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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
2
The Cent Comes Back outlines basic bread and canned fruit use with simple recipes. Cream of Celery Soup uses celery soup and water heated with salt and pepper. Macaroni and Tomato simmers macaroni with canned tomatoes, onion, bay leaf, sugar, salt, and pepper.
Timesaving advice for busy households promotes canned mixed vegetables for soups pies and salads. A Tomato Vegetable Pie recipe uses No. 2 canned vegetables and tomato soup topped with biscuit rounds baked ten to twenty minutes to serve eight.
Chinese rituals honor ancestors with tablets and shrines, daily incense, and family reverence on visiting days. In China graves, fields, and irrigation rely on primitive labor with buffalo plows and treadmills, while wind and water spirits are spared from any windmill use.
A young dietetics teacher and her physician husband praise strict scientific upbringing for their four year old daughter. A lunch disruption follows when the girl bites a large candy after claiming a neighbor boy gave it to the dog. The mother recounts the moral of applying science to child health.
The Basset hound remains only mildly popular in America while the beagle and domestic hound lead in hunting roles. It is valued for appearance and form, resembling a cross between the dashhund and bloodhound, larger than the beagle with a downturned muzzle and long or short coat. Abroad, the long haired type is preferred for field work, with greatest popularity in France, England, Russia, and Germany, and its color blends with any hound type.
The ant bear is described as the largest anteater reaching about 2 feet in height and 4 feet in length with a long shaggy tail. It sleeps with its tail spread over its body like an umbrella. It lives on the ground, rarely burrows, and bears only one offspring at a time. Other animals like aardvarks and spiny anteaters eat ants but are not true anteaters.
The term minnow is broadly used for many small fishes yet technically refers to Cyprinidae. In the United States it often denotes cyprinodonts like the goons Notrapis and commonly called shiners in small streams. The golden shiner is the largest and best known, with a tiny head and sometimes a foot in length.
The text describes Missouri river routes as early highways into the West, with pioneers Lewis and Hark feeding settlers into the Northwest. Missouri navigated by keelboats and log canoes moving about nine miles daily, shaping westward expansion long before the continental railroad. Big Maddy nickname referenced for Missouris and its branches as main routes, wagon trains following the river.
A fragment notes long use of cod liver oil in medicine for various ailments and hints at evolving opinions and applications over time. The readable portion emphasizes historical habit and inquiry into its effectiveness and usage.
Explorers marvel at Easter Island figures carved from Inona stone and set on shoreward vaulted bases. The mysterious statues, with large noses and elongated faces, hint at a lost culture, while unread symbols in small stone houses suggest an undeciphered script. How the heavy images were moved from inland quarries remains unanswered.
A Tit-Bits Magazine inspired tale explains how the cuckoo mimics small birds to invade a nest. The female sits still on a perch for hours then swoops to steal an egg, replaces it with her own, and departs with the stolen egg to be eaten later.
A medieval Wetherhaus near Amriswil and Romanshorn in Switzerland sits in Lake Constance waters. Its massive walls rise from the placid lake as gloomy cells and cozy parlors line its interior. Built about 1220 and acquired by the Benedictine Abbey of St. Gall in 1264.
California stands unique with Lassen Volcanic, Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant National Parks. Lassen hosts Mt. Lassen, the United States’ only active volcano. Yosemite lies beyond San Francisco with granite domes in the Sierra Nevada. Far south, Sequoia and General Grant preserve giant sequoias and redwoods.
An account describes a black bear in India locating an anthill, tearing through galleries, and feeding on the ants. It then digs to the royal chamber, seizes the bloated queen, and leaves, drawing the workers into its gullet in drifts.
A survey notes 2796 languages spoken by 3 billion people. Chinese leads with 475 million as mother tongue, English follows at about 225 million. Hindustani, Troiian damuages, Truisian and dialects, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Javanese, Tallan and Arable also appear among top tongues.
The Gaspe peninsula’s inhabitants trace origins to French traders and fishermen who arrived after discovery, Channel Islanders who settled along the coast, Loyalists from the United States, and Acadians who settled in the early colony.
The U S biological survey lists 15 direct English sparrow imports from 1852 to 1881. First import in 1850 under Nicholas Pike and Brooklyn Institute directors failed. subsequent shipments released in New York harbor and Brooklyn. Endeavored to save shade trees from caterpillars but sparrows proved poor insect control and became a nuisance.
Visitors study a prehistoric time device in Arizona. Two sun holes in Casa Grande watch tower align with rays on March 7 and October 7, illuminating a wall for eight minutes. The twice yearly event, dating back about six centuries, suggests planting and harvest ceremonies guided by the sun.
In a folksy aphorism by Thom McAnnalde, a hen symbolizes relentless work. She digs worms in any ground condition and converts effort into profits, eggs, and resilience, rejecting pessimism and laziness. Success comes from steady digging, not complaint.
General law practice in all courts state and federal. Special abuse given to settlement of estates.
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