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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1930
Page
6
The World in Review provides a concise weekly digest of global dispatches from The Christian Science Monitor network. It highlights major events, political shifts, and significant developments across regions with a steady, informative tone.
Reykjavik prepares a city of 27 000 tents on Lake Reykjavik shore to host visitors for the 1000th year celebration of Icelandic parliamentary rule. The Althing dates to 930 and is claimed as the oldest parliament in the world.
Hartford, Connecticut, the Maxim Silencer Company says it will stop producing gun silencers amid public pressure linking them to crime. The firm reports a successful new silencer for airplane motors is now in production.
Dr. Franklin S. Irby editor of Electronics says sound pictures doubled theater crowds in 2 1/2 years. He notes 9000 of 22600 U.S. theaters were sound-equipped by 1929 end and predicts about 75 percent will have talkies by year end 1930.
The Buenos Aires general post office offers a language service absorbing many tongues. Poles, a German, a Chinese, a Frenchman, a Lithuanian and three Englishmen, all lacking Spanish, used it and left with smiles as clerks understand a wide range of speech.
England unveils the speed boat Miss England I built to challenge the United States in September. Fitted with two Rolls Royce airplane engines delivering 4000 horsepower the 40 foot craft weighs 4% tons. The tail rises above the water like an airplane rudder and a 15 inch diameter crew section is noted. A speed of 120 miles per hour is claimed. The present record stands at 96.3 miles.
American racer Gar Wood is reported to have held an hour long event, showcasing his speed and endurance in a notable contest.
The first Soviet farm city will be built in the Khoper region on a 500000 acre collective farm. It will mirror new workers towns with apartment blocks and communal facilities. The city aims for 44000 inhabitants all tied to the collective farm. A dairy and two brick plants will support industrial and agricultural functions.
The Soviet Commissariat for Labor forbids overtime or work on holidays with a single exception for emergency work necessary to avert a serious contingency.
The High Court of Australia upholds a law over a Victoria Supreme Court ruling prohibiting billboards on state highways without Country Roads Board consent. The decision affects Melbourne and other regions, enforcing signage limits along major routes.
After talks between American Ambassador J. W. Garrett and Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, Rome agreed to release about 30 Italo Americans holding US passports who had been drafted into the Italian army.
Germany's Council of Health, composed of senior physicians, votes to end police compulsion for vaccination. The panel supports compensation payments for proven adverse effects and calls the current rigid vaccination law into question.
Under the Young plan a bonfire destroyed bonds valued at over 35 billion dollars tied to German reparations. Representatives from involved nations witnessed the event as a signal for withdrawal of French garrisons from the Rhineland, with payments channeled through the Bank for International Settlements.
President Rubio Ortiz signs a decree allotting farms to Mexican peasants in Mexico City. The measure notes no expropriation from large landholders, citing past fragmentation of large holdings and idle lands. The aim is to boost employment through colonization and raise farm production nationwide.
An English language notice in Peiping advertises good houses for rent within the Summer Palace complex. It describes Sanitary, comfortable residences amidst scenic surroundings, some on the hill and near the lake, available immediately with further details via the City Government of Peiping. The palace is tied to Empress Dowager Cixi.
Henry Ford expands holdings in Illinois by purchasing nearly all original furnishings from Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield home, following earlier acquisition of a local courthouse for his historical museum project near Detroit.
The Emancipator frame house left in 1860 for the White House is identified with mahogany furniture upholstered in haircloth. The purchase covered a table, a feature living room piece, a dozen straight backed chairs in two sets, a clock, a small book table, two rocking chairs, and part of Lincoln's bedroom furnishings including a large mirror and a wash stand.
The British and Foreign Bible Society says 3,250,000 more copies of the Scriptures were sold in the last year, raising total sales to 12,000,000. Despite China’s civil war, 5,250,000 copies were distributed there.
Frank Miller circuit attorney of St. Louis urged the School of Journalism to publish less crime news. He argued that detailing bandits and holdups teaches a crime school by dwelling on particulars and tricks used by criminals.
New York reports the world’s highest rental for the 58 story Salmon building on Forty second Street and Fifth Avenue. With completion next December the front foot cost on Fifth Avenue reaches 3800 dollars per foot or 70000 dollars yearly for a 19 by 41 foot store on the first floor across 16 storefronts.
Representative Garner of Texas urges dividing Texas into five states to shift political power, claiming each would span about 53,175 square miles, roughly Arkansas sized. He argues Texas is 70 percent larger than its nearest competitor and would add eight southern Senate seats if partitioned.
Dallas tourists in east Texas witness geese fenced in cotton fields snapping and clipping at grass and insects. C. C. Simmons from Van Zandt County first learned the method years ago and kept geese to guard his crops, a practice now common among local farmers who use geese to control pests while keeping soil soil turned.
In Florence Premier Mussolini declares a drive toward stronger sea power after a massive military review, saying words are beautiful but rifles and machine guns forge power. The statement signals a bold expansion of Italy's naval capabilities amid a show of military strength.
Italy pledges to complete ten units of a new naval program with 29 ships planned, asserting Fascist will and mathematical certainty. Norway curbs whaling aiming to ban harvesting in cow calf regions. 1929 30 season output surpasses 1.45 million barrels of whale oil with 1.9 million capacity planned. over 10 000 Norwegians depend on the industry.
There are legends about how Peace River earned its name but facts point to a 1839 treaty with the Seminole east of the stream ending Indian-White hostilities, made at Fort King not on Peace River. Also local items on Avon Park state park plans and citrus shipments, with two classifieds seeking passenger rides and work opportunities.
Prospective investors are urged to buy Montverde grape vineyards citing rapid 30 month payback, early market advantage, frost resistance, strong stock grafts, and drought resilience. Vines are dormant in winter and poised for fast returns with abundant, high quality bunches on display for inspection in coming weeks.
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