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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1924
Page
7
Mrs. Percy W. Richardson of Stentor Maine says she suffered frequent headaches and fatigue until using Savtabie Compound. She notes she now has no headaches and feels energized, encouraging other women to try it based on observed benefits.
The oldest desert rats and prospectors face possible shutdown due to an invention by the director of the United States Bureau of Mines. The device locates underground ores by a sensitive electrical method and a patent has been applied for.
A detailed look at Chicago’s Loop underground freight tunnels built to ease surface congestion. The 62 mile network moves freight via 182 electric motors and 8000 cars 4 feet wide and 12 feet long through horse shoe shaped tunnels 42 to 45 feet below street level.
A historical note on Chicago’s Furniture Mart claiming the title of world’s largest building in the 1920s. Details include its 16 stories, block size 240 by 467 feet, 28 acres of floors, 20 million cubic feet capacity, and vast materials like 3 million feet of lumber and 700,000 face brick.
A quote by Emerson on honest work fulfilling both senses and thought. It asserts that personal approbation matters most and that the reward of a well done task is simply having done it, regardless of repeated defeats or outcomes. The message emphasizes intrinsic motivation in any craft.
In a whimsical tale from Australia a Tree Kangaroo speaks about life in a tree home. He describes his brownish yellow fur white waistcoat gray band on the forehead black ears and long tail aiding balance and jumping. He explains daytime sleep and nighttime travel and marvels at how humans lack his tree bound freedom.
A small boy questions dockyard sailors about being real sailors while a father explains they just sailed a ship across the ocean and will return in a week. The boy notes none of the sailors perform pirate theatrics and the father asserts their authenticity.
A five year old invites a dog encounter and speaks with his mother about a dog in the yard. The boy asks why the dog would scare his mother and replies with a pirouette claim of staying perfectly scareless as a passerby walks by.
Utah dairy specialist Ben F. Eldredge warns dirt in barn, cow, milker, and utensils contaminates milk with harmful bacteria. He urges clean barns, dry bedding, sterilized equipment, and sunlight or steam cleansing to prevent contamination, noting pasteurization cannot fix dirty milk.
Iowa State College dairy experts outline ten principles to boost profits from dairy cows. Key points include matching feeds to dairying, using pure bred sires with strong ancestry, weeding out unprofitable cows, rational feeding, attentive care, regular milking, year round succulent feed, fall freshening, and supplementing poor pastures with silage or soiling crops.
The article outlines phosphorus needs when forage is from acid soils or non legume crops and recommends lime carrying materials at 3 to 4 pounds per 100 pounds of grain. It notes benefits of lime minerals with legumes and the value of wheat bran and middlings for phosphorus and mentions further experiments on phosphate feeding across feeding systems.
The article ranks soy bean hay as a top annual substitute for clover or alfalfa and praises well cured oat and pea hay for dairy cows and sheep. It notes alfalfa provides high protein, and reports cows on good alfalfa producing over 300 pounds of fat yearly. It cites corn silage and alfalfa as best roughages, warns corn fodder and timothy as poorer, and suggestsSudden grass following oat pasture for dairies with little permanent pasture.
A witty quip about a new stenographer arc in an office. It jokes that she can spell but notes she has half the office staff under her spell with humor and clever wordplay.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment for pimples and blackheads. It instructs washing with Cuticura Soap in five minutes and daily use to keep skin clear, and urges including Cuticura Talcum in daily toilet routines.
Local residents Gabe Giggery and Zeke Yawkey discuss Uncle Bud Brizentine admitting age has slowed him. Brizentine allegedly shot at a Rural Free Delivery mail carrier and claimed he forgot the Civil War, saying he was once a Union man and a Confederate soldier misunderstood by the judge.
The article notes about 42 million letters pass through U S dead letter branches yearly as undeliverable. At 3.5 million monthly, if each letter takes 15 minutes to write, this wastes 10.5 million hours, equivalent to about 1,312,500 working days of eight hours each.
A playful musing on time and material goods. A boy makes a pun about a wrist watch as his mother buys carpet by the yard and wears it out by the foot, illustrating the everyday humor of simple objects.
An elderly immigrant mother writes a short tale titled King Solomon and the Flowers. She describes the queen’s trick with a natural and an imitation wreath, a bee’s arrival, and Solomon discerning the real flower, illustrating language learning and cultural adaptation.
A Denver Post quotation depicts tensions around a Sioux chief in an Indian reservation. The chief comments on city life as dangerous and hostile citing stickups and gunfire while noting the government grant to stay a month. The exchange highlights cultural clash and urban danger.
An old health advertisement promotes Postum coffee substitute as a life extending beverage. It asserts caffeine from coffee harms heart health and claims Postum provides nourishment, boosts strength, and reverses depletion over thirty days, urging readers to quit wheat and roasted grains and switch for years of health after age eighty.
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