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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1927
Page
1
In Sharon Pennsylvania a stray dog drive led the city police chief to ask the chief of a large steel mill for permission to dump dead dogs on the slag heap. The mill superintendent was away. his assistant refused and promised to consult. The assistant recounted the plea with alarm, prompting the superintendent to order the chief out.
The unemployed must join a compulsory school for single men under thirty and married men under twenty two. Conducted by Salford guardians in England, the program requires regular attendance to receive unemployment dole. Subjects include arithmetic English drawing and woodwork among others.
Moscow correspondent reports Russia launches its first Sunday university in Gorky White Russia. The two year program aims to broaden education for wage earners unable to study on weekdays, focusing on agricultural subjects and serving as a peasant university analogous to American extension courses.
Dr Woods Hutchinson extols sugar as healthful in the sugar bowl habit while contrasting modern sweetness with forefathers cravings for plum pudding. He lampoons cannonball dumplings rich in fat and prunes, noting their lingering effects on mornings after feasts and the head and stomach distress they caused.
A woman in Atchison Globe lore boasts a towel claimed to be over 38 years old. Carl Brown quips that every print shop has a towel as ancient as printing itself, dating to the first half of the fifteenth century. The piece hints at a shift toward a better creation by the annoyed.
Thomas Brent a self-made man of wealth is ordered by doctors to take a six month vacation from Amalgamated Foundry. He considers retreat to the woods with his freckled-face boy, reflecting on missed boyhood and lifelong responsibilities as he plans to leave the city shop behind.
Philip Scrottles cannot open the locked private office of Mr. Brent, who vanished from his hotel. John Edwards, a checking department worker seeking a raise to support marriage plans, presses for higher pay as tension grows over missing leadership and unsettled workplace routine.
Edwards demands a raise or plans to quit amid a push to enforce a long standing pay rule. A power of attorney note from a missing associate reveals an ominous merger delay and a job ad seeking a rural companion for a cloistered man, hinting at deeper troubles.
Dena J Akeley notes cotobus monkeys hold daily community singing. Morning and daytime song fests trigger other forest troops to join, their green rafters ringing with remarkable sounds. Each troop has a leader who guides emotion by adjusting pitch, with some voices resembling human bass and contralto sections.
A scientist from Arkan sas Gazette explains bee communication as a dance performed with their feet. The piece recalls that only bees showing love to humans avoided the dances.
English village signs reveal ancient origins and past trades. Inn signs like the Five Alls symbolize king, bishop, lawyer, soldier, and laborer, tracing local history from before the Norman conquest, though many villagers know little of their communities' early struggles.
Commander C Craufurd told the United Services Institute he has located Ophir in Arabia about 400 miles east of Aden. He describes ruins, a harbor, a river, and a coral barrier that strangled Ophir, and urges excavations and development of a land he says is wealthy with gold, gems, and other riches.
Aris-rance's modern alchemist Jutlivet Castetot of Donal insists he is close to transmuting base metals into gold using a synthetic process. He asserts a mix including silver and antimony yields gold, with a claim that about the original silver largely remains recoverable and that the method becomes commercially profitable.
The Rosenherzer twins of Brooklyn aged five have fled home for the eleventh time. Each escape ends with a police officer locating them and returning the children amid ongoing family concerns and local alerts.
A British traveler reports a novel modification by Capt G T Leverton in Wallington Surrey. He converted the cabin of Imperial Airways Vimy Rolls Royce liner into a bungalow after landing in London.
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