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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1938
Page
8
Local notice outlines a newspaper offer from Clermont Courier with pricing options for one year plus six months and three months. Includes bundles with Cincinnati Post Times-Star and Enquirer at 4.25.
Caroline Ansmaer travels with Catherine Winspear. Lillian Reisinger visits Kennedy Heights. Supt. Moore and Deter travel to Pennsylvania. Sam Ausman circulates county commissioner petition. CIC picnic June 16. Batavia Eastern Star June 13. church lunch June 15. Beech Forest D A R meets June 14. Gardening notes and social events abound with dinners, visits, and club meetings through June 15. 41 bills of sale for 41 cars and 7 trucks filed in May in Clermont County court.
J B Church and Rev Smith lead services with Walter J Bauer speaking for foreign missionary work. Sunday school 9 30 morning worship 10 39. Y P S C E L 715. Midweek service Wednesday 8 pm. Batavia M H Church min R L Budd with Franklin Morrison U S Supt Sunday school 9 30 morning worship 10 30 evening 8. Gospel team leads morning service. Prayer and choir practices scheduled.
A lawn fete is held at the Summerside M E church grounds on Friday, June 17 with homemade ice cream, cake, candy, soft drinks, fish pond, water melon, and lunch. Supper served 5 to 9 pm. all are welcome. The article also includes a basic explanation of why seasons change.
It was estimated there were about 330 tribes when first discovered by the white race, but many have been exterminated through warfare.
Observation notes that red squirrels frequently collect spruce cones into piles but often chew or tear cones off branches and spend more time eating or playing than piling. The behavior highlights the species' scattered routines and tree activities.
A Chicago Tribune writer outlines three curing methods for pork: sweet pickle for hams using a salt brine with sugar and nitrate of soda, dry salt layering, and a light brine for bacon. Curing times span 20 to 75 days at 36 to 40 degrees, followed by smoking. Lard production methods and byproducts are noted.
The Great Eastern, later renamed Leviathan, the English steamship built in 1857 and once the largest afloat, endured continuous misfortune from launch. Upon its 1888 breaking up, a sailor’s superstition linked the misfortune to a discovered human skeleton wedged between the ship’s inner and outer skins.
The enamel on plumbing fixtures is crafted from about 20 ingredients sourced worldwide. Tin oxide comes from the Malay States, kryolith from Greenland, and barium carbonate from Germany among others used to form the glass-like coating.
Independence resident R G Carpenter found a dark spot on his dining room trim and suspected termites. A vacuum dust bag revealed an insect inch and a half long. Comparison with field prints showed the creature to be a pruner, an insect that bores oak trees to deposit larvae and later bores through timber.
Supt P K Moore releases an honor roll listing students by grade with years noted. Among names are Janet Anstaett Richard Bruner Elaine Piercefield Ruth Abraham Emila Huss Marybelle Shepard Hazel Wider Margaret Glass Rollo Murphy Jessie Colter Helen Glass Thelma Mann Clara Barbara Stagg Ruby Perkins Harry Bender Edwin Evanshine Nick Lang Eugene Winemiller and others across grades from One Year to Seven Consecutive Years.
The annual honor roll features students from Grade One through Seniors with many named individuals across multiple grades. Notable entries include Janet Anstaett Iona Colbert Marion Duddey Earl Brion Beverly Hauck James Horton Anna Mae Huss Billy Jenike Margaret Liston James McCloy Dorothy Parsons Doris Pointer Ellen Roessler Leroy Smith Helen Woods Patricia Zimmerman and others.
A writer in the New York Times notes that static electricity is the oldest form known, derived from amber meaning electron. Friction with fur or resin builds charge, two like charges repel, opposite attract, and brush discharges glow. Volta’s 1800 cell marks shift to dynamic electricity and the dynamo follows Faraday.
The earliest clocks used weight power limiting them to fixed positions from 1300 to 1500. Peter Henlein introduced spiral springs, enabling portable timepieces. Early mainsprings were short and thick, needing fusees for power uniformity. later longer thinner mainsprings with isochronal adjustment improved balance vibrations.
A dark coastally residing goose, the white-cheeked goose, is darker than the Canada goose and differs in migration. Unlike Canada geese with long annual migrations, the white-cheeked may stay in the same region year round or for life.
The Florence Nightingale pledge for nurses declares a vow to live with purity, practice faithfully, avoid harmful drugs, elevate professional standards, keep confidences, aid physicians, and dedicate care to patients. It emphasizes loyalty and welfare in nursing duties.
The piece notes tipping dates back to 1775 with English waiters and customers. Some trace the word to a Chaucer era verb to tip, while a Washington Post account cites coffee houses that used tip boxes labeled Tq9 Insure Prompt Service or TIP.
Carbon steel wire used for piano strings has a tensile strength of 350000 psi. The material properties influence string tension and instrument tonal characteristics.
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