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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1938
Page
8
The note promotes a weekly Clermont Courier with a bundled pricing plan lasting one year and six months. It lists combination offers with the Cincinnati Post and Times-Star at 4.25 and with the Cincinnati Enquirer also at 4.25 dollars.
Elton Amiott made a business trip to the city last Thursday. Miss Betty Dowdney visited Detroit with friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Winter hosted a daughter and baby visit. Batavians attended the Flower Show in Amelia. Mrs. Sidney Curtis visited her daughter in Blowing Rock North Carolina. Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Love called on relatives in Mason and Lebanon. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jones and W. A. Reed called on Ed Donley at New Hope. W. H. Jones and wife with several others attended Charley Patton’s funeral in Blanchester. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fishback and others attend the Trots at Lexington Kentucky. E. S. Rush, editor of The Courier, is recuperating from grippe. Miss Margaret Kinner married William Kemper of Bond Hill with Rev. Budd officiating. The Annual Malott Reunion was held September 25 at Owensville Fair Grounds with 125 relatives and officers elected for the year.
Annie Clark extends visit with sister Ida in Columbus. Frank Dimmitt Estel Pringle and wives G M Roudebush and wife attend Lebannon Fair. Wm Roudebush family move from Park to Milford. Freda Haynes Helen Dunbar attend Milford Flower Show. Gladys Vogel in poor health. Raymond Weaver Lebanon Robert Turner Perintown Alice Boyce Milford King guests of Dimmitts. Henry Hunt visits city. Hunt hosts company. Starkey Pleasant Plains visit. Dr J Fremont Bateman Columbus State Hospital appeals for magazines books games puzzles for recreational therapy.
Official notices say the caravan will pass Batavia around noon on October 4 and proceed to Bethel by about 1 PM. The announcements emphasize exact timing and route for local residents and officials.
Historical note on plant remedies from ancient times through early American usage. Describes heart shaped leaves for heart issues, liverwort for liver diseases, catnip for fevers and toothaches, larkspur as asthma cure once, and ginseng seed hype in China. Discusses Shaker monopoly 1860–1880 and herb oil uses.
The coco de mer grows on Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles. Portuguese explorers found the double nut floating at sea. First seen by white men in 1789. individual nuts once sold for about £300, weighing up to 50 pounds. Indian princes prize them as a cure for senility.
The New Zealand green stone jade serves as a gambler’s mascot bringing luck in racing and games of chance and is believed to aid eye trouble. Ancient lore links it to protections against kidney and digestive issues and notes jade from Peru worn by natives for health. Some sources claim it as Virgo birthstone, August 24 to September 22, while others deem it unlucky for most.
The first New England and New York colonists encountered Native beads used as money. White beads from periwinkle shells and black beads from clam shells trade as currency, with one black bead worth two white. Beads were worn in strings or belts and polished to pass as money. The practice spread, and white men counterfeited the currency to show perceived superiority.
The United States Constitution assigns Congress power to coin money regulate its value and foreign coin fix weights and measures declare war grant letters of marque and reprisal and make rules concerning captures of land and water.
Historian James A Roy identifies Thrums as the weaving term for threads and explains how Kirriemuir’s Auld Lichts vs Free Church divisions shaped J M Barrie. Roy notes Barrie left town at ten and mother Margaret Ogilvy carried village memories into his work.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer argues Mother Goose was a real Boston figure at the century’s start. Her daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet who published Songs for the Nursery in 1719 at Pudding Lane Boston. The marriage of Fleet and Goose is dated 1715 in Boston records.
Annapolis grew from a colonial settlement to Maryland’s capital and briefly the United States capital in early Congress days. Named for Ann Arundel, wife of Cecil Calvert, it houses a colonial capitol where Washington surrendered his commission. Its halls echo with Carroll of Carrollton signs and Civil War battle standards, and World War memorabilia line the rooms.
A Collier’s Weekly correspondent explains that water pressure increases with depth, forcing fish to adjust their swim bladders as they move through layers. When dynamite explosives kill fish, those momentarily buoyant rise to the surface while others sink to the bottom.
Whitehaired golden plover, a migratory shore bird protected by federal law, journeys north in spring and south in fall. It traverses South America from southeast to northwest and crosses the Gulf of Mexico, entering the United States at Louisiana on its Argentine to Arctic route.
The article notes Malines Antwerp as Belgiums principal port after Brussels. It highlights two tunnel connections across the Scheldt as engineering marvels and proclaims the chimes of Malines cathedral of St Rombold as the heaviest and most celebrated in the world.
The United Brethren Church led by E. L. Smith and Walter J. Bauer invites the public to a Harvest Home Festival this Friday featuring an Antique Show and Ice Cream Social. Services include Sunday worship at 10 30 with Holy Communion, Sunday School at 9 30, and midweek prayer Wednesday at 7 30. Admission is free.
The twenty-ninth National Dairy Show at the Ohio State Fairgrounds runs October 8 15 with events including intercollegiate stock judging from 35 states, a national horse pulling contest, 4 H projects, a night show, and a Buckeye State Music Jubilee offering over $2 000. Navy band concert opens the gala. Also, Ohio civil service exams planned for 2 000 positions October 25 28 and November 1 3 in 15 cities. Rocky mountain spotted fever cases reported in Chillicothe area. Ohio employment service records a 23 percent rise in private industry job placements in August to 5 746 and total placements 6 669.
Purebred poultry list includes Reds Rocks Leghorns and assorted EE layers with prices per 100 including 7.50 for 100 light and heavy stock 6.85 for 100 and 8.85 for 100 Reds or Rocks all pullets Four week old pullets and fighting game stock available on request.
The avocado or alligator pear shows three key traits. It has higher protein and dry matter than any other fresh fruit according to Collier's Weekly. Ripeness is only determinable by lab testing of its oil content. Growth can be so abundant that trees may collapse under the fruit’s weight.
The rifle bird name applies to birds of paradise in genera Ptilorrhis and Craspidornis due to their plumage resembling the green and black full dress uniform of British rifle regiments.
The first accordion was patented in 1829 by Z. Damian a Venetian. Earlier a German boy Christian Buschmann aged seventeen produced a crude instrument based on the same principles.
During the French Revolution era earnest Socialists gathered nightly at friends' houses but avoided food or drink to prevent jealousy over who had better wine or meals.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, eldest grandson of Thomas Jefferson, proposed a gradual abolition bill in the Virginia legislature in 1829. The measure did not pass, facing defeat amid political opposition and sectional tensions of the era.
The article explains how razor clams are stalked by holes in sand left by their necks. When a neck is spotted, the digger must move quickly, grabbing the neck with one hand and using a shovel with the other to extract the clam.
Europe’s cavemen shows no graybeards and few women beyond age forty. Prof Henri Vallois, French anthropologist, concludes the old Stone Age favored youth.
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