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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1917
Page
3
Hospitals seek scrapbooks to interest convalescent soldiers with pictures cartoons short jokes and stories. Books filled from magazines photos and homemade art can be mailed to servicemen overseas or at home. Keep content cheerful and uplifting as these keepsakes pass along among friends and troops.
A fashion note describes a moderate price winter coat designed for teenage girls. It features bolivia wool with fur bands, straight lines, muffler collar, a simple belt, pockets added, and button closures. Color pairings favor brown, taupe, wine, or amethyst with black or dark banding.
Niksah describes the Sandhill country and southern recreation. The region offers mild winters, dry climate, pine uplands, quail, foxes, and hounds for hunting. Visitors enjoy night hunts for raccoon and opossum, plus growing interest in canoeing on Lumber and Pee Dee rivers through cypress swamps and pine forests.
The text explains that elephants have twenty to twenty three teeth per side of each jaw and shed a new set as old ones wear out. It notes their age for voting, their continuous tooth replacement, vegetarian diet, and daily routine of feeding between nine and midnight with a sunset drinking period guided by a leader, varying with the rainy season.
A Huntington school class was asked to bring tablets to school. The smallest girl presented a sugar coated sphere and said there were no tablets at home so she brought a pill.
Maude Adams remarks that Kaiser speeches lack victory, yet carry hope. She cites Sir Squire Bancroft visiting a sick friend with grapes, noting the friend’s gratitude. Bancroft adds a grim joke about avoiding black grapes in serious cases.
The report lists prices for flour and grain products including Flour-Winter patents ten ninety, winter fancy ten forty, corn varieties from No 1 white to mixed ear ranging from two to two dollars and eight cents, hay goods up to twenty seven fifty, oats at around sixty two to sixty four cents, wheat red grades from two twenty six to two twenty, butter eggs and poultry prices with creams and firsts, live poultry and various live stock figures, and hogs priced from twelve to sixteen dollars per hundred.
A vintage advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as quieting coughs easing sore throat and lung inflammation. It promises a restful night and easy morning expectoration, noting fifty two years of production in America and wide sale in civilized countries.
Jim Garry joined the Sixth regiment and served 17 days before obtaining leave. He returned home to find his uniform and outfit sent back with a note saying he quit. He cannot quit the soldier’s job and is again in the ranks.
An advertisement claims catarrh is a constitutional disease needing treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is sold for 75 cents and allegedly works through the blood to the mucous surfaces. It offers a $1000 reward for any case it cannot cure and promises testimonials are free.
A couple in a humorous exchange is described as crazy on golf and auction sales. They allegedly talk in their sleep with Boggs shouting Fore and Mrs Boggs replying Four and a quarter. An advertisement promotes Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills for indigestion relief.
An old sailor tells a joke about wine tastes between American and German sailors. The punchline notes the German sailors prefer to stick to port, wryly contrasting American wine preferences.
For cleansing purifying and beautifying the complexion hands and hair Cuticura Soap with Cuticura Ointment offers effective preparations at low cost No massaging steaming or creamings required Free sample by mail with Book Send a postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston Sold everywhere Ad.
The Louisville Courier-Journal notes army recruiting ads offering cooks without a required service period, remarking that this shows the army understands the nature of cooks. The same edition carries an ad for Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, liver pills first marketed forty years ago, claiming to regulate liver and bowels.
The judge remarks in a distant exchange, asking about a wife being hard to please. The reply notes the speaker has never reached that stage, delivering a dry, humorous courtroom moment.
A famed writer criticizes a beefsteak as not tender in a restaurant. A waiter sighs and reveals he mistook the man for one who always writes original lines, noting the customer left with the same tired speech as others.
A pithy reflection on political life urges reading opposition papers to understand self-perception. The defeated candidate dislikes meeting sympathetic supporters, while a question about preference for jam contrasts table etiquette with transit choices.
A brief wry remark noting that reduced speech by a man shifts interpretive burden to his wife. The line underscores domestic miscommunication and humor about marital dynamics.
Two boys aged seven and eight overhear adults discussing skeletons. One boy asserts he knows what a skeleton is and adds a blunt judgment that skeletons are bones with people off. The exchange captures a humorous child’s misinterpretation of anatomy.
A proverb notes that the generous or charitable response of a good loser may lead to a better marriage. It suggests humility and forgiveness strengthen relationships, especially for a husband, implying enduring respect and harmony.
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