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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
1
In a Chicago scene Artie Blanchard guides Miller the visitor through State Street crowds and Lincoln Park. He contrasts city slickers with country folk, warns about poseurs, and warns Miller to blend in while spotting scams and fast crowds.
A Santa Clara Valley mansion reportedly built by a wealthier woman over 88 years grew to about 144 rooms connected by long passageways. Interior features include hidden doors and trapdoors, with rooms and stairways suggestive of a mystery setting.
A Noon in Greenwich Village suggests a shift from poolrooms to chatty drugstore cowgirls. An exhibit of Frederick Remington highlights Western scenes at the New York Public Library. A sidewalk anecdote shows a grifter at subway gratings and photographers swarming newsrooms now that cameras rule Park Row.
In Newburgh New York hundreds of poisonous snakes along the Delaware river near Port Jervis hinder the high tension line patrols. Patrolman J B Marsh reports he killed 60 reptiles in a few days as others use clubs to drive away copperheads rattlesnakes and more. Heavy rains and heat are blamed for the surge.
Thirteen famine workers have died of typhus in Kansu Province, most of them American missionaries, according to recent advices received.
A buay carpenter bee teams with a tiny mite in a puzzling relationship studied by Norma LeVeque of the University of Colorado. The mite resides in a female bee’s abdominal pouch and nests, found only in tropical Old World regions. Scientists note the mite may curb fungus in timber galleries and groom the bee to remove excess pollen after foraging.
A top floor room at Scotland Yard houses a guarded wireless hub linking the flying squad cars to headquarters. The system flashes tips, transmits photographs and fingerprints abroad, and coordinates rapid arrests. Police cars are fast and radio equipped, with coded messages kept secret and cross‑border messages common.
In Seattle Washington Fred W Newell Jr witnessed a dramatic salmon chase with the king of fish sprinting up the Duwamish river at about 40 miles per hour. The creature failed a turn crashed onto the shore and was photographed as proof of the event.
James J. Pfeiffer, 23, was fined $25 and his sweetheart deported to Canada amid a romantic smuggling case. Pfeiffer courted Anna Tothey from Roscommon County Ireland, smuggling her across Lake Erie to Canada where she was arrested in Buffalo after being questioned by officers.
Odle of Lexington Tennessee owns a gold open face watch bought in England about 125 years ago. The watch had not run for 65 years until a jeweler repaired it. It now appears to be in perfect running condition with Roman numerals and intricate engraving on the back and edge.
Margaret and Angeline Carter prepare for Cousin Fanny Pringle in Spencer with Darling the dog on board. The sisters, weary of teaching and home life, find humor and renewed bond as Darling’s needs and the arrival disrupt their plans for a trip abroad and potential boarding arrangements.
James Warnack argues in the Cincinnati Inquirer that public speaking is a necessary evil born of audience influence. He says speakers are largely mouthpieces for listeners and that both rise and fall with the audience’s emotions.
The text surveys Portuguese as a Romance language closely related to Spanish. It notes 11 vowel sounds and about 26 consonants, highlights loss of intervocalic l and n as key traits, and mentions the inflected infinitive enabling complex constructions.
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