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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1940
Page
8
Meditation quotes a line about a rising tide in human affairs and urges seizing the flood to avoid a life of shallows and miseries. The passage frames collective fate as a full sea requiring decisive action.
Batavia residents and visitors appear in a world of events from homecomings and fairs to church services. Indy visitor Martin McAfee joined kin. Batavia youth and families attended Columbus State Fair and local Labor Day activities. A large number of Batavians attended the State Fair in Columbus. Buick raffle winner Robert Croswell of Williamsburg held 12 chances. A Sabbath service featured Miss Virginia Kain singing God Bless America with Miss Bess Walker at the piano. Local meetings and visits list include Eastern Star in Batavia and numerous trips to Chicago and Dayton.
Italian archaeologists report uncovering ruins along the Tiber six miles from Rome believed to be the palace Cleopatra used during her 48 to 46 BC stay. Frescoes mosaics and statuary fragments suggest lavish entertainments for Marc Antony.
The Baltimore Sun criticizes Mr Roosevelt for evading Wendell Willkie's debate challenge citing the Battle of Britain. It argues debates on domestic issues must proceed despite wartime duties and lists failures of the New Deal era, asserting the President uses war worries as a shield.
A collage of short items includes a sensational hair stunt by Jack Silver of San Francisco, Mussolini approving Italian technical studies, a Dutch famine dog ring, Soviet rail plans totaling 7000 miles, a Saskatchewan meteoric stone find, the Brotherhood of the Footboard’s evolution, Eton College’s 1440 founding, US quinine plant aid to Brazil, and a decline in births per 100 mothers from pioneer times to recent years.
A federal survey finds persons aged 15 to 24 enjoy the best health of all age groups, with lower risks and stronger self rated well being than older cohorts.
Phoenix Arizona announces debt free status as the city pays off its final indebtedness of 42715 dollars, marking the first time in ten years that it has no outstanding debt. The milestone follows years of fiscal restraint and budget balancing.
A newspaper snippet notes accidents, not disease, as the main death causes for youths aged five to nineteen. The text mentions animal-related hazards and a medical service for New York City police fire and sanitation employees. It also references transparent anti-shatter paint sold in London air raid precaution shops.
A Chicago bulletin from the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee says crop health depends on soil vitality. Farmers should deposit plant foods via fertility replacement and soil-building practices to sustain productivity. The average farmer spends hundreds on repairs but under thirty on fertilizer, yet returns improve with proper soil nutrition.
Women's colleges suffered more than men's colleges from bequests and gifts during the depression years. The article notes the financial strain on female institutions and contrasts it with lendings and donations to male schools. It mentions Mount Katahdin in Maine as the first U S point struck by the rising sun.
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