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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1928
Page
3
The article identifies the poisonous plant causing milk sickness in cows and humans who drank their milk. It lists several regional names such as richweed white snakeroot poison root deer wort squaw weed and white top and notes its established role in the illness.
Floral confections in the West Indies showcase exotic plants used on tables for all classes. A banana blossom delicacy delights locals and resident Europeans have shown appreciation for the floriculture offerings.
A traveling Scotch man discovers a native bagpipe band in India. The group performs at a mess dinner and imitates the visitor’s tune from the music, while one native repeats the melody.
In Leadville Colorado sheriff auctions the Matchless mine to satisfy creditors of Elizabeth Tabor widow of H A W Tabor once a Western gold magnate. The sale ends her decades long bid to curb funds from Tabor mines after silver slumps.
Smithsonian paleontologist Dr. J. W. Gidley doubts Central American reports of a sea monster on a San Salvador beach. He suggests the find is likely a large porpoise or a killer whale, not an ichthyosaur, noting superficial likenesses may mislead observers.
The article recounts W. W. Fisher and ranch foreman Wiggles Wagner who, after losing horses and gear crossing an Alaskan glacier, found a 50 000 year old mastodon preserved in ice. They hauled up forty pounds of meat, used ice as a lens to start a fire, and survived after three weeks of wandering.
The note discusses Cotton Mather's stance on witchcraft. It cites his 1685 Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possession and his 1692 Wonders of the Invisible World published amid the Salem witchcraft excitement to support belief in demonic possession.
A reflective exchange quotes death as the inevitable end and a guide to living. It asserts death resolves mysteries, reveals the true self, and urges early preparation by cherishing life and forming friendships with mortality.
A timber wagon built in 1866 in a high pine forest near 9 800 feet elevation is found in Mount Whitney country. It hauled huge log bolts to a sawmill, then to Cerro Gordo mine, later forgotten and now owned by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for potential preservation as a regional exhibit.
The text states that the United States owns Alaska, Canada holds some far northern lands, Denmark controls Greenland and Iceland, Russia holds land from the Bering Strait westward, Norway possesses Spitsbergen, and Denmark owns Iceland. It notes no other lands are known nearer the North Pole.
Chemists in Berlin announce a new chemical preparation that restores the original sheen of silk, artificial fiber, and mercerized cotton. The treatment, applied by washing the material in the chemical, is said to disinfect as well as revive gloss.
A reflective line from Cora Harris on memorials and wealth, noting no one has courage to inscribe wealth on a tombstone and implies the futility of business success after death.
President Coolidge dedicated a memorial to William Colvill, Civil War hero, praising Colvill’s Gettysburg charge that helped avert a Union defeat. He urged healing North South rifts and recalled Appomattox while about twenty thousand people gathered despite heat and photographers causing delays before Mrs. Coolidge unveiled the tablet. Governor Theodore Christiansen welcomed the party.
Albany Gov Alfred E. Smith will be officially notified of his Democratic presidential nomination on August 22. The East Steps of the Capitol will host ceremonies starting at 7 p.m. Eastern daylight time with speeches broadcast across a network of 95 stations.
A fatal blaze at the Blue Ridge state prison farm near Houston started by a stray match igniting motion picture reels during a weekly show. The fire trapped 23 prisoners. two died, four were fatally burned, and seventeen others suffered serious injuries.
Heat and dry weather push western Canada crops to advance harvest earlier than last year. Alberta districts report excellent crop prospects as all crops make strong progress.
A high tension power line detached from a pole and swung over a creek near Greenville Ohio fatally electrocuting a father and his son. The incident occurred as they approached the line to clear debris, authorities said.
Seventeen nations have nominated Charles Evans Hughes for the vacant World Court seat to be filled by the League of Nations assembly in September. He is considered certain to be elected if he accepts the post.
Shanghai reports Chinese authorities from the Nationalist government and Manchuria plan to ignore Japan's warning to General Chang Hsueh-liang and cooperate with Nanking. A compromise reportedly allows Manchuria to join the Nationalist framework while awaiting the flag issue. Seventeen executed in a government described communist plot.
After 75 years as a major bean pest in the Southwest the Mexican bean beetle has moved eastward. The Department of Agriculture reports the beetle now covers the entire state of Maryland, with earlier infested areas including the Virginia shore of the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay west coast. No new invasions are reported in Texas New Mexico Arizona Utah or Colorado where it first appeared.
An air crash at Pothier Flying Field in Warwick resulted in the deaths of pilot Osmond Mather of Hartford Connecticut and passenger Clifton D. Thompson of Foxboro Massachusetts. The monoplane burned after impact as it went down.
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