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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1938
Page
4
A scrambled OCR style grid lists across and down clues including motion picture star hints and geography terms. It pairs horizontal entries with vertical ones like denoting a chart about people, places, and objects. The snippet mixes partial clues and stray numbers, offering a puzzle-like page component rather than a full feature.
The Huron Publishing Co lists weekly and monthly rates for Huron and South Dakota mailing and carrier delivery. Membership in the Associated Press is noted, with AP dispatches credited as exclusive for republication.
Audit Bureau of Circulation member list shows Arthur H. Hagg and Associates with offices in New York Kansas City Omaha Denver San Francisco Chicago and Northwest Daily Press Association in Minneapolis Contact 4151 and request the department or person.
The obituary of Homer Boughner recalls the 1869 Rutgers vs Princeton game in New Brunswick. Fifty Princeton players and an equal number of Rutgers fans gathered on an unmarked field for a six to four Rutgers win, a playful precursor to modern football.
In a satirical sketch a French mogul Maxime Baze proposes recording battlefield noises on phonographs and replaying them via loudspeakers to demoralize enemies. He imagines a fully mechanized war sound system eliminating human presence and using authentic combat sounds amplified for effect.
A notion circulates that dictatorship seeks the shortest path by cutting Gordian knots. It suggests dictatorships sometimes show uncharacteristic moves such as a contemplated decree by the Fascist Grand Council to hasten Italian birth rates.
A scattered column mocks social controls and oddities from a dictatorship decree on bachelors to artificial bristles in Japan. It notes drive-in movies, French stenographers, Montreal weather lotteries, Philadelphia school manual labor programs, a cow town male beauty contest, a wooden swing band, and children counting the days to summer vacation.
The piece argues hosting is easier than entertaining guests. A good guest helps loosen conversations, participates with ideas, avoids scandals, drinks in moderation, and eats well. The ideal guest leaves promptly after a proper farewell, leaving the hostess with a warm memory of an orderly gathering.
A jumble of quotations from varied figures appears, including John R. Cobb on speed records, Cornelia Rutherford on scrubbing, Morgenthau on foreign capital, and Bruce Barton at a club celebration, with no clear narrative or cohesive event.
A humorous anecdote recalling Bos Burns musing on prompts and reader feedback. He tells of a playwright who submits a three act piece. producers’ three readers vote to strike out one act each, leaving a different act removed by each reader. The tale ends with a wry note on audience response.
Des Moines Register notes Dr Paul Popenoe’s claim that most Los Angeles apartments bar families with children while many allow dogs. The piece argues modern life makes dog ownership demanding from feeding to health checks and training, and questions societal priorities as families bear pet costs and cemeteries for pets.
A Central South Dakota farmer’s wife records a day of make shifts from carrot juice for butter coloring to toast bread for tomato soup. She notes a cozy fire, plans to clean the stove, chores shared with Jim, and a quiet walk with twins past a rock wall. She ponders land use, future sheep, and gratitude for life and freedoms.
Ten years ago in Huron a note lists Madame Galli-Curci to be heard in a concert on October 13. Also mentioned are a church remodel at First Presbyterian, a Providence journal correspondent’s travel, social bridge luncheons, a birthday dinner for Lucille Hughitt, and Mrs. Harry Otto hosting twelve guests at the Hotel Marvin.
Miss Erika Eilers of Varel Germany visits in the city at the home of Mr and Mrs William Eilers before leaving for Lincoln Nebraska to attend the University. Miss Evelyn Mellvaine and Mrs B McClaskey are expected to return today from the Rosebud Indian celebration at the Rosebud Agency.
New York Sept 2011 broadcast roundup lists ostmaster James A Farley on WABC CBS at 5:30 pm Thursday before Ohio State Democratic Clubs in Columbus and again Friday night on WJZ NBC from the National Association of Postmasters convention in St Paul. Hamilton addresses National Federation of Women Republicans in Chicago. stations air multiple programs including Dr George Gallup election indications and a dense slate of music, drama, and news across WEAF NBC WABC CBS and WIZ NBC schedules.
Washington dispatch discusses Johnson pressing forward with war prep plans after a Roosevelt meeting. Notes expansion of electric facilities, rail expansion, industrial education orders, and munitions labor substitutions as part of a broader government business expansion. Mentions Britain's need in the Pacific, European crisis expectations, and political maneuvering in Washington with Barkley and Tydings.
Mr and Mrs John Becker hosted a Saturday night party at their Rockham farm home for their crew and families. Attendees enjoyed cards and a late supper served by the hosts after midnight.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Levtzow welcome a newborn daughter placed in an incubator at Aberdeen hospital. Official reports note the infant is doing nicely amid a broader report on eastern movie house demonstrations and political sentiment toward Hitler and Czechs.
Joe and Mrs. Harry Borsberry and son James of Aberdeen visited Mrs. Borsberrys mother Mrs. George Irwin and stayed at the Neal Hammond home. The family planned a weeklong visit with Mrs. Borsberry remaining through the week while Mr. Borsberry returned to Aberdeen.
The Relief Corps meets in Frankfort with Mrs Alice Barré delivering an address about her Washington DC trip and visits to Gettysburg Mount Vernon and other historic sites. Twenty members and guests were served by the September committee. A family reunion brings Mrs Lester Miller and two children from Reyden Oklahoma to visit Lloyd and Emory Miller after thirty years apart.
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