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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1928
Page
3
The Cyclopedia of Horticulture lists 80 Buxus species with Buxus sempervirens as the common box tree. It notes 13 varieties and highlights the dwarf sulfruticost form as most used for small growth.
The public health service estimates the cost of an obedient education program at around 10 oro, highlighting budgetary pressures and policy implications.
A Milwaukee Sentinel line quotes a vow of spite as a person marks a tree with the name of an enemy. The note implies personal grievance and a grim reminder carved into wood.
The article notes a rare word where the letter f yields the sound of sy. It discusses linguistic patterns and examples, highlighting how phonetics influence spelling and pronunciation in English.
Los Angeles hosts the 1928 national air races and aeronautical exposition September 8 to 16 with more than 125000 dollars in prizes the largest ever for a similar event. Highlights include New York to Los Angeles nonstop races with 22500 and 40000 dollar purses plus a Canadian entrant prize and a Mexico City Pan American race. Endurance speed pylons parachute jumps and contests for army navy and National Guard flyers accompany industry meetings and an Orville Wright appearance. About 1500 planes and 5000 pilots are expected to attend with multiple conventions参 and exhibitions.
The article describes Filipino sugar plantation workers leaving for Hawaii paying doctors a dollar per head for seasickness prevention. They must stay three years to receive steam passage paid both ways and half pay until then. About one third return to Manila. others drift to the Pacific coast and major cities. Filipino men are in demand as stewards on ships and in Pacific coast settlements.
Three Minnesota scientists report a method to quantify cookie browning using a spectrophotometer. They compare reflected light from cookies with a browning standard, linking color to molasses color baking soda and heat.
In October term 1893 the United States Supreme Court held that the Great Lakes possess every essential characteristic of seas in a legal sense. This decision treats the Great Lakes as seas for purposes of law.
Medical authorities warn that most adults over thirty five will live out their lives with impaired hearing. The claim highlights the need for awareness and protective steps to preserve hearing health.
Washington. The Army Air Corps will install radio beacon stations at Mitchell Field on Long Island and at its fields in San Francisco San Antonio Uniontown Dayton and here. Six beacons will provide cloud and fog proof airways and guide pilots by signals including I N and A. New altimeter and leader cable tests aim to reduce fog and landing hazards as pilots fly by radio beacons.
The report notes the Amazon tide rising hundreds of miles inland, affecting communities along the river. Officials from the Pan American Union warn of potential flooding and require monitoring of water levels and safety precautions for residents and traders along the riverbanks.
A brief quotation attributed to Benito Mussolini highlights the role of memory in governance. The phrase asserts that without reliable memory effective leadership is impossible.
Superior Wis Brigadier General H M Lord director of the budget presents a preliminary budget of 3 700 000 000 for fiscal year 1929 30 to President Coolidge. The figure exceeds the current year by about 160 000 000 with increases limited by the presidents June 1 address. National defense rises to 659 000 000. aviation gets 69 000 000. public buildings total 35 000 000. War and Navy building programs add 10 000 000. A paper deficit of 94 000 000 is anticipated at year end. A 25 000 000 reserve for alien property remains unexpended.
Vincennes reports fifteen dead from the steam oil still explosion at the Indian Refining company plant in Lawrenceville TI. Three or four others near death and about twenty five more worsening as forty firefighters fought a blaze. The blast hurled flame over the hose line crew who were advancing on the refinery. Thirty seven volunteer firefighters, badly burned, were brought to the local hospital.
Legal advisers declare that cabinet members named during the current congressional recess require no Senate confirmation. Roy L West, newly seated Secretary of the Interior, faces futility for any challenge. The ruling relies on established practice that a recess appointee remains in office until the next session ends unless confirmatory action is taken.
Indianapolis William 8. Taylor, a former Kentucky governor born in 1826, died recently at age seventy six while in exile after a political murder case. He had fled to Indianapolis following the wounding of Democratic opponent William S Goebel in 1900, amid Kentucky's claim that Taylor's 1899 election was fraudulent. He had served as vice president of a local insurance company before his death.
For 60 000 dollars the airplane Friendship, used by Amelia Earhart to fly the Atlantic, has been bought by Donald Woodward of Ler, New York, and Murry Rogers, owner of an air service.
In League circles it is believed Secretary Kellogg will depart New York aboard the He de France on August 19 carrying more than the pact to end war. He will bring explicit instructions for talks with Sir Austen Chamberlain and Aristide Briand reflecting Washington opinion on the Franco British naval agreement.
El Ouafi of Algeria won the 26 mile Olympic marathon before 45,000 in Amsterdam. Plaza of Chile finished second. Ray of Mexico finished fifth and Isuda of Japan sixth. American relay teams set world records, with El Ouafi’s sprint finish cited. Elizabeth Robinson became America's first Olympic track champion by winning the 100 meters in 12 15 seconds.
The University of California football team will meet the University of Pennsylvania eleven in Philadelphia in October.
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