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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1912
Page
5
A Batavia subscriber testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved a household member's dropsy symptoms and swelling, with lasting kidney relief. The piece also lists various local notices, sicknesses, visits, and social events from Amelia and surrounding areas, including health remedies and community happenings.
The ad touts Electric Bitters as essential for executives and workers alike, with a Georgia man claiming four bottles cured rheumatism, liver, stomach, and kidney trouble. It also promotes Foley Kidney Pills, praising relief from long term kidney and rheumatic symptoms and urging substitutes be refused.
By week or day, 25 cents per bed or meal. A good home cooking feed stable connected. Square a half above town hall on Main Street. Miss Karn Exton.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture offers prizes totaling 370 in gold for a Boy's Wheat Growing Contest for ages 12 to 21. Lead with cash awards from 100 to 5 dollars, and potential free trips to Washington or the Ohio State Fair. Rules and information available from A. P. Sandles in Columbus.
The article cites Dr. Sadler estimating about $90 million lost annually in wages due to colds, with lost time and doctoring costs noted. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a remedy and includes various local notices and advertisements.
T. L. Parke of Murrayville Georgia Route 1 in his seventh year says a single bottle of Foley Kidney Pills cured his kidney and bladder trouble. He reports back pain and bladder irregularities disappeared and notes the product contains no habit forming drugs.
An 1890s report describes artificial snails sold in Paris where shells from dustmen are filled with cats meat and sealed with fat. A factory worker injured using a machine exposed the process, revealing the sham product as a popular but deceptive delicacy.
The piece argues that healthiest children grow up in less sealed homes with cracks and holes. It contrasts tight modern houses with cold air and notes that cracks allow a tonic breeze. It humorously notes a nail hole could be valued for comfort, yet society protects coal interests by sealing walls.
The Hiram, the second oldest schooner in the United States, is tied at Red Beach nine miles from Calais. Built with keel laid in Biddeford in 1819, she measures 69.5 feet, 67 tons, and sails with a three-man crew. Longtime Cool family command preceded current owner Elmer McDonald of Red Beach.
A seed corn display extols 43 years of succession by Mr. Thompson of Brown County plus 12 and 14 years by his father and grandfather, claiming 69 generations of the same corn lineage, a feat the article frames as aristocratic in its persistence.
William Dean Howells spoke in New York on the artistic temperament describing its wild charm. A famous novelist and his wife lunching at Sherry's spilled wine, the wife remarking how like him the wine was, then the novelist spilling wine and exclaiming how unlike himself.
A farmer and his wife debate how to celebrate twenty-five years of marriage. He points to past expenses on their family while she insists on a grand feast with the fattest pig, provoking a wry remark about blame for years past.
An inventor has devised a method to create stone like soles for boots. He mixes waterproof glue with clean quart sand and spreads it over the leather sole as a foundation. The resulting quarts soles are described as flexible and nearly indestructible, providing a firm grip on slippery surfaces.
David Belasco spoke on stage superstition, noting actors avoid saying last lines in rehearsals. He said superstition is powerful but does not stop anyone from accepting thirteen for a dozen in a light remark.
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