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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
3
Duane Warrington aged 10 son of J. J. Warrington of 302 North Seventh Street sustained a badly cut right wrist when a sled from a Five Points platform overturned. The sled’s runner severed the leader, bones were fractured and multiple stitches were required. He was treated at a clinic and later returned home.
The Jackson Parish singing convention meets Saturday at Chatham for a business session. Sunday offers public song services. These conventions occur each month with five Sundays and draw large crowds from the parish and nearby areas.
United Press reports the first regular aerosled passenger line in the Chuvash Republic between Cheboksary and Kanash, 88 kilometers apart. Aerosleds use rear propellers and sleds shaped like airplanes, a Soviet invention.
Thieves stole curios and precious fines worth 50000 from the palace of the former Prince Regent in Peiping. Chinese police have arrested several suspects including two eunuchs from the former imperial court who served the prince.
Buffalo December reports note winter slows smuggling at Peace Bridge and Niagara River landing. Inspectors greet travelers and seize liquor, beer or contraband as winter air reduces activity from hundreds of bottles to under a hundred.
London December 24 Professor Arthur Edwin Boycott declares at a Royal Society of Arts meeting that cancer is caused by products of burnt coal. He cites his Oxford studies and University of London research urging avoidance of irritation as practical hygiene to reduce cancer risk.
The case against burnt coal products grows stronger as evidence ties repeated tarry application to animals with cancer. The finding reinforces calls to halt the smoke nuisance without delay.
At the Christmas dinner for eighteen senate pages in Washington, Vice President Curtis was presented with an Indian tomahawk as a symbol of keeping peace in the senate. The gift highlights Curtis early life among Indians.
Two young men arrested for fighting gave their names as George Winter and Albert Summer in London on December 24.
Miss Vera Rector of Crossville Tenn and Arthur Rigdon wed at Lauderdale Miss with wedding music broadcast from Meridian station WCOC. Rector visiting uncle H P Burnett as Rigdon resides there Meridian staff timed the ceremony and a large crowd of villagers observed the rites via receiving set in a store.
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