Hard Luck Bates the Airline Passenger Brings Bad Jinx
Washington reports a Hoover Field figure nicknamed Hard Luck Bates travels by airplane after losing his job. He has been aboard five crashes in under two years, with pilots either avoiding or ejecting him from planes due to alleged superstitions and misfortune.
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Scrippe
Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Hoover Field
Bates
Atlanta
Chicago
Kansas City
Fredericksburg
Bernard Thompson
Army
Charleston
W. Va
Nokesville
Roger Scott
Hoover
Virginia
Hank Pritchard
Hooverfield
Pritchard
Scott
Jack Parker
Baltimore
Parker
Tom Gurley
Pitcairn Mail
Gurley
New York
Goodby
Pie’s Reputation Tied to Heavy Meal Digestion
The passage notes that pie is poorly digested because people often eat it at the end of a heavy meal when the stomach is already full. It emphasizes digestion issues rather than recipe specifics.
Gales Rage Across Europe Triggering Death Toll Rises
Weather fury slams Britain France and Belgium with floods landslides and storms. Bangor Wales floods hit police station and plants. Rodney battles Portsmouth harbor. boats distressed off coast. Boulogne Boulogne France hit by mudslides and cable collapse. Charleroi area dyke breaks flooding basements. residents take refuge upstairs.
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Bangor
Wales
Rodney
Portsmouth Harbor
Indiana Reports 1929 as Greatest Year for Road Building
The Indiana highway commission completed 432 miles of pavement in 1929, totaling 2 600 miles of hard surfaced roads. The system now spans nearly 5 500 miles with 2 127 rebuilt in stone or gravel and 250 dustless with oil and calcium chloride. The 1930 plan calls for over 500 miles paved and hundreds more surfaced with gravel. Increased gasoline tax funds are expected to enable this expansion. John J. Brown outlines the program and cites the 4 cent law’s partial year collections.
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Indiana
State Highway Commission
John J. Brown
Brown
New Highways to Be Twenty Foot Wide
New highways will be constructed twenty feet wide instead of the regulation eighteen feet as the annual increase in motor traffic and higher speeds make travel dangerous on narrow roads.
Poisoned Fruit Cake Missing and Found Across Border
An international search for a missing arsenic poisoned fruit cake ended with seizure after a wire report crossed into Canada. The case began when a housewife baked nine fruit cakes for sale and calcium arsenic was accidentally mixed in during production.
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Canada
United Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Arsenic Cake Traced Across Border To Canada
Officials traced a deadly cake sold to a purchaser who fell violently ill. Nine victims sickened before arsenic was found in seven loaves and the ninth remained missing until authorities seized the tainted cake after alerting Canadian counterparts.
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Our
Canada
Hogs Weighed 1212 Pounds Fat and Lard Extracted
Times Special reports four hogs aged thirty two weeks butchered by John Caborn here. Total weight 1212 pounds with fifty gallons of lard produced in addition to meat.
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John Caborn
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Lincoln
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Indianapolis Humane Society
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Indianapolis
W. Arcsicaatins St
Kouse Radio Inc
Ohio St
Crosley and
Amrad
Hoosier
VA Es Atyig
Ineferest
John A. George
Indianapolis Coal Co
Clyde E. Robinson
Marion County
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Progress Laundry Co
Chester L. Robinson
Roy C. Shaneberger
Pres. Progress Laundry Co
Clarence W. Means
Atty
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State Bank
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