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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1929
Page
6
Miss Mae A. Schnurr is appointed to fill the new post of assistant to the commissioner of reclamation. She becomes the first woman to hold such a high Interior department administrative post. For five years she served as secretary to Dr Elwood Mead and to the international water commission.
Sudbury plans a ceremony in October to honor General Charles Gates Dawes American ambassador and founder of the Dawes family in America. The town will confer freedom of the borough with a luncheon and council meeting as it celebrates Dawes lineage and ties to early colonial settlers.
In remote Pecos gorge near Del Rio Texas an aged man known as Old Bob Hutchins guards the Pecos high bridge. He maintains the steel span that carries Southern Pacific trains across the river four miles from its junction with the Rio Grande.
The article recalls moments of Americans abroad and away from home, noting how environments shift behavior. It mentions encounters in Hawaii Peoria Segovia and Chicago with figures such as Herbert Johnson and Jim Carroll, and describes the Pecos River bridge guarded by Hutching and the five year watch over the site amid river rises.
Tommy Armour, the Scot from Tom o' Shanter, captured the Western Open at Milwaukee's Ozaukee Golf Club. He shot three under par in four rounds for a 273 total, besting his nearest challenger to claim the championship.
The eight year project in Nicolai church Meissen features white porcelain walls with plates honoring World War I dead. It displays 30 over life sized mourning mothers figures and eight giant porcelain figures, a porcelain arch between altar and nave, and a porcelain shrine housing a golden book of dead soldiers records.
Greenwood Mississippi mayor John Ash, also serving as judge, claims an unusual record of swift hearings with no jail waits. He says most cases are disposed of within an hour after arrest, as the mayor-judge handles cases immediately.
In Mexico City Jose Lorenzo Sepulveda, director of fisheries, reports piracy and contraband in the Gulf of California are declining due to government actions. Before, smugglers and piracy rings, some with Los Angeles links, used border waters as cover. Legal licensing grows as illicit fisheries shrink after Emilio Portes Gil ordered cleanup.
A modern harpoon procedure attaches a metal line to the weapon and delivers an electric current when embedded in a whale, ensuring a quicker kill but with greater concern over animal suffering and method effectiveness.
A biographical sketch of Simon Pokagon, the Pottawatomie chief famed as a poet and lecturer, detailing his education from Notre Dame to Oberlin, his multilingual ability, and his 1929 portrayal of his life and Chicago’s Algonquin origins.
An overview traces moon worship across ancient cultures and its influence on calendars and timekeeping. It notes the moon's name origin from mona and Sanscrit root ma, linking to Norse and Hebrew seasonal references, and explains Monday derives from moon worship.
The prose piece praises nature as a long inheritance of beauty and a garden of spiritual spring time. It follows a lover of nature who walks with wonder and finds exaltation of spirit through pain, opening a door to the mystic house of life and awakening joy in the vast invisible.
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