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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1923
Page
3
A family scene emerges from an American Legion Weekly item where a tire blowout leads to tense remarks by a father and reproachful mother yet the baby finds humor in the bang. The ad promotes Cuticura Ointment for skin and dandruff with brief routine steps.
The Detroit News notes how medieval nobility shared plates and cups, used fingers instead of forks, licked plates, and scrapped for portions, while etiquette guides of the era criticized these practices. Cooking flourished with rich confections as dancing emphasized nimbleness, and noble households slowly gained private rooms and privacy.
A playful exchange from a New York Sun and Globe item comments on luck and superstition regarding opals. One speaker recalls wearing an opal ring when becoming engaged to Claude, challenging the superstition.
A London toast prompts a tele phone operator to describe her work as “all right” amid jokes about taking rings from strange men. The brief exchange from Tit Bits captures social humor on workplace life.
Ohio General Assembly proposes amending Article V and Article II to create a state workers compensation fund funded by employer contributions, with a board to set rates and investigate employer safety failures. The measure also revises the electoral franchise publication rules and requires ballot wording for proposed laws and constitutional amendments.
The article describes using a ship scaling machine driven by compressed air to clean underwater hulls more efficiently than traditional methods. One worker can accomplish in a day what six did before, reducing labor while yielding a cleaner job, though goggles are needed due to flying debris. An electrically powered variation is also mentioned.
Melba allowed singing into Professor Low's audiometer to photograph her voice waves. The image shows unique variation and harmonics with precise regularity, suggesting strong carrying power through wave superimposition rather than sheer loudness.
A collie sacrificed itself to pull a London Ontario girl from danger on railroad tracks. The dog pushed the child to safety before being fatally struck by a train, despite the mother’s prior warnings.
An 18 mile Catskills water tunnel for New York uses 400000 barrels of cement. A mixing plant at each of seven shafts pours concrete through an eight inch pipe, delivering at a mile a minute into steel forms via a concrete cannon.
A compiled list from a state examination for elementary teacher certificates covers High School Agriculture Reading History Geography and Grammar. It lists questions on farm accounting seed corn, reading lesson plans, classic and modern authors, and arithmetic and grammar tasks.
A mother asks for a moral as a boy admits imperfection. He remarks only one perfect boy exists, and the punchline names his father as that child when he was small, ending with a Chicago Tribune, unephrased in a brief reminiscence.
A brief observation notes that honesty about oneself astonishes certain individuals who fail to reciprocate in kind. The remark hints at social norms and mutual openness being unevenly practiced among people.
A brief note describes poets as diffident and sensitive figures who resist harsh judgments. The commentary encourages gentleness and thoughtful critique, highlighting restraint in evaluating creative work.
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