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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1929
Page
2
The notice lists John Starzl as publisher and R F Starzl as editor with second class mail status at LeMars post office under the March 3 1879 act. It shows subscription rates paid in advance two dollars per year and five dollars abroad, indicating domestic and foreign rates.
The making of china was once complex taking 25 operations and four weeks for simple white ware. Fine china required skilled labor and artful decoration. Boettger, a German alchemist, found the process by 1709 after years of study. By century’s end German potteries thrived, while Oriental and East Indian firms brought chinaware to common households.
The Detroit News notes lep rosy plagued Western Europe with about 19 000 laval houses and nearly 100 in Britain from Canterbury 1096 to Highgate 1472. The disease faded rapidly in the next century, industrysegregation and the Black Death of 1349 cited as causes. the Black Death killed nearly half Europe's population.
A central Java plantation posts that black ants are nurtured to defend cocoa trees from the white cocoa louse and Helopeltis beetle. Natives provide 4,000,000 ant nests yearly in exchange for payment, attracting ants by feeding them white cocoa lice on fruit shells.
On a cape train a woman hurried off leaving a bag and three bundles. Mr M across the aisle grabbed them and handed them to the conductor to avoid a loss. The woman returned and explained she ran to speak to a friend. Mr M pledges to avoid such acts again.
A Paris smuggler dubbed le marchand de canards built wealth by exploiting tariff exemptions on wild duck eggs, unfairly undercutting farmers and egg dealers. When caught returning to customers, he fled swiftly, like chicks escaping shells, as authorities pursued him.
Swiss authorities in the canton of Argovne implement Bertillon style baby identification to prevent future identity disputes. Babies are measured weighed fingerprinted and birth marks recorded on official forms with doctors and ensure parents sign to confirm details.
Mrs John Adama, wife of the Second President, brought much of her own china to the duties of first lady but chronicled in a family letter that many pieces were broken or stolen. She laments Georgetown affords nothing as efforts to replace the missing items prove fruitless.
John H. Nichols Jr a Nashville fire insurance adjuster told how he cremated his wife Mrs Martha McDougal Nichols at a woodland site in Putnam County near Boma Tennessee about 14 miles from Cookeville The couple formerly honeymooned at the spot and had camped nearby in summers Nichols said his wife long asked for open air cremation in the Roman Greek tradition and he carried out the request with a cousin watching The site by a waterfall and spring in an oak grove held sentimental value for the couple and their families
In San Francisco middleweight boxer Jack Malone was arrested on a vagrancy charge after refusing to reveal his finances to Officer Jesse Aver. The officer asked if he had money and Malone replied it was none of his business. A police judge released Malone after noting his cauliflower ears.
In Wayne Pennsylvania a traveling circus elephant named Dolly charged the bleachers after a boy threw a stone at her. Several people were injured and about a dozen women fainted during the incident.
Berlin reports a grim trend as statistics from Vienna and Berlin show about a thousand people daily attempting death by their own hand across large European cities from Moscow to Paris. The data reveal widespread despair in urban areas during the period.
Mrs. Emily J. Conaghan claims an eighty six year old wall clock in her possession has never failed to keep accurate time, ticking every minute of her life and being four years older than she is.
William Doyle, a fisherman in East Boston, was pushed from a wharf by a police dog. He suffered a broken leg and a wrenched back and sues the wharf owner for 15000 dollars in damages.
In a Northside family only Alice enjoys house cleaning. She laughs at a map hanging wallpaper who struggles to paste a strip on the ceiling. After several readjustments, Alice blurts out with a saucy remark that he must be hard of seeing.
Fourteen priests in the Sioux City diocese were reassigned during the annual retreat at Trinity College Sioux City led by Bishop Heelan. transfers include Rev Arthur Poeckes taking leave due to sickness and several pastors moving from Carroll Akron Denison Ledyard Sanborn Armstrong Manning Arcadia Cherokee Fort Dodge and Kossuth County assignments. The retreat's 125 priests concluded with a Mass and will return to their parishes.
Oyens Iowa edged Akron 6 to 5 on Ed Hentges long home run that cleared trees and a house at Oyens park. Henry Poeckes allowed just one shaky inning as Oyens built lead, Joe Krause made a sensational defensive play, and E Smith led the offense with multiple hits as Oyens held on for the win.
Various methods of magnetizing iron or steel are described including electric current rubbing hammering and arrangement with magnets. A steel bar laid across electromagnet poles or between opposite poles and hammered can become magnetized. Long earth contact is said to magnetize steel and iron bars with or without pounding.
James Russell Lowell quote about inner world shaping the outer one. The value and color of life come from internal kindness and character.
Iowa crop prospects on June 1 show spring wheat at 88 percent, oats at 87, barley 87 and rye at 91, with hay crops improving statewide. Output likely near or above ten year averages though progress varies by crop and past conditions.
From a Gentlewoman discusses how most men are attracted to women who bolster their vanity or vainglory. It argues that charm, from wit to cooking, helps a woman be seen as desirable by one or two men and notes that devoted, decent behavior keeps a man loyal.
June 1 condition reports show wild hay at 89 percent and alfalfa advancing with 93 percent, while overall fruit crops benefit from higher June 1 levels. Apples at 79 percent of normal, peaches 55 percent, and pears 79 percent project a slight year over year improvement though apples may drop about ten percent nationally.
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