing film exhaustion.
Market report lists prices for flour including Winter patents and no 2 reds, corn, hay grades, oats, wheat, butter eggs poultry, live poultry categories, and live stock values. Entries cover butter and egg prices, broilers, fowls, ducks, cattle, bulls, hogs, and bologna with varied grade ranges and per unit figures.
A ten year old Muncie pupil pinned a small American flag to his trousers after a noon episode at school. He told his father he planned to deter a corporal punishment by signaling national allegiance, saying the flag would protect him from the principal's planned lickin.
In France a new language evolves among French and English troops enabling an English soldier with no French to communicate with a French soldier who has no English. The system uses private terms like nonplus to answer all common needs and facilitates rapid exchanges without interpreters.
An advertisement promotes ethine double strength as a guaranteed freckle remover with a money back guarantee. It instructs applying a small amount nightly and morning to clear the skin, noting most cases need little product and mentions a spare line about a separate column gag.
Chauncey Mitchell Depew recounts buying a spotted dog from a local dealer as a boy. He describes the rain washing off the spots and returning the dog to the dealer, who quips there was an umbrella that came with the dog, asking if he had it.
A 1916 letter from Druggist L A Richardson of Marine Illinois backs Swamp Root as a kidney remedy citing a dramatic recovery of a liver and kidney patient. The plea asks readers to write for a sample bottle and a booklet from Kilmer Co mentioning the newspaper.
Knowledge of trees invites gradual learning through daily walks. Beginning now, children can build a store of delight and interest by noticing one tree at a time and marveling at countryside wonders. A brief note on eye care and a casual mention of real estate advertising appear, along with a curious 1916 reference to conventions in New York.
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