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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1935
Page
2
Mary Slate, a nineteen year old garment worker, chained herself in a sympathy protest for striking workers. Police removed her from the picket line as crowds gathered outside the factory gates.
Allison defeats Perry and Wood to win the net title as Wilmer Ailli gon and Fred Perry and Syd are noted in the crowd.
Berg Simonsen sen, a Stone county farmer from Ortonville Minnesota, won the world corn eating title at the Ortonville festival by chewing 57 cobs in seven hours and ten minutes. Ed Kottwitz of South Dakota finished second with 56 cobs.
A lightning strike at a farm house in Praskacka northern Bohemia tore the electric meter from the wall and smashed all glass in the house. It ripped off part of the roof and destroyed electrical fittings in the stable. The watchdog in the kennel was killed but no residents were injured.
The article surveys Latin American moves against foreign utility ownership, noting Mexico's push for government control of phone, telegraph, and rail lines, plus fears of low valuations and bond payments. It also reports on Pepperell Manufacturing's losses, 40-hour work week issues, and tensions around Roosevelt era policies affecting industry.
The piece notes that the line God helps those who help themselves does not appear in the Bible. It traces the proverb to 17th century Algernon Sidney and its appearances in Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, with later forms found in Jacula Prudentum, Don Quixote, and La Fontaine. It also cites Aeschylus Persae as a distant precedent.
Washington warns against permanent alliances while urging preparedness for war as British and Italian moves heighten tensions. Ethiopians chant for war before the imperial palace, and Tokyo dispatches indicate plans for political murders and seizing control.
Sir Malcolm Campbell, who drove a land speed car over 500 mph on the Salt Lake Desert, returns to New York and urges motorists to drive carefully. He has surpassed every speed record and remains tied to English safety organizations at home.
Sir James Jeans, the British astronomer and physicist, now estimates the universe to be about ten trillion years old. He notes that such vast time scales may be inconceivably brief in a broader, possibly super-universe, similar to Einstein’s perspective on changing ideas.
He tells his troops that Christianity and the Hohenzollerns fueled Communism which he claims to have crushed when assuming power, though the outcome remains to be proven.
An American sailor on a U.S. Navy ship was imprisoned in Germany for humming The Internationale, the communist hymn, and for remarks deemed offensive about Hitler. The incident drew attention from wartime censorship authorities and foreign press.
An explanation that air is light and has weight as atmospheric pressure. A column one inch square from sea level to the atmosphere weighs about 15 pounds, illustrating atmospheric pressure.
The article explains that genuine mahogany can be identified by tiny pin hole like pores in the end grain. It notes pores appear around leg or arm ends of a chair and at table edges as distinctive markers.
Charming little peasant cottage with a fence, fits inside the fence pocket when not in use. Finished about 9 by 12 inches with stamped colors and outlining. Includes stamped linene, binding for fence, and instructions. postpaid 15 cents from Home Craft Co. Dept A, St. Louis MO.
A Dutch witness refused to cross into Germany for evidence, so a unique court met near Elten. The court moved to the Dutch customs house on the frontier with a table half in Dutch and half in German territory. The witness on Dutch land spoke to German judges in Germany.
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