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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1929
Page
4
The Neue Auer der Zeitung reports English expanded from under 20 million native speakers in 1880 to at least 160 million today, with another 60 million understanding it but not using it as their own tongue. Global spread is described as unmatched, while other languages show smaller gains.
Bourke Lee recalls Stovepipe well a sand hole on the east Death Valley slope where freighters once drew water during the mining boom. Tourists visit the site to photograph and sip the water, while the nearby Bottle dugout sits two thirds underground and once stored bottles in its walls.
The article outlines ancient land transfer practices, starting with a land description, size, and location, then seller and buyer names, and a statement of sale. Prices were often paid upfront, but credit purchases exist with a contract promise to pay before witnesses. Contracts end with corroborating oaths and witness signatures.
The London Mail notes astonishing modern miracles driven by applied science. It cites a fog buoy device using human hairs to stretch and open a valve releasing gas to operate a siren, and references a bell-ringing trigger discussed before the King's Beam division.
The 1588 patent granted to Dr Timothy Bright authorized him to teach imprint and publish the modern shorthand system for fifteen years at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Bright published in the same year a description in Characterie An arte of shorte swift and secrete writing by character.
The article notes the Pictish tower on Mousa in Shetland as a rare relic of an early race before Germanic tribes. The 10 foot high structure rises on the Mall island with a base circumference of 108 feet, marking civilization remnants.
The royal residence in London features over 200 rooms including 40 bedrooms 30 for servants 10 private suites for the king and queen 80 state apartments and 20 storage rooms. About 250 staff serve the palace with 60 housemaids and four assistant housemaids listed among the workforce.
A young American artist seeking work pretended to be English by changing his name and disguising his origin. He fooled editors but earned a staff position after the hoax was revealed. The editor praised the nerve and later insisted on the artist using his real name, where he continued to succeed.
The article discusses Napoleon and Wellington as poor marksmen while noting Napoleon’s fowling piece sold for 1900 francs in Paris. It contrasts Napoleon’s artillery focus with Wellington’s erratic shooting, quoting Lady Shelley on his wild gunplay at Waterloo and a retriever incident.
The Detroit News notes old General Court laws in Boston, then a town, banning crisis burial in churchyards, requiring bodies beside highways with stone carts, forbidding Christmas and gambling, forbidding marriage to a deceased wife’s sister, ducking for scolds, and public tongue branding for blasphemers.
An ancient remedy cautions travelers across the English Channel about seasickness. It prescribes a cordial blend including sirup of clove gillyflowers mint water and cinnamon water with confection alcherries and barrage water, to be taken by spoonful at sea.
A Field Museum display in Chicago features a large basket granary used by Pacific coast Indians to store acorns. The beehive shaped container is woven from willow with leaves, formed into a rope-like coil and placed on a pole platform to deter rodents.
Swiss Alps landmark Rigi has produced many historic landslides that buried villages and claimed lives. An old tale links the disasters to angry dwarfs offended by human hospitality.
Reports from a San Francisco inventor describe processes to form alloys by combining aluminum with other metals. The article notes a gold alloy that is hard and light, a silver mix sharpenable to a razor, and a copper alloy suitable for tool use, as detailed in Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Local mentions list residents visiting relatives in St. Louis and Chicago, shopping trips in Centralia and Odin, and social calls across Sandoval. A major item notes Wm Schleuter’s sudden death with funeral set at Black Church Thursday. Also previews the Alumni Homecoming and Halloween events by Red Men and Pocahontas lodges.
Cc Burnett was guest as Mrs Emmet Wood won high score with Mrs Frank Kennedy second. Four tables played at the Power home with prizes to Miss Isabel Cassell and Wilson Storer. A ten cent birthday shower for Mrs C C Bellamy entertained all. Lunch of pumpkin pie doughnuts and coffee followed.
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