19 Jul 1929
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1929
Page
1
Castoria brings ease to fretful infants and restless children with a few drops. It is a vegetable product considered safe by doctors and suitable for daily use. In emergencies it relieves constipation or pains, and mothers often keep an extra bottle on hand. The product also helps older children, per the accompanying booklet.
A diner notes the bill is reasonable, prompting the waiter to doubt the charge. The Inverness Courier reports the exchange as the guest questions the bill and the waiter checks for potential errors.
Farmyard discovery near Eldorado Springs reveals a log sawn open to reveal a can of gold dust totaling 250 dollars. John Bettis, seeking firewood, splits the log and uncovers the concealed cache, adding a surprising chapter to a rural mystery.
An advertisement praises Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a trusted anti acid for sour stomachs. It claims medical endorsement and broad consumer appeal, urging use after hearty meals and noting the Phillips name as a registered U S trademark since 187a by the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co.
Herd in Okla land was auctioned after rancher Old Bill Easely mortgaged his Basely county property to seed a hoped for railroad town. The Santa Fe railroad faltered, left the village with empty storefronts, and the sheriff sold 415 acres plus 32 scattered lots to bidders. An 89 dollar per lot average and $5 per acre for Easely’s home land marked the surrender.
Mexico City reports the National University of Mexico will host a diverse faculty for its summer school with professors from the United States Chile Costa Rica and Ecuador. Waldo Frank will lecture on The United States Spain and Spanish America while Dr Gonzalo Zaldumbide Ecuador's minister to the U.S. and noted sculptor will discuss America and the League of Nations. Pedro Prado Chilean novelist and diplomat will speak on Chilean literature and The Political Action of America.
London stone gunmen escaped with 1100 dollars in mutilated bills from the Bank of Montreal main branch at 10 45 am after presenting a note to a teller. S B Dunn demanded cash and pushed the packet toward the robber. The teller used the mutilated bills to save the bank several thousand dollars in his cage. A customer tried to stop the bandit but failed.
Judge Emery Smith released three prisoners from Cassville Missouri city jail to pick strawberries as the Ozarks strawberry season runs full swing.
Inventor W. D. Verschoyle seeks British patent for a gravity controlled air machine. He claims it could reach 600 miles per hour, enabling London to New York travel in under five hours. The design envisions vertical takeoff and landing without conventional runways or fuel balloons.
Paris reports a surge in juvenile crime in recent months with two youths aged twelve and thirteen killing an elderly woman at Vaucresson. A wider pattern follows recent guillotine executions and a rising number of youth offenders including Adolé Steffen and Marcel Morice. Doctors call for German style reform via specialized observation schools to address suspected nervous debility.
Annapolis report: Mrs. Ethel Lorentz declined a $5 per day salary as clerk to the city delegation in the general assembly. Speaker E Brooke Lee said the checks were returned uncashed and the pay will stay with the treasury after the session ends. Lorentz sought legislative experience, not pay.
Elmer Jolson of Warsaw files for divorce alleging his wife Katherine Juhinsoe from Rensselaer Indiana struck him with an iron poker and a meat fork. The action requests a decree of divorce and related relief.
Mrs Human Dynamo asks why Miss Strong trims the stationery corners, replying that it’s to prepare a circular letter as noted by the Louisville Courier Journal.
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