Stock Prices Stage Upturn

1929

New Year Advance; Many Issues at New Highs

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. — Stock prices were up, a bull-market, as the New Year began, with many issues up $5 to $21.50 a share.

Nearly 40 stocks, including General Electric, Bethlehem Steel, Anaconda Copper, Allied Chemical, Standard Oil of New York and Pennsylvania Railroad, were at their highest prices in years, perhaps ever.

The ticker fell behind nearly a half hour, so great was the volume of trading, and it was necessary to eliminate small sales volume from the tape.

Radio was up $20.50 a share to $395, International Nickel Certificates hit an all-time high at $275, up $21.50, General Electric and Union Carbide were up $10 each, and trading higher by $5 to $8 a share were National Biscuit, American Express, Adams Express, American International, Victor Talking Machine, Warren Bros., Purity Baking, Dupont, Liggett & Myers, Rossia Insurance, and Midland Steel Products.

—Jan. 2, 1929, written by Clippique from information in original article.

Artificial Spring New Device for Seed Analysts

1929

New York, Jan. 2. — A method of simulating spring artificially in a modern version of the old family ice box was described today before the association of official seed analysts.

It is used for testing the germination of farm seeds at the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Richmond. By a specially prepared chamber and an artificial refrigerator, controlled temperatures are obtained over test seeds planted in special soil boxes.

Even the breezes of spring, so far as they are useful to the fields of farmers, are preserved through the action of cold water running through the apparatus, and providing the air purification that takes place in open fields.

Spring's sunshine is reproduced in its essential effects through an electric heater whose emanations are distributed from beneath a covering of water.

The apparatus was described by Carroll M. Bass of the Virginia department of Agriculture. The seed analysts met with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which closed its eighty-fifth annual meeting here last night. The seed men held over for a session today.

My Neighbor Says

1929

To clean a leather bag, wash it well with tepid water and a little saddle soap.

To prevent the bristles of a tooth brush coming out soak the brush when new in cold water for twenty-four hours before using it.

Don't draw hot water from the tank when baking. If you do the oven will cool off.

Give house plants a little liquid plant food during the winter. Soil grows poor in the house and needs to be enriched.

Your Baby and Mine

1929

By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED

Undoubtedly one of the most noticeable changes which parents exhibit toward their children is in their new attitudes. We hear much of these today and they exemplify what the modern parent feels to be the child of a past generation.

We all know the attitudes of the past. If a parent has this attitude he can't shake it off. It inspires such letters as begin: "What the younger generation needs is a good whaling. That would teach them to have some respect for their elders. This namby-pamby attitude of the modern parent makes me sick." (That was a real letter, too). These attitudes grow out of the idea that a child owes a lifelong debt of gratitude and loving service for having been born. No matter what he does he can never repay this and so any attempt to be an individual and rebel against his parents' dictums earns for him the reputation of being an "ungrateful child."

The modern parent feels that, "Honor thy father and mother" puts upon them a real burden to make themselves worthy of being honored. Love and honor are something to be won. They do not accrue from any biological debt. We are trying sincerely and truly to recognize the child as an individual to be respected, and to have his own personality fostered. Making children the outlet for our own starved emotions has become the cardinal sin of motherhood. The "feathered nest" and "silver cord" type of mother is being exploited in literature and drama as the unconscious menace that she is. Our attitude is primarily to be unselfish. To think first for the good of the child and second about ourselves and what we think is due us.

The whole modern attitude summed up might be that the parent thinks of himself as merely an insignificant link in a racial chain. Life does not begin and end with him and his family. His children have duties to the future and the modern parent hopes to free him for these.

It would be worse than foolish to say that all problems are answered by these new attitudes. The modern parent may have swung too far in the direction of self-immolation on the altar of child supremacy, for it is typical of any revulsion to go too far in the opposite direction.

The severity of the past generation drove the child from home early and inspired him to stand on his own feet economically in order to be free from parental fetters. Today we make home so pleasant that the child remains there past the years when he should be becoming independent. As our ideal is an independent child, let us be tolerant of the past generation and its attitude. They achieved this ideal by means which we deplore, but they achieved it.

Let the past be tolerant of the present attitudes. They are at least unselfish ones. A combination of the two may be the right answer.

—The Daily Times Herald, Dallas, TX, Jan. 1, 1929, p. 6, second section.

Personal Notices – Mediums and Spiritualists, Dallas, 1929

1929

MRS. LIVINGSTON, spiritualist adviser; advice on affairs of life; no one turned away, money or no money. 2702 Bryan 7-2773.

MADAME SIERRAS — Do you find with all your natural gifts and talents that you are baffled, discouraged and unsuccessful? If so, call 506 South Harwood. 7-6482.

AMBITIOUS Young Men — I need you to fill responsible and big pay positions. $100 per week and upward to those that will prepare themselves by my short personal instructions in applied psychology. Come in, let's talk it over today. Prof. Fahrbach. Birdwell hotel, 6 to 9 p. m.

MYSTIC Tea Room. 105 Stone, announces the return engagement of the "FAMOUS ZEMAR," with the "RADIO" mind. Short engagement.

MME. RITA ARABIC, Reader, 300 N. Peak. 8-3995. Life Readings daily.

SPIRITUAL MEDIUM — READING
Satisfaction guaranteed or no charges.
Hours 9 A. M. to 10 P. M.
Mrs. White, St. George Hotel. 2-2494

MRS. CARLOTTA, spiritualist, reads your life like a book without asking questions; advisor business, marriage, love. 2110 Live Oak. 7-5238.

MRS. C. SAUNDERS, Spiritualist. If troubled or worried, visit this gifted lady, she can help you. 1515 S. Ervay. 7-4704.

CONSULT Mme. Virginia, spiritualist medium. Readings daily. 702 N. Harwood.

MME. LEE, phenomenal medium, tells everything, asks no questions. 3011 Bookhout, one block west Maple Terrace. Fairmount ear. 2-4292. Appointments.

J. F. FELLERS, the gifted healer, has cured many when all else has failed. Trial will convince you. 4617 Garland. 3-5203.

DR. JAMES, spiritualist, recently located 88-year-old father (can give name), Dallasite, lost 38 years. Sunday readings two for $1. 2204 Ross. 7-3427.

—The Daily Times Herald, Dallas, TX, Jan. 1, 1929, p. 12.

Note: The name "Zemar" was missing the "E," so maybe some other letter went there, but in one of my copies of the ad (and these are all bad), it looked sort of like an "E." One other word "spiritualist" was misspelled in one ad, changed here.

Harry Potter Award Goes to Darby Youth

Pennsylvania, 1929

Exchange Club Presents Watch to S. T. Herb

While Colonel Lewis S. Sorley, chief of staff of the Seventy-Ninth Division, U. S. Army, looked on, Samuel T. Herb, of Darby, yesterday was presented with the Harry W. Potter award for proficiency in Citizens' Military Training Camp work, by the Exchange Club of Chester.

The presentation is made every year by the club to the young man from Delaware county selected as having the highest grade at the conclusion of two weeks training under C.M.T.C. officers at Port Houston, Texas, and Fort Howard, Baltimore. Md. The award is in memory of Lieutenant Harry W. Potter, of this city, who served in the World War. He died about four years ago and is buried in the National Cemetery, Arlington.

—Chester Times, Chester, Pennsylvania, Dec. 6, 1929, p. 1.

Man Struck By Rock Island Train, Dies On Way to Hospital

Minnesota, 1929

MAN STRUCK BY ROCK ISLAND TRAIN SOUTHWEST OF CITY; DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL

Was Walking Along Track at Overhead Bridge on Germania Branch of Rock Island — Believed to Be Peter A. Gillenberg of Minneapolis.

Shortly afternoon today the Rock Island mixed train No. 433, south bound, struck a lone man who was walking along the rails.

The engineer saw the man while the train was considerable distance away. He blew the whistle loudly, but the fellow paid no attention. He was thrown to one side of the track. The tragedy took place near the bridge which crosses the M. & St. L. tracks three miles southwest of the city. The engineer brought the train to a stop, placed the bleeding man in the baggage car and backed back to Albert Lea. The fellow died in the ambulance on the way to the local hospital.

Upon examination it was found that the man had suffered a fractured skull, a broken pelvis and leg. He was also internally injured.

Coroner Jens Bonnerup, upon searching his clothing, discovered a watch and an empty pocketbook. On the pocketbook was the following little notice: "In case of accident notify Peter A. Gillenberg, 1416 Third street south, Minneapolis." In another place was the same name. This is believed to be the name of the man.

The fellow was about 35 years of age and was wearing overalls. An effort is now being made to locate his relatives.

The Tribune was able to get the news of this man's tragic death just in time for today's paper, through the courtesy and co-operation of Dr. H. H. Burns and Coroner Bonnerup. For this favor the Tribune is truly grateful.

This co-operation means even more than this. The Tribune, a member of the Associated Press, was able to get the message of the man's death to Minneapolis in time for the afternoon editions of the Twin City papers. This gives the relatives an opportunity to learn the particulars and make arrangements without delay.

—The Evening Tribune, Albert Lea, MN, March 23, 1929, page 3.


P. GILLENBERG KILLED, MAY BE EX-SERVICE MAN

Just the details from the article: Peter Gillenberg, killed last Saturday, may be an ex-service man. The coroner is still investigating. He received a telegram from Los Angeles, signed by P. A. Gillenberg, who claims to be the man's father. Coroner Bonnerup learns that the dead man's wife lives at Huron, S.D., with her three children, not in Minneapolis as previously said. The Gillenbergs did once live at the Third Street South address in Minneapolis, but moved to Huron some time ago. It is believed that he was on his way to Huron when he met his death. The father asks that the coroner send a full description of the body. The article says, "In other words he wants to be sure that the body is that of his son before he takes further steps."

—Evening Tribune, March 26, 1929, page 12.


Grave Digger's Payment

Among the allowed disbursements by the Board of County Commissioners of Freeborn County, April 2, 1929, was a payment of $8.00 to Ed. Dahl for digging the grave for Peter Gillenberg.

—Evening Tribune, April 20, 1929, page 6.


Coroner's Fee

Among the allowed disbursements by the Board, May 7, 1929, was $10.80 to Jens J. Bonnerup, Coroner's fees from the Peter A. Gillenberg case.

—Evening Tribune, May 18, 1929, page 6.

Girl Suffers Tuberculosis; Dark Clouds, Rays of Hope

Minnesota, 1929

DARK CLOUDS CAN'T SHUT OUT RAYS OF HOPE

Elna Anderson, Local Albert Lea Girl, Suffering From Tuberculosis in Minneapolis General Hospital.

Many of Albert Lea know Miss Elna Anderson formerly of this city, but now confined at the General hospital in Minneapolis suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs.

Miss Anderson spent a year in Glen Lake sanatorium. When discharged she returned to Albert Lea, but in her ambition to make her own way in the world, she over taxed her physical self and the disease returned. On her way back to Glen Lake she became so weak that she got no farther than Minneapolis. She hopes in the near future to be able to get back to the sanatorium.

Those of us who are well and comfortable, but are always grumbling over our lot, should feel mighty cheap when learning of the hard lot this girl has had to endure all through her life — and with very little of an encouraging nature to look forward to.

Miss Anderson has never had much to make her happy. Broken in health and without financial means she has kept a stiff upper lip — always smiling away her tears — catching sight of the smallest ray of sunshine that happens to fall her way. Right now she is very sick, weak and thin — but in spite of all this, she hasn't given up hopes. In a letter this week to a girl friend in Albert Lea she says: "I could write a book on some of the sad things I have seen here. Some day I will tell you all about them."

The following little poem composed by Miss Anderson was enclosed in the letter:

SPRINGTIME

When fierce winds blow
—and way up high
The gray clouds float
Across the sky.

When flowers bloom,
—and birdies sing,
We're happy, cause
It's truly spring.

In Winter time,
When cold winds blow,
The streets are filled
With ice and snow.

We long for sunshine
—and the rain.
We long to wander,
down the lanes.

The winds, the rain,
—and flowers say:
"It won't be long,
Spring's on the way."

—The Evening Tribune, Albert Lea, MN, March 25, 1929, page 5.

This Is Dorothy Parker!

1929

This Is Dorothy!

Milwaukee Journal: When we saw Dorothy Parker at her East Sixty-third street apartment She had just returned from Hollywood, where she had gone to write a series of conversations for the talkies. She was passionate in the expression of her antipathy toward Hollywood and movie folk. She vows that she will never go there again. The Dorothy Parker of her two volumes of verse, "Enough Hope" and "Sunset Gun," is not the Dorothy Parker of real life. It is apparently her idea that life has pulled some sort of dirty trick her and she contemplates establishing a colony for "frustrates" somewhere along the coast of France. "But it all comes around to the fact that I don't like work," she confesses. "And — well, people must live."

Dorothy Parker claims that she is one of those rare creatures in New York — a born New Yorker. "Or I would have been," she amends her statement, "if my parents hadn't gone to New Jersey for the summer." She is short, dark and slender, and not nearly so full of Dorothy Parkerisms as one might be led to suspect from her verse.

She is at work on a play which has been contracted for by a Broadway producer. "But I don't know anything about the technique of writing plays," she says. "For instance, I don't know how to get an actor gracefully off or on the stage. The most obvious thing to me for an actor to do is to enter casually and say, 'Well, there seems to be a second act going on here.'" And she is soon to write a book in collaboration with Donald Ogden Stewart — "just as soon as Stewart gets through with the part he is playing in Philip Barry's comedy, 'Holiday.'" The book will be made up of a series of love letters and ought to create a riot — if we know anything about the origins of riots.

--(reprinted 3-25-1929, Evening Tribune, Albert Lea, MN, p 2.)

Neighbor's Dog Raids Bunny Pens

1929

SALT LAKE, Jan. 1. -- I. J. Starbuck, 972 South Eighth West street reported to police Monday that 100 rabbits, valued at $400, had been killed in his rabbit grounds by a neighbor's police dog. Starbuck reported he had about 400 rabbits prior to the dog's raid.

--The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden City, Utah, January 1, 1929, page 2.


HEATER BECOMES RECEIVING SET

CHICO, Calif., Jan. 1. -- (AP) -- And now a gas water heater has been added to the list of bean pots, electric lamps, fans and what-not that have acted as radio receiving sets.

Mrs. J. F. Bailey reported Monday that she heard a program of band music trickling out of the water heater in her kitchen but that the music faded out before the station was announced. Mrs. Bailey's reception of the program was confirmed by Mrs. Abbie Jones, a neighbor.

--The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden City, Utah, January 1, 1929, page 5.

Marlin Perkins Bitten by Poisonous Snake

1929

TRY TO SAVE SNAKE KEEPER

Reptile House Curator Is Bitten By African Viper

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1 -- (UP) -- Physicians hoped today blood transfusion would save the life of Marlin Perkins, 24, curator of the reptile house at the St. Louis zoo who was bitten by a poisonous snake.

They said Perkins would have died almost instantly yesterday had not an assistant at the zoo dangered his own life by promptly sucking the venom from the wound.

The snake was a gaboon viper, one of the most poisonous of West African snakes.

--The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden City, Utah, January 1, 1929, page 1.

Comment: This is the exact same Marlin Perkins later famous for hosting Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on TV.

ARLINGTON MAYOR SAYS CHASING HONEY BEES, RABBITS AND BOOZE IS TOO MUCH

Offers $25 for Evidence That Will Convict Bootlegger in His Town.

The miseries of a mayor have seldom been more picturesquely described than by J.W. Ruble, mayor of Arlington, Fayette county, Iowa, in an open letter published recently in the Arlington News in reply to a letter from the W.C.T.U. asking him to enforce the liquor laws.

A mayor's duties include not only hanging around the alleys looking for bootleggers, says Ruble, but also keeping men from beating their wives, seeing that the boys and girls don't fall off their sleds, and catching wild chickens, rabbits and honey bees.

Ruble further says that there is no bootlegger selling booze in Arlington "that I know and am sure of," and he offers $25 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of any liquor vendor.

Ask Pledge Fulfillment
The letter from the W.C.T.U. is as follows:

"Mr. J. W. Ruble, mayor of Arlington. Dear Sir: We, the members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Arlington, respectfully request that you fulfill your pre-election pledge, that if elected you would clear this town of bootlegging and selling of intoxicating drink, and put an end to the disgraceful disturbances that accompany drinking habits and customs -- that you would certainly enforce the law touching these things.

"We are making this request as citizens who have the good name of our city at heart, and are deeply grieved that there should be any occasion for people to give Arlington a bad reputation, or for there to be any condition that would cast a hurtful influence on our young people."

No 'Leggers He Knows of.
To this letter, signed by 34 women, the mayor replied:
"In answer to the above petition I will have to say that there is not a bootlegger selling booze in this town that I know and am sure of. I also know that there has been less booze sold in this town in the past year than in any one year since the act of prohibition was passed, and what is drunk here comes from out of this town.

"I doubt if there has been consumed or drunk five gallons of booze here in the past year; and to show these good ladies of this noble society where and how I stand, I will pay out of my own pocket $25 for evidence that will convict any bootlegger selling in this town.

Mentions Sheriff.
"Your whole society supported and voted for a sheriff in this county. What has he done? Not one of you voted for or supported me when I was elected as mayor and now you come asking to be helped out from under this great booze curse that this whole government can't stop; you expect a poor little mayor of a small town that can't even support a town marshal to do the business.

"I will also say that Arlington is one of the most peaceful and quiet towns in this county. The greater part of the signers of this petition I personally know, they are as good old grandmothers as ever lived and nine-tenths of them have not been on the streets this winter. How many of the above signers have seen one intoxicated person in the past year? You would have to answer, none! but still you say this is a bad town. Now, I want to ask the good old ladies of the above petition if it is not a fact that you have one or two most meddlesome members who have nothing else to do only gad around and stir up trouble. Some people hate themselves and all around them, and it is too bad such people have to live.

His Duties Many.
"I want to state more fully what the citizens, or some of them, expect of a town mayor; I have been called on to stop men from misusing their wives, stop children from using profane language, see that they go to school, some want me to furnish clothes for them, see that chickens don't run at large, see that the weeds are cut, that water runs in a natural course, sidewalks cleaned off, see that kids go home from school, catch all honey bees flying at large; if a kid loses his sled I am called on to hunt it and expected to do it; one lady, a good old soul like most of the above signers, came to see me about catching a rabbit that was running around her place, said it might eat up her berry bushes. I have been called on to kill dogs. Some people think a town mayor should hang around some back alley all the time, and if he did that they would report that he was after some other man's wife.

But He'll Hang On.
"What I have mentioned is just a small portion of a mayor's work; of course he gets big pay and must do something, and I am going to stand it until the women get to expecting me to haul their kids to school on a hand sled. I have been asked by the most of the ladies that have boys if I wouldn't keep my eye on them when they were on the street riding bobsleds, hitching on automobiles and such like; of course I do. Now if I should say one cross word to one of these boys their mother would cuss me only as a woman can.

"Any time any citizen of this town wants to file any information for drunkenness, or any other just cause, get out and do your duty and get this $25 that I have offered. Don't expect your mayor to do all your dirty work."

Comment: Handwritten on the article, it looks like "Did Jim do all this". No source or date, but on the flip side is a Hills Bros. Coffee ad that is Copyright 1929.

KING TUT LOSES TO LOPE TENORIO ON FOUL IN FIRST

Minneapolis Lightweight Piles Up Lead.

CHICAGO (AP) – King Tut of Minneapolis, formidable challenger for the world's lightweight championship, lost on a foul to Lope Tenorio, Filipino warrior, in the first round of their scheduled ten round bout in the Chicago stadium tonight.

Tut unintentionally sunk a left hook low in foul territory and Referee Dave Barry disqualified him.

The weaving Minneapolis lightweight had all the better of the fighting until the foul was delivered. He had Tenorio in full retreat, driving him around the ring with a fierce attack to the body.

Tenorio, seeking to escape, backed into the ropes with Tut tearing after him. Tut cut loose with a low punch and Tenorio sank to the floor, rolling over on his back. He was in such distress that he was unable to continue. Tut weighed 140 and Tenorio 139¾.

Pete Meyers of San Francisco defeated Bobby O'Hara, Augusta, Ga., southpaw in another ten rounder, spilling him twice. Meyers upset the Georgian in the first round for a count of two with a sharp right cross and repeated in the seventh, flooring him for a count of eight.

Solly Schuman, Chicago bantamweight, outscored Johnny Burns, a Notre Dame student, in five rounds, with King Levinsky, Chicago light heavyweight, knocking out Nick Taft, Chicago, in the third round of the opening bout.

In the semiwindup of ten rounds Babe Hunt of Ponca City, Okla., 6 foot 4 inches and as thin as a slat, pounded out an unpopular victory over Al Friedman, Boston heavyweight.

-- Des Moines Register, Oct. 17, 1929, 6-A

There's a picture of King Tut (Henry Tuttle) and a list of his fights at this link.