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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1933
Page
3
Dr A S W Rosenbach famed rare books collector buys Shakespeare folio for 62000 and owns Sherlock Holmes reference library with Conan Doyle notes. He praises crime fiction and reveals monthly detective magazine favorite, a copy of Black Mask, obtained via his secretary.
The bronze Christ of the Andes stands 26 feet high on a stone column at the Chile Argentina frontier about 13 000 feet above sea level. Funded by Buenos Aires women led by Senora de Costa, the statue was built partly from war cannons and unveiled in 1904 as a pledge to peace after a 1901 border dispute.
Commander Charles Wilkes led the U S Antarctic expedition and first sighted land on January 19 1840. French captain Jules Dumont d urville also reported a high snow covered mass the same day with actual land seen January 22. The New York Herald Tribune notes Wilkes precedence as international law views discovery as ownership. No tracks of humans or land animals have been found.
The Kansas City Star reports a medical group in the League of Nations era urging boiled water in Oochow China amid a cholera outbreak. Cart processions depicted cholera as a demon and the angel of boiled water urged public drinking changes. The propaganda preceded widespread infections and deaths in villages and the city.
The apricot, a key California fruit, is believed native to China and was first brought to the state during the early mission era. It grows like a peach and has been cultivated in the East, where it battles the curenlio, a familiar peach pest. Three apricot species exist, with the American type described as a spreading tree with bright green leaves and pinkish white flowers.
A Macon Georgia scientist claims locusts have practical value. They serve as chicken feed and provide wild birds with a substitute for fruit they would otherwise destroy.
The long S faded from general use by about 1900. John Bell of London, publisher of The British Theater in 1775, helped drop the long S, and Benjamin Franklin noted in 1798 that the round S begins to replace it as printing refined, with the long S eventually rejected.
The article cites Tee-Pee Flashes noting a vast insect diversity with about 120,000 species and an estimated 2,300,000 specimens. It cites termite damage at 30 million dollars yearly in the South and national rodent losses around 300 million dollars annually.
A New York Times financial section piece surveys the Muscle Shoals public power debate with figures on Southern subsidiaries of Commonwealth and Southern Corp. tax losses and electricity rates. Editorials from York Evening Sun and York Herald Tribune press caution on yardsticks for public versus private operation.
A remark in Coullier's Weekly describes a Tibet ritual called Driving out the Demon a gambling contest between two men one dressed as the Grand Lama and the Demon where the Demon’s win would bring disaster and the Grand Lama uses loaded dice to play safely.
For the first time in modern art history a fresco over 90 yards square was moved with its wall, a 3000 year span, to clear the fourth century apse of the Church of Donna Regina in Naples Italy of Baroque additions.
The Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis inaugurates Bargain Nights on Tuesday and Friday with free admission for ladies and lower prices for men before 9 PM. Wednesday Saturday and Sunday keep 25 cents until 9 and 40 cents after, plus a 19 cent check charge. Ted Mack and his orchestra with the Andrews Sisters and the Three Bachelors headline nightly shows. A feature on Miss West’s film role and her circus lion training is noted.
Mae West headlines the Circle Theatre in Indianapolis with Cary Grant as co star for the film I m No Angel opening Saturday October 14. She notes her fascination with famous women of history and describes her performance as a flamboyant satire based on a historic Bowery figure.
George N. Peek of Washington will address the Indiana Farm Bureau convention November 15 and 16 in Indianapolis. The address will cover farm relief, wheat and pig production curtailment, and financing for farmers, with Peek introduced by W. E. H. Settle. Other speakers include Francis W. Peeker and Edward A. Neal. A statewide PARM drive to boost membership begins after the convention, targeting 3 000 volunteers to canvass farms in late November.
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