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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1925
Page
3
Brooklyn man Mr Joseph Fy Glas writes about his twenty year struggle with constipation Then he found Carter's Live Liver Pills effective and reliable He states a guaranteed relief is felt upon taking them Available at all druggists.
Railroad police and federal agents stop a boy car in Kansas City Missouri and uncover scores of cases of liquor concealed beneath bags of crushed oyster shell. The operation traces to Biloxi Mississippi where the contraband originated, illustrating a coordinated smuggling effort with the shell cargo used as cover.
Washington reports a tornado as a violent rotating storm of small dimensions. Prof. Humphreys explains the Mississippi valley storm forms from cold air from the Canadian Rockies meeting warm Gulf currents, creating rotation low in the atmosphere and sometimes skipping across countryside.
A $10,000 forty room frame dwelling was moved three miles along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles without traffic interruption. It was the largest residence of its kind moved between foundations in the United States. The house was divided into three sections moved separately between midnight and dawn, with six weeks of sawing and jacking before reassembly by forty workers.
Edwardsville records note D B MacCracken of Waldron Arkansas, a 68-year-old widower with a 270 acre farm in Scott County, seeks a Christian life partner and public notices attracted over a hundred letters. One Chicago Dixon reply joked about aging and youth.
Designed for transporting large structures, the sections were rolled to the new foundations constructed for the dwelling.
City Manager H G Otis of Clarksburg West Virginia received a two dollar bill and a letter from EB L Oliver of Kenmore Ohio. The writer says years ago he caused street lamp breakage in the city and now feels conscience stricken about the incident.
The Frye observatory in Seattle will host the world’s largest public telescope. A 120-inch mirror is being ground by hand in Vancouver aided by T. S. Sheridan. The dome will house heavy machinery and the project aims to unveil a solar system viewable to 400 million stars.
Stenographers in Munich out of work due to AI take to cemeteries to attend services and transcribe the sermon. They sell neat copies with mourning borders to relatives, who usually buy the first transcript and often order multiple carbon copies.
A noir tale unfolds as Marie Ryson eludes pursuers through Hogan's club and a skyscraper siege, ending with a fatal ice fall. Detectives Crowse and Renks pursue, while the Death Dodger, Mabe Ryson, survives until a fatal rooftop accident seals his fate. The crowd hails him as a legendary criminal in the final wake.
A Christian Science Monitor excerpt reflects on the harp as humanity’s earliest instrument linked to Jubal, son of Lamech and Adah, outlining Mesopotamian landscape and lush biblical flora. It notes the harp’s soothing powers and its birth amid the Garden of Eden’s echoes.
The Rio Grande occupies diverse valleys in New Mexico and Texas. The present channel below El Paso is geologically recent, while higher Texas terraces reveal a large earlier stream in late Tertiary to late Pleistocene times that could be a Rio Grande predecessor but likely without the current watershed.
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