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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
2
A humorous piece on meals for men and women, arguing men benefit from hearty meals and suggesting a budget menu for four for one dollar. It lists a sample four person menu with soup salad biscuits chips radishes tuna salad and chocolate ice cream plus a chocolate ice cream recipe and freezing method.
G A Burwell is laid up at his home west of town after a severe lumbago attack. He has suffered ailment for several weeks. John Stephens and family moved to town Tuesday from a Hopkins Missouri farm and left some belongings behind due to bad roads hindering the move to their Leighton rental farm.
The Free Methodist Church holds a Sunday School at 10 a.m and a preaching service at 11 a.m. A second preaching service occurs at 7:30 p.m. Each Sabbath except the last, prayer meeting is at 7:30 p.m. Pastor W. D. Groesbeck chairs.
B. J Flick of IOWA heads an office over Citizens State Savings Bank focusing on the settlement of estates and related affairs.
In the American Revolution Patriots used many muskets and some long rifles. At Bunker Hill British troops bore smoothbores, as did farmers and militiamen facing them. The French Charleville musket, common among Washingtons troops, ranged about 880 yards max with 100 yards accurate, while the long rifle could reach 1320 yards and accuracy extended to 1540 200 yards depending on shooter. Some marksmen fired accurately beyond 200 yards.
A Washington Star writer notes Araucanian textiles as fine art, closely woven with deep nap and vivid dyes. Ponchos feature blue or black backs and bold stripes or rectilinear patterns, sometimes a Greek cross or zigzag squares. The craft uses leather or fiber ties to keep white areas before dyeing, then removal of the coating.
Washington reports on a WPA project for a 2 500 000 word description of the United States to guide visitors to spots across the country. The National Guide, part of a 20 million dollar cultural program, costs 2 689 000 dollars, averaging more than a dollar per word. WPA writers receive this recognition as part of a broad effort by Hopkins to mobilize artists actors and musicians nationwide.
Washington figures from the Civil Service Commission show over 250000 added direct full time federal employees under the Roosevelt administration. The new payroll exceeds 450 million dollars annually, about one seventh of the year’s predicted deficit, with 9,317 appointments monthly and many replacements in 1933 to 1935.
The mistletoe became the first state flower of Oklahoma in 1898 and many states have since changed or chosen flowers. Selections came by school children votes, state legislatures, or general adoption. A national flower remains undecided with dogwood, rose, mountain laurel, daisy, columbine and golden red named among suggestions. The wild rose was noted by Nature Magazine readers as a national favorite, yet no official national flower exists.
Washington reports that by the 1982 gold dollar standard, farmers in 1935 sold major goods at 13 percent below 1932 levels, based on a commodity price index where 1918 equaled 100. Prices in 1985 fell to 78, an 18 percent drop from 1932, using the same gold dollar basis.
Detroit businessman S Wells Utley warned a Chicago gathering that U S government spending in 1935 equaled the combined cost of food clothing rent and medical care for the entire population The article notes March payrolls and December figures as part of the discussion but details are unclear and partly garbled.
A speaker criticizes political influence in banking and urges charter decisions be based on community need and the character of management. He warns against excessive new charters and endorses sound mergers and branches while avoiding monopoly and unchecked competition. Public policy should ensure necessary and permanent needs guide charter grants.
William A. Boyd of Ithaca New York questions a claim of falling public confidence in banks. He notes that bank deposits keep rising and asserts institutions serving their communities since 1922 have earned ongoing trust, with many having not needed to regain public confidence.
The Trust Division of the American Bankers Association lists 2853 institutions with aggregate capital funds of 4.416 billion dollars and total resources of 35.443 billion. It notes 6049 men and women employed in this bank trust work across 1806 state chartered trust companies and banks and 1497 national banks with trust departments.
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