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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1925
Page
3
The article argues urban costs and crime drive growth of suburban zones around major cities. High city land values taxes and rents push families outward while crime and inadequate transit hamper city life. Commuting by car raises travel time unless a chauffeur or off-peak work reduces rush.
A look at vacant lots shows they often lie idle between houses, grow weeds, and accumulate taxes and interest. Owners may not want to sell at a loss, while lots attract dumping of trash and debris that complicates later building and gardening efforts.
A group of Daytona boosters staged a beach ceremony to pledge civic duties including voting tax returns and supporting officials. They burned and buried an effigy of the saying Let George Do It to symbolize a commitment to better civic life.
Henry Ford states that the modern city has reached its costs and a coming change will move industry to the countryside. He argues high overheads from water, sewage, traffic, and policing offset city benefits and that future large scale industry must relocate to areas with steady labor and lower costs.
A San Francisco Chronicle line frames home ownership as a hard won liberty. It argues that building shelter for loved ones is a duty inherited from forebears, likening neglect to failing to open an umbrella in rain.
Twenty Wisconsin cities entered a better cities contest to be judged on public education health location playgrounds libraries and parks. Walter S Deffenbaugh chief division of city schools will serve as a judge at the request of Dr John O Callahan state superintendent and Dr John J Tigert commissioner of education.
Miss Georgie A. Collins serves as assistant chief of Indian schools in the Indian bureau within the Interior Department. Her division oversees over 100 Indian schools nationwide educating more than 35,000 pupils.
Witty Witch invites all, promising a grand fancy dress party at her largest cave. Guests arrive in creative costumes from fairies to gnomes as lanterns glow and colors shift, with outside decor, dances, games, and a twilight finale by Mr Moon and the stars.
A teacher recounts telling a boy to stay after school and write one word a hundred times. The pupil allegedly inscribed Rosie with an ecstatic smile, suggesting the act was not a severe punishment.
A passer asks why the Leaning Tower of Pisa tilts. Ida jokes about drinking and leaning herself, while others suggest the tower’s foundation settled unevenly over centuries.
John McCormick’s silence on aging sparks a dispute among vocal authorities. Eldorado Petri of the Metropolitan Opera chorus argues that a singer’s retirement should be based on health and physique, not a fixed age. The debate centers on whether voices decline with age or if experience sustains melody beyond fifty.
Promotional notice extols Cuticura Ointment for pimples and blackheads with a five minute wash using Cuticura Soap and hot water. It advises daily use to keep skin clear and also mentions Cuticura Talcum as part of the regimen.
A woman fled her Grimsby home with a chemical extinguisher as a fire tore through a garage. The fire crew arrived and extinguished the blaze, with the resident returning home afterward.
Simon Naglic, sentenced to hang for his wife’s murder, gained 32 pounds during six months in a Belgrade jail. The note adds a reflection on grace and boldness from Homer about disgraceful acts by graceful sinners.
Advert reads a remedy for stomach distress urging immediate relief from gas and cramps. It claims rapid effectiveness with a money back guarantee if it does not help, and promotes immediate purchase of a bottle.
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