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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
5
Keo Ishio, a chinchiki male owned by Mrs. Bertha Costello of Springfield Massachusetts, captured the crown as the best male in the Big Four Point Show held in New York.
A compact local quip piece contrasts a famous line about man’s wants with a caricature of a citizen who won’t read papers and owns two dogs, followed by a playful prison exchange about getting the first chance. The dialogue depicts humor and class in a dated setting.
A fragmentary Pleistocene fossil of Colossochelys Atlus was pieced together by a patient researcher over years. The giant tortoise measured about 11 feet in length with a shell 8 feet thick and likely weighed around a ton, far surpassing Galapagos species in size.
The piece notes that the first cattle imported to the continent from England in 1680 numbered about three and over two decades grew to common herd status. It mentions reliance on animal fats from bears and deer, beeswax from wild bees, tallow substitutes from wax and whale fat, and hints at lantern lighting in Boston streets in 1740s with spermaceti oil and related factors.
The passage discusses misrenderings of the name of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenley Turgeney Tourguentet and notes he was part of a great triumvirate of Russian novelists and the first to gain fame outside Russia.
A Boston Transcript item recalls a wife who secretly practiced golf for 12 years then openly challenged her husband. From the first tee she hit a fine drive that unsettled him, causing him to miss the fairway. She sternly asks what he has been doing during their years together while he pretended to play golf.
A fragment discusses kneading dough and the resistance of dough to manual effort. It mentions hard paddles and mixing machines, noting nickel alloy steel paddles and rapid motion. The text is garbled and lacks clear dates or places.
Mrs CW Hoover, born October 17 1895 in Rutnan Ohio, died near her home while living with her husband Sterling Hoover. Surviving: husband, son and daughter in law Dolores Gonser Hoover, two grandchildren, six sisters and two brothers. She joined Lodi Congregational church in 1921 and was a longtime member of the Ladies of the Eastern Star and a Rotary annalist. Her life was marked by frugality, cheerfulness, and practical care for family and neighbors.
Fragmentary OCR shows office hours and appointment instruction with a phone contact. Details are incomplete but indicate a scheduled time frame and location in Rittman with a phone reference.
A man abducted a child from a school with a woman posing as the boy's mother. Jackie returned home after authorities found him in Chamberlain’s Spencer residence. The case reveals disputes over paternity and marriage dating from 1926 in Hattiesburg and Mississippi, with related custody and relief matters surfacing.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits recounts two bandits boarding a motor coach and threatening passengers. The larger bandit boasted about kissing all the ladies while the smaller claimed they would be careful but would leave the Indies alone as a passenger urged them to mind their own business. The exchange hints at a chaotic scene but details are unclear.
A fragmentary report describes a jackal gnawing into a dead horse on the veldt leading to a strange discovery. Speculation centers on how the jackal ended up inside the horse as the carcass collapsed.
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