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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1933
Page
7
Geneva, N Y Mary Thompson thirty nine mourned as Lusitania victim for eight years is found alive in Atlantic City A letter to a sister misread as believed dead prompted renewed contact with relatives Thompson had planned to join war work aboard the liner but unknowingly did not sail
In Toledo Ohio three dogs Hugo and Petersburg Virginia and Colo. rescue people and find lost money. Edith Davis followed a barking police dog to the creek where it pulled her son Howard Davis from danger. A Hugo man Ed Briezel used a match lit note to call help after a wagon wreck and freezing risk. A Petersburg businessman's missing fifty dollars turned up when a setter and pointer dogs retrieved the bag intact.
In England 22 MPs reportedly install bells at home to signal when the house rises or votes. Mrs. Geoffrey Mander says the bells test at 9 45 a m and 2 45 p m and ring at rising moments so wives can time arrivals, joking that she uses the clock to set hers.
Gary Indiana resident George Filgutt moved to Chicago taking only the house on rollers after moving out. Officials said Filgutt owed special sidewalk assessments and faced a pending mortgage foreclosure. He spent three weeks in the moving operation: first the family and belongings, then the house on rollers, and finally the concrete sidewalk slabs.
A female poodle and her adopted son, a baby jackrabbit, romp at the Bakersfield home of Mrs. Ww. G, rowner. The rabbit, apparently orphaned, was caught on Lerdo mesa during a family automobile trip and was immediately adopted by the poodle.
Patrolman Fred Sixt Jr arrested his own brother for manslaughter after a fatal car crash that killed a woman. He then faced arresting his father Harold Sixt for careless driving as Recorder Durtram ruled the summons valid and required him to answer.
The article discusses the Interstate Commerce Commission facing a period of rail industry readjustment. It explains the ICC’s broad authority over rates, through routes, and consolidations, including suspension powers and requirement to track funds. It notes railroad resistance to a proposed four-system consolidation plan and cites statutes from 1910 to 1920 expanding ICC scope.
A historical overview traces locks from 4000 year old Egyptian wooden designs to present day mechanisms. It notes the pin tumbler shift by Linus Yale Jr and the 1778 Barron fuse of warded and tumbler locks, leading to today’s complex combination systems and secure mechanisms.
A reflective line on lifelong memory of wasted spending that failed to bring enjoyment, noting how unused dollars linger as regret and lost value across a lifetime.
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