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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1930
Page
6
Eliott Wadsworth of Boston is named by President Hoover as special commissioner to visit the Dominican Republic and work out a relief plan after the hurricane.
In London 200 representatives of British trade and industry formed a National Council of Industry and Trade to push protectionist measures. They call for tariffs to shield home industries and a fiscal system favoring empire markets, with early consultation with dominions. The conference chair Sir William Morris led the three hour meeting amid protests over invitation only access.
Captain Preston at Grand Haven says the fruit packet North Shore disappeared about thirty miles off Racine during a recent lake storm. He reports seeing wreckage but no bodies recovered after a prolonged search. Among the six believed lost are Capt Irwin Anderson and his new wife on a honeymoon voyage, plus four sailors.
The government party suffered defeat in two county council elections in Stockholm with about 12,000 fewer votes. Socialist and Agrarian parties gained strongly, reshaping local political balance.
The text explains the practice of widows immolating themselves on funeral pyres, tracing its origins to Hindu beliefs about join-ing the husband in heaven. It notes seizures of the custom in India, with seventeen widows burning on a rajah's pyre and Bengal reporting over seven hundred deaths in a year. The English government abolished suttees in December 1828, though isolated cases have occurred since.
An alembic once essential to distillation has been superseded by more convenient stills in laboratories and factories, ending its long historical role in chemistry.
In Ripon Yorkshire England an official horn blower in a three cornered hat performs four loud market blasts every night at nine o clock in the town square.
A Chicago Field Museum anthropologist argues that early humans venerated the moon and created lunar deities before turning to solar powers. The study traces mythmaking to primitive societies and notes enduring cultural echoes.
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