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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1929
Page
2
A railway wreck was narrowly averted in Red Wing Minnesota when a Chicago Great Western engineer stopped his train a few feet from a runaway building dropped by workmen moving it to a new location. Crews hacked away a corner and the train continued.
Peter Backe of Bronx I R T repair shows fatigue at Hunter's Point station Long Island City. He nods off on the platform and is dragged from between stalled cars as a subway train glides past. Doctors declare he is not hurt, only asleep with a strong snore.
Mrs. Maude Cushing Storick serving life for murdering her husband Claude Cushing escaped from the Detroit House of Correction. She reportedly donned smuggled clothing and left after nine, with guards alerted at terminals and a $100 reward offered. Storick is described as a dangerous and exceptionally clever woman.
Two San Francisco constables nab two would be thieves amid a cheese rolling spree near Pier 19. A corporal redirected the rolling cheese and its unseen master to the city jail, as a second scammer was caught with another cheese. The men confessed but declined to reveal the origin of the cheese.
Cornell Wisconsin road patrolman Charles Minick faced a violent rheumatic attack in his bachelor home. He tied a message to his dog’s collar naming a neighbor and the animal delivered it, enabling Minick to receive assistance and be taken to town for care.
Oliver Deardorff, a New York taxi driver, attempted to surrender a gun to police after stopping a holdup. He was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm amid the incident.
Woodie Gibbs claimed a bounty for a wildcat in Antigo Wisconsin. The cat weighed 55 pounds and measured nearly six feet from front paws to the top of the tail.
A statue in Fredericksburg honors Mary Ball Washington the mother of George Washington. The article recounts her life as a respected Virginia matron and notes the house she lived in from 1775 to 1789 preserved by Virginians as a historic site.
The handkerchief evolved from Roman refinements and gained general use in English policing under Henry VI. It likely stems from ecclesiastical dress and the maniple, linen and worn over the left hand. By the eighteenth century France already used handkerchiefs for wiping and ornament. Women adopted colored handkerchiefs with snuff taking.
A boy Bobble receives a loud ticking watch and parades it through the street. When his cousin Betty asks for the time he answers with a flourish that it is two inches to four.
The report notes a sequence of unusually wet years in England with more than 120 rainy days above the long term average since 1916. Researchers cite persistent weather patterns and impacts on agriculture and daily life as communities adapt to increased precipitation.
Claire, an office assistant, overhears her boss Cliff Dorrance plotting a theft ruse around a crystal ball. She uses the plan to trap Jack Carew, a thief suspected of robbery, by letting him touch the ball and leave fingerprints to justify the arrest. Cliff reveals he admires Claire and proposes a future together.
Osaka Mainichi recalls an early Kyoto episode where a man ran ahead of new electric street cars to warn pedestrians. The piece contrasts past warnings with modern urban change in Kobe and Osaka, noting trains and smokey practice as a nostalgic, comic reminder of history’s repeats.
In large rubber tree plantations of Indo China the practice of alternate tapping replaces daily tapping. Alternating schedules vary. long periods may be one month in every three or even four, while short periods can be one day in two to four. Some plantations combine schedules to ensure six months rest over two years.
D. A. Oswald in the Glasgow Weekly Herald argues the church influenced glove making since Charlemagne’s era. He recalls 700 AD gifts granting monks rights to use deer skins for gloves girdles and book covers, showing enduring ties between piety and craft.
The dialogue notes a judge ordering Brows to pay alimony and his reaction as chagrined. His wife responds with a grin, highlighting contrasting emotions in a domestic dispute scene.
A comic exchange shows a landlady and a boarder discussing coffee strength. The boarder notes the coffee is weak while the landlady admits everyone has a weakness, mine is coffee.
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