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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1927
Page
7
Fragmentary Sinai inscriptions, unearthed during Mount Sinai digs, may alter biblical history. Prof. Kir sopp Lake leads Harvard Michigan expedition seeking readings that could link Egyptian and Semitic roots and suggest new language origins.
Alois Frey a San Francisco plant lover uses a camel hair brush to transfer fertilizing pollen between flowers. His 25 acre bed of freesias near the city is among the world’s finest with over 2100 distinct color creations and hundreds of mixed hues from two decades of deliberate pollination. Former Lincoln Park Illinois greenhouse superintendent, Frey began freesia development in Crown Point Indiana and moved to California eight years ago bringing more than 100000 bulbs grown under glass.
Excavations by Donald Crabtree south of Rapid City near the state game lodge uncover a stone wall built with regular joints, extending over 100 feet. A second wall runs perpendicular, prompting questions whether a prehistoric race existed in the Black Hills or if the formation is a natural anomaly.
A Guilford farmhouse on the Boston Post Road remembers Louis XVI with a black exterior. Built in 1761, it was owned in 1793 by Nicholas Loyset, a French refugee from Guadeloupe. After learning of the king’s execution, Loyset painted the house black and it has remained that way.
Anchorage Alaskan report notes anticipated unusual earthquake activity world wide for nine months. Volcanologist Thomas A Jagger of Mauna Loa Observatory plans three months in Aleutian islands and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes for crater survey. Noted forecasters warn of severe disturbances and Jagger links Alaska activity with South America and Italy.
May Celine Bach sued in divorce court to annul her marriage to William EB Bach a Birmingham commercial traveler. She testified to a Gretna Green ceremony on April 3 1924 but the court ruled no valid marriage occurred due to Scotland law residency requirements and granted a decree of nullity.
Twenty couples who celebrated golden weddings dispute a claim that necding was unknown 60 years ago in New York. The item notes longstanding marriages and questions a distant era’s view of romance and social norms.
Chief Bilkey directs South Euclid police to assist motorists in distress. Officers to aid with changing tires, delivering fuel, fetching water for boiling radiators, and pushing stalled vehicles to nearby garages to prevent speeding and drunken driving.
Washington says soil erosion costs farmers 200 million dollars yearly and drives flood risks. H. H. Bennett of the Federal Bureau of Soils calls for terraces grasses and trees, noting erosion speeds water runoff toward the Mississippi and that ideal storage reservoirs and hillside work could ease floods. He cites lost topsoil in Kansas West Virginia and Ohio and warns neglect harms lowland inhabitants along the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Lady Artostronz, wife of the British consul general, told a Catholic Girls' club communion breakfast that the modern girl is more pious than earlier generations, noting nearly a quarter century of welfare work.
Dawson Geldert and Archibald Geldert two Nova Scotian brothers become sea captains like their father and six uncles, continuing a family maritime tradition dating back generations.
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