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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
2
The Free Methodist Church lists Sunday School at 10:00 AM and Morning Worship at 11:00 AM led by Mrs. Biggerstaff. Evangelistic services Sunday evening at 8:00 PM. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:00 PM. Pastor W F Biggerstaff.
PF Albert Stearns of Hopking bl asouri visited Sunday at the Oi 1¢ MceMahill home. A. Swanson lost to 250 lh Sunday due to the heat. The last Quarterly Conference at Methodist church will be hot August 20d.
A. W. Bender and wife Mau Rice of Grant visited here Sunday to spend time with local acquaintances and tour the area.
Patsy Ann Anderson spent time last week visiting her grandmother Mrs Neva Lower near Sharpsburg.
Leslie Jewell and his wife, who have visited his parents Ira and Mrs Jewell, left Tuesday morning for Los Angeles where Leslie has a position awaiting him with the Douglas Aircraft Co.
Dr and Mrs Fr A Hines visited with Mrs Hines sister Mrs J T Mulligan and sons near Creston on Sunday.
The State of Jaws owns 74 state parks and preserves totaling 20 315 acres of land, highlighting the scope of its conservation network and land holdings across the state.
The fragment notes Indiana interests in Iowa property and tax payments on 3600 acres, but ownership by title remains unclear. No clear entities beyond states or acreage. lacks verifiable names, dates, or organizations to anchor a full news item.
Dr. William Brady argues that self discipline through abstaining from alcohol and tobacco benefits body and soul. He praises the WCTU for guiding mothers, notes beer taxes fund brewers, and claims beer consumption harms society while over 65 million gallons of alcohol are produced yearly. Sponsored by WCTU.
Scientists and archaeologists declare Troy a real ancient city with nine recoveries, layers of destruction, and a fortification wall dating back to 1900 to 1400 B C. Led by Carl Blegen and Jotham Johnson, excavations at Troy confirm its historic existence beyond myth.
Children explore bygone days at the Geffrye museum in Shoreditch now housed in 18th century almshouses. Period rooms recreate domestic life from 1600s through Victorian times with period furniture models lantern slides and films.
In 1884 Robert Morrison Stults left Long Branch High School to start a Baltimore piano and sheet music business. Mira Mirella sought a sentimental ballad and, after his wife’s remark “the sweetest story ever,” Stults wrote the complete song in two hours, its success immediate.
The origin of salary is linked to salarium, a Roman soldier’s salt allowance. Salt’s vital role is noted with six pounds per person per year to stay healthy. Napoleon’s defeat is tied to salt losses, and many soldiers suffered wounds that did not heal due to salt deprivation.
In Delaware woods a hunter and his hounds freed a raccoon. The hunter climbed a tree to shake the animal down but lost his hold and fell to the ground. Latest reports say the coon fled unharmed and escaped.
A Columbia University Press study traces early Middle Ages penalties to penance and fines, later giving way to harsh corporal and capital punishment, which in turn ceded to imprisonment by the seventeenth century.
Farm Topics discusses dynamite as a helpful tool for stump removal while warning that caps or detonators pose greater danger. It notes electric caps are safer, require about 250 feet of insulated wire, and can be fired with a blasting machine, dry cell, or battery. Electric caps should be kept away from wires after each shot.
United States Department of Agriculture officials reported that a spring exhibit in the Agriculture Building showing wax models of diseased animal tissues drew broad support from nearly 1,000 visitors. Only 34 found it distasteful while 938 called it educational and desirable for public display. An official note said most federally inspected slaughtered animals are healthy, with a very small fraction failing inspection.
A Year book of Agriculture report notes farm families often have fair or good diets, thanks to home produced foods like milk butter eggs vegetables and fruit. Farm households across regions rank highest in diet quality, with cities following and villages lowest due to limited home production and market access.
Farm notes say greater use of poultry pastures reduces pullet production costs. U.S. turkeys are evolving toward larger breast meat, increasing white meat production. Barbed wire can be used in electric fences, and some farmers prefer it to smooth wire because livestock recognize and see it more clearly.
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