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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1929
Page
6
Hoover builds support for stabilizing reforms as public utilities pledge 1.5 million dollars for 1930 projects. Confidence rises in agriculture and industry while Manchuria crisis draws pleas to halt Soviet advances. Clemenceau and Warren die. naval conference talks and Vatican cardinal appointments noted.
G O P Summerall recommends enactment of a selective service law to rapidly recruit new units for a far from complete infantry division. The annual report deems decentralization justified and notes increased ration allowances have boosted morale across the army.
The Mississippi River erodes Natchez Under-the-Hill, threatening the notorious gambling, murder and steamboat rendezvous. A 150 foot long cave-inations and a 30 foot chasm raise concerns of further bank collapse near the bluffs as river dynamics and local legends frame the decay of the historic settlement.
Alaskan fox farmers on over 200 islands and in the Aleutians anticipate a large harvest of blue fox pelts. The industry, revived since 1916, now holds an estimated 100,000 blue foxes with about a third to be pelleted this autumn as prices at Seattle fur sales average around 145 dollars per skin.
Peiping imposes a new rule barring boys under eighteen from pulling rickshas. The measure targets child labor in the city’s rickshaw trade, where Chinese workers often take the cheapest fares while foreigners rarely use the service.
Chicago assistant postmaster John Sikyta recalls slogans for mail wagons and letters. In a Federal Building elevator he discovers a letter his wife had mailed three days earlier, his face pale as he realizes the lapse.
Julia Bottomley notes leopard fur coats in seasonal outfits for coeds and children, paired with beaver trims and fur capes. She highlights princess silhouettes, slender satin frocks, pale pink and off white tones, and coordinated accessories for outdoor occasions and formal wear.
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