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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1934
Page
7
In Washington, President Roosevelt weighs shifting federal relief from cash gifts to job programs. Plans include housing subsidies, slum clearance, and rural rehabilitation to spur private construction and reduce dole reliance. Banks face eased lending rules to boost credit, while Senator Nye pushes a sweeping munitions and war-industry inquiry.
National Geographic notes rivers frequently defy expectations with shifting courses and disappearing acts. The Rio Grande zigzags from the Rockies to the sea while the Hwang Ho and Garonne display underground flow and caverns. Tidal bores and flood-era floods on the Mississippi underscore rivers as capricious natural landmarks.
Mystic Connecticut story recounts Bill Henshaw taming a water snake with whisky. He fed the snake a frog to lure it to cough up another frog and later found the animal thrashing against his boot with the second frog in its mouth.
The text describes river bores creating towering walls of water in rivers like the Wye Severn and Seine, notes the Hangchow bore on the Tsientang in China, and explains how the Upper Nile between Khartum and Gondokoro can be blocked by sudd. In floods, sediment and reed mats extend up to 25 miles, letting elephants and rhinoceroses cross the Nile.
The Doukhobor sect of western Canada led by Peter Veregin contemplates selling 25,000 acres and relocating to Mexico. Veregin, jailed on a perjury charge, has faced government clashes and nude protests. The group eyes La Junta Lands near San Antonio, with present holdings valued above $1 million and potential Russian and international migration implications.
Mrs. Gladys Smith accumulated a two day shoot of Chinese pheasants in western Washington. The birds were found in orchards and stubble fields, prime spots for this highly prized game bird.
Texas highway engineers uncover remains of Gen. Zachary Taylor era Boca Chica causeway buried by sand and water. The structure, built on piles with cypress posts, includes palm trunks still well preserved after years underwater.
A London report details the sale of Tom-Na-Monachan a Scottish mansion near Pit lochrie that surfaced a wartime spy tale. A rich Turk Iskendar bought it before the war and a Glasgow broker Mr Blank appeared seeking French language help with a Paris posting. The Turk later changed his mind.
Pack warned the disease could wipe out all elm varieties nationwide if not halted. He identified New Jersey New York and Connecticut as the main battlegrounds where infected trees are concentrated and where success or failure will determine the national fate of elms.
In Earlville Iowa a 267 year old Stradivarius violin made in Germany is the village prize curio. It passed to Harry Cruise through the will of J W Corbin the first white child born in Delaware county. The inscription reads Antonius Stradivarius Gere monenis Faciebat Anno 1697.
In Somerville Massachusetts Rev Harold Williard Arthur of Union Square Baptist placed 25 canaries in pine trees around the pulpit for his sermon A Bird's Eye View of God. The birds accompanied worshipers throughout the service and sang during the entire event.
A reflection on how genius does not follow a uniform age. Biologists, like Lamarck and Darwin, require vast knowledge before major breakthroughs. Noting Descartes, Newton, Kepler, LaGrange, and Laplace, the piece argues mental growth varies and cannot be foreseen.
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