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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1929
Page
2
Hector Rabezzana recalls the era when royalty travelled with an on hand engineer to ensure the car worked. Early fastest cars at about 30 mph drew royal interest and pampered drivers received tokens and even titles. Racing drivers began as royal drivers and guarded their machines, sometimes sleeping near engines on race eve.
News of Lyn Lary, a high-priced rookie, advancing from the coast to New York as he contends for the regular shortstop job with the world champion Yankees after a $100,000 purchase. The report highlights his bid to win a starting position and the club’s confidence in his future impact.
Penn State athletics director Hugo Bezdek will teach a three week football coaching course from July 1 to 19 during the summer session. Dean Will C. Chambers announced the program which will be followed by a basketball instruction course July 22 to August 9 with Kenneth D. Loefflier directing. Robert A. Higgins will assist Bezdek in football.
A collage of sports notes mentions Jess Altenburg as playing manager at Salisbury and an outfielder, Jeff Tesreau coaching Dartmouth, boxing revenue in 1928, Lefty Faulkner joining Buffalo, and a polo tournament canceled. It also notes Walter Johnson still aiming to pitch, a Henderson stock bid for Raleigh franchise, Claremont club housewarming, Reading club moves, multiple player trades, and Tris Speaker courting Giants Yankees and Brooklyn for Newark Bears.
A reader from Paterson explains a process to run a motor ten minutes with a rich oxygen mix. The surplus oxygen is said to clean the combustion chamber exhaust ports valve stems and spark plugs, improving performance.
Automobile hints discuss heat resistant paint for exhaust pipes and a cross country endurance ride in a rumble seat from New York to Los Angeles. The Lancaster and Fruitville turnpike sale leaves one toll road in Pennsylvania and Indianapolis moves to regulate pedestrian traffic amid driver risk.
The Sporting News reports 1929 will feature a glossless baseball with a ready cover reducing need to rub off gloss. The ball will improve in play with use and reduce the number of balls used per game while cutting superstition among pitchers and batters.
The article profiles catcher Herb Ruel of the Washington Nationals, a 145 pound veteran of eleven American League seasons who has caught 100 or more games yearly. It highlights his durability behind the plate, his experiences with stars like Walter Johnson and Carl Mays, a memory of Ray Chapman’s death pitch, and his value to Washington during the 1924 and 1925 pennant runs.
A peep show scene ends in alarm as a boy questions the yellow light in the London Express display. The showman insists there is no yellow signal while the boy’s plea for understanding culminates in a dramatic fire alert.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody born in 1804 at Billerica Massachusetts. She worked with Amos Bronson Alcott in Boston and authored A Record of Mr Alcotts School. She then embraced Froebel methods and helped introduce kindergarten to the United States. She died in 184.
Nearly all ginseng grown in the United States is exported to China for medicinal use. The industry relies on the Oriental market as Chinese consumption here is negligible and the plant holds little value domestically or in other nations outside China.
An ad claims Castoria soothes babies with no drugs, suggesting a nurse’s approach to minor upsets. It touts Castoria as vegetable and safe for frequent use, noting it relieves colic constipation and diarrhea and cites twenty five million bottles sold last year.
Dr. J. H. Ritson of the British and Foreign Bible Society says vibrant Bibles are sought in South American districts while elsewhere demand remains low. The society sells 3,000 Bibles daily in 600 languages, addressing concerns about dull bindings raised by the Bishop of Southwark.
An old advertisement claims Red Cross Ball Blue keeps fabrics snow white and urges buyers to try it. The snippet then pivots to a rhetorical joke about rights, questioning whether being a fool was overlooked in a list of inalienable rights.
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