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Newspapers report on everything from soup to nuts.
Take for example the 52 issues of the 1928 Brookings Registers:
• When the Jenny Gray store opened in Brookings, …
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Newspapers report on everything from soup to nuts.
Take for example the 52 issues of the 1928 Brookings Registers:
• When the Jenny Gray store opened in Brookings, customers walked into the place on what was then the largest one-piece rug in town. It measured 18x60 feet.
• In the Brookings Police report for 1927, officers made 92 arrests and apprehended and killed 62 dogs who were running loose.
• The Brookings Civic League asked for a city ordinance banning from local news stands what it termed “rank” magazines, or publications that could not be mailed because they contained literature considered obscene.
• In the first revision of city ordinances since the city was founded, it was decided Medary and Main Avenue would be the only streets in town to retain names rather than numbers.
• Some Brookings City Commissioners asked for public opinion on the possibility of the city selling gasoline. That was because a gas station on the state line near Elkton was selling gas for15 cents a gallon, or if barrels were brought to the station, it was 13 cents a gallon. Meanwhile in Brookings, service stations were selling gas for 23 cents a gallon. Some believed if the city got into the gas business, it could match the state line prices.
• A truck with magnet on it that had been developed by engineers at State College gathered up more than 40 tons of tacks, nails and other metal from state graveled highways during the summer.
• An airline route from La Crosse, Wis., to Rapid City, had a stop at the old city airport south of town.
• Brookings police arrested what the Register called a “dopester” who was burglarizing a local doctor’s office in search of drugs. It was the first time that word had ever appeared in a Brookings newspaper.
• The state American Legion gave State College a WW I German cannon as a display near the flag pole at the north end of the campus green. That German gun was turned against its German makers fourteen years later when it was donated in a scrap metal drive during WW II
• A committee of Brookings retailers recommended the city buy uniforms for city policemen.
• A workman on the roof of the Security National Bank accidentally dropped a heavy crowbar through the bank’s skylight. It fell on the desk at which Miss Gladys Carlisle was at work, missing her by inches.
• The Brookings Library loaned out 27,899 books in 1927. The library’s inventory was 6,233 books, of which 1,391 were children’s books.
• A researcher at State College, looking for a substance that would discourage frost collecting on windows, used windows in a campus hog house on which they applied 20 different combinations of materials. It was found that onion juice produced the best, although not the perfect, result.
• With a bounty of five cents, more than 2,500 gophers were turned in to Brookings County officials during May.
• Two out-of-town men asked city police for permission to sell “home cured hams” door-to-door. Police asked to see the hams, and then turned down the request when officers discovered the “home cured hams’ had packing house labels on them.
• Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Stearn celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and Register editor felt it deserved some notoriety because the Stearn wedding was the first marriage in Brookings County to take place in a home with a “shingled roof.”