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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1930
Page
6
Roy A. Young resigns from the Federal Reserve Board to become governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He will receive a salary more than double what he earned as head of the entire Federal Reserve System.
In South Bend Indiana eight year old Margerine Appel was bound with piano wire and murdered after a kidnapping. Coroner Grampich ruled the death an hour before discovery. Mrs Eula Appel identified suspect Jack Stamper, who denied knowledge yet aided in the arrest. Authorities linked the case to a prior Nam Foster kidnapping in nearby Valparaiso.
The New York Board of Estimate approved $1,125,000 in subway contracts at a special meeting and voted $250,000 to keep 700 sanitation workers employed. It also allocated $7,500 for Rockaway lifeguards and authorized $160,000 to improve Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn. Mayor Walker said these projects relieve unemployment.
We report that the Milwaukee railway bridge pontoons span the Mississippi between Marquette Iowa and Prairie du Chien Wisconsin resting in mid river due to extreme low water. A steam dredge operates day and night to keep the bottom clear so boats may pass. The Marquette Prairie du Chien bridge is the largest of four pontoon bridges on the Milwaukee line and is the only railway pontoon bridge of its kind.
Mayor James Rolph Jr of San Francisco wins the Republican nomination for governor in a decisive early result. Rolph secures support from party delegates amid a crowded field.
Paris lawmakers with medical expertise call for medico legal proof before burial amid claims that one in 500 is buried alive across Europe. Doctors propose tests from flour desicine injections to arterial openings and even pin probes, while noting rapid funerals and limited embalming options.
In New London Minnesota a $100 trust fund set in a Passbook in the name of Myrica Cerefera Davey will grow to about $750000 by compound interest. The boy is sixteen and lives in a public park with the passbook carried by her godfather James A G Davey of Kent Ohio. The tale blends mythic tree lore with a note on historical use of bayberry for wax and medicine.
Grand Island Nebraska County Treasurer Hugo Meves received 125 dollars to apply to back taxes in a signed envelope from a sender who did not include a name. The postmark shows Grand Island. The treasurer continues to search for the sender while holding the money. The piece notes Commonwealth Edison Company as a major purchaser of incandescent lamps in Chicago.
Pat Murphy, a King County convict serving a one to three year grand larceny sentence, walked away just before completion of his term. Efforts to recapture him have failed. if recaptured his sentence could be extended. Murphy was employed on constructing new county buildings.
In Lisbon a woman aged 118 Guilhermina dose Madeira has died amid a two week heat wave described as deadly. The report notes she was the oldest person in the country and marks the extreme heat as the cause of death.
Lon Chaney noted character actor died in Los Angeles from anemia and bronchial infection. The actor was famed as the man of a thousand faces.
John Hausman urges buying a drink despite money worries. Dalton girls are joked about thinking what their mothers don’t know won’t hurt them.
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