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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1937
Page
2
The document outlines tariff, monetary, and regulatory goals to protect American farmers and workers, including repealing reciprocal trade laws, enforcing antitrust measures, and promoting federal regulation of securities and utilities. It stresses a balanced budget, sound currency, strong defense, civil rights, veterans' care, and unity beyond party lines.
Fungi vary widely in size from microscopic to mushroom forms yet are described as animals in spirit. They are not green due to lacking chlorophyll, distinguishing plants from animals despite plantlike bodies and shared reproduction traits.
The Washington Post notes a wind spun Tibetan prayer wheel on display in a New York museum. Each wheel holds rolls printed with Om mani padme hum. Devout users believe one spin equals many prayers, with monasteries housing wheels containing hundreds of thousands of Om sentences.
London Answers Magazine states that a person born within the majesty's dominions or allegiance is a British subject. A person born outside whose father and paternal grandfather were British subjects is also natural born. It applies regardless of birthplace in England or Scotland.
In Santo, the largest island of the New Hebrides, a tribe of dwarfs is described as the smallest in the world. Measured by white explorers, Santo pygmies stand about 3 feet 6 inches, smaller than Congo forest pygmies at around 4 feet. They wield tiny poison darts blown from blow-pipes and reportedly fire on outsiders on sight.
Vatican City covers St Peter's Basilica Vatican Palace and museum over 13 acres with gardens and adjacent structures between Viale Vaticano and the church. Thirteen Rome buildings outside boundaries enjoy extraterritorial rights, housing congregations and officials essential to Holy See administration.
Rare Asiatic buffaloes once roamed India’s wooded hills in herds but have declined. They are large red creatures with curved horns and humps, and emit three calls: a bellow a low mooing cry and a whistling snort.
The Spanish settlement of St Augustine, Florida, is noted as the first Catholic foundation in what would become the United States. Missionary visits began around 1512 and in 1521 church services were held in temporary buildings conducted by Spanish men at 6 percent.
Frederick T. Haskins describes American duels as unusually savage from colonial times to the early republic. Duels involved notable figures from Pilgrims to Jackson and Burr, with methods from handkerchief challenges to Bowie knife fights and even wrist handcuffs, often ending in deaths.
The article notes termites are not ants but related to cockroaches and outlines their five caste system. Winged swarmers, winged and wingless forms, and two main groups the soldiers and workers drive colony work and building damage.
A writer in Pearsons Weekly claims the November 27 1703 storm was Britain’s worst. Flashes of lightning unroofed houses and churches, spires fell, groves were uprooted, church leads peeled like parchment. Thames vessels sank and Royal Navy losses exceeded a dozen ships with over 1500 sailors drowned in London. Damages hit about a million pounds.
The Ilongots of Luzon in the Philippines traverse forests by rope bridges. They cut a branch, loop a 50-foot rope, cast the hook over an adjacent branch, and swing across with agile, monkey-like moves.
A Spanish palm grove near Elche is praised as among the world’s largest, with estimates from 60,000 to 110,000 date palms. The trees are manually pollenated by workers who ascend trunks with rope harnesses, while many fronds are blanched for Palm Sunday and for lightning protection.
Brine used in alkali manufacture and for table salt is drawn by circulating water through wells drilled to salt beds. These beds, formed by past sea evaporation, reach 300 feet thick in New York Pennsylvania Michigan Ohio Kansas Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana, according to Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering.
Original notice in the district court of Iowa Taylor County names Jesse W Richardson and Lela Richardson plaintiffs and Francis L Richardson Mil dred Parks Orth John Orth Orval Parks Virgil Parks Darlene Parks and James M Richardson as defendants with March term 1937 filing and case identification.
Francis L Richardson and others are named as owners of one third or one twelfth interests in The South West Quarter of Section Twenty Five, Township Seventy North, Range Thirty Four West, with one acre excluded for school use. The court is asked to order sale and distribute proceeds by share, plus costs and attorney fee. The defendants must answer by March 18, 1937 or a judgment by default will be entered.
Frank Beemer and his wife from Glenwood visited here on Friday. Bill Cole and family along with Raymond Cole and family plan moves this week to two farms southeast of Bedford.
Toby Carson of Shenandoah visited Sunday at the W L Chandler home here, sharing a brief call and exchanging friendly chat during the afternoon visit.
Mes Georgia King of Blockton who had been staying with her son Earl and his family returned to her own home near Blockton last Wednesday. Her son Arthur accompanied her.
Tom Preston relocated last week to the Don Fidler residence in southeast Gravity from a farm located half a mile west of town.
Homer Grace and his family relocated Thursday to the Lee Berry farm northeast of town where he will work the coming summer.
Prepared by American Foundation for Animal Health notes hogs harbor worms from large roundworm to thornhead and lung worms. Worms damage liver and lungs, lower pig resistance, and worsen disease risk, including cholera. Vaccination advised and should be overseen by a veterinarian.
Washington Post notes two studies ranking the most written about women in history by encyclopedia space. Names include Mary Stuart Elizabeth I Joan of Arc Catherine II de Medici Marie Antoinette Cleopatra and others such as Madame de Stael Sand Sevigne Maintenon Josephine Christina of Sweden and Anne of England.
Avlin Moore travels to Wyoming seeking employment. Mrs. Moore and their children are visiting the Beauchamps at New Market, staying with Mrs. Moore's parents. The family plans to reunite with Mr. Moore later.
Kent Wallace and Mrs. Toby Carson drove to St. Joe Missouri on Thursday to meet Mrs. Tom Nethery of Topake Kansas sister of Mr. Wallace who comes to assist in caring for their mother Mrs R J Wallace who is quite ill
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