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Newspaper
Gravity Independent
Location
Gravity, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
4
Advice from Alrena Welsh in Hygeia Health Magazine explains how any child can learn to relax and sleep at will. Steps include pretending limp, slow breathing, and turning bedtime into a game to build lifelong sleep habits.
American troops training in winter conditions adopt ski and snowshoe tactics drawn from Europe. Reports highlight Soviet use of armed ski machines and flooded airstrips to harden ice fronts, with frozen lakes guarded by skaters as a defense measure.
Quaaltagh festival customs from the Isle of Man include singing house to house and inviting in for food and drink. Unique rites involve sweeping the kitchen floor from door to hearth and smoothing ashes with tongs to seek a human footprint predicting death or birth in the household.
Buffalo recruiting officers say flat feet no longer top the list of disqualifications. First Sergeant Ralph W. Carrington notes few applicants now fail for flat feet, citing weak vision and poor dental health as common current reasons.
An old handbill advertising a Monster Mata Meeting for Republicans in Southwest Iowa was discovered in a Red Oak living room at the T. C. Murphy residence. It is believed the bill was left inside a column by contractors renovating the house in 1896.
Don Haloup ek of Belle Plaine found two fully developed apples on one stem this year. Nero Clarand Baughman of Pleasantville won first place at the state fair old fiddlers contest while his barn burned and several tons of hay were destroyed though no livestock were lost.
Miss Margaret Grey shifted plans after earlier report her to Creston. She enrolled instead at the State Teachers College in Maryville.
Dr. and Mrs. L. T. Reed drove to St. Joseph on Monday morning where they met Mrs. Smith Leonard of Houston Texas who will spend a few days in the Reed home and visit relatives near Corning.
Glen Combs and his wife Allen and Beryl Peterman and wife of Bedford arrived home Saturday after a brief excursion through the Ozarks and other Missouri points of interest.
Mrs George Depew and Leota Bell spent Saturday in St. Joseph, attending local events and visiting friends. The trip highlighted social ties in the community and featured mild winter weather.
Bruce Monahan and wife Ira Jewell and wife and the Lloyd Bradley family enjoyed a picnic dinner at the Lake of Three Fires Sunday.
A picnic supper was held Sunday evening at the Earl Coy home in honor of Mrs Coy's mother Wildy Adama's birthday. Present were Donala Uter and wife of Bedford Wiley Adame and wife Mre Louisa Perry Mra Sarah Aid Francis Martin and family Dale Adama and family and Evelyn Savage.
Hal Lyon departed Monday morning for a trip to Cody Wyoming. He plans to return soon and will visit local sites along the route.
Mrs Maggie Douglas came back Friday from a trip to Red Oak to see her son and to visit the Stanley Glasgow home in Clarinda.
The first frost of the season appeared along the low ground Wednesday morning with no material damage reported.
Harold Santon his wife and daughter Laurel of Lincoln Nebr and Mrs Carrie McColm are visiting in the home of their brother and son Howard McColm.
Harry Lathrop of Longmont Colorado and George Combs of Bedford visited in the Mrs Wave Madden home Sunday afternoon.
O M Buckner and wife and Don Foreman and wife were seen at the State Fair in Lincoln Nebraska last week.
A neighborhood notice invites customers to visit The Drug Store for a special paint sale for houses and barns. The brief promotion emphasizes discounts and in-store offers. Consumer convenience and product variety are highlighted.
A column argues milk drinkers and farmers are the real allies of agriculture against liquor advocates. It contends beer spending drains little farm income, while tax and policy costs rise, and cites the National Safety Council on alcohol related traffic deaths. It urges small and big business to support farming by redirecting liquor dollars to goods like milk, clothes, and health building items.
The article outlines that the honorific Honorable is used for names of American ambassadors foreign ministers governors high commissioners cabinet officers senators congress members and other officials including judges below the Supreme Court heads of independent boards commissions and local mayors in large cities.
The Bartlett pear originated in England and came to America around 1787. Enoch Bartlett acquired the Dorchester estate in 1817 and popularized the Bartlett name. The Sheldon pear appeared in 1849 and was listed by the American Pomological Society in 1854 on Major Sheldon’s estate.
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