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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1935
Page
6
Brisbane this Week reports Waley the Weyerhaeuser kidnapper was captured after orchestrating a ransom from his wife. He has been jailed since eighteen, arrested six times, and would face 75 years if parole boards allowed. The piece notes linked criminal history, highway patrol cooperation, and broader world news.
The article analyzes President Roosevelt's mounting troubles with enforcing the 5 billion dollar public works program. It covers state resistance to federal power, governors' conference criticisms in Biloxi, internal clashes between Hopkins and Ickes over project aims, and the political peril as Republicans mobilize against the New Deal.
H. L. Mencken in Harper's Magazine notes English leads global language use with about 191 million native or daily users. It surpasses Russian, German, French, Spanish, and Italian speakers, and it grows fastest, spreading into distant areas worldwide.
Smithsonian scientists in northern Colorado study ancient bison bones at a site believed to be the oldest habitation in America. The bones, linked to post Ice Age migrations and the era of Folsom points, hint at a once widespread human presence but more evidence is sought.
The Folsom man, ancestor of the American Indian, is believed to have come from Asia. This view suggests a migration from eastern Asia across a land bridge or coastal route, positioning early inhabitants as the earliest known people of the American continent.
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