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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
4
A reader urges readers and staff to improve the paper with comments and suggestions and requests a birthday card with the correct sentiment. The note invites a personal touch and points to the Register-Tribune office for finding such a card.
A brief notice imitates a patronizing urge to support home merchants by placing a want ad in the Register- Tribune. The fragment signals a promotional feature urging local buying and trading with neighborhood shops.
Fayette Kerr spent the weekend with relatives and friends. Many local families and visitors from Clinton Iowa North Platte Nebr and Cleveland Oh joined in gatherings, calls and visits with the Welch Huff Kerr and Conner households. A quiet wedding united Miss Rose Hilton and Allard Hleeson at Tk Point last Wednesday with a small dinner and brief honeymoon in South Dakota.
The Ruble school opened last Monday with Miss Muriel Bennett of Akron as teacher. Sunday visitors at the Barth Miller home included the Kallsens of LeMars and several Miller and Johnson families. Numerous local residents attended the Brunsville harvest festival. Several families visited relatives in Coleridge, Nebraska and Sioux City shoppers were noted. A calf killed by lightning was reported at John Borchers farm.
The Weather and Crop Bureau reports flax yields this season at nine to twelve bushels per acre worth about 1.80 dollars per bushel. Flax ranks as a strong money crop in 1933 though no ruling yet on substituting flax for wheat under the allotment plan. If allowed it could substitute profitably for wheat acreage. We specialize in high grade jobs at the Register-Tribune of Cedar Rapids.
Akron public schools opened with full staffing and good attendance. A half holiday Thursday allows Watermelon Day. Ninth grade enrollment lists many students. Kindergarten and First Grade total seventeen each, with joint morning and afternoon sessions. Epidemic meningitis cases noted. U S Public Health Service bulletin cites a one in three thousand risk and three weeks isolation for affected individuals.
Traffic through Chatsworth Monday eased by the river bridge, reportedly condemned but no official reason. Local residents record visits by Mrs. Ralph Layton and others, teacher assignments shift with Cleo Truesdell and Rosa Mae Green changing schools, and Gerritt Vanderberg begins as superintendent as school resumes with several ninth graders from nearby districts.
Public notice discusses the July and August outbreak in the St Louis metropolitan area. While over 200 cases are reported, most residents are not severely affected. the disease, also called Lethargic Encephalitis, is not new and has fever, GI complaints, and nervous system symptoms. a tiny virus is considered causative, with historical references to Vienna and past European outbreaks.
Forty years of youth from many nations seek Christian service training at Moody Bible Institute Chicago. Last year over 2,000 students enrolled in Day and Evening Schools with broad entry, English support, and emphasis on Bible study across Sunday School Administration and related courses.
An institute presents Home Economics Hygiene and Manual Training plus special courses in Theology Homiletics Church History Apologetics Hebrew Yiddish and Greek and medical subjects for foreign mission work. It runs three terms Fall Winter and Summer with open entry anytime. An illustrated catalogue can be mailed from 153 Institute Place Chicago Avenue Station Chicago. Send greeting cards to friends via the Register Tribune office card display.
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