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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1927
Page
8
Read it in The Courier first. Community notes from Clermont County include visits, travels, and a 1927 bank condition report for Farmers & Merchants Bank Williamsburg. Social items feature guests, anniversaries, and Millinery Opening with Miss Marsh styles.
Crosstown residents report visits and family news through the week. Mrs. H W McMullen and Mrs. Kate McArthur spent Saturday at Maple Grove, while Miss Elsie Glancy visited from Dayton. Volney Malott and Miss Catherine Rose wed last Thursday in Williamsburg. A Crosstown festival is planned for Saturday evening.
Felicity residents Mr and Mrs Gatch Beech hosted relatives for Sunday. J M Heil and Wilbur Pohshot families and Elizabeth Craner hosted guests. Ken tucky Charlie Brooks visited George Brooks. Horace Cann entertained Hamilton visitors. Melvin Heil leaves for Oxford college. J B Johnson and W Eppert families visited H R Eppert. Middleton family from Mariemont visited. Laurel Brewer, a respected local youth, died after months of illness. Funeral at Amelia Baptist Church with Rev Reed. burial at Christian Chapel cemetery.
The piece surveys early American gold and silver trades from colonial times through Paul Revere. It notes Puritans’ restraint on adornment, handmade diverse metalwork, and Revere’s versatility in engraving, bookplates, and silverware design.
A humorous anecdote from Bill Nye about attempting to wallpaper his home on a tight budget. He crafts paste from flour and water, misreads sizing a wall, and ends up wallpapering a piano and his wife when a chair tips. His wife sobers him with laughter as misfortune turns to comic end.
In a prison yard tale two inmates discuss a plane over an Irish asylum. One imagines flying to America in 60 minutes, the other to Melbourne in 60 seconds by drilling through the earth. The second inmate calls the first an idiot.
The word cafeteria traces to cafe origins in Chicago and Los Angeles. It notes the Italian caffetiere for coffee pot and shop owner, and cites Miss Helen Mosher in 1905 Los Angeles as the origin of the self-service cafe concept.
A ferocious undiscovered beast dubbed the Nandi bear or chimiset haunts Kenya forests. Local hunters have pursued it while famed authorities Selous and Blayney Percival affirm its existence based on reports and puzzled three-toed tracks.
The article recounts hops were once forbidden by Henry VIII and London petitioned Parliament in 1649 arguing the plant threatened drink and lives. Despite opposition, hops gained popularity by Elizabeth I’s reign, about a century after their Flemish introduction.
The article argues that combining melodies via counterpoint is essential to harmony. It states that any form beyond a simple song requires counterpoint knowledge and that good composers possess it. It also claims that without counterpoint there is no real flow in multiple voices, only meaningless chords.
The County Commissioners met September 12 with routine bills and labor claims listed for auditor and relief funds. They authorized $100 from the general fund to the C. P. J. court constable, and instructed the engineer to notify Craig, Jordan and Pickleheimer to improve Oakland road within ten days or the commissioners will complete it and deduct costs from their held estimate.
The sale at the late residence of Frank Pfausler on Fifth street Williamsburg Ohio occurs Saturday September 24 1927 at 1 30 pm. Items include a folding bed high arm Singer sewing machine two iron bedstead and bedding cane seat rocker heating and cook stoves new rag carpet dishes and cooking utensils set cane seat dining chairs and other articles. Cash on day of sale. E W Crawford executor. Joe Kellum auctioneer.
Dr Claude B Smith dentist located in Batavia Ohio offers dental services at First National Bank Building with contact number 85.
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