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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1925
Page
7
A Cincinnati and Philadelphia woman describes severe nervous instability and fatigue, reporting improvement after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as well as the Sensitive Wash. She notes better health, appetite, and the ability to work, urging others to seek information.
Ma Ferguson told a story in Austin about a nervous mother facing possible blindness. Her eight year old daughter comforted her with the line urging optimism, illustrating a simple bedside wisdom.
Liverpool steamship owners present a device dubbed the prophet of the tides to the Bidston observatory at Birkenhead. The instrument can forecast ocean tide times globally 50 years ahead and provide tide times for the past 500 years.
A brief note reports Mrs Rocker complains that her maid vanished without warning and stole no jewelry, while Mrs Locker laments others’ luck as her own attendant left with no jewelry.
A Washington Post report outlines dramatic parachute experiments and real world rescues. Experienced jumpers delay opening, a novice loses gear yet survives, and pilots escape failure with controlled descents.
An 83 year old Slough inventor spent twenty years perfecting a tone improving plane instrument with a leading piano maker. He finally achieved a breakthrough but his wife died just as success arrived, leaving him prostrate and saying there is nothing left to live for.
Iceland plans to draft all men aged twenty to fifty for police work after a year of public unrest following a Russian Bolshevik deportation order. Police faced strong opposition from locals and a voluntary citizen army had to intervene in a confrontation outside the Russian's residence.
A Florida oyster yielded a mass of pearls, an extraordinary find in the state’s pearl fisheries. The shell housed about 500 pearls ranging from pinhead to cow pea, in colors black brown cream and white, embedded through the oyster’s body with a thin skin visible on both sides. Only the oyster’s muscle gills and mantel were free of pearls.
J Malcolm Bird editor of Scientific American told Medill School of Journalism in Chicago that real spirit voices exist though no proof they are spirits. He cited genuine clairvoyants who see past present and future and spirit writings with powers beyond the writer.
Article argues new car accessories improve efficiency and safety. Front and rear bumpers with signaling devices, anti skid chains, spotlight aids, radiator covers, fuel filters, shock absorbers, and improved cutouts boost performance and reduce wear. Any such addition can raise second hand value and lower insurance and repair costs.
A spring check of the motor car keeps it in top shape. Restoring it to near new condition improves ride quality and resale value, while neglect leads to higher repair costs and discomfort on the highway. Early fixes prevent bigger bills later.
The windshield rattle results from glass becoming loose in the frame making closure difficult and risking breakage. If the gap is moderate, pack shellac into the frame opening with a pointed tool or brush, applied slowly to secure the glass.
The article explains that water through splashes or rain is not harmful to tires. Moist air and humidity rot cotton fabric tires, especially when stored, while dry dark conditions help preserve them. Cold tires resist humidity better.
The piece urges proper tire care from the start to avoid costly patches and early failure. It argues against repairing worn tires and warns that patched inner tubes and fabric-separation risks reduce reliability and pleasure in motoring.
Instruction explains how to assemble a spring tie bolt on autos or trucks by stacking leaves, aligning them crosswise like umbrella ribs, and tightening the nut. Steps include gripping the bolt head in a vise, placing the last four leaves, crosswise arrangement, seating the bottom leaf, then sliding and tightening each leaf before reattaching clamps.
A driver observed a motor truck thought idle on a downhill grade was actually moving uphill in reverse. He near lost control trying to understand the feat. The truck used reverse gear to pull a heavy load, catching the driver by surprise.
Dairy inspector W H Skitt advises on reliable ways to mark milk and cream cans. Methods include brass name plates or embossed names on the can body, or plainly painted addresses. Embossing costs about 50 cents per can, with savings when many are done together. Proper marking prevents delays and mix ups at depots, dairies, and express facilities.
Wisconsin dairy expert prescribes calving time care including maintaining good cow condition, a comfortable calving stall, readiness to treat milk fever with an udder inflation kit, and postcalving steps such as not milking dry for 48 hours, feeding lightly for initial days, then gradual full feeding, removing the afterbirth, and training the calf to drink from a pail.
Article argues dairy profitability hinges on breeding. It notes daughters of common cows sired by good pure bred bulls outperform dams, estimates western cows average under 2600 pounds milk yearly with 4 percent butterfat about 104 pounds, and suggests replacing poorer cows with pure-bred, high producing sires to lift state herds.
Early lactation cows are more sensitive to feed, water, and weather shifts than later in lactation. If calving cows drop milk soon after birth, even meticulous management struggles to restore production, so dairymen must preplan to feed a balanced ration adequately.
A young couple parts at a station as the train pulls away. The man vows to write daily while the woman tearfully accepts the separation. He dashes after the train to ask her name, amid amused onlookers. Kansas City Times. Also an ad for Dead Shot worm medicine follows.
A playful reminiscence hints that a composer named Wagner wrote the tune played at a wedding, prompting questions about who Wagner is and why the song remains tied to life’s moments.
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