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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1920
Page
6
A nurse testifies that Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best medicine for pregnant women to stay strong. She notes the remedy contains no alcohol or narcotics and can be obtained from druggists in liquid or tablet form.
Jud Tunkins argues that the help problem worsens as many people are unwilling to help themselves, highlighting a lack of initiative and personal responsibility as a barrier to assistance.
An advertisement describes Catarrh as a local disease and sells Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a four food purifier. It claims to clean blood and the system to restore normal conditions and aid natural healing. Distributed by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
A tailor advertises suits with stylish cuts and shoppers seek a price cut announcement to attract buyers. The ad highlights fashionable tailoring and appeals for discounted pricing.
An old advertisement touts a kidney and bladder remedy named Swamp Root. It urges men and women to test the product by sending ten cents to Dr Selene Wien and mentions benefits for back pain nerves and fatigue. The piece closes with a general proverb about doubles and payback.
Washington enforcement tightens prohibition on sale of hops and malt to bakers and confectioners. War Department reports 554000 Victory medals issued with 6000 more requests pending. Britain and France warned the U S will not aid the blockade of Soviet Russia. Additional items note naval trips, ship sales, crop records, and political shifts in Washington.
Dispatches from official Ukrainian sources report the Soviet government assembled a 380000 strong army to suppress the Ukrainian insurrection in the Kiev and Odessa districts. Polish delegation to finalize terms with Soviet Russia leaves Warsaw for Riga led by M. Dombski who signed the preliminary pact.
Secretary of State Colby will sail for South America to meet Brazil Uruguay and Argentina between November 20 and 25 during his visit. A $10,000,000 Hog Island shipyard bid by J N Bardle of Bartle Steel in New York was rejected by the Washington shipping board. President-elect Harding interrupted vacation at Point Isabel to deliver Armistice day speech in Brownsville Texas to Americans and Mexicans from the Rio Grande valley. Herbert Hoover announced completion of a $28,000,000 fundraising drive for starving European children before leaving Stanford for Washington.
A Memphis dispatch reports Representative Hall of Tennessee's Fourth district was defeated for re election by a 890 vote majority for Republican W F Clouse according to official counts. Belated returns in New York and Oklahoma boosted the Republican majority in the House to 308 to 126.
James A. Perry of Georgia was elected president of the National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissioners for a one year term at Washington. Rear Admiral Thomas B. Howard, 66, U S Navy (retired), died suddenly at his Annapolis apartment from heart disease. General Pershing will visit Brazil late in November with a U S naval squadron, per Rio minister. Dr Samuel James Meltzer of the Rockefeller Institute, a noted physiologist, is dead in New York.
Three men arrested in Nebraska and Iowa in the big Burlington fast mail robbery from Omaha to Chicago. Authorities seek the suspects and loot, with estimates ranging up to 1.2 million dollars. The haul includes Treasury gold plus currency bonds and registered mail, with insiders suspected and no official amount confirmed.
A fire in the basement furnace caused smoke to fill the Cherry Street theater crowding 300 seats. The panic led to six children ages 2 to 18 killed and 12 injured as patrons fled after a false fire alarm. The tragedy happened while a film depicted a hero protecting his father from thieves.
A conference in Youngstown with B A Bryant of the Columbus Business Director for the Franklin County Farm Bureau and a State Farm Bureau Federation representative led apple growers and commission men to plan a campaign urging people to buy a basket of apples. The region faces a glut from a very large crop with hundreds of bushels at risk of rotting if not sold.
The Weirton Steel payroll of 93000 dollars from Weirton, West Virginia, was stolen from a registered mail bag after transfer from a Pittsburgh bank to the Post Office. The money moved via the Pennsylvania Railroad to Weirton, per officers.
Chicago records 169 homicides since January 1 1920 after two actresses bodies are discovered in Grant Park at Van Buren Street foot, indicating they were likely dumped from a automobile.
A letter from Migs Goldman reported that Washington says Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman have fled Russia and are now in the Ukraine after disputes with Lenin and Trotsky. A high official states they may be in Odessa or Kiev and will not return while the Lenin Trotsky regime holds power.
In Kansas City, Rev. Charles Draper pioneers a mobile church concept with his Martha Slavens Memorial Methodist church. During a Sunday evening service, members arrive by car and form a semicircular seating area around Draper’s car, with traffic assistants guiding the procession. Services are announced for the next Sunday.
A Grit editorial urges opening the mind’s many windows to flood it with light and broad interests. It warns against shrinking into self and petty isms, calling such conduct criminal and deserving censure for rotting community consciousness.
A professor quarrels with his wife over credit for a paper read at a club. She claims readers assume she writes it. he challenges authorship and proposes inviting colleagues to attend a meeting to deny writing it if they respect his reputation.
Market prices list hay and grain items with No 2 white corn around 97 to 98 cents and No 2 yellow near 97 to 98 cents. Butter eggs poultry cattle calves sheep hogs and hogs categories shown with varied price ranges and weights.
The ad touts Green's August Flower as an effective remedy for nervous dyspepsia constipation indigestion torpid liver dizziness headaches and related digestive issues. It asserts a 54 year record with thousands of households served worldwide and no failure in relief. It ends with a sales line noting promissory note timing.
Fragmentary text references Dr Peery and a "pent Photo" with noisy wording about cleaning inks and worms, lacking coherent facts or context. No identifiable event, date, or organization is deducible from the readable words.
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