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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
8
Batavia area items report church events and social visits, injuries, and hospital news. Births and marriages appear alongside sales pitches for clothing, furniture, and household goods. Community notices include dances, lectures, and church revival dates with addresses and sponsors.
A county record lists bills allowed for labor and services including Raymond Weaver, W. E. Bauers, Peter Krubler and others for Jackson pike and related projects. Also notes a resolution extending the start of work on the Ohio River Electric Railroad to January 1, 1914. Additional items include bridge labor, lumber purchases, engineer services, and various costs. Money to loan offered by Batavia Building & Loan Co. and local ads for lodging and People’s Liniment.
Miss Nellie G. Robinson agent for C M L Traction Co of Milford was arrested on arson charges and discharged after a preliminary hearing before Mayor Savage of Blanchester. A man’s statement led to the arrest. he is now in a lunatic asylum. Robinson held letters showing she was in Indiana when the fire happened and plans to sue Hartford Insurance for 50000 dollars damages.
A girl searches the street for her escaped pet pig Minnie after a neighbor mentions it. The note reflects on genius unappreciated with a Chicago inventor facing grand jury scrutiny over a self returning dollar.
A child taught Socrates had an unpleasant wife and drank hemlock says the philosopher died from an overdose of wedlock. The piece notes how vocabulary mixups can prompt odd, erroneous explanations for his death.
A dreamy eyed young writer proclaims poets are born not made provoking the long suffering editor to exclaim disbelief at anyone seeking credit for creating them.
A recipe advises boiling white enamel utensils in a strong baking soda and rainwater mix to restore whiteness. In a separate vignette a minister asks who gives this woman away at the fourth wedding of a noted divorcee while her three former husbands sit in the rear pew.
A New York Journal item notes a false claim that Africans never sneeze and that their descendants remain pure no matter where they live. The piece challenges the stereotype as unscientific and misleading.
A humorous exchange on righteous indignation from Mr Yeast and Mrs Yeast in Yonkers. Mrs Yeast defines it as when a man gets indignant and does not swear, while Mr Yeast questions the understanding.
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