09 May 1930
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
1
A 200 foot high beacon will be erected atop the Hudson Bay company Winnipeg store to aid night air travel. The beacon will be the largest airway beacon in Canada and visible for about 100 miles with 20 percent greater intensity than Croydon England’s beacon. A theater trip is suggested as a remedy for troubles.
An October testimonial from a Montana woman promotes Kruschen Salts claiming rapid fat loss of 19 pounds over four weeks. It advises daily half teaspoon doses in hot water before breakfast and asserts systemic cleansing, toned organs, bright health, and a slimmer figure with an 85 cent bottle from any druggist, guaranteed or money back.
Fern Etare offers practical guidance for Beth on decorating a small stairway hall with domestic Oriental rugs. She emphasizes avoiding overdoing the space, matching draperies with living room tones, choosing reputable rug firms, and using cushions to extend rug life. She also suggests coordinating rugs, curtains, and wall art to create a unified decor scheme.
University of Oklahoma paleontologist theorizes frogs can live a century or more while buried in rock. Experiments on Oklahoma specimens suggest ages from one to seventy five years, with calcium derivatives solidifying around the body as it seeks subterranean moisture. Frogs become blind and semitransparent in rock-bound cells.
Prof. Isadore Falk mounted a hard hunt, catching 2,600 microbes before isolating the virulent pleomorphic streptococcus in a sniffling monkey’s nose. He aims to create a serum to immunize humans against this insidious killer linked to colds and influenza.
Leavenworth. Coney Slaughter, son of prominent Texas cattleman W B Slaughter, was released from federal prison after a six year term for embezzling $352,000 from Pueblo Mercantile National Bank. Once wealthy, Slaughter wandered as a fugitive for eight years, traded gambling winnings for cash, and reportedly hid $100,000 from the loot near Denver. it has never been recovered.
Edward Cohen of Newark New Jersey relates a tense robbery attempt at his shop. A nervous bandit demanded larger sums then balked at violence, finally settling for a quarter worth of cheese limburger after Cohen offered polite restraint. The would be thief fled with no harm.
John Mackenzie and Mrs. Mackenzie observed a large cougar spring from a rock and seize their fox terrier near Victoria B C. The dog was submerged but escaped as the cougar slid into the sea and swam ashore before fleeing into brush. The terrier was badly tipped but expected to recover.
Harold Berryman of BillingsMont bid thirty six dollars for two barrels of household articles from the suction block. The haul proved valuable coins silver plates and delicate china worth at least three hundred dollars.
Neighbors speculate a hen appears alive feeding on seed yet the origin of its drinking water remains unknown. The fragment offers no clear names places dates or events to anchor a fuller report.
A Holyoke hunter near Montgomery tried shooting a deer at six rods but missed as the buck and later a doe, then another buck, passed. After an hour at a brook for a drink he sighted a second buck and fired twice, missing again. He returned to Paper City without boasting of luck or nature’s wonders.
A political reader from North Carolina recounted a tale at a New Born luncheon. He quoted a minister testing a boy about his father’s employment, noting mixed signals in seemingly positive news. The exchange centered on timelines and jobs, illustrating skepticism toward the subject.
In a compact musing Judge notes a season when man risks arteries or brain. Psychoanalysis moves from serious science to casual pastime as society debates inner life. Married men are cast as inventors of excuses in a wry social aside.
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