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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1925
Page
6
Berlin dispatch reports President Von Hindenburg died by a gunshot during a deer hunt at Werberlin lodge in Brandenburg. The hunting party, including Premier Otto Braun, attracts speculation on deer sightings and diplomatic notes.
London report notes the 67 year old begum travels with her son to study Western life while rejecting universities for her granddaughters. She advocates girls learning domestic work and needle crafts, and she questions Western fashions like short skirts. The interview describes her Mayfair home, purdah customs, and limited public speech.
The Countess and chairman of the Star Lovers society captivates inmates with astronomy lectures. She speaks in prisons where halls fill and convicts listen in quiet, unlike lectures on other topics which draw boos and interruptions.
Earl Stanley arrives back in Corning after a trip from College Corner Ohio for his aunt Mrs. James Neary’s funeral. He stopped in Richmond en route to Preston during the journey.
The U S Department of Agriculture urges increased barley acreage in the Northern States east of the Rockies to supply livestock feed and cash value. Barley remains a feed crop where it competes with oats and corn, with growing importance as feed grain west of the 100th meridian.
The United States department of agriculture reports per capita apple consumption at about half an apple daily. Total crop is 164 million bushels this year, down from 179 million last year, though quality remains unusually high.
The article notes a growing commercial crop with 30,134,000 barrels destined for manufacturing, up from 25,587,000 last year. Northwestern apples ship rapidly toward peak movement with federal inspections at shipping points well above last year, expected to be 50 percent higher than any prior season.
A Tennessee report notes gas stations replacing old toll gates once used to charge motorists on public highways. Drivers now pay three cents per gallon at pumps to fund highway construction as the state builds its own modern roads.
The passage notes that gas pump taxes in four colors raise near 3 million dollars in 1925 for the state public highway construction fund. It highlights the tax as a source for road building and maintenance funding.
Special to the Advertiser notes Paul P Harris, class of 1891, founder of Rotary International. Dean Jones cites Harris as origin of a 2500 clubs and 110000 members. Harris, then a Chicago attorney, plans to attend the law school sixtieth anniversary on Nov 7. Harris hails from Rutland Vermont.
Elmer Cummings will arrive home this evening from Burlington where he spent several weeks with the Burlington company following his recent acceptance of a position there.
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