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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
9
Public domain style notice stating W N Y Service and copyrights dated 1923 for Brentano's Inc and The Ridgeway Co. This record captures the claim of ownership and year of publication as printed in the source.
After buying the outlaw Tokalji's aid, Hugh and allies pack the vast treasure into crates and ship it on the Slava under cover of night. Wasso Mikali coordinates escape, Tokalji is placated with a hefty offer, and Maude Hilyer’s fate is settled. The crew departs, leaving the fate of Hilyer and the House of the Married behind in Stamboul.
The piece compares how different societies value teeth, shells, and tusks as money or adornment, noting dogs teeth as currency in Papua New Guinea and wampum in America. It reflects on beauty standards, cites ivory carvings and shells like turtle carapaces and pearl oyster shells, and ends by pondering the phrase clean as a hound's tooth.
Pathfinder Magazine reports a magpie built a nest atop a pole impeding telephone service between Melbourne and Albury. The nest fourteen inches across and deep used several cut wires from repair crews, causing a short circuit that halted service.
Miss Josephine Callaghan, a 22-year-old rancher and sport enthusiast from Encino, recently completed a solo flight in a Lincoln Page biplane after modifications to the cockpit and control stick to accommodate her two shortened arms. Trainer Charles F. Dycer praised her persistence and skill during loops and spins.
Oklahoma City case echoes a modern Enoch Arden tale as Ella Mae McMullen faces divorce from her first husband E W McGruder and threats of suit from her second partner Earl McMullen. She seeks custody of their five year old daughter while navigating two marriages.
In La Plata Missouri eleven year old Leon Garlock coveted a new collegiate red hat. He broke into a meat market and stole 25 dollars from the till. He urged a clothing store to stay open after hours to buy the hat. The proprietor grew suspicious, police were called, and the boy confessed.
The Sunday Express cites an unnamed authority estimating Great Britain discards about 750 million dollars annually in petty waste. Noted items include 15 million dollars worth of mustard left on plates edges along with soap, match ends, candle ends, cigarette butts, tickets, pins, clips, gas, electricity, fuel, bones, town refuse, tin cans and waste paper.
The average rate of growth for head hair ranges from half an inch to one inch per month. Growth is faster between ages twelve and thirty and slows after age fifty.
Dr Caldwell promotes a mild vegetable compound for constipation and general ailments. He cautions against drastic purges and urges natural balance. A free trial bottle is offered by writing Syrup Pepsin Dept BB Monticello Illinois.
A proposed Channel Tunnel would start 11 miles from the sea at Monks Horton and exit nine miles from the French coast. Trains would run at 92 miles per hour, pulled by electric engines.
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