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Newspaper
Manitowoc Times
Location
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1929
Page
6
Tur Manitowoc publishes The New Times Manitowoc daily at 717 York Street with phone numbers 292 and 293. The notice includes subscription rates in advance for various terms and regions, dated January 15, 1929.
In a brief address Governor Kehler urges rural planning within counties. Perry Powell of the Wisconsin Real Estate Brokers discusses statewide provisions in chapter 97, Section 97.17, creating rural planning committees and defining duties from reporting on design to proposing historic site preservation. Public note urges Maniawoe County to form its committee.
In a Manitowoc county pasture dialogue locals argue snow removal is ineffective with current equipment. They urge purchasing a rotary plow on a fast truck to cover large areas quickly, noting northern counties act faster after rain and calling for consistent, costly investment to open roads.
A column recounts incidents from Grover Whalen’s New York police appointment pranksters’ disguises, arrests, and a rogues gallery. It also threads jokes about sound tests with Mary Pickford, casting quips, a censor’s caption swap, and backstage Broadway humor.
Washington reports indicate censorship marked Mr. Hoover's Latin American trip shielding news. Journalists found no substantial events en route, noting no sensational items arose beyond the Argentine risk, while investigators doubly probed press restrictions to test press freedom limits.
The piece praises Orville Wright for advancing aviation and notes delayed American recognition compared to foreign nations. It discusses Smithsonian attitude, Wrights’ global impact, and Wilbur Wright’s posthumous credit, plus remarks on press censorship during a diplomatic tour and its political implications.
Questions answered by the editor cover iconoclasm origins in the Eastern Church and Reformation, Marie Antoinette’s parents, counts of Russians and Romanians in the U S, the origin of Yankee, tall men and the pituitary glands, Dolores meaning, differences among congregation assembly society and organization, value of five Philippine centavos, authors of The Covered Wagon and The Danger Trail, amber origin, and the 1927 world population estimate.
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