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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1930
Page
4
A Dallas Laboratories director explains how metal fatigue causes bridges to fail, detailing crystal changes under load, microscopic etching, and moving picture studies to compare fatigued metal with bridge spans. The piece notes periodic cable replacement and ongoing fatigue relief efforts, followed by assorted notices and ads.
In New Orleans Coste, an ocean spanning aviator, draws mixed reactions from Andre Lafargue at a Lion's Club gathering. Lafargue jokes he would join Coste to the North Pole by air but not around the corner by automobile, recalling a prior Hollywood speed run in a new car that nearly caused heart failure and prompted a cautionary tale about driving conditions.
Readable data from the 1980 census shows 46 parishes in Louisiana with population increases while 4 parishes show declines. The Census Bureau release highlights overall growth across the state, with some parishes experiencing notable gains and others slight drops in population.
American railway authority reports drought cattle feed shipments totaling 1,254 loads to the nation’s regions. West Virginia and Maryland receive several hundred loads, with Pennsylvania and Ohio also listed among the destinations and smaller consignments to Kentucky and others.
Louisian a State Fair in Shreveport announces increased amusement funding for the Silver Jubilee twenty fifth anniversary. The schedule includes a Rodeo Stampede on October 28 to 31 with top cowboys and cowgirls, a Broadway Winter Garden Revue, nightly fireworks, Gladway shows, band concerts, a dog show, and football games featuring LSU versus Arkansas on November 1 and Baylor versus Centenary on October 25.
A classified ad offers straight salary of 35 dollars per week plus expenses. Seeks a man or woman with a rig to introduce an egg producer. Located at Eureka Manufacturing Company in East St. Louis. Include job details and pay in response.
In the Monteleone hotel coffee shop Lieutenant Governor Paul N. Gyr and New Orleans businessman R. Theriot fought after Theriot taunted Gyr over betting on the Huey Long Ransdell senatorial race. Theriot was cut on the cheek and Cyr on the teeth. bystanders separated them.
A chilly front moved into the West with snow and frost in Montana and Yellowstone Park. Reports from Boulder Drum Mond Circut Falls and Anacondas noted snow and freezing temperatures. Frost was forecast again tonight while Western Kansas faced the cold. Eastern Kansas still showed unseasonably warm highs.
A garbled article fragment references an 85 year old woman and a shift from ox cart to plane, with unclear names and places. It mentions a character Jiminy and a misheard question about Whog's Nittle Bay, leaving the event and location largely indeterminable.
Louisiana Tech's training school for secondary and elementary pupils will open on Thursday, Sept. 18, with a faculty of ten teachers. A. E B. Phillips is named director of teacher-training and Miss Musa P. Harris joins as new critic teacher in first grade. Enrollment is expected around 200 students. The existing nine teachers return from prior terms, including W. R. Cline and Miss Jewell Noten. A Dallas news item reports a man killed his neighbor over his wife, warning of cemetery crowding if such killings spread.
Mrs Cleora Martin of Cotton Valley was arrested by Webster parish deputies and held for Lincoln parish authorities on a kidnapping charge. The 7 and 9 year old children were allegedly taken from their father’s home where custody had been granted in a recent divorce. The father DeLoach, who lives near Dubach, said Martin and another man drove up and asked to take the children for a drive, then seized them and left. Martin to be brought to local jail and tried in district court.
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