Cotton Valued For Reinforcing Tar And Asphalt
A brief note states cotton proves valuable for reinforcing tar and asphalt. This observation highlights practical uses for cotton in road surfacing and pavement durability.
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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1935
Page
4
A brief note states cotton proves valuable for reinforcing tar and asphalt. This observation highlights practical uses for cotton in road surfacing and pavement durability.
Rev. Stillman A. Foster of the First United Presbyterian church leads a series of Sunday evening talks on home making. Starting October 6 with When Young People Marry, followed by After Marriage What, Planning Future Home Builders, and The Art of Home Making on October 27. All are welcome, especially nonregular churchgoers and those keen on the topic.
George L. Seal of Harrisburg died suddenly Monday near Lexington Virginia while traveling with his wife and daughter in law Mr and Mrs William Schuster. Schuster bursar at Indiana State Teachers College. The report blends other unrelated curiosities about astronomy and inventions.
An investigator visits Avery in the hills seeking the killer of gangster Squint Ruggles and a reward leads to a moment of realization. Avery hints at knowledge but withholds location, testing the detective’s patience. The tale turns on motive and the lure of reward money.
In a tense exchange, Old Man Avery finally admits to the murder of gangster Squint Ruggles after being pressed for location and motive. The confession comes as the inquiry intensifies and the investigator seeks the suspect’s house and whereabouts.
A Phoenix ghost town may hold the key to the Salado disappearance. Excavations at Pueblo Grande suggest rising water tables flooded irrigation fields, forcing abandonment and possible child deaths. Artifacts include skeletal remains and burial bowls, with cannibalism and sacrifice questioned by archaeologists.
The Stockholm dinner featured a steak cut from a mammoth died 10 000 years ago. Professor Lindbergh of the Swedish expedition announced the discovery of a perfectly preserved ante-diluvian mammoth carcass in ice. After inspection the meat was deemed edible and was roasted and eaten by the expedition party.
The Koreshan cosmognoy teach that the world is a shell with a concave surface, not convex. They claim proof via a geodetic instrument called recti oneator showing the earth curves upward about 8 inches per mile.
Multiple local marriages reported in Indiana with ceremonies held in churches and notable places. Couples include Ott Jones and Katherine P. Jones in Zlon Lutheran church, Esther Dietz and Joseph R. Dietz in Harrisburg, Jason McHenry and Lena Lambing in Grove Chapel Lutheran, Thomas Brandon and Esther Little in Creekside, Silas Spence and Hannah Fairman in Marion Center, and William Gailey with Eva Anderson at the Wesleyan Methodist parsonage.
A corn variety demonstration will be held Monday afternoon October 28 at 1 30 PM on the farm of W D Fairman and son three miles northwest of Creekside. H J Walter Penn State corn extension specialist will attend and discuss improvement after the varieties are weighed. County Agent Warner notes Fairman is a leading Indiana county grower and emphasizes on farm lessons to observe. Varieties include Funk s Yellow Dent Clarage Reece s Learning Lancaster Sure Crop Leaming and Leaming from different sources.
Mrs Blair Momnerson and son Donald visit relatives in Altoona. Norman Ruby left for Youngstown to seek work. Mr and Mrs Clair Sebring and family called in Indiana. Mrs Paul Cramer and Mrs Orland Kopp visited their mother Mrs J N Beck while a patient at Spangler hospital. Samuel Frampton, formerly hospitalized, returned home. Mrs Lewis Straw and Mrs Gertrude Barnes called in Clearfield. Ever Parcell family visiting near State College. C W Sebring family visited Mrs Fanny Drenner Garrett. L Irwin and Chester Irwin families visited Hope Ogden in Clymer.
Artificial tremblings produced by detonating large amounts of explosives now provide greater opportunities to study the earth’s interior than earthquakes. Soya beans are used in auto manufacture. Oil from them is pressed for enamel, and the remaining meal is made into a solid material used in various parts.
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