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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1930
Page
6
An informative clock novelty appears in Paris stores. It guides time use with hour marked pictures showing activities like golf in the morning and bridge in the afternoon. It includes a cocktail hour and quips about marriage and wit.
Mrs Portar L Assdeds of Dothan Alabama reports nervous breakdown and exhaustion improved after seven bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She says it strengthened her nerves and energy to care for four children and perform housework.
A frail man on a cliff watches four figures in the water distance. He cannot distinguish his wife among them. A tense moment passes as one woman asks another if she will go with him, and the other answers I am.
In a small French Canadian village, Paul Kirke, descendant of Molly Brant, oversees engineering near Peribonka. His wife Claire, in Europe, plans to join him as Paul becomes involved with Carla, the village teacher. A luncheon at Mistassini ends with a dangerous log near the Big Gorge.
In a perilous descent on a log through a dark gorge Lucy Belle Colin and companions fear a doorway to unknown horrors yet Paul plunges into the water. Claire’s warning cry saves him as river undertow and thick weeds threaten to pull him under.
Paul battles a powerful undertow while Claire sinks from view after a dramatic plunge. He clings to rocks and weeds, fearing he will reach her as Carla’s shadowy presence haunts his mind and drifts toward a grim, dreamlike fate.
Misa Virgie Nicholson, 19, traveled to Greensboro for a possible marriage to a local businessman. After he declined to wed on her wedding eve she left a note for her mother and ingested bichloride of mercury then drank most of carbolic acid. She died before hotel staff could intervene. her body sent to Norfolk, Virginia. A note to her mother and two letters were found along with money from her purse.
The United States Geological Survey restarts field operations with 2350 parties planned from Washington in the next month. Thirty vehicles carrying engineers and instruments head to Kentucky Virginia New York and nearby states as the division details gearing for the season. Instruments worth thousands of dollars undergo repairs at headquarters as mobilization begins.
Rail officials in Miles City seek a lost Montana hamlet named Linnberton last seen on the Milwaukee railroad line in 1910. W N Ross, district agent, asks for any clues about the vanished town whose location and fate remain unknown. Photographs depict Indians before a general merchandise store, but no map confirms the town’s existence.
The United States Army orders an experiment adapting pressure cooking to rolling kitchens to cut meal prep time for doughboys on marches. Maj. Gen. Stephen Fuqua, chief of infantry, cites long food preparation as a persistent issue in field marching conditions.
Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the conviction of J. L. Debord of Newport holding there is no law in the state to prevent curious persons from peeping in windows. The ruling underscores legal limits on voyeurism prosecutions in Tennessee.
Robert Gard Kurrle alleges in a divorce complaint that his wife Darling quit after a quarrel over pork chop cooking. He says the dispute lasted four teen years and eight months, with Kurrle preferring pork “not too done” while Darling wanted crisp. He dodged a crack in a confrontation and is now cooking his own pork cups. Darling left him.
A Raeburn portrait of Robert Burns painted in 1803, missing for over a century, has reportedly been found by a miner's wife in Larkhall Scotland. The canvas measures 27 by 23 inches with an indistinct Rae burn signature and was purchased for a few shillings in a second hand furniture shop.
Londoner 88 Sir Alfred Yarrow shipbuilder and famed public figure is praised after broadcasting on radio claiming to be England's oldest man to speak into a microphone at eighty eight. Bruce Turner a fourteen year old from Reidsville NC stops a burglar, subdues him with two tackles until help arrives.
An advertisement touts KRUSCHEN SALTS as a fat loss aid claiming fat loss in three weeks. It promises increased energy, clearer skin, and alertness, urging half a teaspoon in hot water each morning and a money back guarantee if no health improvement is felt.
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