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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
8
Explorer Sven Hedin reports thirty dinosaurs unearthed in Mongolian waste places revealing a gap of millions of years in Asia's geological record. Infants near their mother and two egg discoveries suggest Jurassic-era fossils, with 60 European expedition members crossing the Gobi with 300 camels.
A maid tells of a suitor she intends to marry after three weeks of acquaintance. Her mistress questions the timing, but Martha asserts the match is sound as she cites a long prior engagement of a friend’s acquaintance with the same man.
Sir Edmund Gosse recalled discovering a stack of old plays in a Soho bookshop. He lamented that treasures lay in the ignominious heap and that a single play would have fetched a fortune today. He emptied his purse to buy what he could.
Pathfinder Magazine notes grasshoppers were a dietary staple for many American Indian tribes especially along the Pacific coast and in West arid regions. Pawnee practice described for gathering from prairie holes. Locusts, a grasshopper kind, remain a delicacy in many countries and appear daily in markets of Arabia Syria Egypt Madagascar.
The article lists enormous dimensions for a Sphinol statue including a 65 foot total height, 140 foot body length, 72 foot forehead circumference, and 29 foot head diameter, with other measurements such as a 19 foot head height and 22 foot neck width attributed to Mariette Bey. The figures appear unrealistic and likely erroneous.
Turpin is said to have stopped at the Eight Bells inn on the Great North road in England. The historic house has aroused local concern over possible closure. Local lore links Dick Turpin to frequent calls there during his rides between London and York, with another writer named Sikes also noted in reports.
The article cites Corby M. Chester Jr. on the vast economic and historic impact of food, noting the U S daily meals total around 131.4 billion and canning supplies about 9 billion cans yearly. It praises canners as modern Josephs and projects continued growth in new canned foods and prepared dishes.
Dalton dealers publish current buy prices for grain and produce. Wheat No 1 at 1.28 per bushel, oats at 0.55, 0.60 for some grades, butter and eggs per dozen, chickens heavy at 23 cents and light at 17 to 19 cents.
Bessie Bunzel in the Century Magazine notes a 19th century US contrast from three medical schools and two general hospitals to a nation with eighty medical schools and 4,322 general hospitals. She cites Harvard's reform under President Eliot in 1809 as a catalyst spreading nationwide. The piece highlights growth in medical literature as well.
A London corre spondent notes Scottish and Welsh sensitivity to the term English when describing island residents. MPs face heckling to use British instead of English. A World War story recalls Scottish soldiers replacing Gott Strafe England with Gott Strafe Britain in a dugout.
Whistler, famed painter and etcher, once served as a craftsman on the US coast and in geodetic survey but could not keep a job. He refused to follow strict charting duties, preferring to decorate maps and margins with pretty drawings, and by his own admission loved his drafting style, leading to a short tenure with the government.
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