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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1920
Page
2
The 1920 census shows Vermont as the first state to lose population in the last decade, with a 1.6 percent drop to 352 421. The report highlights a broader pattern of economic and political developments across the United States, including wage talks, debt changes, and notable incidents from across the country.
A flood ofOhio items reports shootings injuring William Albrighton and Ida M Donald in Canton, a fatal wreck injuring Charles Rogers and J L Day, and deaths including William Skroush. Other notes cover civic bids, census counts, politics, auto accidents, fires, and strikes across multiple counties.
Secretary of State Staith announced that exact ages need not be given on registration. Multiple accidents claimed lives in Columbus, Newark, Cleveland, and Findlay as walls and trains collapsed or collided. Plans include a $1,000,000 OSU stadium drive and coal distribution measures in northern Ohio. Fire and liquor incidents, bank security losses, and local governance actions punctuated a drivers’ and workers’ period of disruption and rebuilding.
Paris reports the American actress Olive Thomas died after taking poison by mistake. The Paris police open a full investigation as details remain scarce. Thomas, born Olive Ellaine Van Kirk, rose from McKees Rocks to Ziegfeld stages before marrying Bernard Krug Thomas and later Mary Pickford.
Six bandits entered the First National Bank at Louisville Ohio at noon and forced two clerks into a back room. They held a customer at gunpoint in the vault and escaped with about $1500 from drawers and counter. They fled in a large automobile toward Canton after locking the clerks inside.
A Public Utilities Commission report notes Ohio’s natural gas production and purchases totaled 91.3 billion cubic feet less in 1919 than 1918, urging conservation as supplies dwindle and stressing the risk of severe weather shortages for domestic users.
An advertisement from the era touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female health issues. It features testimonials from Mrs Mitchell and others in rural Maine and Massachusetts claiming relief from backache stomach problems irregularities and nervous prostration after using the product. It stresses no narcotics and the use of plant extracts.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt recalls Henry Butterbean once a boyhood baseball captain with a vast dime-novel library, now fading from prominence as a warning of aging. An ad promotes Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claiming to aid liver health.
A brief Boys' Life quote jokes about water safety with a line about staying safe if you fall overboard. The remark plays on nautical fear and fear of drowning, reflecting youth magazine humor.
Advertisement notes that cold prone individuals can use Hall's Catarrh Medicine to strengthen the system and cleanse the blood, reducing susceptibility to colds. It claims internal action via the blood on mucous surfaces to lessen inflammation and restore normal conditions with druggist availability and free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co.
A quotation in verse contrasts a fish trapped in a net with a poor man’s legal plight. The line suggests the inescapability of entrapment by circumstance and law, echoing themes of justice and vulnerability.
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