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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1930
Page
3
Washington lawmakers push a busy agenda with the army and Indian policy bills advancing. Quay blocks some committee actions while a statehood vote tactic sparks a clash. a column heightens the political fray as a Colombo affair questions surfacing.
New York January 27. Money on call 4 percent. Prime mercantile paper 5 1/2 percent. Sterling exchange steady at 4.87 for demand. Grain provisions and live stock notes. Government bonds steady. Flour quiet.
An Arizona plateau region faced a Pompeii like fate as lava covered towns. Cecil A. Deane, custodian of the Denver war relic room, spent weeks exploring south of Holbrook, bringing back artifacts revealing a once agricultural people. Evidence shows a volcanic flood, tools for domestic use, and signs of distant contact. Skeletal remains suggest a peaceful, non warlike society with curios such as a pagoda shaped stone and shell jewelry. The discoveries await further study with broader funding.
The article profiles Thomas Wright of Bristol Virginia a Civil War veteran now in his seventies. A private in Company BE Nineteenth Tennessee the Old Knoxville Regiment he served from 1861 in battles including Shiloh Baton Rouge and Chickamauga. Wright endured gunshot wounds to the right leg at Shiloh and to the hips at Baton Rouge with lasting health effects.
The article questions whether the luminiferous ether is real or just a concept while noting hydrogen gas as the lightest weighed substance. It discusses space, planetary motion, and light, then shifts to a vignette about Maggie caring for a potato child in a Hindergarten Gems story from St. Louis.
A poor hard working mother and her daughter Maggie. Maggie, eager to help, empties potato peelings into a bucket and then returns to fetch more. Maggie hides a bundle in her apron, rocking and nursing it as her mother discovers the pile of potatoes in the cellar.
A loud showman hawks a “most wonderful baby on earth” for a dime, drawing a crowd. He presents a plain infant whose mother proclaims its wonder, prompting skeptical questions from spectators as he exits amid chaos and a thrown bottle.
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