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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1920
Page
2
An advertisement urges readers to buy a small bottle of Danderine at drug stores for a few cents. It recommends pouring some into the hand and rubbing into the scalp, promising most dandruff and hair loss will disappear by morning with two or three applications. It claims hair will look livelier thicker and brighter.
Miss Keen expresses relief as Cholly recovers, echoed by the Boston Transcript noting his regained footing.
Advertised freckle remedy promises complete removal of freckles with nightly and morning applications. Buyers are urged to request the double strength Othine and are offered a money back guarantee if it fails to clear the skin.
A correspondent visits Poé lcapelle in West Flanders where a young fighting priest and his parishioners rebuild after shelling. He lives in a newly built chapel with khaki trousers and a rediscovered church role, aiding housing, clothing and relief for townsfolk and soldiers returning from reconstruction camps. The priest coordinates aid, signs for government grants, and jokes about becoming tavern keeper as cats and goats arrive for the rebuilding community.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a superior medicine with cures for kidney liver and bladder issues. It cites sworn statements from users and urges readers to request a sample by mail and visit drug stores for larger bottles.
A humorous exchange features Henpeck claiming a woman is unspeakable and the reply that she is exactly the right woman for him. The dialogue playfully contrasts stubborn miscommunication and romantic inevitability.
An old advertisement promotes California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children. It urges mothers to use the product to cleanse stomach, liver, and bowels, touts a fruity taste and a child’s dose on each bottle, and ends with a gendered note about an amateur poultry fancier.
An advertisement promotes a $100 reward for a remedy claiming to treat catarrh and related constitutional ailments. It touts a "Catarrh Medicine" for mucous issues and urges readers to send for a free trial from F.W. Co. Toledo Ohio.
On the streetcars the larger passengers are said to quickly claim the inviting seats. The brief item notes a social caricature about seating preferences among riders.
A London Answers piece argues women largely fail to keep straight lines in tasks. It cites examples from fashion repairs to bread slicing and picture hanging to claim women walk crookedly and cannot maintain a straight path over distance.
In vast fields prisoners recover thousands of unexploded shells while daily removal and fishing continues. Sparks from locomotives and fires ignite dry weeds, causing frequent accidental blasts. Roads in the area are guarded as danger remains from hidden munitions.
A Vigo county boy, seven year old Joseph McKee, plans to sit up Christmas Eve to see Santa. He considers making a dummy in bed and hiding to observe, after his mother suggests Santa would not leave him a gift if seen.
Cigarette popularity shifted from Turkish leaf to Virginia tobacco grown in Virginia, the Carolinas, and eastern Tennessee. Advances in cigarette-making machinery helped American cigarettes spread worldwide.
Spiders are considered omens of good fortune in superstition so killing one invites disaster. Brides who find a spider in wedding gown folds are said to face a prosperous married life ahead.
The process explains a method to create transparent paper by diluting castor oil with alcohol then dipping paper and drying in the open air. It notes ratios of castor oil to alcohol and air drying to achieve the transparency.
Market notes list corn, oats, butter, eggs, live poultry and live stock prices in Cincinnati. Includes No 2 white corn $1.70, Timothy hay $34 per ton, eggs from 41c to 48c, hogs and cattle price ranges, and calves up to $21 for top grades.
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as a remedy for constipation indigestion sick head ache and bilious conditions. It recommends drinking before retiring as a nightly course.
An untried anti air battery in the Toul sector goes into action for the first time. It shoots down five aircraft in a session, including one Bowie and four Allied planes, the commander bluntly confirms.
A cautionary exchange unfolds as Dr. meets a former patient Mr. Binks in the morning. Mr. Binks asks if speaking to the doctor incurs any cost, prompting questions about boundaries and compensation.
Fragmentary line discusses danger and a plea not to let prohibitionists find you in a bad situation reflecting tense moral climate and undercover action during the era.
A saying asserts that wealth built up over time endures if kept for a century. It implies lasting value beyond generations when properly preserved.
Jean Paul Marat, famed for his revolutionary career, was once Paris's most sought after physician not for skill but for women. Wealthy Parisian women crowded his rooms daily, competing for a word or a glance as he resisted their advances, even amid a hideous skin disease contracted while hiding in the city sewers.
Plute Pete praises a stranger as he wins money while being taught draw poker. Pye comments on the stranger’s beginner’s luck. The pair, along with Three Finger Sam, plan to replace the current entertainment with a game they themselves do not know.
A reader laments that youth does not appreciate youth, and even wealth earned in later years fails to prevent disappointment. The letter reflects frustration with the misused opportunity and enduring dissatisfaction.
The remark notes that retrieving value from discarded items is minimal. often the market price equals or exceeds what one would pay to acquire similar junk anew.
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