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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
2
CASEWIVES learn budget thrift in weekly dollar dinners. Dietitians offer 25 cent meals such as meat loaf with tomatoes and brandied apricots with lady fingers. Savvy planning and scrap books help families balance menus and costs while keeping meals appealing.
J S Pieringer operated as an optometrist in Bedford beginning in 1891, establishing a long standing local eye care practice. The note records the business as a historic fixture in the community.
The American Boy plans a year of vivid adventures from the South Seas to Mars aboard a space ship and with explorers, the Mounted Police, and the U S Navy. It features Bonehead Jim Tierney and Square Jaw Davis plus hobby tips, career guidance, contests, and sports advice. Subscriptions are $1 a year or $2 for three years with foreign rates 50 cents extra.
Miss Frances Mellinger secretary of the association travels Saturday to Villisca to attend the Patian Advent Church camp meeting being held in that city during the week.
A band of people believed to be Greeks seek a home in the British West Indies after drifting from Honduras to Little Cayman, then to Jamaica. They faced hunger and deprivation, were sheltered by Cayman villagers, but Jamaica claimed passport issues and Haiti refused landing. Hurricanes have worsened their plight.
An early science note explains that helium was first identified from solar observations during an eclipse in 1868. It traces how Lord Rayleigh’s nitrogen experiments led to isolating gases such as neon, argon, and helium, now used in electric signs, airships, and automation systems.
At a British Association of Refrigeration meeting, researchers reported that so called elderly apples emit emanations that quickly ripen bananas and unripe apples. The air from these apples also inhibits potato sprouting or causes wartlike sprouts as investigations continue.
A white cockatoo escaped its cage and caused three days of excitement in Melbourne. First seen in a tree, a boy rescued it. It later perched on a church steeple where a broken leg chain hung from the weather vane. A steeple jack, using extensions and ingenuity, freed and captured the bird after the bird bit his finger.
Nature Magazine notes the European bison population remains scarce worldwide with Sweden housing the most. Twelve animals survive, five at Skansen outdoor museum in Stockholm and seven in a near Stockholm reserve at Angelsberg, down from an original two.
A newZeppelin under construction in Freidrichshoten, Germany will be a flying hotel with 25 bedrooms a dining room and a baggage room for cars. The craft measures about 600 feet in length and over 120 feet wide at the center, carrying the burden of a two story building.
The Inside Passage is a natural sheltered salt water route along the British Columbia coast from Vancouver to Prince Rupert. It lies between the mainland and offshore islands, framed by rugged mountains similar to Norway’s fjords, serving ships traveling the coast.
Corsican fishermen seeking shelter on Monte Cristo during a gale found several eighteenth century gold coins near the ruins of the watch tower, reviving the island’s legendary treasure cave popularized by Dumas.
A Penrгоn's Weekly quip contrasts a clever vendor line. The speaker recalls starting from peanuts to rise in trade, using wordplay about coconuts to imply progress and wit.
The item questions age calculations for a person born in 1897 and asks whether gender affects the result. It presents a brief reader query style in a magazine column, noting that age depends on the current date and calendar method used.
The brief notes a downturn in commerce with reports that even relocating workers faced reduced base pay and unclear prospects for improved earnings.
A compact collage of maxims and reflections on character art and aging. It muses on self control respect and the limits of ambition. It contrasts youth and age and notes how fame fades like a tune while success can leave one tired and wary. It also comments on education poetry and childhood illnesses of the past.
The project creates a northward route from Leningrad to the White Sea, bypassing blockades in the Baltic. It promises safer access to European markets and boosts export capacity for phosphates iron ore and lumber from the surrounding region.
Poor villagers of Matsugae-mura near Moji gain £86,000 from a mountain rich in silica, lime and alumina. The £23,750 share will be distributed among about 600 residents with longer tenure earning more. The discovery turns a life of hardship into sudden wealth.
A British Medical Journal note reports a rare case in which an earwig entered a woman's ear, traveling into the hearing apparatus. The insect died during extraction, following her complaint of a buzzing sensation.
A small English village of 300 residents has no council and owes 750 dollars after litigation. Lacking volunteers to serve, the county council imposed a special tax and appointed a dictator to manage the finances while the village guards its nest egg of 1840 dollars.
Dairymaids of Britain organize into the British Dairymaids association with branches in many Scottish towns. Nearly 100 members attended a Derculich Scotland meeting and excursion featuring a model dairy farm inspection.
A dialogue fragment shows Pat meeting a slick stranger who notes a resemblance and Pat retorts that the man resembles someone they do not know, hinting at confusion or mistaken identity in this clipped exchange.
A special service at Mi Hi church Sunday morning featured a chaplain and a CCC male quartet from Clarinda. The boys sang without accompaniment, delivering an appreciated address by Chaplain Lieut. Clifton Bell. A basket dinner followed in the basement. Quartet members were Auste us Zink Elmo Baxter Arthur Ashcroft and Clifford Maulsby.
After the annual conference Rev Daze leaves Boone for Carbon and Rev W D Groesbeck from Sioux City is reassigned to Boone. No services next Sunday due to pending pastoral changes.
Frank Kimpton and his wife and Lewis Buss and his wife left Saturday for Colorado Springs to join Robin Huss and family from Riverside California who drove there to meet them. After a few days together they will return to their homes.
Law practice announced with general practice in state and federal courts. Special attention to settlement of estates. Based at Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in Bedford Town.
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