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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
3
A family notices Billy is home in the middle of the school day as he explains he and others were laid off and will return on Monday. The scene captures a sudden pause in the new school year, highlighting a layoff affecting a child's routine and a mother's surprised reaction to the abrupt change.
In a reminiscence interview a former sailor recounts near drowning after dozing off in a bathtub with the tap running. He recalls other escapes and a casual memory of past seasons as a lighter note.
Poultry supplies and equipment offered at low factory prices. Catalog and products listed with address 142 West Guth Street.
A Collier's sourced piece notes cottonseed mills in the South still use coarse Chinese hair to weave mats for separating oil. Memphis mill buys 2000 heads monthly. It also cites Buddhist masses in Japan for objects like ships and needles. Hog hair becomes fertilizer. fish are used beyond food. The American Museum houses live beetles to clean animal fones before mounting.
Collier's notes a May 29 1914 sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the St Lawrence River. Heirs claimed vast money and jewels were in the purser's safe prompting insurers to salvage it. The opened safe held less than five percent of the alleged loss.
A concise Spanish proverb notes that glory may bloom yet never yield seed, contrasting fleeting fame with lasting fruit.
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