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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
2
During subzero blasts, thousands of cars parked outside fail to start. The club offers friction reducing lubricants, neutral gear, clutch, throttle, sparking, and ignition advice to aid cold starts and notes risks in using fuel trickery that can dilute oil.
Infielder George Toporcer known for glasses has shifted clubs eight times in ten years. Discovered by Ernest Landgraf, he moved through Syracuse, St. Louis, and Rochester transitions from 1921 to 1929, ending with Rochester after a season marked by a cancelled deal and subsequent reassignment.
Discusses commercially available anti-freeze compounds based on calcium or magnesium chlorides mixed with water to prevent freezing. Warns corrosion risk to radiators and notes newer mixtures add soluble chromate to inhibit corrosion, making them favorable as anti-freeze.
The Cubs boast a top right fielder whose .350 hitting pace and high stolen base total lead both leagues. His arm discourages base runners while pitchers note his marked hitting improvement, though 1928 was a down year due to a hand injury after a Pirates career from 1923 to 1927.
Howard Savage of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching challenged colleges and universities over subsidizing athletes in a speech to the Sportsmanship Brotherhood. He warned recruiting high school and preparatory athletes remains serious, with subsidies a common lure and a new cycle of “shopping around” by schoolboys for the highest bidder among colleges.
In Lake Worth Florida about 40 musicians who are taxpayers urged the city council to let them pay their taxes with performances in the city park. A taxpayer who cannot sing offered to whistle in the same location.
A roundup of sports trivia and transfers including 2 year old pacers in the 2:10 list, a salary cut in the Three Eyes league from 4500 to 3750, and car maintenance tips. Teams and players mentioned include Bill Wambsganss sold to New Orleans, George Washington university boxing debut plans, North Carolina football captains, Marshall Glenn as WVU captain, and Yale football and athletics costs.
Cleveland prosecutor Ray Miller recounts his brother Don Miller a Notre Dame backfield star one of the Four Horsemen admired across Indiana. Don drew local fame during a holiday visit to Indianapolis meeting Governor Jackson who praised the famed era and the Notre Dame image.
Instructions from Popular Science Monthly advise drying moisture-clustered high tension wires entering the distributor cap with a cloth dusted generously with soapstone or face powder to keep rubber insulation in good condition. Do not remove more than one wire at a time and avoid wet weather with varnished fabric wires.
Questions and answers cover horn use in traffic, tire life shortcuts, spark plug failure effects, and 1929 gasoline consumption and exports growth. Key points include horn use avoid in jams and liberal use when passing or curves, tire wear from sharp turns and braking, spark plug absence causing oil dilution and sluggish engine, and a 146 percent rise in gasoline consumption with 13 percent exports in early 1929.
G A Luers of Washington DC explains a rubber splash guard cut from an old inner tube to protect lacquer finishes on auto radiators. Make a square piece with a tight fitting hole over the radiator filling spout. the tube’s curl forms a trough to guide spills to the ground.
The Missouri State Bank of Jasper in Jasper County closed by its board after its capital was impaired. A. P. Moody took charge of assets pending liquidation. This marked the sixth bank failure of the year and third in Jasper County in sixty days. Clarence M. Cline presided, C. W. Teeters cashier.
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