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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1907
Page
2
District commissioners plan to ask Congress for public baths for public school students and attached laundries with drying rooms and 30 wash tubs for the poorer women. They also push federal liquor regulation with the Anti-Saloon League intensifying push for nationwide laws amid state advances.
Congress may realign interstate liquor shipments as states push to regulate dry areas. Debates focus on federal licenses for liquor sellers and whether federal action should support state liquor laws at state borders. The aim is tighter control of liquor traffic and compliance with state prohibitions.
Lieut Philip H Sheridan has been kept on the White House detail but is returning to active field duty in his regiment to pursue a future as a soldier. Rumors say several other officers will be moved from the White House, leaving perhaps only four of ten aids retained. The list last season included Bramwell McCoy Lee Harding Shackford MacArthur Train Read Bulmer Miller and others.
A noted War Department clerk and former telegraph operator died recently. Fellow operators organized a floral tribute and ordered a florist to craft a large pillow bearing the signal 73, meaning my compliments and remembrance, in telegram language.
Telegraph company staff mourned a clerk when a florist altered a floral tribute. Red roses bore the figures 25 instead of 73 on the casket and a pillow marked 23. The next day operators confronted the florist, who claimed unfamiliarity with 73 but referenced 99, suggesting a mistaken order.
In a city Evang elical church a bashful parishioner fears prayer and testimony. His deaf brother-in-law is pressed to intervene, leading the prayer, while the pastor and congregation watch. The man hopes to attend again as a silent participant. A 12 year old named Rachel writes a poem on wild flowers, and her editor father notes the bid to publish despite writing on both sides of the page.
New Zealand tale describes a Rotorua incident where a tohunga attempted to evoke omens from a dead Arawa warrior. As the priest recited, the corpse shifted slightly, prompting a triumphal cheer and belief in imminent victory.
A compact meditation on mass hatred as an unstoppable force. The speaker warns rulers that public scorn, when unjust, resembles a wolf and, when just, a dragon, and that tyranny invites collective vengeance from many. The Sahara winds and sands symbolize overwhelming force that defeats the powerful alone.
At age 12 Keir Hardie could neither read nor write and learned by studying shop-window notices. He taught himself writing and shorthand in a coal mine using a smoke-darkened white stone as a writing tablet. By 22 he left the pits to become secretary of a miners union and two years later gained a sub editor role at a local newspaper in Cumnock, his home.
A local tavern landlord exclaims Pottyville grows more metropolitan daily while a skeptical passerby notes the streets becoming dirtier each time he visits. The exchange captures town pride and quiet concern.
A convalescing merchant insists on proportional eating and reading. He imagines a steaming meal at the bedside as a nurse serves tapioca, while the doctor orders all actions kept in the same proportion. Two hours later he asks for a postage stamp to read.
A New York Sun feature quotes a dealer describing a surge of demand for special tobacco blends claiming to imitate or be the favorite mixtures of famous figures. People from distant regions request the exact edwin booth style blends, often enduring strong flavors before returning to their regular brands.
In a dialogue sample, the husband agrees to accept a nomination while warning of vilification. The wife praises the party recognizing merit, then probes about any prior engagements the husband may have had before meeting her.
The city earns the sobriquet Mound City from early settlers who found numerous elevations they deemed relics of the Mound Builders. Evidence traces to limestone bluffs forming a solid foundation for downtown business blocks.
A man on a country road halts an automobile and orders the driver to turn back to town. The traveler questions the stranger, who claims to be a farmer rather than a constable, and comments on the weather before departing.
A Delaware boy tied a bell to a rat, waking the household and attracting more rats drawn by the music. The tale mocks the idea that bells deter rodents, noting the new rat visitors danced to the sound rather than fled.
Joel Chandler argues that true success lies in benefiting humanity. He contrasts real scientists who embrace belief with skeptics who reject inspiration, noting many have achieved worldly fame yet offer no tangible societal benefit. He implies that only beneficial outcomes measure real success.
Kay Spence of Mexico Missouri, a noted horseman, won $1000 after a hunch led him to back Wing Ting at ten to one instead of Joaquin the even money favorite. Spence operates a large breeding stable and attends major racing events nationwide. Wing Ting won handily while backers of the favorite reacted with surprise.
A controversial exchange centers on Collier's Weekly and the Religious Press of the Country. A doctor of divinity now editing a major religious paper accuses Collier's of yellow methods and defamation while defending Postum and Grape-Nuts advertising claims and urging public judgment.
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