Baby carriage alarm disrupts poultry show chaos at Denison
A mother with a baby carriage wheeled through an aisle at a Denison poultry show causing panic among birds. Coops toppled and birds scattered, lights were briefly turned off to restore order as officials worked to recover the fowls. Visitors, including Mrs. Roscoe Pace and Miss Vona Mae Akridge, visited relatives in Celeste Sunday.
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Denison
Show
Roscoe Pace
Vona Mae Akridge
J. H. Fletcher
Celeste Sunday
Stills Seized Largely In Dry South, Prohibition Report Finds
Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran reports that more than half of 216 611 wholesale distilleries stills fermenters seized in the fiscal year ended June 30 were in the 13 Southern states deemed dry. Distilleries and arrests in Southern districts total 148 595 seizures and 21 223 arrests across Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Kentucky Tennessee Texas Missouri Arkansas.
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James M. Doran
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Prohibition Bureau
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Virginia
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Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
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Missouri
Arkansas
Banks announce monthly service charge on low balances
Announcement to depositors explains that beginning January 1 1929 banks will assess a 50 cent monthly service charge on accounts with an average daily balance under $50 and more than three checks in a month. Charges occur on January 28 and each month thereafter until balances rise.
Slate Roofs Prove Durability Through English History
Early Britons used mud huts. Saxons introduced timber and slate roofing. Slate, found in abundance, proved easy to cleave and durable, adorning gentry homes and public buildings since the eighth century. The Hartford chapel preserves a slate roof and centuries of construction attest to slate’s lasting charm.
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England
Hartford-on-Avon
Wales
America
Tempest Shapes in Naval History Across Times
Historic storms altered sea battles and diplomacy. The Armada wrecked after Drake’s raids, the Revenge engagement ended by a hurricane sinking Spanish ships. In 1889 a Samoa cyclone averted war between Germany and the United States, sparing British Calliope and prompting a treaty.
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Spain
Richard Grenville
Germany
United States
Apia
Samoa
Calliope
London
Woman’s Nevada stock tale in Comstock mines
A San Francisco woman visiting Virginia City during the Nevada mining boom shows stock certificates and recounts being persuaded to buy at a few dollars a share. She claims a $600 per share price, plans to sell, then grows wary as buyers rush in. Her son accompanies her as she contemplates returns.
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Nevada
Virginia City
San Francisco
Comstock
Detroit News
Speed of Falling Body and Terminal Velocity
An experiment measured fall speed of a man dropped from height. Without air, distance doubles with time squared. with air resistance, velocity caps at about 200 miles per hour. The terminal velocity occurred after a 1,600 foot drop.
Glowworms and Their Secret Light
The glowworm, though called a worm, is a beetle found in grass and similar places. About 500 glow producing insects exist and the reason for their light remains largely a secret to science. Unlocking it could reveal heatless light, a long sought goal.
Tornado Geography Across the United States
Nature Magazine reports that tornadoes concentrate in the Mississippi valley with Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri leading in funnel cloud activity. Nebraska trails second with Mississippi Alabama Iowa Illinois the Dakotas and Minnesota following. outside this region twisters are rare and California and New England are not touched.
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Mississippi Valley
Nature Magazine
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Mississippi
Alabama
Iowa
Ilinois
Dakotas
Minnesota
California
New England
U S Spends More Road Money Than All Rest of World
The American Automobile Association says 1928 road building in the United States will total about 1.36 billion dollars, with nearly 1.3 billion spent outside the country. It notes 1927 highway construction outside the U S reached 600 million and highlights road projects in Mexico, Cuba, and global expansion of highway development.
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Rest
United States
American Automobile Association
Guatemala
Mexico
Texas
Politics makes strange bedfellows quote
Norfolk Virginian Pilot notes that politics creates odd alliances while voters often remain inattentive.
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Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot
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