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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1926
Page
7
The article notes elephants enjoy baths and water play after work in India. An attendant rubs them with a brick of Irish confetti while the animal sprays water from its trunk and may store water within to spray later. Water remains clear and odorless even after long storage in the body.
Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld of the University of Copenhagen reports Greenland hosts a distinct but small flora, about 390 flowering plants and fern allies. Most species migrated post ice age during a warmer epoch, with Arctic North American origins and a minority from Europe via Spitzbergen, Iceland, and Norse settlements.
A digest of Illinois incidents including a Rock Island grocer murdered by bandits, a bank robbery in Marseilles yielding 9000 dollars, a fatal fire in St John, and a Oblivian general store burglary. Also notes a district commerce conference at Carlinville and a list of local honors, arrests, and forthcoming events in January 1927.
Foreign Minister Stresemann said the world conflict could have been avoided if leaders in 1914 had met face to face. He commented on negotiations that established a league system of investigation replacing inter allied control of German armaments, warning that Europe cannot endure another war.
A devastating blast at Francisco mine No 2 near Princeton Indiana ends rescue efforts after 29 men are killed and at least 27 injured. Fire in the shaft will burn for days as authorities, aided by federal teams, investigate the blast and seal the mine.
Secretary of War Dwight Davis outlined a broad Inland waterways and harbors program including hydroelectric, drainage, irrigation, flood control, land reclamation, and protection. He noted $1.25 billion spent on harbor improvements and more than $500 million in savings, with $1 billion in planned modernizations awaiting funding and congressional action.
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