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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1928
Page
8
A man injured after a mishap was ferried to town with help from Scouts whose unit was praised for good service. The doctor placed splints as the patient rested in a warm room. The speaker noted, My leg is getting well now, and thanked the scouts for their timely help.
Report from Johannesburg describes a 500 person European colony in Riverdale South Africa living in mud shacks for a century with no roads, radios, or cars. They depend on garden produce and wild game, burn rye as coffee, and subsist on less than five cents a day. They largely cannot read or write and avoid outsiders.
A new experimental landing gear design for aircraft uses a pontoon with wheels enabling landings on water, ashore, or on decks of carrier mother ships. The system aims to expand landing options across varied environments and could influence future aircraft versatility and safety.
Columbia residents welcome visitors and note daily happenings. The piece covers homecomings, travels, 4‑H and Farm Bureau meetings, a planned anti theft effort, school banquets, health checks, Mormonism talk, club leaders for sewing and potato groups, influenza illness, golf club move, and community quilting and church activities. Several pupils earned health ribbons, and the senior class play and baccalaureate are scheduled.
In Coleridge Nebraska Marvin Wallerstedt a 13 year old Boy Scout was hiking with younger boys when one fell on his leg. He said he heard the bone break and he moved it back into place himself while directing others for help. Physicians credited his presence of mind to training as a Scout and Marvin said he did not want to pose as a hero but would help Scouting. He sent two boys to phone a doctor and a third to get aid from a farm home.
California governor Morris, an aviation enthusiast and novelist, predicts aerial transport between the South Seas and California will soon be real. His wife, an early licensed pilot in 1911, will split time between Tahiti plantation and Monterey Peninsula as the Morrises plan future flights.
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