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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1924
Page
6
Kittie Jones quarrels with Lee Longstreet over a wig bet on a film set. He wagers that her hair is a wig and, after she reveals the truth, he confesses he once worked as a top wig maker in New York.
The Geographical Journal highlights the shift in navigation history from pendulum clocks to John Harrison the English carpenter who mastered a sea clock. Earlier timekeepers by Huygens failed due to pendulum and no temperature compensation. Harrison’s design proved its worth on trial voyages to Jamaica and Barbados, with copies soon in service. The spring detent escapement, developed around 1780, remains largely unchanged today.
A reminiscence from a West Indies tale describes a mistress and maid named Sarah. After Sarah takes a holiday to attend a funeral she returns cheerfully and later declares she will marry the corpse's widower, claiming the holiday granted allowed that life. The anecdote appears in the San Francisco Argonaut.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns cocklebur plants are poisonous to swine cattle sheep and chickens. Deaths attributed to burs may result from ingestion of very young plants before leaves develop, though burs cause mechanical injuries and seeds are highly toxic.
A playful exchange features Holty asking Tolty about poetry and Tolty replying that writing is simple just laying down one line after another to rhyme with it. The dialogue humorously frames a weary approach to verse.
Twentieth century fashion notes celebrate knitted millinery with velvet foundations and jacquard patterns. Hats feature pressed stitches, tapestry and brocade effects, plumage, and faux fur in yarna and sephyra. Colors range from black and brown to purple, green, blue, and orchid as winter headwear trends. By TULIA BOTTOMLEY. 1934 Western Newspaper Union.
A soaked kitten blown to a storm battered house befriends three rabbits and a kind family. He grows calm and confident, defends the rabbits from a dog, wins a cat show prize, and learns that a good home transforms even a bedraggled start into happiness.
A juvenile classroom joke unfolds as a teacher asks what a shepherd is and a student humorously answers with a misheard phrase about lambs, prompting a gentle exchange on definitions in a playful scene.
A tomcat sits on a sewing machine then, after pondering, causes a comical rash of mischief. He counts ten eruptions in his tally and finally, as folk believe, ends with a ram into a ransom note of whimsy.
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