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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1919
Page
3
An advertisement offers a 25 cent tube of Vunder-Balm to readers without local agents and urges mailing the notice to receive the remedy. It promotes Vacher Balm as a safe external treatment for colds and flu while noting other products like Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills.
A spinster recalls being kissed by a man with influenza two months earlier and learns the doctor doubts harm could still result. The exchange ends with the patient sighing that she enjoys discussing the topic.
A historical note states that widows in Korea may not remarry. It asserts widows never take a second husband even after a marriage lasting only a month.
British researchers report finding traces of light at depths beyond 890 feet underwater, indicating unexpected light penetration in deep marine environments. The discovery may affect understanding of underwater optics and bioluminescent ecosystems.
An elderly man at an eye hospital cannot read a wall placard even when moved closer. The doctor demands better sight, but the man reveals he never learned to read, ending the test with the quiet admission.
Comic exchanges on social nerves and marriage woes. A church gathering prompts sharp witticisms about spouses sociability, character and education of grandchildren, noting love’s blindness after marriage.
The article notes Pearl Harbor’s conversion into a major Pacific naval base, likening it to mythic changes in Philemon and Baucis. It discusses Hawaii’s strategic shift from tranquil paradise to a fortress with dry dock facilities and coastal defenses, serving U S naval needs.
A 1830s tale chronicles M Chabert known as the fire king performing perilous stunts in London. He swallows phosphorus, drinks oil at extreme heat, rubs a hot shovel on himself, and endures a burning torch before entering an oven at high heat. He defeats a $250 bet with similar acts and even cooks beef in heat while singing.
A boy named Marion Crawford used a wooden shutter as a method to calm anger. When furious he would carry the shutter around his room three times to settle his temper, a routine narrated from the Ladies’ Home Journal.
Southey meets an old woman on a stormy walk who says any weather is better than none. Lowell notes reading’s value, and recalls the Yankee proverb that odds exist in deacons. The passage frames personal choice and access to books as key to one’s path.
The Mar family of Scotland claims descent from 1093 making them Britain’s oldest. Campbell of Argyll dates to 1190 while the Grosvenor line and Duke of Westminster trace to 1066. The Hapsburgs reach 952 and the Bourbons to 864, anchors of great houses.
The Cincinnati market review lists prices for corn, hay, oats, butter, eggs, poultry, live stock, and hogs. Details include corn varieties from No 2 white to No 8 yellow, hay per ton with timothy and clover, oats grades, dairy butter and eggs ranges, live poultry prices for fryers and broilers, and cattle hogs ranges with various grades and weights.
The 1713 Boston Statehouse once housed merchants on the first floor and royal governors on the second. The building near the Boston massacre site later hosted Washington’s procession in 1789 and Garrison’s refuge in 1885. Restored in 1881, it now houses relics and paintings under the Bostonian Society.
Advert says Dead Shot Dr. Peery's Vermifuge cures worm infestations once and for all, asserting users can be free from worms. The source uses persuasive language to promote the product with bold certainty.
A humorous Chattanooga style exchange shows a neighbor teasing another by offering to turn on the hose. He misreads the request as she wants a page from his paper, and he offers the entire newspaper. The scene ends with lighthearted confusion and a shared laugh.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a harmless laxative for children. It claims the product cleanses stomach, liver, and bowels and emphasizes a tasty fruit flavor with bottle directions and urging mothers to say California.
A painter on a water tank in Buhl Minnesota narrowly escaped injury when a cow scratched its back on the ladder’s bottom rung. The frightened animal bolted with the painter and ladder attached, ripping the ladder loose and sending the painter sprawling unharmed after a quarter mile ride.
A description of how thunder results from lightning discharging through the atmosphere. The electric blast heats surrounding air, vaporizes moisture, creating a violent expansion and a deep compression wave heard as thunder.
A vintage ad asserts catarrh is influenced by constitutional health and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood acting internal remedy. It offers $100 reward if the medicine fails to cure catarrh and notes testimonials and price details from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio.
A Birmingham Age Herald quip notes that judgments of wealth come from the dog on the veranda, not the house or servants. The line cites a Great Dane as a sign of sizable finances and luxury.
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