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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1929
Page
6
Marie Curie, famed for radium research, sails to New York on the He de France arriving October 15. She will receive the second gram of radium purchased by American supporters to replace the one she currently rents for the Warsaw cancer hospital.
London reports King George will speak through premier Ramsay MacDonald at an international disarmament conference. The sovereign summoned MacDonald to Sandringham to receive a first hand report on The Hague reparations and Anglo American talks. The king's illness has subsided and he intends active involvement in state affairs.
Brig Gen Lytle Brown, a World War I war plans chief and key figure in Wilson dam and Muscle Shoals projects, is named army chief of engineers with rank of major general by President Hoover. He succeeds Maj Gen Edgar Jadwin, who retired as lieutenant general on August 7.
Clyde I. Bachus of the state department of registration and education announced plans to jail or fine quacks posing as doctors dentists osteopaths or healers in Chicago after police reported 200 unlicensed practitioners found during airmen health checks.
Max Dreger aged 78 dies in Bochum Germany. Dreger formerly of Krupp directorate and inventor of the 42 centimeter howitzer used by Germany in the World War.
The United States Navy will display a safety exhibit at the National Safety Council annual meeting in Chicago from September 30 to October 4, marking the first time the exhibit will be shown publicly.
President Hoover challenged Senator Howell to provide definite facts supporting charges of prohibition violations in the District of Columbia. The White House said enforcement would be a model for the nation, and urged depositing information with the Justice Department for a vigorous investigation. Howell said embassy liquor cases and general enforcement could follow if executive authority pressed officials.
A marble monument sculpted by Lorado Taft was dedicated in White Hall HL to Annie Louise Keller a schoolteacher who died protecting her students during the April 19 1927 central Illinois tornado. Keller stayed at the door while she ordered her twenty two pupils to take cover beneath desks, the building collapsed but all children survived.
John Coolidge son of the former president and Mrs. Coolidge married Miss Florence Trumbull daughter of Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Kenneth Welles of Albany. The wedding gifts filled three large rooms and secret service officers guarded the couple continuously.
The Empire State Inc board led by former Gov Alfred J Smith awards the contract for an 80 story skyscraper on the Waldorf Astoria site. The project carries a $40,000,000 price and work begins immediately with the demolition of the old hotel.
The White House announced that Harry S Sinclair and U Henry Mason Day will serve full jail terms for contempt related to shadowing a federal jury. No commutation will be allowed.
A car collided with a Michigan Central passenger train at a grade crossing south of Monroe Michigan killing Leo Colbert his wife and their three children and another man.
The text notes Cuba was not part of the United States and cites the 1898 Treaty of Paris. It describes a U S occupation from July 18, 1898, to May 20, 1902 and the establishment of the Republic of Cuba at noon on May 20, 1902.
Publishers pay composers 10 cents per copy sold for popular songs. Often a famous composer receives more due to higher expected success, as noted by Pathfinder Magazine.
The full moon occurs when the moon’s longitude is exactly 180 degrees from the sun’s, making the full phase momentary and lasting only an instant.
A palm along the Amazon banks is said to bear the largest leaves, reaching 30 to 50 feet in length and 10 to 12 feet in breadth. The size astonishes naturalists and highlights the extraordinary diversity of Amazonian flora.
The International Boundary becomes a function of the boundary commission through a treaty signed in Washington on February 24, 1925.
The Bureau of Mines states there is no household method to deoxidize gasoline. It is performed on a large scale using sulfuric acid followed by washing with an alkali and filtration through fuller's earth.
A brief aphorism urges choosing the finest in friendship books recreation and all aspects of life. It presents a universal claim about quality over quantity and the need to select carefully. The anonymous quote emphasizes discernment in daily decisions.
The point-blank range is the distance where the bullet remains at the same elevation as the muzzle. For the Springfield rifle this range is 350 yards from the muzzle.
The article notes Natal Day on July 1 is called Dominion Day because on that date in 1867 Canada became a self governing dominion under the British North America Act, establishing its constitutional basis within the British Empire.
A Washington Star quotation notes Ki Ho of Chinatown saying if men judged by appearances there would be no use for uniforms and badges. The remark frames attire as a social signal in public life.
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