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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1927
Page
13
In Nome Alaska a Eskimo mother Molly Berrymah runs the farthest north restaurant at Kotzebue. Her daughters Mabel and Esther assist as budding workers learning cooking and service as part of their early education. The mother expects full Eskimo business training to take about five more years.
The Bureau of Criminal Identification of the New York State Department of Correction is led by women with Miss Clara L. Parsons as chief since 1914. Under her supervision, female staff manage over 300 000 index cards detailing the underworld, and inspect fingerprint evidence with care and precision.
Miss Parsons asserts women can do police work and praises her office for aiding departments in tracking criminals in the Empire State. She notes repeat offenders evading punishment by hiding in other states, and she supports universal fingerprinting to identify people anywhere, citing a tiny mistaken identity risk.
An old advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment promising pimples, itching skin and eczema relief with claims of mighty healing power. It sells for 33 cents a box at all druggists, urging readers to avoid ordinary remedies.
Washington researchers study reaction time for drivers to apply brakes. The article questions how quickly people think before braking and measures human response speeds in traffic scenarios.
In Toledo early today gang members staged a gun battle on downtown streets, the third such incident in a week. No injuries were found by police. Earlier, two men were arrested after a three cornered fight. they were released for lack of evidence.
The Bureau of Standards equipped a car with two evolvers to measure driver reaction times and stopping distance at 30 mph. Tests involved students, taxi drivers, soldiers, and officers, finding average reaction times from 1.5 to 5 seconds and about 100 feet to stop. The research aims to set strict future driver tests.
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