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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
3
In Cleveland Sam Modrich faced a vagrancy arraignment. Patrolman Ladimir Masek testified that Modrich’s left hand was much cleaner than the right due to bandages from a prior arrest for begging. Judge Frey sentenced him to 60 days.
Patrick Trainer, 21, a prospector, was lost for 48 hours in bush 14 miles north of Blind River. He found a six foot wide vein of rich gold quartz and plans an expedition with John Fisher and Ed Furland to locate the lode again. He endured mosquitos, rain, swamps, bears, and hunger using porcupine meat and five matches found at a deserted lumber camp.
Jerry Plisec, a ten year night caretaker at St Jerome Catholic church in Chicago, installed a burglar alarm for the poor box. The system connected wires across church property and a bell at endpoints, catching 13 culprits and recovering $1.73 from transient robbers.
New York report says Joachie Hubert 31 paraded his son Joachie Jr. 12 to school with a handmade sign reading I am a thief I stole my mother's money. A police stop sparked a scuffle and both were in magistrate court. The boy kept his education, the father received a suspended five dollar fine.
Oklahoma City police filed reckless driving charges against a man who traveled five miles per hour and failed to yield the right of way to another vehicle on a boulevard.
Philip Trautman began as a temporary patrolman 41 years ago to tide him over while his plastering business started. Now 82, the Bucyrus police chief has resigned from the force.
Four hundred stamp collectors have organized an exhibition at Folsom prison. All participants are inmates, part of California's second offender penitentiary program.
In Chicago 1933 case, Mrs. Mary Petersen challenged a shared husband arrangement with widow Caroline Bertram. Petersen sought separate maintenance. Petersen’s failure to pay $30 under a weekly $6 order led Judge Rudolph F. Desart to jail him for six months. Petersen claimed five or six ceremonies. Bertram kept him as company in a boarding house until the ruling.
Inspector Tope and Miss Moss unravel a tangle of marriages betrayals and a calculated fire. Asa Taine’s motive was money and his plan to disinherit Bowden and Harder heirs. Rab Taine survives while Asa dies and the truth brings dawn to the Bowden household.
A survey of curious plant uses from the West Indies to Polynesia. Tephrosia stuns fish when crushed leaves are placed in rivers. hog gum resin heals wounds and fuels torches. candleberry trees yield oil lamps. walnut oil kernels on reeds serve as candles. Casuarina forks are heirloom tools. cow-tree yields milk like cow’s milk for cream and cheese. Linnaeus and a Japanese magnolia clock use flowers to tell time. plumbago root blisters skin and is misused in San Domingo for sympathy ploys.
Ruth Wyeth Spears offers a simple cut out applique project for a luncheon mat and napkins. The guide explains green bands on edges, cherry and leaf motifs, and a method to trace patterns, press fabric, and sew with fine hems. An offer promotes two sewing books with 96 How to Sew articles, available postpaid for 25 cents.
Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin promises fast relief for constipation and stomach discomfort. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach while Senna awakens bowels, appealing to families and children.
A Kant quotation proclaims righteousness must endure or life loses its worth, stressing moral law as essential to human purpose.
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