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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1933
Page
6
Puente California reports a new I Love My Husband club aimed at promoting humane treatment of husbands. The group, created by the La Puente Valley Journal, has no meetings and no members beyond devoted husbands, who praise the idea as balancing recognition with Mother's and Father’s Day.
Census Bureau figures show 1932 marriages fell to 931 755 from 1 060 791 in 1931 a 7 5 percent drop as divorces dropped to 160 329 from 193 664 a 12 7 percent decline State ratios vary with Nevada leading in divorces to marriages and Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and other states reporting sharper declines in both weddings and divorces.
Festive Perahera processions in Kandy unfold nightly for ten days with elephants in gold and silver caparisons, dancers, drums, and torches. Crowds from Ceylon and foreigners watch from viewing stands as firelight and moonlight illuminate the wild parade ending with water bearing ritual.
Southern pine mills show brighter payrolls as employment improves and prices climb after a prior 1931 slump. In January 1953 17,874,000 feet were produced versus 15,006,000 shipped, with unfilled orders rising to 48,050,000 feet by May.
A Biological Survey recounts volunteers and Game Protector Kenneth F Roaden braving 20 to 49 below zero in February to save waterfowl from starvation. They carried corn and wheat to feeding stations in southern Montana, saving 1200 ducks and 100 grebes by moving them to refuge pens for recovery.
Mrs. Oliver C. Grinnell of New York and Bay Shore with captain Wally Baker onboard the Origrin fought a 20 hour offshore battle off Fire Island and landed two 400-pound broadfall swordfish. Grinnell, holder of the women's Atlantic broad bill record, marked the 1933 North Atlantic big game season on this dawn catch.
The 59 inch horned antelope bagged by Frentiss Gray of New York in Angola has been added to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology rare animal collection. The trophy was presented to Harvard by Gray.
Gregory Mason notes that Central American natives used anaesthetics before Columbus and had advanced mathematics long before Europeans. He cites Toltecs building vast pyramids, Peruvians weaving tapestries finer than Europe, and Maya zero carved 690 years earlier than Hindu numerals, signaling early arithmetic and astronomy.
The article notes Mason's latest expedition was financed jointly by the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City and the Museum of the American Indian foundation in New York, suggesting a more accurate or advanced approach than Columbus used.
A new drilling activity seeks carbon dioxide gas wells to produce dry ice. Derricks rise in Mora Harding and Torrance counties while the northeastern Texas area already houses several productive dry ice wells.
Dalhart, Tet. Dobbyr, a nine year old with American parents, can speak and read five languages. Born in Manila in the Philippine Islands he had a Chinese nurse there. The family later moved to Yokohama and Tokyo where he learned Japanese and acquired a French and Spanish vocabulary from books and conversation.
Indian council at Fort Hall reservation in Pocatello Idaho bans white men from fishing there under any circumstances. The order affects prime fishing sites and provokes pleas from local sportsmen seeking reversal.
National Children's Day advocates public funding for play facilities to reduce juvenile delinquency. Abs Eth London Boehm of the Child Play association argues children learn by doing and need tools for constructive play, from doll dressers to toy cleaning sets, mops, and real like chores.
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