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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1933
Page
3
In Port Royal Virginia Dr A C Hill launches a Depression era college for unemployed professors and financially burdened youths. It offers classics languages literature art and social sciences with no degrees and a $250 yearly cost covering housing meals and laundry.
Household tips cover storage of sweet potatoes in warm dry spots, preventing freezing unit sticking with rubber jar rings under ice trays, and improving veal loaf and Hamburg patties with rolled oats. Candies and icings advised to keep kettles covered, meringue stabilized with corn starch, blotting paper for medicine cabinets, safe glassware washing, turpentine to reduce sticking and add fragrance, and paraffin dissolving for gloss.
A 1932 Western Newspaper Union piece contrasts Mrs. Crawford's irritable temper with Nettie Crane's saintly patience. Despite doctors claiming a minor operation would fix Crawford, friends note she remains hard to get along with after her hospital stay.
In Bedworth England a 15 year old girl named Ethel Wright disappeared. A sought body was found after an uncle used quicksilver in bread and cast it into a canal with police, locating the body near a bridge.
Michigan State University announces Katherine McCutcheon, a coed, has earned a place on the men’s polo squad and will participate in all intercollegiate games scheduled for the team.
Southampton rejects a $110000 federal post office project claiming it would raise village taxes and create no local unemployment relief. Mayor J Foster Terry and four trustees say the current building earns $3000 yearly in rental and the new facility would cost about $6000 to operate, forcing higher taxes. They protested to Treasury Secretary Mills and sought help from Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler, arguing outsiders would supply labor and local jobs would not improve.
The article notes the zodiacal light is most visible in October before dawn in the eastern sky. It appears broad at the base and tapers toward the south, thought to be sunlight reflected from numerous small bodies in Earth’s orbital vicinity.
Road workers witnessed a crow kill a chicken hawk during a highway repair near Cameron Mountain. The crow darted from above, pecked at the hawk’s head, and the hawk fell dead. The crow measured about 214 feet wingspan.
Dean Andrey A Potter of the Purdue school of engineering, long a consulting expert to the Interior Department, was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by a mail ballot of about 20 000 members nationwide.
The piece notes a trend of making sinks bigger to hold more dishes as talkies gain popularity. It reflects humor and domestic life in the 1930s era through a light remark by Nina Wilcox Putnam.
The piece outlines rubber as essential to the electrical industry and notes rubber comes from Brazil, the East Indies, and Indo China. It describes plantation layouts, tree numbering, tapping methods, and yields, explaining how latex is collected and processed into crude rubber through curing and smoking.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills, stating they regulate liver and bowels and noting the product has been sold for 60 years.
Begonias cultivation is traced to 1777 when these plants were introduced into England from Jamaica, marking a key moment in botanical horticulture and plant exchange between colonies and Britain.
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