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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1930
Page
6
Washington reports that labor leader Mary Harris Mother Jones died at her Maryland home at age 100. A militant crusader for workers she led for six decades, she had been frail but in declining health for the past year.
Oklahoma A. and M. college won the livestock judging trophy at the thirtieth International Live Stock exposition after outscoring 22 colleges. Arsel R. Cavett of Jet, Oklahoma led individuals with high marks. Nebraska led in cattle judging. Ohio State, Purdue, and others figured in award tallies across horse, sheep, and hog judging. Awards in home economics and grain divisions also highlighted the event with multiple regional winners.
Gilbert Bettman announces Lauile G Zuber's appointment to the Ohio Attorney General's legal staff. A Williams College and Harvard Law School graduate, Zuber practiced in Cincinnati before serving two years as secretary to the attorney general. He will begin duties as special counsel immediately.
Albany reports one to two million orphaned dollars remain in New York banks awaiting rightful owners. Dormant since long inactivity, funds stem from defunct mining firms, former war chests, Palestine charity groups, athletic clubs, and estate administrations. State banking department lists accounts alphabetically. dormancy thresholds are five years with trust and state banks, twenty years with savings banks.
J B La Force, colonization agent for Canadian National Railways, says about 1 000 families have returned to Quebec farms since 1928 repatriation began. In eight years 623 families were repatriated, each with about 2000 dollars own capital. Thousands remain waiting or unable to sell US property. many others return without official counts.
The Bureau of Standards announces a revised national standard for dry cells and batteries for radio, telephone, ignition, flashlight and other uses. Resulting from six years of study by an American Standards Association technical committee led by G. W. Vinal, the standard details materials, workmanship, performance, markings and sizes with methods of test for compliance. It includes heavy-load intermittent tests and continuous tests of three, six and nine months to ensure broad service.
The Bureau of Biological Survey notes that racing pigeons are bred solely from birds with documented records and that no breed other than the homing pigeon is used for racing today. Pigeon wingbeat rates are about 150 to 200 motions per minute in rapid flight.
Machines along Paris streets dispense a card showing the exact hour minute and second the day of the month and your weight for two cents. The invention aims to tell the time to the man in the street who does not wear a watch.
Stevensville Montana rancher Lee Waddington found his horse missing for a month and trapped in a 16 foot cistern. He fed the animal and freed it by digging a trench, reporting the horse in fair condition after the ordeal. The item ends with an odd shopping prompt.
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