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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1923
Page
3
A Milwaukee resident Mary Saiecheck reports improved health after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound following illness and childbirth. The letter praises the tonic and its perceived benefits for women’s gynecological symptoms and overall well being.
An eminent medical authority warns against pills and salts that promise quick relief but cause permanent injury. He promotes Nujol as a natural lubricant that keeps waste moving, not a medicine, and claims it is harmless, nongriping, and used in leading hospitals. Get a bottle from your druggist today.
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root as a premier kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims quick gentle healing effects and offers trial bottles by sending ten cents to Kilmer Co. Also notes available in two bottle sizes and urges readers to mention the paper. An old bachelor quip concludes the ad.
Lord Curzon forwards a British note to Germany urging a new, broader German proposal to resolve Europe’s political and economic crisis. The missive warns Berlin it must reassess and expand their plans to a feasible basis for discussion, signaling Britain will not abandon reparations talks or its allied position.
Fire destroyed the Frank Voss & Son lumber yards at 417 West Seventh street, sweeping across the block between Sixth and Brighton, forcing nearly a score of Newport families across the Ohio River to take shelter as flames and water damaged homes and mills. Damage estimated at 125000 dollars.
President Harding hopes for another general downward revision of taxes during his term. He is encouraged by increased revenues from the present bill and overall prosperity while government expenditures are held down. The advisers caution taxpayers not to expect immediate tax rate cuts this year.
Vandals in New York dropped more than 1,000 stones on the iron door to the tomb beneath the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument in Fort Greene Park Brooklyn. The door broke in exposing the tomb where Revolutionary War patriots lie, held captive aboard a British ship in Wallabout basin. Other vandalism incidents have recently unsettled Brooklyn authorities.
The Brotherhood of Painters Decorators and Paperhangers of America District Council of New York authorized a general strike for 10 000 union painters effective Monday May 21 after members voted.
Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook of Cooksburg Pa won the DAR presidency general with 940 votes to 779 for rival Mrs G Wallace Hanger of Washington She succeeds Mrs George Maynard Miner of Connecticut Mrs William Cumming Story of New York withdrew from the race declaring her support for Cook prompting a convention uproar Mrs Thomas A Edison of New Jersey was chosen chaplain general by 871 to 746 over Mrs Rhett Goode of Alabama The Cook ticket won the rest of the slate A resolution urged Congress to enact a uniform divorce law.
Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana vetoed the cooperative marketing act and proposes a committee of practical farmers, experts, and legislators to draft a model law. He argues the bill would harm intended beneficiaries and cites constitutional concerns. The Indiana Farm Bureau Federation backs the vetoed bill and President W. H. Settle says no talks with the governor.
The article notes Admiral Robert E. Coontz to become commander in chief of the fleet succeeding Admiral Hilary P. Jones. It outlines other flag officer reshuffles including Edward Eberle, Thomas Washington, B S Robison, Philip Andrews, Newton McCully, Henry Wiley, and T Long with dates for June 30 or August 10.
A portrait of Rear Admiral Colby Mitchel Chester retired, linked to the Chester concession begun in 1889 after the Kentucky press off Constantinople. It describes a vast plan to place Americans in economic control of Turkey with a 2500 mile railroad and mining rights across 60,000 square miles of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia.
King George and Queen Mary visited battlefields and laid a wreath in Montecchio cemetery on the graves of 400 British soldiers who fell on the Italian front.
DOJ officials say Herbert Wilson in Los Angeles jail on a murder charge was not involved in the Wall Street bomb conspiracy. William J. Burns states Wilson claimed he made the bomb and that the prisoner believed he sold nitroglycerin without knowing its intended use.
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