22 Jan 1931
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
1
A young Brooklyn girl rents a room with a tile gas stove and dies in her sleep from gas. Police trace a crumpled page with illustrator names, interview one, and meet a ventriloquist driver and a nervous artist at the morgue. The girl is never identified.
Knute Rockne, resting at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, declares he will not resign as Notre Dame football coach. Doctors warned he must cut back duties or risk a collapse, while the piece notes ghost writers and ghost autographers in a light cultural aside.
Inga Hel Jerstrom, daughter of a Stockholm worker, earned $500 in an international contest run by a German paper. The prize came as a welcome relief to her unemployed father and his family.
Columbia college researchers led by Esther Stearn find that 86 percent of students diet to lose weight and high IQ students study more, use nail care more, and visit the infirmary less. Lipstick use is higher among low IQ students, and fruit daily is more common among high IQ students.
An Oregon or Washington newspaper item describes William Lound Greenwood, aged sixty, predicting a second biblical flood after 1932. He claims the Pacific coast will sink from Mount Hope to San Francisco, with Victoria and Seattle swallowed by waves, while the Cascade mountains halt the northern flood and the Rockies mark the southern edge. Greenwood plans an arklike craft completed by 1982, with his two dogs as only passengers, and expects to ride out the disaster rather than perish.
A narrator recalls Mac, a twenty five year old who believed marriage would reform him. Despite plans to change, Mac remains charmingly irresponsible, in debt and late, illustrating how habits formed in youth persist into later life and even after life milestones. The piece reflects on habit tenacity across a fifty year span.
A Potpourri item states that only six of thirty-one presidents were under fifty at inauguration: Polk Pierce Grant Garfield Cleveland and Roosevelt the last at forty two the oldest Harrison sixty eight who died after a month and Buchanan sixty five who served one term It notes Adams lived to ninety as a former president.
Abner Monday, a 53 year old man in Los Angeles, appears in police records with a history of 17 Monday arrests. The incidents largely involve drunkenness, contributing to a pattern of blue Mondays and recurring trouble at the Hollywood police station.
At West Newton Pennsylvania a driver named Jasper Vex of Collinsburg swerved to check a meowing cat on the rear seat of his car. He struck a telephone pole but the cat escaped uninjured.
The Kitchen Cabinet promotes home baking with ice box cookies that keep for days and can be baked fresh as needed. It provides a detailed recipe using butter sugar eggs and flour plus a method to chill roll and slice for round cookies, and another for yeast rolls with steps for dough rise and baking readiness.
The article extols Scotland’s Burns country centered on Ayr and its coast. It notes the Burns birthplace in Alloway and the Auld Brig o’ Doon near Tam o’ Shanter lore. Visitors flock to see the haunted kirk and the river Ayr tied to famed poetry.
The article explains that in Genesis 2 18 the word meet meant suitable for him, forming helpmeet to describe a wife. It notes popular misuse changed it to helpmate, with both forms now considered proper, though helpmeet remains the original term.
Engineering News-Record survey across 44 American and European cities shows per capita domestic water consumption in the United States runs two to three times higher than in Europe, mainly due to higher living standards.
A government agricultural specialist notes that native butternut and Persian walnut, commonly called the English walnut, grow well in eastern and northern states, offering viable nut varieties for regional planting and cultivation.
Gorilla feet resemble human feet more closely than other primates due to their habit of walking. The observation notes that similarities arise from locomotion patterns and foot structure aligned with bipedal use.
A tortoise named Mr Box Tortoise explains his name and how he can draw his head and legs into his shell with a hinge. The snake is awed by his hiding ability and the two conclude the value of self reliance before a moment of fear prompts another retreat into the shell.
A set of riddles about a smoky chimney heat remedy and worn nap garments. It asks why a hen flies over a fence and why cocks are smooth. It also jokes about stuffing a rooster to mute crowing and a cotton dress appearing in print.
Dialogue humorously contrasts student questions about etymology with a parent’s brief clarifications. Johnny asks what transatlantic and transparent mean and whether cross parent relates, while the daddy figure offers quick, literal interpretations about crossing an ocean and seeing through.
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