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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
2
A landslide gave La Follette victory in Wisconsin while Winsor H Goodnow won New Hampshire governorship. Other items include deaths of Gen Sir Pertab Singhji and Governor Emmet O Neal, various resignations, naturalizations, indictments in Herrin mine war, and a Ku Klux Klan march in Atlanta on Labor Day.
Allied reports say foreign American marines have secured a large Smyrna water front area to protect refugees as Turkish forces advance. Relief groups organize aid for about 200000 amid the Turkish push toward the city.
Fred Whitted, 56, shot his wife and took his own life at their farm home near Prospect. The report notes a series of Ohio incidents including transport and public safety events, storms in Butler county, and other local fatalities and removals in courts and schools.
An 1816 Alexandria tale centers on a veiled woman aboard the brig Four Sons and her husband who guards her identity as she dies. The widower returns yearly for twelve years to maintain the grave with a carved inscription about a forgotten identity.
Visitors to the cemetery at St Pauls Church in Alexandria Virginia linger before a notable monument whose inscription remains a century old riddle. The simple lines on the stone summarize what the world knows about the unnamed woman, prompting endless conjecture and intrigue among locals and travelers.
The inscription records the death of a wife aged twenty eight years eight months on October 4 1816. Erected by her distressed husband who sought to soothe the departed in death. The text reflects early 19th century mourning and memorial sentiment.
Description of Dutch harbor entry methods using two large flat-bottomed craft to lift and transport small trading vessels over shallow sand-beds. Water is admitted to sink the craft, then pumped out to raise the ships, enabling passage across shallows both ways.
An English officer described a freak rifle experiment using a wax candle. He fired six inches of candle with 33 grains of powder at five yards through four deal boards nine feet apart, candles perforating every plank. A candle weighing 1.25 ounces passed through first and then the dense wood of the others. A gamekeeper reportedly won bets by shooting candles through a spade.
When leather chairs look shabby wipe dirt away and rub with a cloth dipped in beaten white of egg. Rub with soft clean cloths until the leather shines like new.
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