16 Aug 1929
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1929
Page
1
The text contrasts lunar conditions with extreme temperatures. It also jabs at debts and social habits, noting a proverb about waiting for money owed and the differences between English gentlemen chasing hounds and Americans chasing dogs. The passage closes with a sharp judgment on a bad point and the finger of scorn.
Texarkana, Ark L K Person, a wealthy planter and politician, is charged with the murder of L H Simmons, a range rider and former Texarkana police chief, amid a cattle dipping war across southern Arkansas. Simmons, checking undipped cattle under a joint tick eradication program, was shot after confronting Person as they disputed dipping status. Simmons died hours later, saying he was shot after warning he was under arrest and firing back. Person was unharmed. The dispute follows a broader wave of violence, mob actions, and legal battles across Miller Howard and Pike counties as authorities push dip enforcement. Federal and state officers have mobilized. hearings and prosecutions loom as tensions flare.
Britain considers curbs on gaudy gas stations to protect countryside scenery. A home office committee recommends painting all stations a single color, banning flashing signs, reducing advertising lettering, and prohibiting corrugated iron roofs. It also seeks a standard roadside sign to replace large billboards.
Summer guests in South Bouquet valley report a mother bear cuffing cows that approached her cubs in a pasture. The bear stayed in the woods shelter while cubs played, then charged the cows, cuffing them as one cow leaped a fence to escape.
A plucky Florence family led by nineteen year old Charles Moller rebuilt after a farm home fire destroyed their belongings. Charles, Leona, and Rose escaped with little, received aid from neighbors and local businesses, and by week’s end a shack near the mill was furnished with table, bed, chair, clothing, groceries, and some money.
Shinich Misumi a 22 year old Japanese cook who designed his own parachute jumped from the Manhattan Bridge believing it would open. The chute failed to deploy but aided his fall. He surfaced swam to a pier and was taken to Bellevue hospital for observation. He said he spent three months building the parachute and had considered the Woolworth tower before choosing the bridge. He was unharmed beyond being shaken and possibly waterlogged.
A hunting party led by Miss Marjory Ford of Ottawa and two Toronto University affiliates searches Moraine Lake for the rare gyrilo platta a primitive ice age survivor. Discovered by Dr Norma Ford and first found by Dr I M Walker at Sulphur Mountain, the insect thrives in subzero weather and dies above 10 degrees above freezing. Only a few specimens exist and Moraine Lake is one of the few global habitats.
Twenty nine of forty two students enrolled in the newly opened German Susie Institute for Foreigners in Berlin are Americans. The rest come from England Finland Holland Hungary Romania Russia Sweden and Switzerland. Classes are in Charlottenburg Castle, with rooms set aside by the Prussian minister of education, including the golden gallery opened to the public during the Berlin festival. Wilhelm Furtwaengler is listed as president of the institute.
In Frederica Delaware Dr Claude Reith faced a potential prison term for driving while intoxicated but was spared jail after town officials pleaded for his services. Judge Lynn imposed a $200 fine and a suspended three month sentence. Keith, tied to a separate Wilmington arrest, was not known there.
A coalition of banking and investment houses backs a plan to build a city of apartment towers at the edge of the financial district, a move aimed at housing the influx of after hours workers who double the daytime population and extend desk time after theater crowds depart. The project would rise on land once linked to Peter Stuyvesant and colonial era issues, reflecting a shift in downtown living needs.
In Nebraska City, totally blind youths at the Nebraska School for the Blind take up horseshoes. Regulation courts were set up by Superintendent N. Abbott before summer vacation. Blind players pair with sighted or partially sighted partners who call out guiding directions, with rings of eight or more common.
A conversation discusses the tough traits needed for winning card play with a cool, calculating, crafty, slightly mean disposition. The piece then shifts through brief notes on Leonardo da Vinci predicting America's inclusion and Earth diameter, Welsh check printing, Elinor Glyn reflections, playful exchanges, and social musings on experience and offense.
A brief exchange between two friendly shopkeepers about sale timings. The first asks when the opening sale ends and the second replies that it ends when the other shop’s closing sale begins.
A fragment from Border Cities Star hints at a dispute titled Conciliation with humorous lines about hair in the soup and sending out a pretty waitress. It suggests tensions around a relationship and hints at a medical figure blamed for missteps.
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