Snail Pulls Load Weighing Three Pounds
A snail can haul a load of three pounds, illustrating surprising strength in small creatures. The fact emphasizes the snail's pulling capacity relative to body size and serves as a quick natural science note.
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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1942
Page
12
A snail can haul a load of three pounds, illustrating surprising strength in small creatures. The fact emphasizes the snail's pulling capacity relative to body size and serves as a quick natural science note.
Fragmentary OCR item lists Vermillion Sioux Falls Watertown Jessie Guertin and Caroline Johnson. Mentions a Methodist church Broadland and Canada. Lacks clear action, date, or outcome. cannot confirm event or full identities from the readable text.
State College in Brookings announces the winter term play The Skull written by Bernard McOwen and Harry Humphrey. The mystery features a Scotland Yard detective an American reporter and a professor of spiritualism solving a master crime with a romantic angle. Dr H C Youngerman directs with five veterans among a nine member cast.
A fragmented cast roster lists Steve Glidden Mitchell Patricia Laskowski Huron Don Harris Constance Downs Whitewood Craig Johnson Clark Boyd Grandberg Wessington and others as production staff for a stage production. Beverly Powell Sisseton stage manager, Hugh Barnett Brookings lighting, Marie Bonell Brookings assisting, Charlotte Lenzner Huron properties, Lavohn Herron Groton Neva Trumm Hayti assistants, Florence Mansholt Sioux Falls directs makeup class, Weldon Hogle Astoria sound, Bette Egan Miller Frances Miner Cavour Betty Anderson Bruce assistants off stage noise makers and daughter. death notice follows for a Mrs. Lena Huizenga.
Members of the La Delle Aid with their husbands and 18 visitors were entertained in the Ivy King Paul home Friday evening. Supper was provided by all divisions. A birthday song and coin gift honored Mrs. Richards. Visiting followed with the next meeting planned with Mrs. C W Stitt.
Evangelist John Richard Pack and his wife will lead morning and evening services at the Church of Christ in Gillette Wyoming starting Sunday. Services will run nightly at 7 30 pm throughout the week. Pack has conducted meetings in 23 states and pastored Churches of Christ in Tennessee Missouri Kentucky West Virginia Ohio Florida Kansas and Wyoming.
Funeral services for Mrs. George W. Smith were held Sunday at the Broadland Methodist Church, with Rev. Paul Miller officiating. Pallbearers included Lemuel Whitaker, William Nash, Henry Pageler, Otto Todnem, William Vollenweider, and Fred Payne. Sophia Caroline Smith, born May 12, 1873 in Nokomis Illinois, later lived in Doon Iowa. she married John Helmers in 1891 and, after moves and her husband’s death, remarried George W. Smith in Doon in 1905. she left a son.
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