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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1932
Page
4
Local notices cover dog tax tags, shop openings, heating gas deliveries, medical updates, travel, weddings, and community events. Reports note baptist ice cream, sewing space, intercity visits, school staff, and upcoming games. Headlines mention convention results, park events, and local driving and street parking reminders.
County Agent Thompson notes thick grasshopper populations in some farms near Merrill while others remain clear. State has ten tons of poison mash and $45,000 allocated to combat pests, with sale at 40 cents per hundred. Fremont Muecker's farm received poison to curb army worms after 30 acres of corn and some rye were damaged by pests.
A Omaha freight train struck a herd of Holstein heifers north of Merrill killing twenty one. Some cattle were badly mutilated with flesh and bone fragments along the right of way. Swift & Co. workers later cleaned the remains for tankage. The cattle had escaped a field east of the rails and wandered onto the tracks shortly before the train arrived. The engineer applied brakes but could not avert the collision.
The engineer could not stop the heavy train on a downhill grade after seeing cattle near the curve, leading to an accident. Flo attempted to halt the train but was unable to prevent the crash.
The law updates first class postage to three cents per ounce or fraction from the previous two cents. Cards remain one cent. Deficient mail will be assessed at recipient. Include return address top left. Canada rates set at three cents per ounce. foreign at five cents. no two cent rate abroad. Air mail noted.
A new postage schedule takes effect July 6 1982 advancing rates to eight cents for the first ounce and thirteen cents for each additional ounce. The change impacts mail merchants and consumers adjusting pricing and sending practices.
Numbers listed grant prizes when presented to L. K. Burket in Regis ter Tribune Building before 6 p m on Wednesday June 22. Eligible holders showing any of the numbers will receive prizes as announced by Akron Live Merchants.
A mixed set of classified items includes requests for a salm mulberries listing with contact details, a Spring fries sale, a pasture for about 20 head of cattle, a barn in food condition for sale, and a strong 18-year-old boy seeking farm work with inquiries directed to the Reelater Tribune office.
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