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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1922
Page
6
A public notice urges women to consider kidney and bladder trouble as a cause of back pain and fatigue. It promotes a kidney liver and bladder medicine from Dr Kilmer and Co offering sample bottles by mail and mentions available sizes at drug stores.
An elderly neighbor, troubled by a noisy toy dog carried by a young boy visiting grandmother, asks to place the dog in bed to keep it from waking his younger cousin. The episode occurs shortly after the relatives arrived for the summer visit.
A boy recalls a magazine page with automobile ads and the letters F. O. B. meaning Frisco or bust, a memory sparked by a Shriners minstrel show reference. The exchange shows a family moment of recognition and humor.
Jim Kelly, chasing a pretty girl in a subway car, encounters John Laurence a Harvard graduate who resembles him. A mistaken identity leads Kelly to Laurence, who later helps connect Alice with her longtime childhood friend. Alice reveals she is now engaged to Laurence, after a fortuitous subway meeting and a ring marked by coincidence.
W R Miles reports an investigation of motor control through static balance using an ataxiameter to record body sway with eyes open and closed. Results show sway inversely related to neuro muscular efficiency, greater with eyes shut, and note that foot size and stature may influence sway requiring more observations for normal ranges.
A girl declares she will skip high school in favor of a business course. She tells the principal that after learning stenography she can become a private secretary to a big man. The principal asks about English instruction, and she says the course teaches correct speech and writing.
The Houston Post cites Mrs. Trotter and Mrs. Homebodys recalling Pike's Peak as a landmark activity. They discuss returning from Colorado and the enduring presence of Pike's Peak in family memory and conversation.
An alien claiming inability to understand English seeks exemption from jury duty. The judge retorts that the court does not hear such concerns, highlighting a blunt exchange that underscores tension over juror language comprehension.
Strickland Gillilan writes of wealth misjudgments and the thrill of a bad stock purchase. He recalls storing fake mining shares in a steel box, laments no dividends, and jokes that the worthless investment remains dear as a life lesson learned in Farm Life.
Archeologist Warren K. Moorehead of Phillips Academy unearthed three Caligo kia mounds near East St. Louis revealing 52 skeletons 23 funeral urns and multiple small artifacts. Finds include a large altar base a semi circular clay smelter and chunks of lead suggesting mound builders and possible lead smelting practices in the Mississippi valley.
France funds large families with prizes from M Cognaq. The program awards 100 prizes of 10 000 francs to families with more than five children and 90 prizes of 25 000 francs to families with at least nine children. Cognaq, rich from a Paris department store, sought to combat France’s declining birth rate.
Historians and anthropologists struggle to define the origins of the Gypsy people. Theories range from Israelites to Hamitic descendants, with many believing Hindu ancestry due to appearance language and customs linking them to Indian traditions and fortune telling practices.
A New York sidewalk grate near Broadway and Leonard Street hosts a two foot square soil patch that sustains lush grass. A truck driver seeded it with soil adapted grass, spading the plot with a restaurant knife and watching the blades thrive below the grating as feet wear them down above.
The piece explains that most microbes die from proper methods but spores can survive extreme conditions. Spores resist freezing to 400 degrees below zero for hours and tolerate boiling. This resilience explains why diseases like anthrax, caused by spore forming microbes, are hard to eradicate.
The New York Herald notes heroes of Homer prepared meals by themselves. It describes beans and lentils as common dishes, with Ulysses roasting beef and vegetables playing a key role at great ancient Greek banquets.
Badgers come out mainly at night and are seldom seen in daytime on the western plains. Burrows are numerous and signs of their presence are common, but the sexes usually act alone and are rarely found as a pair.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt uses dialogue about a chauffeur hired in California who once served movie stars and plans a new lifestyle with the speaker. The exchange hints at travel, work shifts, and a planned change in routine.
The essay argues that sanitation, while advancing health, faces endless microbial counter moves. It recounts how humans continually seek to subdue environments yet microbes adapt, from cloth towels to paper towels and touchless dispensers, with the hunter always gaining on the rabbit.
A Monument Circle shoe dealer touts a genius clerk who mishandles a sizing mix up. A woman tries a no six for a size ten, ends with a nine on the box and pays nine dollars for a six dollar pair, after the clerk smooths the error and jokes that size and sense matter.
A visitor urges the prisoner to abandon resentment and adopt affection and kindness. The bigamist retorts that loving his neighbor led to his confinement, underscoring a bitter irony in the encounter.
The annual assay commission reports to the President that last year’s coinage meets all legal requirements after testing numerous samples. Genuine 1921 money is deemed valid and within the law, allowing circulation without concern over quality.
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