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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1930
Page
19
A photograph of Rita Gordon, an eight year old child, was used by Poland's leading chocolate firm. The managing director, of Scotch descent, named a principal brand after her and featured the baby's image on all chocolate boxes. The father sold the copyright to her features for ten years for 2500 dollars annually.
Gregory Zinoviev recounts in Pavda how Stalin barred Lenin’s arrest by arranging Lenin’s escape from hiding in July 1917. Stalin, Ordjinikidze and others opposed surrender, with Stalin even clipping Lenin’s beard to aid the escape, a move Zinoviev says helped keep the Bolshevik revolution intact.
The article notes bells began as long metal bars and later adopted the cup-shaped form in the fourth century. It cites the Tsar Kolokol in Moscow as the largest bell, weighing 193 tons, and explains that larger bells are stationary and struck to sound rather than rung.
Police chief defies bank bandits in Watertown South Dakota warning that robbers targeting any of the three local banks will confront a tank approach. The intervention signals a hard stance against Northwest bandits known to operate in the region.
Bank officers enabled police to deploy a machine gun at a concealed street corner serving the three banks while a second gun remains at headquarters. Eight citizen marksmen with rifles join law enforcement to deter robbers, promising immediate and decisive fire at any bank heist. Chief Olson pledges readiness to intensify the fight against bank bandits.
Dean of Men at the University of Illinois argues the virtues of anonymous letters. He suggests discreet writing could expose social and civic errors, correct the erring, and threaten without direct risk, using examples from familiar neighbors to illustrate potential misuse and personal embarrassment.
London sees Harry Tate, comedian, request the vanity plate T-8 for his auto. License clerks note they often accommodate reasonable requests, dodging superstition with 13. The policy is to grant what is available, with staff indicating they will assist motorists who choose from allowed options.
The U S population center has migrated 25 to 80 miles west over the last decade, per census estimates. Officials expect the precise point to lie near Hymera in Sullivan County Indiana, a town of about 1500. In 1920 the center was 1.6 miles west of Whitehall Indiana. In 1910 it rested in Bloomington Indiana.
The piece argues that anonymous letters stem from cowardice and lack of backbone to face issues openly. It condemns anonymous writers as cowardly, urging accountability and public responsibility in addressing evils and irregularities.
In Salt Lake City Utah a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs James A Flder on Friday the 18th at 12:13 AM is described as the 11th living member of his direct family and the birth is linked to a superstition not revealed until after birth.
Los Angeles reports scientist Dr William George Schnell, a young graduate of Colorado and Dresden, claims a sunlike light produced without electricity. He says the formula uses sunlike atoms, can heat or cool rays, and has illuminated rooms with a new oil light. He asserts tests burned wood with magnifying glass and sun, and that the invention may replace outdoor signs, light homes, cook food, and aid medicine through X rays. The simple formula mixes minerals with oils and acids.
In Kinston North Carolina Edgar Trotman’s barred Plymouth Rock rooster earned fame by incubating eggs and hatching two broods last summer. The bird, dubbed hard boiled, now looks after a brood of young guineas after an attempted prank placing guinea eggs under him failed to induce a joke.
An old advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle yet effective laxative. It claims 47 years of use, non watery cleansing action, and suitability for all ages. The copy stresses ease of use, harmless ingredients, and availability from druggists in large bottles.
Restless children fret for no clear reason and Castoria offers a mild harmless remedy. The text touts Castoria as gentle yet effective for colic diarrhea constipation bad breath and poor eating or sleep in infants and children, noting it may be given to tiniest infant as needed.
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