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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1930
Page
3
Bergen county trees suffer leaf loss as Japanese beetle problem grows. Dr. Edgar G. Rex and Dr. G J. Headlee propose a mechanical trap device attached to tree trunks to imprison beetles and sink them in chemical solution. The pest has not yet affected truck gardens.
Heidelberg’s city forest covers 8 300 acres dating to 1382 and yields over 30 000 cords of wood each year. Zurich’s forest spans 4 200 acres kept for ten centuries with annual income of 16 25 per acre.
Cautionary note warns that an ill designed diet wastes money and risks illness. Emphasizes need for balanced planning to avoid health and financial costs.
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union column notes why letters go unanswered. Personal obligations and selfish delaying instincts lead people to neglect replies unless forced by legal or financial pressure. Procrastination harms business and social standing, with delays often becoming habit.
The bodies of Swedish balloonist August Andree and two companions, missing since 1897 during an Arctic North Pole expedition, were recovered on White Island off Oslo Norway, ending a long search for the explorers.
The largest arch bridge in the world has been completed a $30,000,000 steel arch of 1,650 feet over Sydney harbor. A separate item reports Henry D Antonio seventeen known as Everett's fat boy weighing 600 pounds died of dropsy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
William Anderson Cap Hatfield, famed as the last of the Hatfield McCoy feudists of West Virginia and Kentucky, died in a Baltimore hospital at age sixty seven. In Dillon Montana Emil Sencio, Filipino bantamweight boxer, died seven hours after knockout by Wege O Leary of Butte in a boxing exhibition.
Geneva report says Frank B. Kellogg former US secretary of state has been nominated by the American group of the League of Nations for a nine year term as judge of the World Court. The election will occur next month by the league assembly.
Washington reports state distress triggers four key steps. A finance conference will initiate emergency farmer relief, while Agriculture Department funds totaling 5.2 million dollars aid purchase of cattle seed and feed on credit. The Farm Board provides 5 million dollars to move cattle to pastures and to feed stock in dairy areas. Emergency freight rate reductions extend to drought areas as part of the plan.
United States silver production for last month totaled 3 638000 fine ounces, down from 3 960000 ounces in June and 4 523000 ounces in July 1929.
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