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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1929
Page
2
Julia Bottomley notes embroidery reshapes 1929 fashion with embroidered coats blouses hats bags and shoes. Tweeds offer varied weights and colors from orchid to steel blue with basket cloth and fringe trimmings gaining popularity in daytime wear and accessories.
William Hope Harvey plans a 130 foot high pyramid near Monte Ne Arkansas to enshrine modern civilization. The structure will include vaults with books, records, inventions, art and languages and will feature a bandstand with space for 1000 listeners and a sequence of plaques urging discovery of a civilization’s death.
Paris. Van Lear Black Baltimore publisher was in Monte Carlo after his airplane made a forced landing near Bordighera Italy. Engine trouble forced the plane down while Black and five staff were returning to London from Capetown. Spectators watched repeated landing attempts before a final shore landing near Torre Nervia.
Mrs Martha Fawkes Haun lectured at the Domestic Science club in Waco Texas asserting all remote ancestors were brunettes. She argued time and environment produced blondes and that brunettes think retrospectively while blondes drive world progress.
Pittsburgh patrolman Fa Hari Saba arrested Miss Katherine Ceriich after she rebuffed him. He took her to the North Side station where Captain Block ordered the cop jailed and fined ten dollars for unclear charges including an alleged lese majeste.
West Point cadet Red Cagle, famed Army halfback, endures 22 hours of gravel marching as punishment for missing a Hoboken boat. The discipline bars him from track this year while he proves his officer readiness through strict obedience under the grays of the academy. He and fellow cadets toured New York’s Museum of Natural History on an educational trip before missing the ferry back to West Point.
In Columbus Ohio B E Welsh forty three and his stenographer sweetheart Eleanor Porter were found dead in his car near New Albany. Police say Welsh killed Porter then killed himself after his wife refused divorce and he faced an illicit four year affair. Welsh was auditor and secretary of Gwinn Milling Co. He left a fifteen year old daughter. A cameo engagement ring and a gold wedding band were found with the pair.
A blond woman drove a sedan as a bandit stepped out on Chicago's South Side and shot payroll carrier Harry Winters dead as Arthur Leland handed over $780. The pair fled in the sedan.
Mrs. Julia Hames of Bournemouth England celebrates her ninety first birthday by learning to drive a car. She previously learned to ride a bicycle at age sixty two.
An advertisement from Des Moines Register seeks one person of good character in each locality to introduce camping grounds opposite Mt Vernon. It promises money and a Washington trip to interested applicants via Gibons and Gibons at Suite 608 No. 8 South Dearborn Street Chicago Illinois.
A terse musing notes that he who can take advice at times is superior to one who can only give it. The line emphasizes humility and the value of listening over issuing guidance.
A physician recalls 47 years of practice teaching that constipation will occur despite good health habits. He favored natural remedies and promoted Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild vegetable laxative not habit forming. He advised daily bowel movements and offered free trial bottles by mail.
The item hints that a single figure tied to silent bravado may also be the same person known for exclamations such as By jove. The note suggests a link between restraint and emphatic expression, inviting readers to reconsider the subject's public persona.
An early health ad touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as an herbal tonic to cleanse impurities and aid liver function. It claims to restore strength when weakened by illness and low weight, noting availability in tablet or liquid forms and a price of 65 cents for tablets.
A prominent figure has died leaving a substantial estate estimated to exceed significant value. Executors identified are preparing probate filings as heirs and beneficiaries are named in official notices. The case outlines potential claims and asset allocations to follow through court proceedings.
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