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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1926
Page
7
Fairy tale by SY MAY GRAHAM BONNER about eight children on a bicycle picnic. They explore the woods, share food, rescue a cat, and end with twilight and a moonlit autumn landscape. The day is described as the prettiest seen all day long.
The text lists several classic riddles and puns. It features lines about a dog drawing breath, a joke lacking a point, mustard staying hot, fault in finding what is not, a day beginning with breaking, and a draught as both air and bank draft.
A 1926 medical feature notes pernicious anemia, once rare, now common. It outlines causes, public awareness, and the limited treatments of the era, including rest, diet, acid and arsenic, blood transfusions, and counseling against marriage for those with family histories.
A historical piece notes campaigns to prevent rheumatic fever to protect hearts in children. It cites the link between rheumatism and valve damage, calls for long treatment and specialized hospitals, and urges preventing damp homes, sore throats, and tonsillitis to curb rheumatic disease and subsequent heart damage.
The long range German cannon that bombarded Paris from over sixty miles is disclosed after the inventor Dr Fritz Rausenberger of Krupp dies. Details cover its 86 meter length, 154 ton weight, 8.2 inch shell, 660 pound charge, and two fuses. Three guns were dismantled, one exploded in the tube.
The Pan Pacific club launches a fundraising drive to place a monument or tablet at the Kauai landing spot of Capt James Cook, commemorating the 150th anniversary of his arrival and noting the voyage of the British navigator who helped discover Hawaii.
Fire destroyed Ravensworth a 139 year old Fairfax county Virginia mansion former home of Gen. Rooney Lee Confederate general. Looters sought access to liquor vaults and set the blaze. Loss estimated at 100000 dollars. building built by Lord Ravensworth in 1787.
A city health inspector says coffee was produced from sour and moldy dough discarded by bakeries in Jersey City. Two grinding plants were raided as part of the investigation into the adulterated product.
Paris reports M. Jollivet-Castelot, head of the Society of French Alchemists, says he produced gold from silver in laboratory experiments since 1908. He describes a process involving tellurium, arsenic, antimony, and sulfur compounds at 1100 degrees C, yielding about one gram of gold per 22 grams of silver with notable material losses.
Two testimonials describe relief after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Mayum Lynxon from McKee’s Rocks Pa says it revived her after a difficult postnatal period, while Mrs Hope L Smith from Floyd Va reports long term weakness improved through the remedy.
Germans celebrate elvers back on menus after Britain grants permission to catch eels in English waters. In the year after renewal, German trawlers harvested about 3,000,000 eels for restocking 130 lakes and rivers. Eels are shipped in 5,000 eel containers and are smoked before eating.
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