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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1929
Page
6
Georges Clemenceau eighty eight wartime premier of France was taken ill at his cottage on the Bay of Biscay with fatigue according to a Paris doctor who was summoned to examine him.
Washington reports that the Senate tariff debate begins September 4 with the Finance Committee's rewrite of the House measure. The long fight ahead may push final action past the special session into December, with amendments and substitutes planned by Senate Republicans and Democrats.
Montreal reports 12.6 million bushels in 15 million cap storage and 36 lake boats idle awaiting cargoes. Only 815 thousand bushels on hand as hundreds of Canadian sailors on inland waterways lose work amid harvest. Canada Steamship Lines notes 80 boats laid up at Fort Williams and other ports, with about 600 sailors unemployed.
Farmers' National Grain corporation stock plans pledge $1,000,000 by midwest farm groups at a meeting with the farm board. Alexander Legge and five board members outlined a $20,000,000 framework while committees from nine states discussed loans and marketing, with 1929 crop policy to be largely hands off.
The First National Banks of Minneapolis and St. Paul announce a holding company named First Bank Stock, uniting 37 banks with combined resources of 341 million dollars across Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, and a central hub in the Twin Cities. Montana banks join to link mining interests with regional finance.
In Elgin Scotland Ambassador Dawes frames naval cuts as a matter for public opinion in affected nations. He notes negotiations with Ramsay MacDonald may advance but require careful prep for a disarmament conference. MacDonald later affirmed optimism but stressed need for broader international agreement and transparency.
President Hoover pitched two balls to start the American Legion championship elimination base ball games. Clarence M. Young of Des Moines was named assistant secretary of commerce for aviation, succeeding William D. MacCracken. The State department said France approved Senator Walter F. Edge of New Jersey as ambassador to Paris. Herbert Hoover Jr. was ordered to active duty in San Francisco for October 17 30.
Three New York bank heads James Rae Philip Clarke and John F Booker were transported under heavy guard in a Pullman car to Atlanta to begin sentences at the federal penitentiary for the Clarke Brothers bank collapse.
A scientist argues there is no such thing as time while several office boys echo the view in a brief Ottawa Journal note. The item captures a fringe scientific perspective and a street reaction in a concise newspaper snippet.
Researchers report the Missouri River water sample contains 14.7 cubic feet of sand per thousand cubic feet of water. The finding highlights sediment levels in the river system and implications for sediment transport.
The Ramsay house in Alexandria is the oldest dwelling in the area and was occupied in Washington era by William Ramsay, a friend and distant relative of the first president.
The article notes no use of baby carriages in the country prior to the mid nineteenth century, suggesting a later adoption of infant mobility devices compared with later eras.
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