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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
3
Aтоwners often undermine skilled painters by meddling with materials or rushing work. The article cites wasted money from poor results and urges using a proper painting guide from National Lead Co. It also includes quips about domestic plans, a courtroom anecdote, and a coffee health note about Postum.
A fragmented page blends humorous tales about a minister’s longer sermons with assorted 19th century advertisements. Entries reference a clergyman’s boast, Pettit’s Eye Salve, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, Garfield Tea, Brown’s Bronchial Tracheaes, and Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, among other product pitches and social quips. Names and places are sparse, but the piece evokes daily life and commerce in a period newspaper.
An English visitor muses on the absence of a Washington birthday grand display while noting green decorated cities on St Patrick’s Day. The piece extols St Patrick’s mission to Ireland, building churches schools and industry, translating Latin, and spreading learning and Christian virtue through labor and devotion.
A 1907 St Patrick's Day piece recalls two foes in a 1906 quarrel, later turning to harmony among Irish and German patrons. It notes the mythic true shamrock and the mayflower label's botanical confusion among New England plants.
A medieval iron hand bell preserved in the National Museum of Dublin is discussed as possibly not belonging to St Patrick himself. The artifact, dating to about a century or more after his death, may have been used in early Christian times rather than by the saint.
A promotional notice touts cascaroyal pills as a mild blood purifier and constipation reliever for farmers. The product combines castor oil, lemon, cherry, and sulphur, claims superior effectiveness and cost, with Blackburn Products Co. of Dayton Ohio offering 15 pills for 10 cents or 45 for 25 cents and free samples by request.
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