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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1931
Page
2
Le Mars Globe-Post reports Plymouth to send sixteen delegates as part of ongoing local arrangements. Publisher John Byarzl and Editor R. F. Starzl are named in the masthead. entry notes second class mailing at LeMars, Iowa.
Sixteen delegates from Plymouth county will travel by bus on June 17 to Ames for the Iowa state convention for club girls. Eleven 4 H club girls and five adult leaders attend, with each club selecting one girl delegate. Funds are raised by bake sales plays and selling cards. the Marion township club plans a play to cover expenses.
The Globe Post offers credit to subscribers unable to pay in advance with discounts, to be settled like any open account at full price. The date on the label shows account status, and subscriptions may be stopped by withholding the paper from the mail. Postal rules prohibit free subscriptions, and credit subscriptions are delivered by the publisher and paid for at the regular rate.
The New York Herald Tribune argues that an excise tax on liquor could legalize the traffic, lower consumer prices, and generate hundreds of millions in revenue to fight crime and waste. It criticizes prohibition enforcement chief Woodcock for education rhetoric and laments the loss of temperance momentum since the Eighteenth Amendment, urging a new start to temperance within constitutional bounds.
Kenneth MacKenny's wedding news tops the Royal theatre listings as Pax Films promotes him to director with a first co directing assignment beside William Cameron Menzies and Elissa Lands stars in Always Goodbye at the Flite. Ruth Chatterton credits stage to screen practice for success as Unfaithful comes to the Royal for a two day run starting Tuesday.
The community bible school runs five days weekly at Central School for boys and girls, enrollment now 165 with 21 teachers. Attendance reached 156 Friday and 157 today. offerings for two days were $1.25 and $1.24. Pageant prep begins for June 21 with Eleanore Ruff in charge. hikes and handwork flourish in grades. new students welcomed as sessions continue.
Cattle markets show an encouraging tone with total shrinkage around 22 000 head across 12 markets. Yearlings led the advance while lighter cattle fared best amid a demoralized to sizzling trade, as supports held firm unlike last week.
The 1176 foot long semi parabolic airship dock rises 211 feet high and spans 364000 square feet with no interior supports. Its 7200 tons of steel and expansive floor area allow imagining space for six miles of railroad track and even the Woolworth building inside. Tony Thoma features a window display of the airship dock and a USS type Zeppelin to convey its enormity.
Crowds of about 60 000 weekly inspect the Goodyear Zeppelin hull as work nears completion. The Akron, largest airship, features half its fabric cover, seven of eight 560 horsepower engines, helium lift of 6.5 million cubic feet, and an external power drive outrigged shaft system. An air plane compartment will house five pursuit planes.
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