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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1936
Page
11
New York scholars report a Latin dictionary of inscriptions will be published in 22 page sections bound into 520 page volumes. Professor Clinton W. Keyes of Columbia University leads the effort and editors are working on the third section of volume 2.
Alton Illinois teen Robert Wadlow, 17, at 8 feet 4 inches and weighing 389 pounds, is described by two physicians as the tallest man in history. They have studied his case for two years and cannot predict when his growth will stop.
El Centro California resident Guy Beach 37 lay on a railroad track with wine as a pillow and slept as ten freight cars passed over him. He remained unharmed and surprised responders.
Walter Ramczyk promised to eat 27 fried eggs in nine minutes in Winona Minnesota. He completed the feat despite doctors warning of illness and woke the next morning to shovel snow from eighteen homes and offered to eat 30 more eggs if someone would buy them.
Clyde H. Melton once known as the world’s Bermuda onion king now works as a salesman for a cooperative charity that salvages used goods in Pasadena California. A few years earlier in Devine Texas he led a $2.5 million venture shipping 100 million onion plants daily for a 100 day harvest before financial reverses erased his fortune.
Spanish border patrolman Juan investigates a Romani band after spotting a familiar fifteen year old girl among them. He realizes she is his daughter, stolen twelve years earlier, sparking a reunion and legal actions.
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cummings reports a 3 percent rise in the U S birth rate for 1934, with about 94 000 more births than 1933. The all ages death rate reached 10.9, a record high before 1982 and above the 10.5 low in 1933.
Tom Philips of Fort Myers, pursuing Gasparilla lore, intends to use a modern divining rod to locate Spanish doubloons believed buried in a narrow pass south of Boca Grande.
In Clarksburg West Virginia James J Crews, distressed by unemployment, shot himself about an hour after news of his census post appointment reached him. He did not know the appointment at the time. He will recover.
Truman Dean of Taunton Massachusetts recently celebrated his 94th birthday. He was refused admission to the Union Army during the Civil War on two occasions because doctors deemed him too weak to carry a knapsack.
In Manchester Iowa a dog froze to death while standing upright due to extreme cold. Residents reported the harsh weather gripping the area as temperatures plummeted and arctic conditions persisted.
Mobile Alabama reports farmer M F McMullen lured jackrabbits with a salt and strychnine bait in his fields and killed about 1000 rabbits, describing his pest control method and outcome.
Josef Knat a 102 year old beggar died recently in Warsaw leaving an estate valued at about $20,000 in cash and a house. His heirs include four sons and eleven grandsons.
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