17 Sep 1931
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1931
Page
1
Centuries old Jagannath festival in Puri draws thousands to witness the car procession. Devotees revere Jagannath as a universal god. the ceremony marks the god's bath, a grand pull through the streets, and return to his temple amid reverence.
Peter Rabbit hides as Old Man Coyote and Granny Fox stalk Paddy the Beaver pond seeking sleeping Honker the Goose and his eleven followers. Peter hesitates then thumps to wake the geese, triggering Paddy the Beaver and prompting Honker to stir as danger nears.
Maribel Vinson of Winchester Massachusetts, the champion girl skater, seeks new laurels by becoming the United States sculling champion. She began sculling at Harvard summer school in Cambridge Massachusetts and is seen daily on the Charles River practicing.
A 1931 J W N U service poem reflecting on silence after not receiving a letter. The writer uses a tree of friendship and an unwatered rose to hint at missing connection and the comfort a letter provides in absent hours.
Economy cooks look for inexpensive recipes. Recipe outlines an economy spice cake using bread flour cornstarch baking powder sugar water oil cinnamon nutmeg and salt. Instructions specify lifting flour with cornstarch, boiling sugar with water, and mixing spices for a simple cake base.
An old gardener notes autumn flowering crocuses bloom shortly after planting, suit rock gardens or borders, and are often confused with colchicums which have larger leaves and suit borders less well. Colchicums are handsome in the border.
The federal farm board, led by vice chairman Carl Williams, ends further wheat and cotton buys amid surging surpluses. The move sparks Southern planter concerns while mixed industry reactions unfold, including Cudahy Packing’s plan to invest up to 1 million dollars in cotton on the open market to be held up to a year.
A string of political maneuvers and international notes emerges from Roosevelt and Tammany interactions to disarmament hopes, Crain Seabury reviews, and mutinies in the Chilean fleet. Also noted are, in aviation, Phoebe Omil wins, and England’s Hall Cains dies. The item closes with Catholic Action clubs resuming religious activity under new limits.
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