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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1931
Page
2
Photographed procession at Puri marks the annual Jagannath festival in Orissa where the massive ceremonial cart is drawn through streets. Thousands of pilgrims gather for bathing of the god and the return to his temple, underscoring deep reverence for Jagannath as a universal deity.
In a tense woodland scene Peter Rabbit hides as Old Man Coyote and Reddy Fox circle Paddy the Beaver’s pond. He weighs waking Honker the Goose or risking the geese drifting to shore while predator eyes tighten the danger. Peter steels himself to thump and flee.
Maribel Vinson of Winchester Massachusetts, the champion girl skater, trains to become the U S sculling champion. She learned rowing at Harvard summer school in Cambridge and paddles daily on the Charles River, pursuing a sweeping athletic career beyond skating.
The passage notes autumn flowering crocuses as suitable for rock gardens and borders, distinguishes them from colchicums by leaf size, and mentions colchicums as handsome but less suited for rock gardens. It also includes a recipe fragment for cake topping and a corned beef hash dish with instructions.
A short poem reflects on the absence of a reply mail and the ache of waiting. It urges keeping friendship alive despite distance, comparing an unanswered letter to a rose that withers without water. The piece emphasizes small words as comfort to absent friends.
Housekeepers seek inexpensive meals and care for time and material. The Economy Spice Cake uses bread flour cornstarch and baking powder with a sugar syrup and oil plus cinnamon nutmeg and salt.
The article profiles Samuel J. Rusk, famed Wisconsin stage coach driver and later governor, congressman, and first U S secretary of agriculture. It notes his height, prohibitionist stance, feats pulling a coach, Civil War service, and rise to national leadership in the Harrison administration.
A German naturalist has mapped morning bird calls to time, noting the chaffinch sings around 1 30, backcap about an hour later, quail between 2 30 and 8, hedge sparrows 80 minutes after, followed by blackbirds larks and titmouse, with sparrows starting between 5 and 5 30. The schedule suggests listening to birds can tell the hour without clocks.
The original plaster casts of Abraham Lincoln’s face and hands and the first bronze casts were presented to the National Museum on January 25, 1888 by a committee including Augustus Saint Gaudens, Thomas B. Clarke, and Richard W. Gilder. They were purchased from Douglas Volk, son of Leonard D. Volk, who sculpted them from Lincoln’s living features.
Mrs Peon praises a milliner hat bought for a song. The man responds with a calm statement that a case of mistaken identity occurred, suggesting the woman believed him to be a well known singer.
The city will save $400 next primary election day. Four men will be out of work and Manhattan will be minus one election district because George Schrader has moved. For two years Schrader was the only voter in the Thirty-eighth district.
The agnostic view argues that agnosticism is a statement of not having found a basis for belief while atheism is a firm declaration of disbelief.
A Country Home item warns that business interests will expand into neighboring towns if local governments fail to improve infrastructure. The notice urges readers to put their towns in order to avoid losing growth opportunities.
A playful exchange from Pathfinder Magazine features quips about a half mile race on branches and a joking exchange about a departed wife. The dialogue toys with social pretensions, tolerance, and family fortune amid absurd imagery.
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