25 Jan 1929
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1929
Page
1
A nostalgic advertisement touts Castoria a safe daily remedy for colic diarrhea and fretful babies. It emphasizes minimal risk for infants, urges mothers to keep a bottle on hand, claims doctors advise Castoria for infants, and notes druggists stock it widely.
New York reports Carveth Wells asserts the Laplanders are civilized and multilingual despite nomadic life. He notes reindeer herding, biannual clothing changes, and that burial occurs on the trail then in church with up to 80,000 nomads attending ceremonies.
U S motor vehicles reach 24,592,370 with gains led by 21,403,546 passenger cars and 2,123,774 motor trucks. New York tops state counts at 2,090,815, followed by California and Ohio. Magazine notes 1.5 million cars removed from use and replacements driving sales.
The Junkers Aircraft Co of Germany is building a large monoplane powered by four 550 horsepower motors. It is designed to carry four persons with living quarters in the wings and a 120 foot wingspan. The craft aims to operate transatlantic service at 20000 to 80000 feet, weather permitting, with plans to maintain atmospheric pressure.
Chilean hotel employees in Santiago campaign to abolish tips and add 10 to 15 percent to guest bills. They argue tips are prejudicial and would use the extra money to fund language lessons for waiters barbers and porters to better serve foreign visitors.
Stanley T. Brooks of the Carnegie Museum pioneers a wax preservation method for invertebrates and potentially humans. The process avoids hazardous alcohol and allows specimens to retain living form and likeness. Brooks plans a public waxed exhibit of invertebrates within a year or so.
London’s Hyde Park hosts Charlie a fifty five year old orator who speaks nightly for eight years at Marble Arch corner. His chorus of hecklers chant Shakespeare quotes drowning out the speech and press home his three topics war debts cigarette smoking mothers and his own mental state.
The Soviet regime removes sixty bey landowners from their estates in Semipalatinsk Kazakstan Republic, deporting them after eleven years of bolshevik rule to erase lingering private cattle and property holdings.
Asto Vera, a teen, was held on a murder charge after confessing to drowning four year old Fred Basler in a pond to "get even" with the child's uncle. The motive remains unknown. In Bucharest a seven year old named Michal attended the christening of a locomotive named after him and demonstrated how it works, impressing onlookers with his explanation of electric locomotives.
Vernoniea Wolonin aged six and her sister Anna five traveled from Poland to join their father in Youngstown Ohio. They have not seen him since infancy and their mother is dead.
Klessheim castle near Salzburg once owned by the Hapsburgs is to be converted into a canned meat factory. Pigs will be fattened in apartments that were historically sacred to royalty.
The article suggests ears could replace fingerprints for identification. It notes no two ears are identical and ear shapes cannot be altered without marks, while fingerprints require consent or force. Ear photographs could be studied and filed without the subject's knowledge for future reference.
Mrs Bell recalls a long illness with a brutal cough that worsened at night until she could not lie down. She credits Milks Emulsion with restoring her strength and ending the cough after about three months, and she urges neighbors to try it. The claim is signed from Brooklyn, with a guarantee and distributor in Terre Haute Indiana.
A South African man once claimed to derive a new motor spirit from prickly pear juice that powered a six cylinder car 22 miles on one gallon without carburetor changes. The proverb contrasts youth’s desire for happiness with elders’ wish for wisdom.
The article recalls Samuel de Champlain sailing up the St Lawrence in 1603 and, in 1604, helping found Fort Troyal now Annapolis Nova Scotia the first permanent French colony in North America. It notes the town’s origins and colonial ties with France.
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