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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
9
Mr and Mrs J W McFar and Mrs W R Brook with their children Betty Lou and Beverly June spent Sunday at the Dan Deonard residence, joined by the Reed family from Des Moines for a day visit.
The president has chosen the Black Hills as a summer home site. Preparations are underway for his arrival and entertainment. The Middle West will share the distinction of hosting the president in our midst, an unusual privilege.
If Lucky Lindburgh is not spoiled by honors abroad he will depart for America and home Saturday. A great welcome awaits him in his homeland.
Mrs W B Stewart and her children left yesterday by car for Sterling Colorado where they will spend the summer.
Edward J. Orr came home Tuesday morning after traveling to Villigen to attend memorial services for a relative or associate.
Rev Greene and family drove to Diagonal on Monday afternoon and returned Tuesday morning after visiting relatives there.
Miss Frankie Mellinger, formerly a teacher at the state orphan's home in Atchison Kansas, arrived here the latter part of this week to visit relatives and old friends for a time before proceeding to Florida.
Dr. F A Hines returned Friday from St Joseph Missouri where he observed an autopsy at the slaughter house on ten cattle shipped by Ira Pfander of Sharpsburg. All cattle were tubercular with some in the worst stage. County agent Isaacs and Chester Hamblin witnessed the test.
Fifteen year old Nickell, son of Mr and Mrs Harley Nickell, left home Tuesday while parents were away in Bedford and has not been found after two days of searching. His family and local authorities are notified and broadcasting stations have been used. he left on foot with a small bundle of clothing.
Engineers use Niagara power to reclaim cast iron scrap. Bundles act as anodes in large wet batteries with iron chloride solution, dissolving iron from the anode into the liquid and depositing on steel rods. The deposited iron is described as nearly pure.
Vienna papers report the authentic death mask of the Duke of Reichstadt also known as lAigion, created by Franz Klein the same artist who crafted Beethoven's mask. The mask, dating from 1882, will be shown soon at the Vienna Burg or Schoenbrunn Castle.
Officials at a Peking public health station established slightly over a year ago confront widespread female infanticide. Doctors cite traditional prejudice and poverty as causes of high female mortality, and plan free clinics to educate families against abandoning girl babies.
Census figures show New Jersey produced 48 percent of the US vitreous chinaware in 1925 with a total value of 11 887 789 dollars from 18 plants. The Trenton pottery district accounted for most production, while Ohio ranked second at 16 percent.
A historical note surveys English folklore about the cuckoo. It cites Aristotle and Pliny on nest behavior, beliefs of divine shape shifting, links to marital faithfulness, and old sayings about bachelors and hawk like habits.
Reports from Southern California detail an elder acorn instrument where acorns are tuned by size and threaded on a string. Musicians bite each acorn, swing the string, and pluck to produce clear notes. An elderwood flute with four hollowed holes also features in the tradition.
A description of an economical dust collection setup for metalwork shops where valuable metals are ground. An electric motor and controller run the grinding wheel, with a small motor operated exhaust fan drawing dust into a funnel opening that vents into a sack. The system saves material losses and is recommended for precious metal work, though jewelers may see smaller benefits.
A naturalist recounts a schoolboy anecdote about the cuckoo and corrects the belief it lays bad eggs. He asserts the bird follows nature's commands as it lays its eggs in other nests and notes the cuckoo’s biology prevents its eggs from being hatched by cuckoo nests.
A careful survey of Carboniferous limestone in Yorkshire uncovers an extensive network of subterranean streams, with many watercourses emerging miles from surface sinks. Similar global phenomena exist in other regions, and ocean bottom studies reveal large rivers entering seas beneath the water.
A London paper recalls the tale of Dante Gabriel Rossetti telling Robert Browning he would buy an elephant to clean his windows. He hoped passersby would ask who lived there and be told a painter named Rossetti, prompting them to buy his pictures.
Northwestern president Walter Dill Scott argued that the average American now has access to energy equal to 170 slaves via motors and devices. The essay notes how mechanical power has replaced human labor, freeing workers from bondage and enabling comforts unseen by ancient nobles.
At Big Creek basin west of Cleveland a steam shovel yields a rapid flow of fossils from Cleveland shale. Sharks five feet long and many ancient fish remains are retrieved daily, scientists saving specimens that would otherwise be lost, says Dr. J. E. Hyde of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Merrill of the shipping board told a Washington dinner that foreign rivals mock Americans as water greenhorns. He cited an English skipper who recounted a cartoonish tale of an American freighter entering Liverpool and a captain yelling to the mate about the ship’s ends. The mate then shouted Whoa to slow down.
A father questions his son's love and future prospects while the young man asserts his unwavering conviction that happiness lies with the woman. The exchange ends with the father noting the son's professed experience with women.
Japan expands its music market as American pianos violins mandolins and guitars find use in Japan. Canada leads in sheet music purchases with Japan third for phonograph records, while native instruments lag as piano interest grows in wealthy households.
A cow escaped from railway yards at Woking entered a cinema and stood in the front row during an orchestral rehearsal. It moved to the emergency exit and then down 20 steps where a woman attendant locked the door. The animal remained on the stairs until staff freed it as the program began.
Dr Charles BH of New York City details unusual sea creatures in Popular Science Monthly. Visitors are drawn to the sea horse that climbs, the 200 pound Jewfish, sharks with suction disk cleaners, and luminous deep sea fishes like lantern fish.
An Indianapolis businessman bought riverfront property along Indiana's southern border to hunt, fish, and vacation openly. He planned to lock all buildings including the henhouse and granary, while a caretaker named Rastus argued tools could not be safely secured in a toolhouse if no one would steal them.
The article notes a radio free towboat barge system moved goods along the Mississippi with sending and receiving nets and a central land station. Tested on the lower river, it proved valuable to shippers and operators and will extend from St. Louis to the Twin Cities on the upper river per Wilbur F. Decietr in the Review of Reviews.
The duchess of Bedford, a new flyer, travels London to Manchester and Newton Stewart by air. She avoids owning a plane, arguing hiring is cheaper and keeps pace with modern times, challenging Mrs Sophie Elliott-Lynn as Britain’s pioneer airwoman.
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