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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1929
Page
3
In Newark, Mrs Elsie Hudak files for divorce alleging her husband forced her to catch a mouse at a home mouse hole. She says she let the mouse escape and he beat her severely with a broom handle on March 30, 1923.
A world census reports about 94.5 million Germans, with 63.2 million residing in the German republic. Figures compiled by Professor Wintler of the Statistical Institute.
A report states that 33,000,000 Germans live in Europe, claiming Germans form about one fifth of the continent's population and indicating widespread German presence.
A Queen Anne riding crop owned by Sir Arthur Henry Harvey’s descendants is offered for sale in Cincinnati Ohio by Miss Carne Slarves and her brother Chistes Rupert Harvey aged eighty four and eighty respectively. The item dates to the era of Queen Anne and was given to their ancestor by Sir Arthur Harvey.
Smithsonian expedition uncovers a 15 foot dinosaur tail in the San Juan basin New Mexico. The site yields horned dinosaur skull fragments and a collection of over 70 nearly complete turtles. Desert ground shows extensive fossil remains amid Navajo sheep country.
A Cleveland led history notes that Chicago coined the label copper for policemen in the 1850s. Mayors and officers adopted the term as Chicago grew into a hard boiled village and soon spread nationwide to describe guardians of the law.
Col. Bill Slayward, noted sportsman, on his Arctic hunt return, brands the polar bear as mean and untamable. He dismisses a Bengal tiger as less threatening, asserting no one knows mean until facing a polar bear.
Texarkana reports that heirs in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and beyond await a U S Supreme Court ruling on Norman Tee Freeman’s 1927 suit over hidden assets of Mark Hopkins. Estimates place potential shares from 200 to 900 million with Timothy Stophins denying any concealed holdings.
The term glacial milk refers to waters fed by glacier streams saturated with powdered rock scraped from mountain sides by moving glaciers.
Washington reports a federal farm board proposal to establish ten agricultural attaché offices at American embassies to oversee wide territories. The plan aims to expand marketing and outlook services for U.S. agricultural products. Senate confirms eight farm board members amid partisan debate over Legge McKelvie Williams.
Veterans of the Blue and Gray join Illinois representatives to dedicate a memorial in Memphis honoring about 2 000 Illinois Civil War dead buried near Chickasaw Bluff. The tribute sits within the National cemetery amid graves from the battle years.
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