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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1927
Page
8
AP reports toys in 1927 growing more realistic with lifelike dolls and models. Toy cars and fire engines resemble real items, with accessories and mechanical features. Some include instruction books, mini builders, and even a five-pound derrick for young contractors. Dolls evolve to movable faces and fashionable flapper styles for girls.
AP reports French agriculture faces a 39 to 38 percent fall in farm product prices since last year. Deputy Max de Monicault warns of a farming crisis causing urban migration as farms go up for sale. He blames rising production costs, credit access, and delayed profitability in farming finance.
A Bozeman Montana AP item reports Bruna a yellow stag hound adopted by a railroad locomotive. The dog stays beside switch engine No 911, never rides, runs about 60 miles daily, eats with the crew, works extra hours when overtime, and sleeps in the roundhouse beside his idol. He has patrolled the yards for three years, learning switch signals and reacting to locomotive airbrake releases.
English farmers voice concern as imports of condensed milk climb. In ten months 107 900 tons entered, while domestic dairy communities face over production. The National Federation of Dairymen's Associations joins farmers in seeking a prohibition on condensed milk imports, arguing it threatens public health.
Samuel P. Arnott of Chicago is set to preside and seek nomination at the ensuing eld. He serves as a director and as executive vice president in a chartered firm planning cotton trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. The notice mentions his ties to Avnet tomato Chicne in Wheeling West Virginia and a 1900 transaction history.
Washington AP reports Dr. Oscar Riddle and staff at Carnegie Institution of Washington bred doves with varying thyroid gland sizes over six years. The work suggests heredity can fix natural differences in a key hormone producing organ, offering insight into growth, development and potential human evolution.
Paris report says the French League for the Protection of Animals seeks an eight hour day and one day off per week for horses as a first step toward a modern animal rights charter. Dr E G Lee leads the campaign to apply human labor laws to animals and press for League of Nations sanction.
Twenty of Scotland Yard detectives attended a Chez Victor raid in swallow tail coats. The officers, arriving in limousines, were checked for affidavits and dress while a census of attendees was taken. The incident reveals police habit of enforcing grooming standards alongside the raid.
Washington AP reports Dr. W J Humphreys notes the northern hemisphere endures wider seasonal temperature swings due to more land mass, faster heating and cooling, and currents. Ocean warmth stabilizes southern land, while northern continents vary. Knighted Chicago executive Justus P Seeburg receives Sweden's Order of the North Star for promoting U S Sweden ties.
Dr Valerie Parker president describes plans to reorganize the National Council of Women to become a non resolving clearing house for 34 member societies. A New York office will centralize materials and enable cross organization access including foreign guest hosting and liaison with the International Council of Women.
Fremont Nebraska AP reports L D Richards intends to push Congress for an appropriation to enable a 1928 reunion for Confederate and Union veterans in Washington. Richards, former Nebraska G A R commander, notes broad newspaper support though no formal G A R approval. Congressman Edgar Howard will present the plea. Pershing or Legion officials may head the organizing board.
Specialized bullfighters' uniform wanes as matadors avoid colorful suits. Business stalls since the good old days when crack bull fighters wore a new suit for nearly every fight. Now suits endure months, with luck to dodge horn injuries.
The Washington A PA design for a bubble sextant to measure horizon distances, submitted to the navy by the late Lieut. Comdr. Noel Davis who was killed preparing for a Paris flight, may prove the best instrument of its kind developed, the naval observatory's annual report said today. Davis designed the sextant in
An incomplete account notes cooperation with Branford of the navy ordnance bureau shortly before a fatal crash during a trial flight over Virgins. The report references a promised solution and an artificial horizon navigation aid, with orders for ten units of a Toristrumen device.
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