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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1910
Page
7
In Ahmedabad on August 29 a meeting urged improving the low in spirits classes and allowing their seating with caste peers. Resolutions called for forming a Central Hindu association to raise these groups and reintegrate converts back into Hinduism. Proposals included schools clubs preaching missions and publishing efforts.
A Chicago mother recounts her five year old son’s battle with a widespread skin eruption. After failing with multiple doctors and a medical college, she used Cuticura Ointment with bandages, noting painful initial setbacks, then gradual healing after the second to fourth applications. The child is said to be cured twelve years later.
The note catalogs playful phrasings used by literary figures to address babies. Emerson purportedly favored “An a boodely boodely boodely boo” while Carlyle and others offered quirky variants. The excerpt attributes a series of imagined baby talk quips to notable writers, presented as a historical curiosity.
A passenger recalls Mark Twain’s Valentine day tale about an Irish suitor on the boat who accepts rejection with grace. He asks for the girl, she says she belongs to another, and he quips he wishes she were twins to claim half of her. Rosin rots clothes in soap. Easy Task soap promises cleaner washday with cocoanut oil borax naphtha and tallow at five cents a cake.
A playful exchange notes that a shock from a telephone depends on the speaker. A witty aside claims women find plays dull unless the leading lady changes gowns with each act.
An 1807 first sale claim for Pettit's Eye Salve touts it as a universal cure for weak eyes with yearly sales growth. The ad cites Howard Bros. of Buffalo New York as the distributor and extols the product as a wonderful remedy used by millions.
Washington reports Kentucky will receive two key appointments with Senator Bradley backing H. Thatcher for the Panama Canal Zone governorship and George W. Long remaining as United States marshal for the Western District of Kentucky. Thatcher would swap the district attorney post in Louisville, aided by Bradley, as Taft sizes up selections amid salaries around 14000 annual, with congress moving to cut.
Uneasiness grips Pittsburg as courts prepare to summon directors of major banks holding city deposits to testify about banks buying city deposits from councilmen. Investigators reveal weekly closed door meetings where graft charges were discussed and ordinances steered for profits. Twenty council members are under indictment with many expected to resign.
A report from Manila says eight men were killed or wounded when a gun on the United States cruiser Charleston exploded during target practice at sea. The Charleston is en route from Manila to Olongapo with no details yet received.
Louisville on March 26 reports total offerings last week at 2,311 hogsheads with 1,053 burley and 1,258 dark. New burley offerings were small and of poor quality. Cincinnati sales confined to 17 Zimmer-Spanish cases and 20 Wisconsin cases, generally poor quality. Zimmers $4.30 to $9.10 per 100 lbs and Wisconsins $2 to $6.35. No notable market features amid very limited break.
Eight people were injured in a rear end collision of two crowded street cars on the Swope Parkway in Kansas City Missouri. One car had just started moving after a stop when a second car that could not be controlled struck it at the bottom of a hill.
Mrs Elizabeth Burgess of LaGrange and her son in law Morton F Hill were in a car hit by a train on the West Side. Burgess was killed instantly and Hill was seriously injured.
The International Paper Co. prepares for shutdown as workers at the Glen Falls mill vote to walk out at a mass meeting in Ticonderoga. Between 175 and 200 men leave their positions.
R G Dun and Bradstreet report warm weather lifting retail and wholesale activity across centers in the west and northeast. Iron and steel demand strengthens while pig iron prices fall. bleached cottons and fabrics see price revisions amid steadier leather and hides markets and rising export per east markets. Funeral of data on wages and strikes noted with ongoing production curtailments and trade uncertainties.
Mr and Mrs Alots Diste and their son Charles were instantly killed when their carriage was struck by a Philadelphia and Reading railway train at Sellersville Pennsylvania.
Wheat prices ranged No 2 winter red 1.18 to 1.20 per bushel with No 4 winter red at 1.05. Corn No 2 mixed 59 to 64 cents, No 2 yellow 60 cents, No 2 white 62 to 63 cents. Oats No 2 white 47 to 48 cents, No 2 mixed 46 to 47 cents. Hay prices No 1 timothy 19 to 19.25, No 1 clover mixed 17 to 17.50, No 1 clover 16.50 to 17. Mill Feed bulk 24 to 25.50, mixed feed 25.50 to 26.50, udlings 26 to 27.50. Flour Spring patent 5.60 to 5.90, spring fancy 4.90 to 5.25, winter patent 5.65 to 6.00, winter fancy 5.05 to 5.40. Rye flour pure 4.70 to 4.90, blends 4.80 to 4.95.
Live stock prices in Cincinnati dated March 26 show bids for cattle at 7.25 to 8.25, extra 8.40 for some, with butcher steers 7.00 to 7.75, heifers 7.75 to 7.85, cows 6.60 to 6.75, canners 2.75 to 4, bulls 4.75 to 5.66, extras 5.75 to 5.85, calves 7.50 to 10.00, hogs at 9.75 to 11.10, sows 8.00 to 10.60, pigs 7.26 to 10.25, and sheep extras 6.75 with good to choice at 6.26 to 6.75.
Advertisement asserts Dean's Kidney Pills restore kidney function and filter waste, preventing rheumatic pain and urinary disorders. Testimonial from Rev. Abram Weaver of Georgetown Texas cites recovery from back injury with kidney disorder and blood-tinged passages after using the product. Sold by all dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York price 50 cents a box.
A shopper asks for a chicken she can fry roast or stew in any style. A dealer responds that a suitable bird is available and can be prepared any way without harming it.
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Paten Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A three year old on her first zoo visit clings to her father as an elephant appears. She whispers she will not go too close fearing she might frighten him, reflecting a gentle moment at the Detroit News-Tribune.
A dialogue traces age mysteries from Eve to the sons of Adam. Youthful Student questions who was the oldest woman after Methuselah, while Father deflects noting the question as a profound mystery through history.
An older woman from Baird Washington reports relief from kidney bladder and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier. The letter claims doctors gave up and credits the remedy with a complete cure, urging others with similar troubles to try it.
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