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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1927
Page
3
A talk traces the phrase By Jiminy to an oath of Romans and links it to the twin stars Castor and Pollux. It notes Babylonian roots, ancient astronomy, and Castor as Alpha Gemini, a bright binary star seen as two suns.
In Bucharest crowd protests over fashion, armed police rescue a youth cornered by AX men enforcing strict dress codes. Police with bayonets guard the crowd as youths and several girls face demonstrations for exotic trousers and skirts deemed too short. No injuries reported.
Marble steps in Baltimore function as a gauge of housewife efficiency as wives scrub daily on white steps. Neighbors scorn lateness. front stoops double as porches in summer evenings where families socialize and gossip flows through the streets.
The East Harpington Long Island farmhouse where John Howard Payne grew up is for sale. Gustave A. Buek, late president of Alco Gravure, owned it. his widow Hannah Louise Buek now plans to sell to the highest bidder.
A Buffalo butcher with control of Grover Cleveland Alexander routed two holdup men by throwing a piece of salt pork at the bandits when ordered to throw up their hands. The incident ends without further injury as the man defends his shop.
Atlantic City New Jersey engineer William T Donnelly told the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association meeting that a coastal dike with back sloped subdivisions could drain marsh land and stop the sea tide invasion. He proposed using a giant dredge to build the dike with a highway on top and a canal inland, turning pest habitats into valuable garden and dairy country for nearby industrial cities. He cited Egypt China and Holland as models for such works, suggesting costs need not be prohibitive.
Ivan Barilov, a Russian immigrant in Czechoslovakia, posed as an idiot to fool villagers while committing over 1,000 burglaries in six years, averaging more than three per week. He spoke only of communism and the Russian murderers, making him seem harmless to residents.
Oklahoma lawmakers push a three inch biscuit width standard and urge Kansas to join. Senator James W. Finley of Chanute to study the reform and report back as culinary reform spreads from Oklahoma City.
A dewberry named Young, originating with B. M. Young ofLouis ton, lost since 1905, has been rediscovered by the Agriculture department and recommended to farmers for trial. The fruit reportedly larger than Lucretia, sweeter than Logan, with high dessert quality and deep wine color, suited to southern and southeastern soils and climates.
The Milford Methodist Episcopal church in Junction City Kansas, built in 1868, has shifted from church to school to pool hall and back to a church. Reorganization began months ago with former worshipers rejoining the congregation.
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