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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1930
Page
7
An essay argues temper is a necessary trait when balanced, praising a calm friend yet warning against excess. Temper can drive personality and spur action if kept under control, likened to a dynamo that motivates achievement. The piece advocates better and stronger tempers constantly under leash and will.
A reader letter rails against the reducing fashion sweeping society. It argues Paris styles drive thinness, notes lunchroom hunger due to lettuce and buttermilk dieting, and laments guests’ needs. The writer links slenderness to an accelerated, restless era where men pursue lean physiques as signs of modern progress.
Journal excerpt comments on changing tempos and critiques on diet and exercise regimes for women, praising moderation for health longevity and enjoyment from a 1930 Bell Syndicate source.
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union guide promotes substantial sandwiches for growing boys and active men. Recipes include Mutton Sandwich with mint and pickles, Roast Mutton with thousand island dressing on rye, Veal loaf salad on white bread, Spiced Veal with vinegar horseradish and mustard, Mock Chicken with veal, celery and eggs, and Pork celery nut salad on bread.
Chemists report lilacs and other spring flowers can be forced to blossom at Christmas by exposing plants to vapor of ethylene di chloride or ethylene chlorhydrin.
India has 257 million acres under cultivation with about one third devoted to rice. The data highlights the prominence of rice farming within the country's agricultural landscape.
A garbled 1930s Western Newspaper Union item contrasts a fanciful deer tale from Jacksons Hole with a long name analysis of Louise and Lydia. It blends mock wildlife imagery with speculative horoscopes about careers in music writing and public life.
Gypsy groups use patterans as signs to indicate chosen routes and travel conditions. Patterans may be twisted branches or fallen leaves arranged along paths for guiding followers.
A description of a math game using a large square on brown paper or hat box, using a button and red and blue crayons. Players toss the button from two feet away, scoring the number it lands on and missing turns on lines. On vacant spaces players may double their last count. The goal is to reach fifty.
Pocahontas aged twelve senses danger as Capt. John Smith, loved by the white children, is held prisoner by Powhatan’s tribes. She pleads with her father to spare him, recalling friendly ties between Indians and whites and urging a peaceful path amid looming feast and judgment.
In a Powhatan council, Captain Smith faces execution as two stones signal death for the captured "friend." Pocahontas pleads and Powhatan halts the ritual, declaring the captain not to be killed, calling him friend, and sparing him.
Two of seven ancient manuscripts found in Wasserburg city archives are confirmed genuine. They include portions of Wolfram von Eschenbach poems and long Willehalm sections, previously unknown in part, with other fragments.
The text states that American money is the sole legal tender in Alaska Hawaii Porto Rico Canal Zone American Samoa Guam Wake and Midway. The Philippine islands use the peso. In the Virgin Islands Danish currency remains legal tender until 1934.
A Detroit News excerpt notes a large employer supports varied rest pauses to improve worker performance. It cites research indicating even within groups some employees rest better after starting with work.
In parts of France the old coin term pistole still appears in horse trading circles. The word hails from a historic French coin once worth ten frances and endures nominally today in casual finance among buyers and sellers.
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