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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1939
Page
8
The fragment lists pricing terms for a periodical: one year at 81x months and three months, with editor and business manager ratings and a $1.00 price. The readable portion hints at publication staff and subscription options.
A line from Polonius to Laertes in Act I Scene III asserts personal integrity follows naturally from self truth. It ends with the warning that one who is true to oneself cannot be false to others.
Local column highlights social visits and events in Batavia and nearby areas. Mrs Ella Wolf and husband visit George Wolf and sister. Okie Stepp arrives from California. many guests visit relatives in Cincinnati Chicago Kentucky and Florida. Church events include a district meeting and a Ladies Aid bake sale with related Luncheon and tea plans at local churches.
A brief health notice highlights two or two and a half measures of typhoid vaccination as protection against the disease, emphasizing preventive care and public health guidance.
Ohio editors and lawmakers urged rejection of Bigelow pension amendments. Edwin J. Bath and the Ohio Farm Bureau challenged the plan as a gift of public money to the wealthy and the needy alike. Critics warned of a 2 percent land tax and highway and school fund raids, predicting costs far exceed revenues and a state financial collapse.
The last General Assembly enacted reforms for the November 7 1939 election. Precinct officials must be residents of their precinct and electors. Voters must be state residents one year county residents thirty days and precinct residents twenty eight days prior. Moving within a county after twenty eight days allows voting in the new precinct. Sample ballots will be printed on colored paper with Unofficial across the face. Absentees more than fifty miles away may vote by applying to the county clerk by 6 30 p m Thursday before election. Ballots received after the deadline are not counted.
Rev Smith presides at U RB Church with Sunday school at 9 30 and morning service at 10 30 The Call of Autumn YPSCE at 7 30 pm Midweek services and choir practice also scheduled Batavia M E Church minister C R Spangler leads morning service 10 30 and evening service 7 30 Next Sunday is Annual Missionary Sunday with a requested strong offering Harold Guard League meets Thursday after school
Frank Sheperd and family along with Olmier Kennedy John Thomas and wives Mrs Amy Wormly and Mrs Mollie Fields attended a reunion Sunday Oct 8 at Wm Wields home in New Castle Kentucky. Five Fields children attended among 11 grandchildren and 81 great grandchildren. A basket dinner was served on the lawn and the day closed with songs and prayer led by Geo Roberts.
The document states that on Thursday at 6 30 P M the sealed envelope shall remain as received and be destroyed later as provided by law.
The first fall meeting of Clermont County Sportsmen Inc. will be held in the Bethel School Auditorium Wednesday night October 18 at 8 PM. William Dowdney secretary Batavia says a guest speaker from the Division of Conservation will give the principal address of the evening.
The coming year officers include President Fred Winter of Batavia, Vice-President Earl Donald of Felicity, Treasurer Robert Hannah of Bethel, and Secretary Wm. Dowdney of Batavia.
A grasshopper plague struck the United States in 1856 and a subsequent outbreak lasted from 1874 to 1877. The latter infestation persisted for three years and brought widespread rain across the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
The 1940 Ford introduces a steering column gearshift and a controlled ventilation system. It adds improved hydraulic shock absorbers and Sealed-Beam headlights, with deluxe models featuring a stiffer spring suspension, softer springs, a torsion bar ride stabilizer, and refined interior appointments and upholstery.
Notice seeks a middle aged couple to perform general housework and yard care. The man may work elsewhere on weekends or other free times. For details call Batavia 8854. 7th.
Goldsmith Maid, famed trotting horse, is buried at the Stud farm in Trenton New Jersey. A monument over the grave bears the inscription naming her queen of trotters for seven years with details of birth in 1857 in Sussex county death on September 23 1885. Her best record 2 14 was set in Boston in 1874 and she earned 364200 the world record. Bud Doble drove her and Henry N. Smith owned her.
More than 6,000,000 people in the United States rely on the automotive sector for employment across manufacturing, raw materials, sales, road construction, insurance, and transportation sectors.
The division of aeronautics at the Library of Congress in Washington DC holds the most comprehensive compilation of aeronautical material worldwide.
Practically all winter tomatoes come from Cuba, arriving by two boatloads weekly.
Chicago rupture expert E. J. Meinhardi will be at the Gibson Hotel in Cincinnati Ohio on October 16 17 and 18 presenting his shield device. He claims rapid reliable closure of hernias without surgery or injections and offers private no charge demonstrations, with emphasis on male attendees and white only policy.
W J Strouse of Mt Washington Ohio will sell at his residence on Five Mile Road near Markley Road about 3 miles from Forestville on Saturday October 14 1939 starting at 10 am all farm implements antiques household goods 50 bushels of corn and other items Terms cash for 10 and under and credit with security for larger sums 5 percent discount for cash over 10 Auctioneer A M Ellis Clerk R C Ayer
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