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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1937
Page
3
The listing shows Table Potatoes Idaho Russets at $2.75 per ewt Red River Valley Seed Potatoes at $3.25 per ewt Sweet Clover at $17.00 per ewt Sudan Grass at $6.00 per ewt. See VINT Adams.
Local residents visit relatives and friends in Sioux City and nearby towns. Miss Frances Tiberghien, Lowdill Swift, and others return from weekend visits. Mother’s Day is noted with flowers and church programs. A jailhouse display of county events includes a free cooking demonstration and a theater production. Farm weather remains favorable with rains and growing conditions improving ahead of corn planting.
News desk reports the Graf Zeppelin Von Hindenburg, the world’s largest dirigible, exploded on landing at Lakehurst New Jersey while returning from Germany. A few passengers survived as the airship burned, marking one of the era’s worst airship disasters.
The Register-Tribune and Pathfinder are pitched as a combined news bargain offering a full year for 2.86. A reader praises Pathfinder as a quick global tour and the two publications promise top news service, urging readers to mail or phone their orders and find a Want-Ad.
An excerpt discusses the word money and wealth origin from 1250 to modern usage, noting wealth once meant well being and prosperity before becoming material possessions. It cites Adam Smith and Fronde as references and contrasts affluent display with true wealth. A Plymouth County School Administrative club picnic notice follows.
Parmesan cheese makers in Chicago area warehouses test ripeness not by smell but by tone tapping with a silver hammer after two years aging. The cheese undergoes brine, sweetening, eight months storage, a vegetable coating, then final ripening among many others. Regional grass and violets flavor the product, popular in Italy and abroad.
A fragment discusses colonial and early postrevolutionary currency in Mexico, noting the real or bit valued at one eighth peso, its equivalence to two bits, and its wide circulation replacing pounds and pence in the United States. It also quotes usage notes from the Literary Digest on prepositions with the verb call.
Garter snakes are among the commonest native reptiles. Their quick forked red tongue helps catch many insects, frogs, toads, salamanders, and worms form their principal diet. They are harmless and economically valuable, hibernating below the frost line and emerging in early spring.
The term Scandinavia derives from Scandia, the Romans designating a large island near the Baltic. Ancient times saw little known of this landmass, a peninsula. As a geographical term it is fading from use, though the name survives in ethnographic and literary usage.
Iowa State college researchers describe Sudan grass as a top emergency pasture option sown by mid May to yield useful pasture by early July and lasting until frost. They warn it is dangerous to livestock only in extreme heat stress or after frost damage and note prior poisonings involved mixed sorghum. Seeding guidelines recommend a well prepared seedbed, broadcasting or drilling 15 pounds per acre, with seed cost around 5 to 6 cents per pound totaling about 90 cents per acre.
Irvin H Ford formerly of Union Creek northwest of here now runs Main Street Chevrolet Co in Avon Park Florida remitting for his Register-Tribune subscription last week and calling it a real pleasure to read the paper.
A reader writes from Tampa sharing a clipped piece about their small city. They recall an old park fifty feet wide with a mile long central thoroughfare and over 1,000 varieties of shrubs. The winter was mild with a good citrus season and many visitors. the writer works in the automobile business and hopes to meet locals.
Charles Nall residing over river in Dakota died suddenly after years of trouble. The obituary notes the unexpected death and provides brief context on his residence and condition preceding passing.
Fragmentary reader ad copy urges Akron merchants register Tribune style. It promotes spending dollars locally with a hint of a savings message. The readable text hints at a marketing pitch tied to Akron and domestic commerce.
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