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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1936
Page
4
The piece extols using many coins to buy a four person bargain dinner priced at 55 cents requiring pennies in change for multiple purchases. It lists Cream of Celery Soup Macaroni and Tomato Liverwurst Bread and Butter Crushed Pineapple Sauce and provides basic method steps for each dish.
A column urges working households to enjoy leisure and promotes canned mixed vegetables for quick meals. It suggests a Tomato Vegetable Pie recipe using one No 2 can of mixed vegetables with tomato soup, baked under biscuit rounds to serve eight.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent describes Chinese ancestral worship with family tablets in homes and grave visits on festive days. Farmers rely on primitive plows and water buffalo carts, while treadmills power rice paddies with many workers and bound feet women. No windmills due to fear of wind and water spirits.
A well raised four year old daughter, raised on strict scientific standards, is seen enjoying a large candy given by a neighbor boy to a dog. The mother argues the incident tests the limits of scientific parenting and diet rules.
The Basset hound lags in American popularity while serving hunters. It is described as a cross between a dashhund and bloodhound, larger than a beaglet with a bloodhound like face. Two coat types exist, long and short haired, the former favored abroad. Its peak sporting popularity lies in France, England, Russia and Germany with versatile hound coloring.
The ant bear grows about 2 feet tall and 4 feet long with a long shaggy tail used as a sun and rain umbrella. It lives on the ground, rarely burrows, and typically has one offspring, making it relatively scarce. Other ant-eating animals are not true anteaters despite similar habits.
The article discusses the word minnow, noting its varied popular use for small fish but its technical link to Cyprinidae. It explains that in the United States the term mainly refers to Notropis small cyprinodonts known as shiners, with the golden shiner being the largest common example.
Missouri led pioneers forty years before California gold rush by reports of Lewis and Clark guiding settlers into the Northwest. Pioneers in pirogues and log canoes traveled about nine miles daily up the Big Muddy. Before the transcontinental railroad the Missouri and its branches were main West highways. Wagon trains followed its course.
Cod liver oil has been used for over a century to address rickets and related bone conditions, reflecting its historical role in early vitamin D studies and nutrition-based remedies.
Report notes Easter Island hosts puzzling lava stone images of hideous men near the Pacific shore. The rough, oversized carvings hint at a lost culture with symbols in small stone houses that may form a written language. How the massive figures were moved from inland quarries remains a mystery.
A feature explains how the cuckoo selects nests and replaces a host egg with its own. It details the bird’s patient approach, duration on a perch before laying, and swift theft of a host egg, followed by the cuckoo’s rapid departure with the stolen egg.
A medieval lakeside relic near Amriswil and Romanshorn Switzerland known as Weiherhaus of Hagenwil rises from Lake Constance waters. The castle features gloomy cells cozy parlors and a long table with high backed chairs from St Gall monks era. Built about 1220 it passed to the Benedictine Abbey of St Gall in 1264.
California stands alone with four national parks Lassen Volcanic in the north houses Mt. Lassen the only active US volcano. East of San Francisco the Great Valley hosts Yosemite with granite domes. Far south Sequoia and General Grant protect giant sequoias and redwoods in the Sierras.
A description of a black bear tearing into an ant hill in India, quickly exposing deep galleries and drawing air through them to suck ants into its gullet. The bear then digs to the royal chamber and feeds on the bloated queen before departing.
The world uses 2796 languages among 2 billion people. Chinese is the mother tongue of 475 million, while English is spoken by about 225 million. Hindustani, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch followed in the ranking.
People of the Gaspe peninsula trace ancestry to early French traders and fishermen who arrived after discovery, Channel Island settlers on the coast in early days, Loyalists from the United States, Acadiana settlers, and English Irish and Scottish groups.
The U S biological survey records 15 importations of English sparrows from 1852 to 1881. The first release in Brooklyn in 1850 failed, a 1859 shipment followed, and most sparrows were brought to fend off caterpillars though they proved largely ineffective as insect destroyers and became a nuisance.
Casa Grande National Monument in Arizona attracts visitors to its watch tower where two sun holes in opposite walls align with the Tig sun on March 7 and October 7. For eight minutes sunlight lights a spot on a third wall, a marker dating back at least 800 years for ceremonial planting and harvest beliefs.
An insalde talk extols the humble hen as a model of labor and persistence. The bird digs for worms in all conditions and converts effort into profits, ignoring pessimism and delay. Success is framed as diligent digging.
Legal notice announces general law practice in all state and federal courts based in Bedford Iowa with emphasis on special prevention and estate settlement guidance.
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