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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1917
Page
7
The piece urges soldiers sailors and farmers to boost food production for Allies and Nation. It highlights American and Canadian land for wheat and grain, urging patriotic farming at home or in Western Canada to feed troops and support the war effort.
A bulletin from Ohio State University extension says poultry prices are rising and hatching should increase despite high feed costs. Chicks hatched on Ohio farms are at least 40 percent below normal, due to poor early hatches and high egg and feed costs. Farmers are advised to set many eggs in May, as pullets may lay by November and heavier breed cockerels could yield 8 to 10 pound capons by January. Gov Cox plans May 13 Mothers Day proclamation and Ohio officials push potato planting and prison labor projects while public notices probe canned goods hoarding. Ohio officials organize a large county fair boards convention to promote the back to the farm movement and welcome Marshal Joffre and Viviani, with French orphans pledged for aid. A statewide military registration holiday will be proposed to mobilize men for war and ensure a census, draft, and medical exams under county boards. Father J B Bis, a German-born priest in Columbus, pledges support to the United States.
In a hospital, a joke turns on a glass eater and a patient claiming he has a pane in his stomach. The exchange uses wordplay to elicit humor from medical setting.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura products for soothing irritated baby skin. It suggests a hot bath followed by Cuticura Ointment to prevent troubles, claiming the baby sleeps and healing follows. Free samples offered by mail with a book from Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
The passage promotes Dead Shot Dr Poory's Vermifuge claiming a single dose ends worms or tapeworms with no castor oil needed. It features quotable lines about a discontent wife and a husband who spoils her, presenting a humorous tone on economy and remedies.
Thirty states now enforce laws governing pensions for widows with children, expanding support for families.
A concise aphorism notes wisdom but urges virtue, suggesting moral character surpasses cleverness in value and practice.
The war draft plan would enlist 21 to 30 year olds with volunteers 18 to 39 possible. First quotas of 500000 for selective service, plus 500000 for volunteers and regulars, with total army strength around 2001000. Roosevelt volunteers barred. pay raises for enlisted and officers. strict prohibition rules at camps. three machine gun companies per brigade allowed. draft based on population. fraud penalties. officers to France. West Point class of 1918 to supply 154 officers. women’s liberty loan committee formed.
Washington outlines the universal service law with draft ages 21 to 30 and volunteers 18 to 40. It sets 11 million to be reached by draft or volunteers, with 1 million to be drawn by selective conscription in two drafts of 500,000. It details exemptions, pay scales, and safeguards around the army.
Twelve members of the council of soldiers and workmen delegates led by the president traveled to Schlusselburg to address the autonomous district committee. Ekcobeleff supported restoring the internationale and ending the war, even if it meant meeting Scheidemann and any adversary. Gorki’s Novala Zhizn reflects firm socialist pacifist stance.
Philadelphia reader recounts severe female troubles with side and back pain and monthly cramps. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports a full recovery and urges publication of her letter to help others.
The article explains that wave length is determined by a wave-meter and is four times the aerial’s length. It compares to a closed pipe and a tuning fork where resonance relates to length. It notes measuring with a ruler is inaccurate and a wave-meter provides better results.
A cynical remark about reducing the cost of living meets a suburban optimist who has given away angleworms from his garden. He hopes for luck in fishing and gratitude in others, possibly earning fish for breakfast.
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