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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1931
Page
7
A Carr woman Alice Miller meets Dr. Austin Taylor by a stream near Uptons. He proposes marriage after admiring her ambition to rise beyond stenography. They share playful banter about flappers and future plans, then race to the house and kiss under a tree.
The first woman to hold a customs examiner position has been appointed in the United States. She will appraise feminine articles including clothes fabrics laces and related items as part of her duties.
Ottawa Ontario jury finds William Neilson insane after he strangled his bride Olga James in her home. He claimed the 21 year old victim reminded him of a past wrong done to him forty years earlier. He confessed and said she was the faithless woman who ruined his life.
In a Chicago haberdashery, Joseph Dematriads and G A Oulen were robbed by two men who ordered them to strip and take clothing to the back. The bandits seized a $4 till and demanded a stickpin from Dematriads who revealed a mole on his neck, which caused a momentary hold. The robbers left after the mole was acknowledged.
Maxie Eisen protests at a Chicago court after Judge John F. A. Lyle denies a venue change. Eisen, arraigned on vagrancy and disorderly conduct, claims the judge insulted him and says he has never been arrested 87 times, only 24. He remains free on a 5,400 bond.
A bucket brigade of farmers exhausted two wells and used six barrels of vinegar and cider to extinguish a fire threatening the home of Calvin Hrishkorn near Zeil enopie in New Brigton Pennsylvania.
Marco Polo and the emperor of China reached the Batak coast to ride out a storm in the thirteenth century and built block houses to avoid being eaten by locals. The Bataks are described as enant hala who consume renowned individuals to transfer strength and wisdom, with cannibalism terms and slicing of body parts cited by a chief to illustrate taste. The author argues Batak cannibal stigma explains why libraries rarely hold Batak works, noting Cleveland Public Library as a rare exception with a pustuka in its collection.
The white marble temple near Regensburg on the Danube honors German heroes. King Ludwig I conceived the memorial in 1807 during Napoleonic occupation and began work 23 years later. The hall features busts and tablets of notable Germans from Teutoburg Forest onward.
The District of Columbia censure commission for healing arts created its own definition of naturopathy. The official scope limits practice to noninvasive therapies such as air, light, water, heat, electricity, hydrotherapy, psychotherapy, and dietetics while excluding spinal adjustments drugs surgery and X-rays. The term’s meaning remains contested in medical regulation.
Long before fenology became a science farmers used native vegetation as timing guides for sowing crops. A traditional rule, likely from Indians, advised planting corn when the white oak leaf reached the size of a mouse’s ear. Phenologists now test such rules against statistics.
In Custom of Mankind Lilian Hichier notes that mirrors were used in early divination to glimpse the will of the gods. Breaking a mirror was once seen as the gods hindering foresight and foretelling future woes. Among highly superstitious people breakage became a death omen, persisting even among educated individuals.
The autogiro features a 15 foot fuselage and a 100 horsepower Genet major engine. It has four blades driven by air deflected to the horizontal propeller, with bent-up tips for lateral stability. The rotor turns at 130 rpm to achieve takeoff speed.
The passage paints Toledo as a living relic of the Moors with gates cobbled alleys ox wagons and medieval imagery. It notes Toledo, Ohio, as a much larger modern city despite past echoes of Europe’s ancient streets and landmarks including a tower and bridges.
Local social notices list Sunday visits among Wilkinsburg residents including Mr and Mrs Curt Good and Mr and Mrs Ord Bond visiting relatives in Wilkinsburg and Jeanette. Other items note trips to Evans City Rural Valley and Indiana, Sabbath school, college attendance, and local shop visits with names of residents and families.
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