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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
6
This period brings higher risk of skids on wet pavements as balloon tires spread more contact yet lead to false security. New tires grip differently than worn ones, increasing skid risk. non skid chains offer best protection though fitting them mid journey is inconvenient and sometimes fatal.
Sir Thomas hints at a 1932 tea event. West Point features on Wesleyan’s baseball schedule next spring. Harry Schoening chosen captain of Minnesota basketball. Bobby Jones likely to win future golf championships. All-America lists include Canadian hockey stars Norwegian ski jumpers Savoldi Cardeo and Schwartz.
A simple tin tool helps fit difficult valve locks used on many cars. It instructs to place cup grease, bend tin ends as shown, and apply to ease spring release. The note appears in Popular Science Monthly alongside various sports and college notes.
A former player recalls the 1924 Chicago game where Walter Johnson faltered, bases loaded, and he hit a grand slam to win the game. The home run, a ball traded with a bleacher fan, became his lifelong highlight from a long career.
A column jokes about careless driving and car noise while noting that alcohol burns as fuel and that careful drivers persist. It cites a 200 percent rise in bus passengers per the National Association of Motor Bus Operators and estimates PA daily vehicle mileage and car wearout rates.
Harley Boss, first baseman, is returned to the Washington team from Kansas City of the American Association in a trade for pitcher Bill Bayne from Chattanooga. The deal also satisfies a previous player owed by Washington to Kansas City for Joe Kuhel. Bayne had been with the Red Sox before selling to Chattanooga. The Nationals now list four first basemen: Joe Judge, Joe Kuhel, Art Shires, and Boss.
The fourteenth annual women's international bowling congress will be held in New York City starting April 9 1931 and run for over two weeks. Events include fives doubles and singles with days for singles and doubles and nights for fives. Bowling runs daily from 9 a m to midnight.
Charles A. Pendola Jr the world lifting champion plans to compete in Los Angeles next Olympic games at twenty seven. He recently set a new world record with a right hand dead lift of 505 pounds. In 1928 he lifted 802 pounds in a two hand dead lift surpassing the former mark by 149 percent.
Winter tires suffer rapid wear as sleet and snow cause water seepage through tiny tire punctures and fabric decay. Drivers should inspect small tread cuts promptly and exercise vigilance on icy roads where frozen ruts can severely wear side walls.
Radio tube purchases topped 70 million in 1929, well above the 1 million units sold in 1922. The surge reflects rapid expansion of radio usage and manufacturing capacity in the era.
George Earnshaw, hero of the 1930 World Series, retired from baseball to start a business in Buffalo after notifying manager Jack Dunn of the Baltimore Internationals. He later returned to major baseball with Connie Mack in 1928, joining the Athletics.
No one who loses his temper while driving can justify being a good driver. Modern traffic tests temper as it is congested and slow, with unstable rules and constant deviations. Those who lose patience have little chance to develop real driving skill.
The census bureau announced the final 1930 population for the continental United States at 122 775 046, up 16.1 percent from 1920. Including outlying possessions and service abroad, the total under the American flag reached 124 926 060, after corrections and state-by-state revisions noted in the report.
Lightning struck the Pinehurst Gun Club twice in September and October. A shed fire caused nearly 500 in traps to be lost, and later the bolt hit the end of the clubhouse near the shed about 50 yards away while the building was being prepared for the season opening.
Paris reports a new helicopter type tested in Italy that can lift artillery to Alpine positions. It rises vertically, hovers, and moves in any direction including backwards. Italian authorities back its deck launch and mountain bombardment potential with funding from Baron Trojani and the government.
Mrs Gertrude Lockhart files for divorce in Trenton claiming her husband hid her clothes to stop her leaving during his night shifts and kept her at the foot of the bed while he slept.
A parrot in Pomeroy owned by Miss Sarah Brannon repeats the Lord's Prayer and sings Nearer My God to Thee. A neighbor entered the home singing off key and the bird retorted with Hold on there Newt you ve lost the tune. Brannon says Polly swears more than she prays.
A Paris court fined a man for riding a government railroad without a ticket. He claimed siderochromophilia meaning an undue desire for train riding, a term a medical expert defined but did not excuse. The judge upheld the fine, clarifying the pronunciation é in siderodromophilia.
Prof. W B Stelzner of the University of Arkansas electrical engineering department photographed a 2 000 000 volt artificial lightning flash. The shot was taken while research work for Westinghouse at its East Pittsburgh plant using high speed cathode ray oscillographs able to capture events under a millionth of a second.
Champion husker Fred Stanek of Webster County Iowa won the National Corn Husking Championship at Norton Kansas during the seventh annual contest. Stanek captured the highest honor with decisive victories in the era’s notable competitions.
The plane is developed under Air Minister Gen Italo Balbo’s supervision with Major Mellini in command. Officials say the aircraft may have set an altitude record for its type but figures are withheld pending further secret tests. The craft is claimed to lift 30 pounds per unit horsepower on a vertical line.
A new literary prize, Le Priy des Grotesques, awards a donkey skin diploma to the author with the most ridiculous articles for the French press. Rouge a Noir magazine organizes the contest to mock theatrical literature and invite oversized absurd tales.
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