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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1930
Page
2
Discoveries near Tilsit East Prussia reveal a ninth to eleventh century Viking burial ground. Gruesome iron weapons and bronze fittings accompany male graves while female burials yield elaborate jewelry and bobbed hairstyles. The find supports ancient interest in short hair as a fashion among seafarers.
A mid nineteenth century fashion spreads from a New York street inventor to European royalty. Charles Burton designed the first baby carriage gaining orders from nobility including Queen Victoria and Queen Isabella of Spain, triggering wide adoption among the wealthy and eventually common households.
A Negro evangelist preached over a coffin with rich flowers. The preacher lamented the deceased's unreadiness for judgment and urged sinfulness and accountability as the crowd filed by to view the remains. Capper's Weekly notes the scene.
In a Birmingham Weekly Post item, the tale traces chop suey to Prince Li Gung Chang’s world tour and his Chinese chef. The dish thrilled a guest’s wife, who learned the chef’s reply in Chinese and English. The story notes chop suey’s rise with American Chinese restaurants.
A 1693 patent granted to John Stapleton describes a diving suit with a submerged walking capability, an air-pressurizing mechanism, and a burning tamp to supply air underwater. It outlines methods to force air into water depths and maintain respiration for the wearer.
Auk Me-Shi misread signals and stalled in the middle of traffic, drawing a sharp rebuke from a passerby who questions her knowledge of proper routes. The exchange appears in the Chatham News with a tone of stern instruction and local color.
Logan Indiana reports the longest viaduct on the Lincoln highway measuring 740 feet with a concrete floor to be completed in April. H McCabe of Logan notes material use: 890000 pounds steel and 5054000 pmmda concrete at a construction cost of 93000 dollars. The span includes a 100 foot truss rising 59 feet above the Boyer River bed with 72 foot plaza girders weighing sixteen tons each hoisted into place. The concrete roadway will be twenty four feet wide above multiple rail lines.
The North Central Division of the State Teachers Association adopted a resolution at the Fort Dodge district convention praising Agnes Lashnelson as state superintendent of public instruction. It expresses appreciation for her leadership and impartial, efficient office operation and pledges continued support for her policies.
Mrs Ray Miller of Des Moines fifth vice president of the Iowa Congress of Parents and Teachers and director of the department for the start announces that Miss Grace Abbott of Washington DC will cooperate with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in their annual Summer Round Up Campaign by broadcasting over the national network which includes WOW Omaha Nebraska at eleven o clock in Western standard time Wednesdays. The entire month of April and part of May are listed in the schedule.
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