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Newspaper

Akron Register Tribune

Location

Akron, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1929

Page

9

United States Builds Two Giant Zeppelins in Akron

The Navy backs a bold airship program leading to two massive Zeppelins built in Akron Ohio. The two ships ZRS 5 and ZRS 6 will surpass Los Angeles and Graf Zeppelin in size, with 42 500 000 cubic feet of gas capacity and substan tial range. The project includes a springing egg shaped hangar with orange peel doors and rolling supports enabling entry and maintenance.

Elmo Scott Watson United States Wrights Sam Akron Ohio Naval Bureau of Aeronautics Uncle Sam Europe America Congress Uncle Sum Ta Count Werdingad Zeppelin Ft. Snelling Minn Virginia Zeppelin Paris Trom Zeppelin Corporation Germany Karl Arnstein North America Golf Arnstein Goodyear’ Zeppelin Corporation Navy Los Angeles Graf Zeppelin England Uncla Sam's National Capitol Washington Tangar Atlantic Seaboard Lakehurst Airship Duifferents Declde New York London Count Zeppelin German East Africa Jumbati Bulgaria Nile Valley Stoji Plog Atlantic Mitchel Wield Iriedrchshafen San Antonio San Diego Suttle

Duck Farm Fire Alarm Sparks Town Rescue

In a rural tale a fireman and his partner investigate a dawn chorus of quacking near a duck farm and mistake it for trouble as smoke and forest flames near the premises prompt an early alarm. Firefighters arrive, stop the blaze, and ducks celebrate their role in summoning aid. In another vignette a missing boy returns soaked, saying he had wandered off to a nearby fire.

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Mourning Girl Refuses Party After Pet Monkey Dies

Little Bisle is inconsolable after her pet monkey dies. At school she declines a classmate’s party invitation as she sobs through tears. The teacher asks why Elgie cannot go, and the girl explains that someone in her family is dead.

Bisle Elgie

Missed Deaths Touch by Proverbial Eyelash in War Tale

In a World War I vignette a close call favors Capt Curtis Barnes of the Seventy-eighth division when a bullet grazes his hat and shatters his eyeglasses near the Argonne offensive. Cadet Wiske survives a perilous ordeal in a Breguet observer cockpit at 10 000 feet over Clermont Ferrand after an ejection during a verte bland episode.

Curtis Barnes A. F Argonne Cadet Wiske St Breguet Clermont Ferrand France

Barton’s Dynashine Shoe Polish Boaster’s Staged Tale

A guest at a club gathering recounted a self styled success story. He boasted of starting college at forty and earning eighty five thousand dollars yearly, omitting the wife who toiled at home with three children while he pursued studies.

Boaster Doe

Cultivating Greenland Aims At Greenland Land Use Shift

Danish farmers begin cultivating lands of an Arctic possession as the Drites show agricultural prowess. The north Canadian province banners fertility and potential wealth in latitudes once deemed waste. The article notes Greenland's redemption would captivate the world and hold particular importance for this country amid distant icy frontiers.

Greenland Tey Arctic Canada

Publicity seeker opposed to bow hunting legislation in Massachusetts

A publicity seeker who hunts big game with bow and arrow faced a state rejection as Massachusetts refused to revive use of the weapon. The legislature argued arrows in unskilled hands would be too cruel for indiscriminate use, challenging modern hunters.

Massachusetts Commonwealth Legislativa Committee Fathfinder Magazine

Talk Representative Linthicum Warns of Hypocritical Politician

Detroit Free Press notes Representative Linthicum urging vigilance against a politician who uses religious events to mask misdeeds. He describes him as a tack directing toward heaven while intent on mischief as he speaks to assembled congregations.

Tiinthicum Ai Taltimore Iuncheon Linthicum Detroit Tree Press

Get' Out and Get Under in the Benzmaric Era

An American Magazine snippet reflects on publishable scandal and self-help tone. A quip by Miss Cayenne suggests withholding scandal for a book, while a bygone era joke notes a man could shed weight by imagining a puncture, illustrating playful anecdotal humor.

Room for Gna First Partner Don’t be a fool

fragmentary text references a dialogue about partnership and monopoly. A trusted employee dialog suggests caution in marriage to an ambidulous girl. Mentions a modern proof celebrity and a demand for an ad. A machine tool material carbo toy cuts 16 inch battleship plate. Several misspellings and garbled phrases indicate OCR damage.

Carbo- Toy

Ideal Reat Neverwed-Planning a pleasant va cation

Henry N. Veck invites readers to plan a vacation with his wife spending a month with her mother. The wartime paper notes table values and promotes Red Grogs Ball Blue as improving wear, urging readers to try the product through grocers.

Henry N. Veck

Jitthe Mute and the Office Whistler Tale

A quirky snippet notes a man asking about an office boy named Ty and receiving a compliment that he is the best whistler. The fragment hints at a character called Jitthe Mute and a lost item mystery, suggesting humorous or puzzling undertones in a local setting.

Whistler

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