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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1930
Page
3
Scientists outline tables to estimate a historical figure's height from one or two measurements. The article notes Japan surveys a land area of about 8,000 islands extending along Asia for roughly 2,000 miles.
The golden plover holds the record for long migrations. It breeds on Arctic Ocean shores and annually travels 8,000 miles south to the north coast of South America, making a round trip of 16,000 miles.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars in its thirty first national encampment in Baltimore urged repeal of the prohibition amendment and its enforcement laws after a lengthy debate and vote.
Nationalist forces defending Changsha claim to have slain about 10 000 Reds as fighting rages around the Chinese capital of Human province. The reported toll reflects the intensity of the ongoing Shanghai area conflict and the broader war.
S. W. Straus chairman of the board of S. W. Straus & Co. Inc a banker of world reputation died at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City He was sixty four years old.
Karna Alm a 103 year old widow of a Swedish soldier living at the Wetherod Home for Aged near Col Lindbergh’s ancestral home keeps up with fashion. She recently bobbed her silvery hair, reads without glasses, walks daily, remembers well and sings old love songs. She rejects the idea that 103 is old and expects to live many more years.
Shirley Wylie of Collins Colorado aged five has two pupils in one eye after a screen door spring struck the eyeball causing a corner cut. The wound healed leaving two distinct pupils and normal vision.
Hungary's Tola county launches a motherhood bonus program granting payments for each child after the third to counteract growing one and two child family trends.
Washington reports Santo Domingo near four thousand dead as relief from the United States and other nations floods in. Medical teams, tents, food, and water arrive while the city lacks lights, water, ice, and shelter. epidemic danger looms amid isolation and widespread destruction.
Census data released last week place unemployment at about 2.5 million in cities of 100 000 population and over. New York led with 234 584 unemployed or 3.4 percent, Chicago 145 852 or 4.3 percent, and Duluth 5 444 or 5.4 percent. Detroit has 78 158 unemployed or 5 percent.
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