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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1933
Page
7
Bombardment lights up Dorchester heights as Washington strengthens his lines and Howe withdraws. Amid evacuations Pat Fayerweather and Nancy Woodbridge navigate loyalty, love, and the looming York Island campaign while Colin Cabot echoes greetings at a Washington dinner and courts Nancy amid a tense, flirtatious cadence.
In Boston General Washington honors Colin Cabot for his arduous labors. He is named colonel and urged to rest, then invited to speak with Mrs. Washington in the library before heading upstairs. Colin speculates Pat has sailed with a British ship as Lady Washington listens.
In Boston during July 1775 Colin Cabot a liberty loving youth joins Captain Amos Farnsworth’s company and enters the Revolutionary army at Cambridge. He wins recognition from Patience Fayerweather and is assigned as an informal secretary, then sent toward Dorchester to bombard Boston as Ticonderoga’s guns move east.
Two Kitchener Ontario men visiting Buffalo bought United States cigarettes. Customs officers found the contraband after a car search. The men, not on speaking terms, faced questioning with a suggestion to share a cigarette from an extra map stash.
A Charleston area story describes a near blind Black man in his early twenties living in a one room cabin near Adams Run. He tills a small garden using unshod feet to navigate and prefers not to wear shoes. The Red Cross provided clothing, and he travels two miles to the Adams Run distribution point. He earned seed from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to plant his plot.
Harold Jennings, a wartime lieutenant, recalls attending the 1918 funeral of Grant H. Wirick in Bordeaux. Fifteen years later Jennings encounters Wirick on an uptown street in Salt Lake City and learns a hospital mix up had led to Wirick being buried in error after another influenza patient died beside him.
Holgar Hansen, 42, of Almonesson New Jersey, weighing 815 pounds and height five feet two inches, was locked out of Gloucester county jail after refusing for over two weeks to leave. He had been jailed April 28 for refusing a $300 bond to keep the peace following alleged detrimental remarks at a Deptford Township Taxpayers association meeting. When friends offered to post the bond Hansen declined. The warden offered liberty on conditions which he refused. Sheriff William Downer escorted him out and gave him $25, raised by Taxpayers association members to support him and his family with food.
In Shawnee Oklahoma a taxpayer challenged a property valuation notice stating it showed 40 dollars instead of 400. He paid ten times the billed amount, received a receipt, and left quietly, restoring faith in civic honesty.
A National Geographic bulletin describes Paris during Mi Careme when twenty arrondissements elect a queen of queens. The president gifts a wrist watch, the route tours iconic sites, and crowds fill boulevards with floats lampooning current events. Celebrations spread to Corsica Italy and Spain with Riviera cities active participants.
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