29 Jul 1927
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1927
Page
1
A Cleveland reader credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after childbirth and illness. She reports weight gain from 98 to 116 pounds and improved ability to perform housework. The ad ends by touting health as true wealth and happiness.
Extracts from Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons reveal wit amid hardship. A death row inmate asks a doctor to remove a tooth and considers the risk worth it. A wife divorces the condemned man after meeting a kind suitor who showers gifts and care.
William B. Skillman, a Brooklyn alderman hopeful, faced press indifference until telegrams alleging he lived with a woman not his wife sparked coverage. An inquiry revealed Skillman sent the messages under an assumed name Jane. He admitted living with his mother.
Pure tin is reported from rocks near Gold Hill in the Rogue River valley. B F Logan and S B Erskine, ex Bend residents, allege they own the Golden Cross mine and have produced tin from ore tested by assayers in San Francisco and Denver. They urge Portland and the state Chambers of Commerce to send representatives to inspect and assess development prospects.
Prisoners in British prisons mostly serve hard labor or penal servitude. They work seven hours daily making mats brushes shoes and doing carpentry stonemasonry and plumbing. Yearly value of output ranges from fourteen to twenty four pounds with an average near twenty seven, not covering food costs borne by taxpayers. Sixty years ago Wakefield prison profited six to seven thousand pounds annually from mats and other crafts. Now prisons produce mainly goods for government use.
Paris author circles embrace the goose quill as a primary writing tool while American authors increasingly favor the typewriter. French literary life keeps a respect for traditional writing, with quills widely sold and valued for their distinctive sound and use.
Spokane reports a shift toward self determination among Pacific Northwest Indians led by Paul G. Wayato who seized leadership of the Northwest Indian Congress and pushed tribes toward unified action and concrete proposals. Wayato, a full blood who lost his father at thirteen, studied at Wenatchee High School and Willamette University while his brother Paschal Sherman works for the War Risk Bureau in Washington.
Astronomer W. E. Wright of Lick Observatory reports two cloud types on Mars. He cites color photography showing white or yellowish water vapor clouds and higher altitude blue clouds. He links blue clouds to prominent polar caps and notes uncertainty about the blue cloud nature.
Gilbert Lueningheener of Midland College in Fremont Nebraska constructs a powerful telescope with a ten inch stovepipe barrel and plate glass mirror. He spends ten months and over 100 hours grinding polishing and figuring to produce a mirror with irregularities under one hundred thousandth of an inch. The device shows 90 power and can study Jupiter’s four moons Venus crescent Saturn rings the Orion nebula and lunar topography.
A report by the American Electronic Research association notes a 20 percent crop yield rise from atmospheric electricity used as a stimulant at Henry Lurber’s Warrenton Missouri farm. The technique discharges electricity through the soil at the roots via wires and aerial currents and is also claimed to help curb cancerous plant growths.
Washington reports the weather bureau now uses eight layer upper air maps for aviation forecasts. Balloon stations 43 nationwide plus 18 army and 10 navy sites feed data for wind, clouds, and visibility from 250 to 4 000 meters. Helicopters may replace balloons later and congress funding could extend weather broadcasts globally.
Andre Perugia arrival in New York asserts American manufacturers err by using straight lasts for crooked feet. He says all normal feet are crooked and American women misjudge their foot shape. In a fashion era of mannish clothes and short skirts, he claims shoes should suit natural feet rather than standard ideals.
The giant tin coffee pot at a busy Salem corner is a famed relic dating to 1859. Julius Mickey Moravian stove dealer built it, claimed as early local direct advertising and a Civil War era shelter myth persists.
Napoleon Vlasma and Nicholas Dili tenkov are named as among the USSR's oldest voters. They recount claiming ages past 130 and a past as volunteers in the Russian army in the campaigns after Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow.
Michel J. Spet loy, a mining engineer, flew from Bogota to Port Limor. The aircraft company ruled the dog aboard as excess baggage costing him 106 dollars.
Dr. Rupert Wall introduces an articular device claimed to eliminate lisp in false teeth. He argues denture wearers suffer lisps and that the invention provides pleasant articulation. The piece notes Berden’s line and observes travel as education, urging entertaining writing.
University of British Columbia scientists report progress in turning pine needles into artificial wood. If successful the process could evolve into a new local industry in British Columbia, reflecting growing research activity in wood-based materials.
An advertisement touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a speedy remedy for tired achy swollen feet. It claims safe pleasant use, no grease, strong antiseptic effects, and odor control, urging readers to ask their druggist for the 2 ounce original bottle.
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