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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1931
Page
2
Washington officials from the Department of Agriculture publish an official bulletin endorsing a bread and milk based plan for growing children. They recommend milk, bread and butter, potatoes, fruit, vegetables, and occasional eggs or meat with varied preparations and limited sweets to support healthy growth and development.
Mrs. Mary E. Harris recalls crossing the plains in a Conestoga wagon as a child in 1853 1858 journey from Missouri to California. She celebrated her eighty ninth birthday with her four sons at 122 Carl Street and spoke of life on the wagon trail and settling near San Jose with her husband then sheriff of Santa Clara County.
A colony of bees has taken residence in the large eagle atop the Christiansburg courthouse in Virginia. Dozens of bees are seen daily entering and leaving the nest above the town hall. The text also mentions radio exposure and general dislike of classical music.
In Phoenix Arizona Mrs W L Wright died from burns after two robbers beat the couple and set their home ablaze. Her husband was rescued in critical condition as flames consumed the house.
Danish chemist N. L. Hansen says a new gas mask filter rejects 99.8 percent of poisons from breath, promising a city protection plan against gas attacks. He envisions government adoption and worldwide use, noting Denmark’s disarmament and ongoing poison gas research.
A fine fresco by Spinello Aretino and another depicting the annunciation were recovered during restoration of an old Ripoli church along with two monolithic granite columns.
Edna Goddard nine years old in Bellaire receives cataract surgery by Dr. Leo Covert after civic clubs funded the operation. She alerts to color and objects she had only known by touch and sound, learning to walk and read raised letters as she adjusts to vision.
In Genoa Italy Sig Angela Moresco regains reason to learn she has been legally dead for five years due to a hospital name error. An investigation found another woman died under Moresco's name and steps are under way to correct the mix up.
At the Paris League of Nations meeting, Dawes and Briand pressed to resolve Japan China tensions in Manchuria while Moscow cautioned on Soviet influence. In Washington, Mrs. Thaddeus Caraway is appointed Arkansas senator, and Hoover accepts Fletcher’s resignation from the tariff commission as Germany seeks a reparations moratorium.
Philip Snowden who served 25 years in the House of Commons and was twice chancellor of the exchequer has been created a viscount and elevated to the House of Lords to hold the office of lord privy seal. He declined re election to the Commons due to ill health.
In West Memphis Arkansas J W Stotts pulled a twin radish a second radish formed as a pair He found quadruplet tomatoes and a cabbage head with seven portions The odd harvest is noted by the Exchange as a sign of unusually fertile land and garden yields
The article promotes California Fig Syrup as a gentle remedy for constipation in children, noting it is vegetable and harmless for babies. It cites a Western mother, Mrs May Snavely, and urges buyers to insist on the genuine product endorsed by physicians.
A guest registered in an Ontario California rooming house for the night but fled the next morning with two bed sheets a pair of double blankets a single blanket a spread and a pillow slip leaving the manager to file a missing property report.
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