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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
6
A birthday party story from Answers Magazine recounts a wealthy farmer hosting guests. A man introduces himself as Burton and explains he is a cousin twenty thousand pounds removed, highlighting family distance and wealth differences in a social portrait.
A teacher recounts Lot’s warning and escape to the Infant class. The tale ends with a curious student asking what happened to the flea, prompting a gentle pause in the lesson.
Paris residents breathe easier as reports circulate of a neutralizing vapor that destroys certain new German poison gases before they reach gas masks. A Polish-born savant exiled from Germany developed the method in a Paris suburb and offered it to France’s war ministry.
The Department of Agriculture reports crested wheatgrass seeds are in high demand as a forage crop to regrass low value arid land. Trials in Judith Basin Montana show cattle gains higher on wheatgrass with longer grazing days than brome or native grass, and the crop yields quality hay and serves well in crop rotations and as a sod for flax.
The 1929 opening of the Central Park Casino run by the Dieppe corporation drew 600 guests and millionaire backing, with Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., William Rhinelander Stewart Jr., Adolph Zukor, and James Walker present. Fiorello LaGuardia campaigned to close the venue for overpricing and park-space concerns, leading to court battles and an eventual demolition to make a public playground.
Wisconsin archaeologist Professor Ralph Linton reports the discovery of what may be America's first portrait death masks. Found in newly opened northwestern Wisconsin mounds, the 3,000 to 4,000 year old artifacts suggest aboriginal migrants from the south with copper usage. The masks indicate long preservation of honored dead and shed light on early regional life.
Based on a 1920 census released by the Soviet government, population figures show Moscow at 3,641,500, Leningrad 2,739,800, Kiev 625,000, Minsk 186,500, Tiflis 426,300, Tashkent 565,000, Ashkhabad 85,400, Stalinabad 40,300.
Two antique pistols were found in a large oak tree on the Starkey land near here. The weapons, believed to be sixty or seventy years old, were placed in the crotch of a sapling during Civil War times.
Paris Texas reports H L Rawlins of this town promised a reporter an advance note about a future story. He then left the courthouse steps, stumbled, and broke his left wrist.
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