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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1928
Page
2
Readable sections offer inexpensive summer beverages using fruit syrups and juices, plus recipes for jellied soups and gooseberry jam. Other tips cover keeping bread boxes, floors, rugs, and furniture clean, plus methods to prevent milk souring and keep crusts tender.
Mrs. John Keegan weighing 300 pounds asked City Judge Charles W. Boote to release her husband John 120 pounds from jail so she could beat him to cure his drink habit. The request was refused.
British women athletes now wear trousers to stay warm during waiting periods at meets. The full length leg covering is preferred over mackintoshes or coats for protection between events.
Winnie Russell of Gibbson's Landing, British Columbia, claims a new strawberry picking record by picking and decapping 180 pounds in nine hours. The report notes the feat achieved at her local farm and highlights the unusually rapid harvest.
Tommy Dixon of Boston lent a beachcomber 5 dollars. The beachcomber spent one dollar on a race ticket, then won 4300 dollars and offered Dixon half. Dixon, an American from Boston, remains connected to the unlikely windfall.
Motor cycle Officer Ramsey of Grand Island Nebraska has devised a pistol firing blank cartridges to stop dogs that chase motorcycles. The device aims to deter pursuits without harming animals.
Elizabethtown resident E. R. Thomas, 70, while walking in the woods, felt his feet bound by a wire. He bent to remove it and found a live wire of a different kind a black snake over five feet long. He killed the snake.
In Chelmsford England a junk dealer found six hundred dollars in the street and returned it to the owner. For his honesty he received eight cents in reward.
Newark report details a repeat fraud scheme centered on a cigar box con game. Police urge caution as a suspect named Frank Roberta reappears in connection with the scam targeting local residents.
A man reports losing his life savings of 2600 to two strangers in Lincoln Park. They proposed pooling a 7000 legacy and entrusted funds in a cigar box, only to find it held scraps of paper. The trio pooled cash before the scam unraveled.
Greenwich Connecticut resident Thorwald Kroger finds his message in a bottle tossed from a transatlantic liner over a year ago. It washed ashore in Iceland and was returned by a fifteen year old boy who found it.
Franian Kremer, living in a deserted Belgrade house, resurfaced after 22 years in a single room. He believed World War I and Franz Josef still stood, had never seen an automobile, and was amused by modern masculine dress. Tests confirmed his sanity and cleverness.
In Alaska scientists uncover a Stone Age chief’s mummified remains inside a cliff tomb with preserved skin fur shirt and kin accompanying the chief. The article also notes France’s giant magnet for atomic research and wealth of Rockefeller’s philanthropy toward education and science, while warning business leaders about war risks.
An opinion piece argues war would demand vast wealth from the rich, warns against conscription, and urges preparation. Dr. Walsh of Fordham University discusses mysteries in science from hydrogen and helium atoms to energy, suggesting thought and mind remain the greatest unsolved enigma.
Sunday's church gathering drew thirty for Sunday School at Temple. Nearby families and visitors, including the Bopp, McClaine, Bradford, Merten, Williams, Bowen, Bell, Belcher, and Riley Williams households, were noted for weekend calls and visits across local homes.
Dock Shepard and son John mowed the Mound Chapel church yard last week. Wayne Barnes’ team of mules ran away but no one was hurt. Families visited, meals shared, and a successful ice cream supper drew a large crowd. J A Shepard to preach at Boulder on July 9. Local residents report new cars and various town happenings.
A good rain would be a welcome visitor as hay harvest runs full swing and most people are employed. Willie Wall of Decatur spent last week in the area visiting old friends and acquaintances.
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