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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1915
Page
7
The passage records gossip about Adam having two wives and local mischief about attire. It notes a joke about poker money on a Boston Transcript page and mentions a useful study and arithmetic lessons. It also contrasts circus plans with children busy in tango teas and fox-trot functions at home.
An advertisement touts Cuticura ointment and soap as gentle, effective for newborns and easing rashes. Separately, a Los Angeles bank vault uses mirrors and bright lighting to deter tunneling, with concrete columns and a white-tiled pit for visibility. A Wilson North Carolina girl is saved from a rabid dog by a smaller dog that dies after being bitten, buried with honors.
In Edmonton Canada the city council funded a local gold mining effort along the Saskatchewan river. About 200 unemployed men worked under Klondike veterans, earning roughly $1.50 to $2 daily for August and September, offering work without extra taxpayer burden.
A conservative Massachusetts woman reports six years of using Grape-Nuts for all ages in sickness and health. She cites it as a meat substitute, best served dry with cream, plus Postum and fruit for breakfast, noting improved health, steadier nerves, and weight loss.
Question set for elementary school certificate exam in arithmetic and language. Topics include insurance math, bank discount, discounts on shoestrings, division and rate problems, land area pricing, weight distribution across trucks, household purchases, verb grammar, conjugations, sentence diagram, syntax of an offensive quotation, travel routes, geography and industry queries, Nile floods and irrigation, Arctic fauna, glacier effects, Yellowstone and oil regions, and classroom theory grouped into three topics on pedagogy and school standardization.
A long school prompt surveys U S history governance with Cuba and military lessons, naval record, election characters, Benedict Arnold, colonial governments, short ballot effects, and writing drills. It covers physiology, literature, geography, botany, and orthography with varied prompts and exercises for student work.
German and Austrian forces press on from the Baltic to Roumania and into France and Belgium. Dukla Pass and Tarno w captured amid claims of 40 000 to 50 000 Russian prisoners. Russians deny a decisive victory as reports await Grand Duke Nicholas statement.
Mrs Simpleton endures a blunt proposal from Mr Tarter who asks for a plain yes or no and, after she agrees to marry Jennie Jackson the next day, the suitor disappears leaving only emptiness as she reaches for him.
New York May 8. The Lusitania departed with 110 passengers aboard despite a morning ad signed by the Imperial German Embassy warning of war between Germany and Great Britain and that vessels in the war zone near the British Isles may be destroyed. The warning did not prompt many cancellations.
Mattoon Illinois May 1 The jury was instructed to return a verdict of not guilty in the Harold A Ronalds murder case. Ronalds had been accused of killing his wife on New Year s night. Mrs Ronalds was found dead January 2 after a night of drinking. The coroner s jury had charged the physician with murder after an organ examination revealed ruby colored poison.
Berlin reports a German airship dropped bombs on several Bogliah submarines in the North Sea. One submarine was sunk.
Mrs Joseph Aselin of 606 Fourth Avenue Minneapolis says two years of pain and thinning were cured after taking the third bottle of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She recommends the remedy and invites letters for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
A nine year old Belgian boy in a Christ church dispensary dislocated his thumb while in the trenches story. The physician fixed the bone as the child joked about the war and his German foe, showing courage and humor in danger.
A humorous exchange frames spring fever and ague as a doctor patient quip. The patient jokes that his temperature rises when he begins work and that at the office he feels like shaking off the labor. The witticism teases seasonal laziness with a dash of medicine humor.
Over 100,000 packages of Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder are used by German and Allied troops at the Front for instant relief of corns bunions and aching feet. It rests feet and eases walking. Sold everywhere 25c. Try it today. Don’t accept substitutes.
In a playful civic tale, Willie-Paw explains the saying to settle a plumbing bill. The line doubles as a parental lesson in accountability and streetwise wit.
A fragmented newspaper ad promotes Marine Eye Remedy for red and watery eyes and granulated eyelids from the Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago. It also advertises Red Cross Ball Blue soap as a household product and references a Toledo Blade quotation about precedent.
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