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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1929
Page
2
Portland, Ore. Infuriated after a man attempted a robbery, Irwin Fahrlander, a grocery store clerk, grabbed a fruit knife and pursued the robber who had entered with a gun demanding money. The enraged clerk warned him to leave, and the robber fled as Fahrlander gave chase.
Thomas Fialowski of Buffalo, 30, was arrested near Herkimer, N Y, for the New York Central train holdup. He claimed escape from two prisons in two years and listed prior sentences in Auburn and a Missouri prison. Watches and about $40 were found on him and a bystander fired at him as he fled the moving train.
In Essex Market court Allen Smith testified that Charley Fitzpatrick saved him in France in 1917 after a shell hole injury. Smith, now afraid to press charges, said the two men have lived together since and that the stabbing was amid a drunken argument. The magistrate discharged Fitzpatrick.
Otis Owens, 38, must attend church every Sunday for six months and stay sober or face a $10 fine and 30 days on the state farm. Judge Clifton R. Cameron handed down the sentence after Owens admitted completing a 40 day farm term for drunkenness and claimed he had not attended church since boyhood.
Ginger a Baltimore police canine stood in a smoke filled basement guarding 25 canaries in the burning home of Martin L Bauer. The heroic dog perished while protecting the birds during the blaze.
The late Henry W Savage praised Kipling's cruel humor at a Harvard club dinner in Boston. He recounted a macabre joke about a condemned man who cheerfully awaits execution until his brother reminds him it is Monday. The remark underscores Savage's taste for sharp, dark wit in literature and theater.
The highest trustworthy meteoro logical observation was made at Pavia Italy on December 7 1911 in a sounding balloon reaching 35000 meters or 21 77 miles. The record height of an observation from a captive balloon is 9200 meters or 5 7 miles. A captive balloon may be sent only as high as the length of the wires or ropes holding it.
The Changing East notes that motor cars are now common in China’s large cities including Canton Peking Hongkong and Shanghai. Taxicab services exist and many mandarins own cars. Thousands of American cars have been sold in China in recent years.
The readable text shows a disjointed quote about race winnings and attempting to recover money. It mentions pruning and denatured taste suggesting a discussion of taste or product alteration without clear context or names. No verifiable events or entities are present.
Dr Harriet Clisby, aged ninety eight, ends a life of work travel and adventure across the world and now settles quietly in London after a long career in medicine and service.
A saying compares mental effort to physical toil, claiming four hours of intense thinking drains tissues as much as ten hours of manual work. It presents a metaphor about fatigue and cognitive strain.
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