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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1938
Page
3
A playful dialogue features Johony Yah and Tommy trading quips about a lawyer and a doctor as a duck and a bird share tidbits. Lily asks about the mortgage while Mose reassures it is temporary until foreclosure. A child asks who struck Tommy with a black eye.
A worried Chinese man faces a vicious dog. The owner reassures him with the proverb a barking dog never bites. The man replies that the dog may not know the proverb either.
A garbled exchange about colors and debts surfaces in a playful, unclear snippet. The dialogue mentions blue when pressed for payment and hints at a game involving color names and a Teal character, creating a puzzle-like scene without a clear resolution.
Harris Sproles, a Balinas business man, has spent 20 years seeking the submarine and crew that sank the Joseph Cudahy in August 1918. He chased leads from Capt. Lauterbach to Lowell Thomas and German officials, hoping for a photo and the name of the commander Lieutenant Patzig of U-90, now elusive.
Boston reports a local college sophomore named Robert Pence funding his tuition and living costs through selling eggs. He sourced hens at a Manoa farm to support his expenses while promoting an egg campaign across hotels and restaurants near Copley Square. The story notes a formed corporation with named associates.
London reports Charles Ramsay manager on Niua Foou island in the South Seas runs a monthly tin can mail drop during hurricane season. A swimming relay with two natives carries outgoing mail from the shore to a tourist steamer, which drops a tin can of incoming mail back to the islanders.
A sixteen year old, Wallace L. Minto Jr., claims to synthesize artificial radium from cheap ore at about one hundredth the cost of the real product. He attributes his method to four new elements he says he discovered and has been invited to address the Eastern Electronic Research association to demonstrate his experiments.
Elisha Hudson Waterman, thirty nine, heir to the Waterman fountain pen fortune, returns from a Greenwich village flat to take an executive vice president post in Newark New Jersey offices. He left the family business fifteen years ago after a dispute with his father Frank D. Waterman over his choice of a bride. Yale graduate and World War I veteran, Hudson had a varied career before this homecoming.
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