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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
4
A nostalgic essay extols pineapple juice as plentiful in Hawaii and offers several canned juice recipes. It highlights generous supplies, growing demand, and multiple serving ideas such as Holiday Fruit Creamade and Marshmallow Fruit Loaf, each detailing ingredients, quantities, and serving yields for eight.
Mrs Horace Beemer and Miss Beulah Johnson drove to Clearfield Monday afternoon and visited at the A J Abarr home.
Miss Frances Clark who is employed in Clarinda spent several days in town this week, visiting local colleagues and taking in area sights.
Perry O. Crovon of Bedford announces his bid for Taylor County Recorder in the Republican primary on June 1, 1986. He solicits support from voters and notes the race will be decided by the primary.
Local notice announces Gordon Wallace running for Sheriff of Taylor County Iowa in the Republican primary on June 1 1986. He asks for voter support and notes his Union College attendance in Lincoln Nebraska. He visited family during the campaign period.
A. L. Fritz and wife and Roy Jensen and wife of Fontanelle visited the Andy Nielsen home Sunday.
Glen Warner and his wife returned to Kentucky yesterday after spending Saturday in Ohio. Their son Dale will stay about six weeks in the South, and daughters Donnella and Doris will remain at the Wave Madden home with their mother while the parents are away.
Conway January 17 here girls and boys Bedford January 28 there two boys games Nodaway January 31 there two Waubonsie Tournament February 6 7 8 Gravity February 6 7 8 girls and boys Lenox February 11 here girls and boys Maloy February 14 here girls Taylor County Tournament February 20 21 22 Bedford February 25 there boys only Blockton February 25 there girls
In the January term district court list no Washington township juror appears while Fred McKune is named among grand jurors for the year. Also note an advertisement about radio tubes available at the Drug Store.
Will Brookman and family along with Claude McFarland and his wife visited Sunday at the Dan Leonard residence north of town, sharing a social call and greetings.
The Independent reports another major snow event last night in Taylor County. The notice lists a one year duration and a price of $1.00.
The article notes about 8,000 languages exist with four dominant tongues English French German and Spanish. English reaches 220 million speakers, French around 120 million, German about 110 million, and Spanish roughly 75 million mainly in Central and South America.
Collier's Weekly notes that one American millionaire maintains a domestic staff earning about 20 000 dollars weekly while another spent 8 500 000 dollars on landscape gardening. A third owns vast rare antiques filling several mansions and a large private warehouse in New York City. In Germany, Hamburg University will award the title doctor to athletes, treating physical culture as a scientific field alongside two other subjects for the examination.
The text notes a boom in American baseball activity in France with a national body named the Federation Francaise de Baseball et de Theque. It mentions four hundred teams across France.
In Shorewood Wisconsin officials announced streamlined covered trucks with aluminum finish will haul ashes and garbage away.
The article traces the United States national debt from the Revolutionary War era to December 31 1935. It cites figures: 1791 about 75 million, 1866 peak 2.766 billion, 1915 1.19 billion, World War I peak 26.594 billion, 1921 16.026 billion, and 1935 record high 30.558 billion. The trend shows alternating rises and decreases tied to major conflicts and fiscal cycles.
The government funds hundreds of low rent homes and apartments for incomes too small to pay standard rents. Half the cost is a gift or loan, with mortgages covering the rest. Secretary Ickes and Rex Tugwell run a school to train managers for these properties, with about seventy students learning government methods and rent collection in four months.
Department of Commerce reports a sharp rise in pork imports from Poland and Danzig amid AAA production limits in the United States. Officials project 13 million unborn pigs this year and indicate Polish farming may boost hog output, with nine month 1935 imports surging 968 percent from 1934.
The civil service commission reports 800,079 civilian employees on the payroll as of December 1, up 3,782 from November. The total excludes legislative, judicial, and military branches, and covers both civil service and non civil service categories.
The record shows about 11 million unemployed in the United States in 1938 and again at the end of 1985. Congress and President Roosevelt allocated eight billion dollars to spur demand and cut unemployment, with the final tranche spent by July 1 of the year.
Gravity Public Library sponsored by Epworth League opens for evening hours on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7 to 9 o'clock.
The bean is not a has been but a living heritage with future appeal. Modern cooks draw on New England bean pot traditions and create salads casseroles and warm dishes using oven baked beans with Parmesan corned beef and peppers. The piece offers quick baked beans, Beas Pot and man sized sandwiches featuring mashed beans ham toast mayonnaise and pickles.
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