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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
7
John Henry Jingletop seeks a trifling vanity at a barber shop and plans cocktails and theater with a flirtatious manicure girl. His wife Mary interrupts with a birthday reveal and a chastening dinner plan, exposing his mistaken confidence and clever excuses.
A fashion note praises the skilled seamstress who can stretch a small budget into stylish outfits. It describes two afternoon gowns, one with a straight Tricolette line and another in georgette with a high back neck and open front. Each design features a sleeveless jacket effect, satin ribbons, square buttons, and a decorative girdle.
The piece describes the arrival of a girl in her first silk dress and the duties it implies, praising taffeta for its practicality in coats and dresses for three year olds. It features a four year old wearing a dark blue taffeta frock with a ruffled collar, satin accessories, white socks, and black slippers, plus embroidery details on alternative frocks.
The article highlights organdie and novelty cotton dresses enhanced by vivid sashes, embroidered voiles, and trailing sash ends. It notes contrasting shade insertions in organdie tulle and tucked organdie to add visual interest to frocks.
The article notes that more hand-worked effects outshine narrow lace insertions. It mentions yellow or gandie used with gray organdie and white tulle to decorate pale colored dresses.
New novelty ribbons are described as brilliant and versatile fabrics that could be used for evening bodices, girdles, and panels, while being linked to restrictions on women’s expenditures.
The author explains how dew forms after sunset as surface cooling causes moisture to condense on leaves and blades of grass. High atmospheric humidity yields dew while dry days do not. The piece also covers hoar frost, fog formation, and how electric waves can disperse fog, plus notes on humidity, rain, snow, sleet, and hail as outcomes of moisture in the air.
Constable Sam Slackputter reports a raid on The Right Place store last night. A wagonload of silk shirts socks shoes neckties cigars was stolen leaving little practical clues. He hints the culprit could be three or four young farmers.
A historical note explains how the term A Good Trencherman arose from trenchers used as eating boards. These white wooden platters, likely maple, were hollow on both sides to hold meat on one side and pudding on the other.
A brief note tracks how the phrase safety first became a ubiquitous English expression. It highlights common understanding of its meaning and the core principles it represents in daily life.
Market notes list prices for corn oats and wheat with various grades and bids. Hay and clover values shown with Timothy hay at 89.50 and clover around 20 to 36, plus cattle and hog quotes across quality ranges and weights.
City and suburban exchanges in the Houston Post relate a buyer noting a lot near the railroad station was not underwater as advertised. An advertising slogan for Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills promotes natural digestion. A quip about Ellen and her jealous husband ends with a pun about a cloak and a design.
A quoted exchange shows respondents debating direct nominations and their relation to primary facts, revealing partisan views and concerns about electoral processes. The dialogue highlights tension over nomination methods and public understanding of political structures.
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