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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
2
Miss Margaret Munster hosted a Saturday afternoon Christmas party at Mrs. Maude Posten home for the Sunday School class members. Gifts were exchanged games were played and refreshments served. Also a classified ad seeks a man for a Rawleigh Route serving 800 families in Freeport Illinois.
The Independent reports Supt Hurley and Miss Gladys Milla hosted a Sunday School party Monday evening in the church basement. A pot luck supper followed as members gathered for fellowship and a seasonal celebration.
The piece traces early presidential electors voting freedom across parties, notes 1804 as a split vote era leading to separate presidential and vice presidential ballots, and outlines the Democratic Republican lineage from anti Federalists. It cites Adams Jefferson Jackson Calhoun and links French revolutionary clubs to egalitarian currents influencing party formation. Reference Indianapolis News.
The bulletin lists services for next Sunday with Church School at 10 00 am Worship at 11 00 am a sermon The Manger Cradle Epworth League at 6 30 pm and Evening Service at 7 30 pm A Christmas program The Adoration of the Kings and Shepherds may be held if weather and roads permit
Thelma Hunt fourteen, daughter of Mrs Wes Crouch, suffers severe frostbite to hands and feet after walking through snowdrifts Friday evening. She rode partway with neighbors but the final mile home was through blocked roads, losing overshoes and shoes in deep snow. A field crossing led to her disappearance and Clendon Walter found her unconscious in a snowdrift. Taken home, she regained consciousness by nightfall. doctors fear the final outcome remains uncertain a week.
National Geographic notes the Dead Sea yields about 40,000 tons of potash annually from Jordan waters and Galilee springs. Brine is pumped to evaporation ponds and a distillery at the Salt Ten to produce potash and bromine, positioning Palestine among top producers with potential yearly potash output of 100,000 tons.
Detroit News reports that researchers find the hyrax or coney to be the closest living relative of the elephant, with fossil links to Moeritherium and Megalohyrax. Anatomical and skeletal studies support shared ancestry from the Secondary epoch, illustrating parallel size changes in elephant and hyrax over time.
The Red Jungle Fowl of India is believed to be the ancestor of domestic chickens. A Himalayan native range and village proximity may have aided domestication. A famous explorer notes the junglefowl’s bamboo habitats and contrasts its carriage with the domesticated cock. The crow resembles the barnyard fowl, leading to moments of misfire during hunts.
Edible figs fall into two types: self fruiting varieties such as White Adriatic Black Mission and Kadota that develop fruit without pollination, and pollination required types like Call myrna Stanford and San Vedra. Insect pollination occurs with pollen-bearing staminate flowers inside the eye and modified female gall flowers at the rear of the fruit cavity.
The article notes that ancient times used a neighbor’s shoe as a pledge to seal bargains. Heels and soleys were not invented until the fifteenth century and were initially meant to aid riding by giving a firmer stirrup hold. Modern shoemaking employs 80 workers and about 150 machines with many steps.
The article explains that all children born to citizen Indian parents are natural born citizens and eligible to run for President. It notes that prior to 1924 about two thirds of Indians in the United States had citizenship, and a June 1924 act made all Indians citizens. It also mentions a belief that an Indian born in the United States who gained citizenship through Congress might be ineligible, a question awaiting judicial decision.
The National Bison Range is maintained by the Bureau of Biological Survey, USDA, near Motese Montana. It lies in Lake County in the northwest state, just west of the Miaslon range and south of lathend lake, covering 18 696 acres.
The Gravity School will close Friday afternoon for a one week Christmas break. Most teachers will spend the vacation with relatives at their different homes, leaving Saturday morning.
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