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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
3
Mrs Minnie Turner of Anadarko Oklahoma a nurse credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid health improvement for a run-down condition backache and kidney pains. She says five boxes did so much she is telling everybody. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An Australian Stock Exchange member guards a wagonload of goods during a cold night. He asks the colonel for the wagon’s value and offers to visit the camp to collect a cash check for about £200 so he can go inside and warm up. The colonel’s reply is not recorded.
A traveler and Arizona Al discuss a newly made grave near the desert. The editor of the Weekly Cactus Spine is buried after a misprint claimed Cal’s baby would bring happiness, later described as a two headed baby prompting a funeral.
A Washington girl recalls dull mornings and heavy work from an unhealthy breakfast. After trying Grape-Nuts with milk as recommended by her father, she reports improved energy, shorter walks to work, and newfound vigor to perform her duties.
In Rockwall Texas on March 8 1930 Pearson Ellis identified by Mrs. Arthur McKinney as the assailant of her attack was burned alive at a public square after a posse overpowered the jailer and removed him from the Rockwall county jail. William Clark son of a farmer was killed during the pursuit and a second unnamed Black man escaped before Ellis was secured and executed.
The Ohio Legislature defeated a bill that would set maximum bond limits for cities, halting proposed constraints on municipal debt. Lawmakers opposing the measure argued it limited local financing options while supporters pressed for fiscal discipline.
Columbus dispatch notes the Ohio House rejected Senate amendments to the Ritter penitentiary rebuilding bill, notably opposing a new women’s prison site while preferring reconstruction under a board of managers. Senate approvals included high school inspectors and industrial school measures. the Hawkins bill banning interference with telegraph and telephone lines also passed.
Colonists may buy one way tickets from Chicago to the Pacific coast via the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line for $33 during March and April. Double berth in a tourist sleeping car is $7 and travel is through to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland without change. Inquiries to A Hutchison Manager Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago NL During the Shopping Maude Men deceitful best friend trust issues.
A mother from South Shields recalls a grease burn to her baby who lost skin on one side of the face and head. After applying Cuticura Ointment for five weeks the injury left no scar, with the child described as having velvet skin. Also notes a British traveler’s remark on American prices.
Henry C. Jacobs a Central New York labor agitator was shot twice by his wife who then killed herself. The wife left a public statement accusing nurse Harriet Garner of Chicago of breaking up the home.
Examiner G. L. Tatman reports irregularities totaling 7668.36 in Champaign County. Of this, 6008 in illegal fees and unclaimed money, 453 unreturned to the treasury, and 1654 in authorized payments. Officials repaid 998, leaving about 5000 due. Probate Judge Owen 1217, Clerk Talbott 545, Surveyor Pratt 520 recorded as illegal fees. Delinquent: taxes pursued from about 3000 corporations under Willis law. Melancholy man William Walborn, 56, of St Paris, O, hanged himself amid two weeks of acute melancholia.
A newspaper snippet touts Hall's Cat Cure as the only universal cure for catarrh, claiming it cures constitutionally and acts internally. The text includes a string of humorous exchanges and an apparent unsolicited ad motif with a Houston Post quote and a joke about a meal jacket.
A boiler on a locomotive exploded nine miles north of Dayton on the C H and D railroad. The blast instantly killed the fireman EF a Tripp whose home is Lexington Kentucky. He had been lodging at Elmwood Place near Cincinnati. The engineer suffered burns.
A dry petition with 7 026 signatures was filed in Springfield Ohio under the Rose county focal option law. Election date set for March 29 as 8 051 votes are needed to carry the county dry and supporters claim a 2 000 vote margin. Miss Fannie Hageldant 40 was found dead with a bullet hole in her head at a Morgans Station area farm near Columbus indicating murder.
Charles Tice, 42, of Dayton, Ohio, collapsed at a Springfield business telephone on March 6. He appeared desperate, spoke briefly, then ceased. A girl nearby summoned help and he was found dead beside the phone.
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