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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
3
Boston firemen rescued Francis Bell who, in pajamas, was carried down a ladder from the third floor. After Bell briefly returned for clothing, five men rescued him again along with his St. Bernard and two cats, as the chilly air seeped into his pajamas.
In Greenleaf Washington a forest fire forced evacuation of grazing sheep guarded by C H Craig Harry Patrick and Mrs Craig with dogs Laddie and Cap. After hours of danger Laddie herded the flock to safety as the goats bell led them to the herd. All sheep and fleece survived.
Pauline Hutchins nineteen year old negress was sentenced to four to eight years in Auburn prison for slashing the throat of three year old Florence Dorfman. The girl hired to care for the child admitted the act claiming no reason. Judge Stockell warned parents to hire responsibly as crimes against children will continue without careful supervision.
Cumberland Maryland June reports Glenn Sponaugle thirty nine treated at Memorial hospital after being struck by a Huntington Pennsylvania driver. He carried 18 sticks of dynamite and a box of caps. suffered a fractured right shoulder and possible skull fracture. Witnesses say the clergyman driver was blameless as Sponaugle stepped in front of the car.
Grace Kirkpatrick, a ranch girl from Briggsdale Colorado, bravely attacked and killed 75 rattlesnakes that had surrounded her horse while riding on the ranch nearby.
Jacob Miller of Hill Missouri says a pair of boots bought at age twenty two seventy one years ago remains in daily wear and he claims they are the oldest boots still in existence.
Wesley Cowles fished the same stream in Winsted Connecticut for several days and finally landed the fish that had swallowed a ring he had lost earlier, completing a small local tale of persistence and luck.
A New York World account notes homeless men on the London embankment seeking ducks eggs each morning. A correspondent reports spotting two ducks on a memorial step with an egg between them, which was retrieved by a passerby who then gave it to a seated embankment inhabitant who claimed to have found several eggs over two weeks.
In Europe fear of being buried alive grows, leading Britain to study a Munich style mortuary with bodies kept until death is certain. Each body carries a bell cord system to signal movement, with attendants on duty day and night. The Society for the Prevention of Premature Death proposes 11 tests of death.
Mrs. Clarence Appleby of Kenedy Texas boarded a bus to Victoria and found on return that her diamond necklace was missing. Three days later she searched the Front street bus station and found the necklace near the curb intact except for two loosened stones lying nearby. The ornament had rested on a busy street for three days undiscovered.
The muck rake is a rake for gathering muck or dung and the term describes a person who investigates and publishes corrupt practices among public officials. It is linked to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress "the man with the muck rake."
A large hexagonal Los Angeles hangar designed for swift unloading in fire emergencies. Each of the six sides has doors operable by one man and sloping floors allow one person to move a plane alone.
An elaborately sculpted 12 foot high stone cross was found in Leeds England in 1840. It bears the date 940 and the name Olaf king of Northumbria. The note adds a remark that there is no satiety in study.
A humorous dialogue shows Mrs Neyber and Mrs Nexdore trading clothes for garden work and golf. A Pathfinder survey reveals inmates prefer news reports, then old time songs, then jazz in radio programming. Montaigne is cited on friendship as a social ideal.
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