Akron and area ads and notices in Register-Tribune
The Akron Register-Tribune lists promotions, sales and services including Batwell Preserves at Coueil Oak, sale of spring hats at Tite Art Shop, greeting cards from the office, and ads urging Want Ads for surplus goods. It notes local events, church and garden activities, a Spink baseball report, and upcoming games with Sioux City Infantry at Spink. It mentions individuals such as Rev. Wallace, Dr. Kessler, Mr. and Mrs. Curry, Mrs. Rozell, Miss Clark, and others in community notices and social items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tite Art Shop
Register-Tribune
Tyne
KSCI
Sioux City Journal
Cornell Oak News
Wallace
Somers
Iowa
M. WH
Akron Friends
A. J. Kessler
Iowa Dental Association
Des’ Moines
Patrick Curry
Elk Point
Alvin Manning
A. Tucker
Madison
S. D
J. M. Rozell
G. H. Smith
Mt. Vernon
Gerald Smith
Council Oak
Alcester Hatchery
Moir
Lawrence Dee
Mary Dee
St. Petersburg
Florida
Dorothy Clark
H. G. Clark
The
News
Canton
Akron Lumber Co
Wm. J. Tracy
Mary Barrett
Lumber Company
Heider
Perry Creek
Hawarden
Alcester and
Jefferson
Mesdames
N. J. Brown
J. GC. Kennedy
YT. L. Burnight
E. O. Thorson
F. Greenwood
Engle
Spink
Morgan
Chandler
Russell
Sioux City
Doings and Local Trading Advertisements
Local items list selling cream milk ice and seeds with phone contacts. Advertisements include chicks oats plants and garden items. local trades note truckers convention attendance, a Legion grounds shrub donation, a Portland Farm Bureau talk, and Elk Point power plant addition contract awarded to Anderson Construction Co with concrete work ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LB. Johnson
Producers' Commission Co
Sioux City
Portland Farm Bureau
Township Hall
Anderson Construction Co
Akron
Elk Point
Fairbanke-Morse
How Wengs of Shaplanh Make Water Proof
Curious sights at an airplane factory show experiments with a new dope to waterproof seaplane wings. Squid-derived cellulose in varnish forms cotton-like fibers when water is added, precipitating into fluffy masses that fuse into solid cotton balls. Proper impregnation strengthens and waterproofes the wing cloth as the varnish dries. If water enters before drying, the cotton remains and the dope loses effectiveness.
How Richthofen Defied Foes With a Bright Red Airplane
Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the famed German ace, flew a red aircraft to intimidate and identify himself to Allied pilots. When rumors of a bounty circulated, he agreed to share the color but required his comrades to add another color so he alone remained instantly recognizable while keeping the distinctive red.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Floyd
Gibbons
Liberty
Richthofen
How Icebergs Are Split by Wreckers in Arctic Action
A giant 500 foot iceberg with a hollow center and green lake is demolished by a proactive wrecking crew using ropes ice picks axes and thermite charges. They drill holes, ignite thermite, and in hours the iceberg cracks and disintegrates, yielding dramatic heat and quaking sounds.
Public Auction of School Buildings in Portland Township
The Tucker school house and coal shed and the Pleasant Hill school house and coal shed will be sold to the highest bidder Saturday afternoon May 17 1930 at one o'clock p m at the Tucker school house and three o'clock p m at the Pleasant Hill school house By Order of the Board of Directors of Portland Township Alyred Buehre Sec Read the Want Ad column you may find just what you are looking for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucker School
Pleasant Hill School House
Tucker School House
Pleasant Hill
Board of Directors
Portland Township
Alyred Buehre
How Silk Is Obtained From Silkworms
The silkworm spins a cocoon then enters a torpid chrysalis. If left too long it becomes active and breaks the cocoon to emerge as a butterfly, reducing cocoon value. Before the chrysalis grows, the cocoon is dropped into boiling water killing the insects and unwinding the silk for market.
Light aids flowers bloom in Western Springs greenhouse
A Western Springs greenhouse manager near Chicago tried strong electric light and found tunias produced about 50 percent more blossoms and fuchsias about 5 percent more. Plants showed greater stalk growth and a noticeably longer growing day for each plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Springs
Chicago
Fireproofing Wood by New Liquid, Inventor Claims
Popular Science Monthly reports a Winnish inventor perfected a liquid that impregnates wood and renders it fireproof. In tests a small wooden building treated with the solution was saturated with oil yet could not be ignited in any attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Prevent Putty Marks on Ground Glass When Glazing
Advice notes that oil in putty can leave objectionable marks on ground glass. The remedy is to rub soap on the glass edges before applying putty so the film prevents staining and eases cleaning later.
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Albert Amundson
August Meske
Eee
Baldwin Piano Company
Walnut Street
Des Moines
H. L. Smith
Register Tribune
Calved
O. N. Endell
Robert Lea
Minn
Shedd
Akran
Salw
Albert Kulvik
EE Raene
Lamoureux
Rudolph Kiewel
Register- Tribune Office
Frank Emmick
Wimple
A. von Hagel
Register- Tribune
Cobb & Greenleaf
N.R. LaCroix
Spears
House
Lawrence Gale
Murray’s Chick Store
Avery Small
V. B
Dick Bohlken
Huntting Elevator Co
del. Harkness
Iowa ‘Truckers’ Association
Perry Vanderbeek
Stinton
Hanford
M. Brodkey
J. J. Arkin
Baptist Women's
W. J. Davidson
Gamble Stores
LeMars
Mattison
Legion
Ross Funeral Home
Earl Ross
Hawarden, Iowa
Squill
Burrill’s
Ferndell
Baker's Chocolate
Thorson
Lowa
Red Top
R. I
S. G
Jamesway
Nelson - Mitchell Hatchery
L. K. Burket
Akron Jeweler
Bloemend- LI Electric
Ken
Iona
Hel Holstein
Ronald Colman
Colman
Paris
el Brendel
Victor MacLaglen
Dorsay el Brendel
Stockholm
Paria
Vitaphone
Pathe oNe
Alaska
del Monte
Japan
Silverbergs
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