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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1929
Page
3
Ruth Gipps from Bexhill-on-Sea is an eight year old composer whose piece Fairy Shoemaker won second prize at the Brighton festival. Her family is full of musicians and she was composing since age seven. She met her publisher while playing on Eastbourne beach.
The sword, claimed to have been carried by Benjamin Franklin in America for liberty, was located in M Honore Hecquest d Orval's private collection. It is a full military blade with a chiselled hilt, bearing a Louis XVI gift inscription and a plate noting Franklin gave it to P J G Cabanis after the 1783 peace treaty. Curator Girodie of the Blerancourt museum facilitated the discovery.
The acetylene oxygen welding of rustproof steel is easier and yields more rustproof joints after the process due to loss of carbon silicon and manganese during melting. German metallurgist W Hoffmann reports these results to the national advisory committee for aeronautics. Welded rustproof steel shows better physical traits than soft-steel welds but requires heat treatment to reduce hardness.
L. A. Jones, Bristow Oklahoma millionaire oil man and philanthropist, bought a 1 064 acre tract in the Ozarks to host a camp for boys who work their way through school. Plans include an administration building dining hall dormitory and several cairns with a large lake and swimming pool.
In Bourg France three bandits facing justice were offered a choice between prison and marriage. The justice of peace arranged a ceremony in the town jail, where the trio wed three sisters they had pursued between raids.
The Merchants' Association released a survey showing clerks, stenographers and secretaries in New York earning varied salaries. It notes a so-called ghost salary of $5,000 paid to a principal stenographer and secretary to a bank officer, amounting to $5,090 with allowances.
Dr William Bowie of Washington addressing the Pan American Institute in Mexico City urged coordinated topographic mapping for resource planning and future exploration. He cited only 43 percent of the United States surveyed and warned that modern needs in agriculture mining hydroelectric power and transport require better maps.
Entomologist Harold Ryan warned county officials that wood eating termites have invaded courthouse joists and beams. He said action is needed to prevent further damage to the building, noting the pests have caused millions in damage to nearby county offices.
A bandit held up Ralph Meyer and a female companion near Lincoln and left 50 cents as a partial restitution with a promise to return a $50 watch. The theft was reported to police, and the watch has not yet been recovered.
The National Sunday School union edition removes the Song of Solomon citing its potential to corrupt youth, leaving a notable suppressive action on a famed biblical text once celebrated as literature.
A sequence of social visits and gatherings is reported. Residents attended a Friday night social at Wisher, the Daily Show in St. Louis, and a dance in Sandoval. Several locals assisted in tearing down a building in Centralia, with others visiting friends in Irvington and Centralia.
Grandpa Noah Davies is very ill with little hope for recovery. Several local residents, including John Shepard and the Stombaughs, share meals and visit kin in Vernon, Blue Mound, and Carlyle. Amel Oberg travels to Omaha as his father’s health falters. Mrs. Oberg serves as chef at the Eakin Hotel.
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