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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1929
Page
3
Early reports in Europe spread fear that new American potatoes caused rheumatism leprosy and other diseases. Despite such claims botanists and physicians advised cautious cultivation and diet incorporation as the crop proved nutritious and adaptable.
Students across 5A and 5B rooms under Miss Couch Miss Pruitt Miss Phenix and Mr. Lester report a week of tests poems posters and Christmas party plans. Notable mentions include top grades in arithmetic geography and reading and a December school play at City Auditorium.
A London Mail recounts widespread superstition in England where many avoid ladders, salt spills, Friday nails, and Friday cutting. candles on a lake, umbrellas indoors, and glass moons are seen as ominous. many say Touch wood and cross fingers. belief spans sailors and Irish, with Londoners prominent.
May Irene Copinger writes in the Baltimore Sun that Sir Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian library and married, building a monument to his wife. Yet Bodley’s autobiography omits any marriage, leaving unclear if domestic life or a bon entity influenced his memory of his important life questions.
James Cruze headlines The Great Gabbo, his first talking picture, praised as a masterwork. The Alcove theatre presents a lavish production with 500 singing and dancing performers and 125 instrumentalists, featuring Erich von Stroheim Betty Compson Donald Douglas and Margie Kane in a star studded cast.
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