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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1927
Page
5
A Glacier National Park legend explains the phrase Indian giver. Old Napee the Blackfeet gave a coat to a rock and paid a dire price for selfishness when the rock and a night hawk punished him. The tale teaches not to expect return for gifts or trades.
The piece describes telephone fright as akin to stage fright, hindering clear speech when speaking across long distances. It notes Kipling and others resisting telephones still suffer from the ailment as phones first spread in England.
Dr Hill Warwick of Jersey City leaves a trust fund valued about 100000 dollars to be used for experiments on higher anthropoid apes. The income supports research until the death of his sister J Agnes Warwick, with administration by the University of Pennsylvania.
Du Pont, Wash. Historians note a square hewn log cabin from the British occupation era remains at Fort Nisqually. The site marks the earliest Hudson Bay trading post and first white settlement on Puget Sound. A bronze tablet will note its historic ties and its two roofed sides include original shakes.
Yola D'Avril endorses Dame Jashion’s new college miss uniform. The one piece frock in bois de rose georgette and vel vet imitates a two piece outfit. Short sleeves, an abbreviated monk collar, and large white zigzag buttons define the design.
The wood market in Claremont New Hampshire endures after more than a century with a Saturday sale near the town hall and ball park. By 3 p.m. on market day more than a dozen loads of stove wood had sold out.
Portal North Carolina golfers will tee off in the United States and Canada as a new international course rises between Portal Sask and Portal NC. The first tee and last green lie in the US while eight holes cross into Canada. Dirt greens and a 80 acre prairie layout will be supported by about 1,000 residents from both towns.
Organized baseball in Hawaii features a cosmopolitan league with two Japanese teams a Portuguese a Chinese an American and a native Hawaiian club. The season runs year round with high quality play and lively betting among diverse racial groups. umpiring is respected and players like Richard Ulukou stand out for their skill.
New York report from the National Bureau notes 22,500 automobile fatalities in 1925, up about 2,200 from 1924. Includes 1,784 grade crossing deaths and 6,800 children under fifteen killed, with car registrations rising to nearly 19.95 million. Adults show a larger fatality increase than children.
Ninety four students at Ainesworth school in Portland ask the national geographic board to name a Columbia river point Sheridan Point to honor Lieut. Phil Sheridan and 40 men who rescued settlers during the May 1855 battle with the Yakima tribe. The point is largely forgotten, say locals, and the pupils urge official recognition to preserve regional history.
Moscow reports that Bronsky of the finance ministry says no wholesale executions occurred over the chervonetz stabilization. He confirms three finance ministry officials were executed and about 100 known speculators detained, as campaigns against artificial devaluation were decisively crushed.
ALLW' SM ON TVOOT Palade el Mrs Fort Quayle and two children visit Decatur. Parker Kious returns from Chicago. Donald Murfin from Decatur High School visits home near Vernon. Chas E Blankinship attends First State Bank Directors meeting with family. Mary Anderson and wife visit from Centra lia. George Smith to Chicago for Government Examin ing Board. Bill Elliot visits Patoka. Mrs Leslie Morey moves to Sapulpa with children. Martins offers brooms at 29¢. Ira Land and farm family discussed by phone. New York poultryman sought to buy a carload of spring chickens and berries.
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