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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1928
Page
3
Among eighty species of toads a Central American water toad shows a rare method of development. The father places eggs on the mother’s back where they remain for eighty two days until hatching. The mother’s skin thickens and the eggs form honeycomb like chambers before emergence.
A traveler finds a Chilean church bell inscribed with the pirate refrain “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest” from the Treasure Island tale. The bell from a wrecked ship dated 1722 links to the West Indies pirate era and Caribbean roving.
The piece describes diverse ceremonies to conjure rain. In China a dragon god is paraded and beaten when prayers fail. Bantus in Delagon sing at dry wells with mothers carrying twins. Greece and Yugoslavia use child-led processions led by girls with flowers to bless wells and homes with rain.
Reports describe stones from pea to six inches in diameter found across a level Nevada region. When placed within two to three feet of each other they roll toward a common center, behaving like eggs in a nest. A single stone moved eight and one half feet rapidly joins its fellows. Basins in the barren plain cradle these rolling stones, whose magnetic lodestone composition is likely the cause.
A six year old boy comes home to find a quarter left by his grandmother who had to leave before his return. He recalls talk of a larger inheritance when she is gone and asks in awe if she died, reflecting on family money and suspense.
The Volta prize created by Napoleon funded Dr. Alexander Graham Bell who then added 50,000 francs plus other earnings to establish the Volta bureau. The bureau promotes knowledge about deafness, printing and distributing hundreds of leaflets yearly for the hard of hearing and parents of deaf children.
Herbert Hoover was notified of his Republican presidential nomination before about 75 000 people at Stanford University Stadium in Palo Alto California Governor Charles C Young and Senator George H Moses led the event A large crowd endured heat as Hoover spoke from a tall awning platform outlining party plans and thanking supporters.
Secretary Kellogg argues for adding ships to the U S navy noting a critical cruiser shortage. He cites the Geneva era tonnage debates and compares U S limits with Britain to support building additional 10,000 ton and 19,000 ton class cruisers.
The piece traces weaving from 2500 B C in China and earlier in Egypt, noting multiple origins. It covers early grass blade plaiting, the loom's invention by Doctor Cartwright in 1787, and the loom's evolution from hand to powered forms shaping weaving's progress.
An anecdote attributed to the Washington Star tells of a Chicago theater troupe that ran out of money on tour. They found a way to stall payments by keeping landlords as part of the act, each landlord singing tenor in the chorus and finally replacing one need with a bass this time.
Batik is a wax dyed fabric method popular in America. A pattern is formed by covering areas with hot beeswax then dyes are applied. wax resists color, leaving the design. After dyeing, wash off the wax to reveal the multicolored cloth.
A rainy afternoon tale shows mother Bobbie warns her son not to leave the porch. He later returns with a stick for her, saying he brought it so she need not go out and get her feet wet. The gesture echoes the child's playful awareness of rules and care.
A clerk regales a customer with a playful tale of Irish geography naming increasingly longer places and fans of echoes like Cork and Farranadahadoremore. The anecdote highlights how in Treland many place names grow bigger than their actual size.
A young boy named Perry is separated from his mother in a crowded dollar day sale. He sobs, attracting a crowd as women offer comfort and false hope that his mother is nearby. He declares that none of them have his mother and continues to cry.
London reports Sir Austen Chamberlain and Lady Chamberlain ill and planning a California visit via the Panama Canal to improve health, with a return hoped after the journey.
A colossal ice dam breach in the Karakoram mountains unleashed 20 million tons of water rushing toward the Kashmir Indus valley. Runners warn settlements from Leh to the Indus plains as officials fear widespread damage despite prearranged flood alerts.
A sixty passenger sea plane designed for regular transatlantic service crossing the ocean in twenty hours was patented on July 3. A model passed tests at the Guggenheim aeronautical laboratories, New York University. The design features eight air cooled rotary engines delivering 4,200 horsepower and includes sleeping berths a reading room kitchen pantry and a main salon forty two feet long.
Toledo will decide in November whether to adopt a new city charter establishing a manager form of government. The measure proposes replacing the mayor with a city manager to run city operations and oversee departments.
India to host its first automobile plant to be built in Bombay by an American firm. The project marks a milestone in Indian industry with foreign investment and new manufacturing capacity announced for the subcontinent.
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