Fragmentary note on large attracting attractions in United States
A terse garbled line mentions a large number of attracting attractions in the United States. The text is incomplete and offers no clear event, place, or names to identify.
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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1949
Page
34
A terse garbled line mentions a large number of attracting attractions in the United States. The text is incomplete and offers no clear event, place, or names to identify.
The government backs Festival Britain 1981 a vast public works bill authorizing road rail water transport and tram plans costing at least 8 million. The scheme includes new streets underground passages escalators and a Bailey Bridge over the Thames to shield the display site from Charing Cross. Parking for 4000 cars will be created and eighty-plus families and many shopkeepers displaced by the project will be rehoused and compensated.
In Baltimore a vagrant named Leroy Campbell asked a patrolman to arrest him. Magistrate James Cadden sentenced him to three months and offered a choice between Baltimore City Jail or the Maryland House of Correction. Campbell chose the House, planning to serve the term starting in June.
In Colorado Springs police court Mrs Rodesma Butler a deaf mute was charged with striking her mother in law with a baseball bat and she defended herself in sign language. Magistrate C H Babcock dismissed the case citing confusion over charges and defense.
Rag pickers in Tokyo rise through a self created group named The Association of Reborn People. They hire helpers, sell to a paper mill, and fund a welfare system. Yamaguchi leads a path from rags to a communal platform while remnants of wartime poverty persist.
In Maine, beaver were nearly extinct twenty years ago and now thrive due to a major conservation program led by Fish and Game Commissioner George J. Stoble. Trappers fly planes to locate large colonies along the John River valley near the Maine Canada line, living in a spruce fox cabin and eating fresh beaver meat and venison during a five week hunt that yielded 188 beavers. A separate note mentions no water rate for residents of Arundel and nearby towns tied to the Duke of Norfolk estate.
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