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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
2
The article describes plant and animal transport in Palestine, noting Arabs use horses, oxen, donkeys, and camels while automobiles are rare luxuries. It contrasts wealthier foreigners with native residents, details high car costs, and portrays harsh gender roles, especially for Palestinian women who bear heavy labor and little respect.
The W T C U met with eleven members and guests on Monday afternoon June 4. Mrs Higinbotham Ogier Dillman and Margaret Hoover spoke on Narcotics. A discussion followed on candidates before voting. Deaconal led by Mrs Perisho. Next meeting with Miss Cora Hoover.
A LeGrand Lucky Leaf 4 H Club meeting at leader Mrs. O W Johnson’s home opened with the pledge. Louise Johnson was nominated for county secretary treasurer. Miss Cookinham led a music study program, followed by refreshments served by the hostess and her daughter Louise.
Mrs Eliza Applegate Taylor widow of Lewis L Taylor and long time Tama county resident died at her Butlerville home at 8 30 a m Saturday cancer of bowels. Born August 17 1849 in Cedar county she moved to Tama as a child, lived near Beaman and Garwin, and homesteaded in Nebraska 17 years before returning to Iowa. Survived by seven children including Alva Lehman Clinton and J W Bush funeral Monday afternoon with burial at Beaman.
Subscription rates listed include one year for 150 dollars six months for 5 dollars and three months for 260, with the item filed as second class mail at LeGrand post office.
Polar Star Lodge No 113 holds the A P and A M regular communication on the third Monday of each month. W M J F Smaha and Secretary C D Harvey announce the meeting details.
LeGrand baseball squad traveled to Marshalltown Sunday and defeated the Missouri Pacific St Louis team 8 to 5 in a fast game. The same week Truman H Manship of LeGrand earned a Bachelor of Science in physical education from Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls during Monday ceremonies alongside 287 other graduates.
The condor, once feared as the largest bird with a 40 foot wingspan and capable of snatching lambs and children, is shown to have blunt claws and a smaller true size. Captured birds revealed it cannot grasp prey, and its size rivals other birds like the California vulture. It feeds mainly on carrion and carcasses, though it does kill some young animals.
The term render comes from a Puerto Rican and Cuban workforce in cigar factories where a reader recited news daily to keep workers focused. The practice built a culture around listening while hands worked, with Gompers once serving as a reader in a New York shop.
The 1827 Navarino clash pitted British French and Russian ships against Egyptian and Turkish fleets. Admiral Codrington, aided by De Rigny and Held in, pressed for a Greece Turkey armistice but failed. A minor skiff incident sparked a broader engagement as most enemy vessels were sunk or disabled.
The article traces the 1785 Paris founding of the first blind school and notes America’s first such institution in Boston, founded 1829 and active by 1831. Dr Samuel Gridley Howe led it, with Perkins Institution support and a printing press, shaping early blind education. Notable pupils include Laura Bridgman, Oliver Caswell, and Helen Keller.
The Washington Post notes Harrison never joined a church but favored the Episcopal faith. After his death the National Intelligencer reported his growing religious seriousness and nightly scripture reading and his late wish to join a church as a communicant.
Caught Knapping shows West Africa and East Indies relying on Brandon England for flints used in muskets and pistols. Only six knappers remain in wooden sheds on a site likely used by Ancient Britons for making sling stones and weapon flints. Process involves quarrying rough flakes, flaking into Cinch strips, then shaping for muskets and pocket pistols, shipped in barrels of 5,000.
Dust storms arise from atmospheric heating and rising air like cumulus cloud formation. Prolonged soil moisture droughts further lift and suspend dust, producing a dust storm when warm air ascends and moisture is scarce.
Harvard seismograph tests show earthquake waves travel through granite at about 17 600 feet per second and through ancient igneous rock over 20 000 feet per second, far faster than 1 100 feet per second in still air. Earthquake detecting instruments were used.
Capitol and many government buildings lack lightning rod equipment while the White House and Washington Monument have them. The Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol dome serves as a lightning rod with spikes around the crown designed to receive electrical discharges.
Clocks and watches repaired by C D Harvey. Mrs Magnus Lunde of Quarry lunched with Mrs Lisa Omundson. Thore Thompson of Cedar Edge, Colo visiting relatives. Luther Gaunt of Marshalltown and family guests at W M Gaunt home. Katie and Martha Rubenbauer of Dillon called on Phoebe McCarel. Wiletta Hilsabeck visiting aunt Mrs Arney Albion. Earl O Neal and family dined with Corwin O Neal then left for Glen Ellyn Ill. T G Gibson ill from heat but improving. Mabel Gaunt at St Thomas Marshalltown for tonsil operation. Emma Ewart and Grace of Marshalltown guests on Decoration Day at Wm Dunham’s. H O Harrison toured Iowa Palis with niece Otis Palis visit. Matt Tostenson guests with Riverside Calif visitors en route to Philadelphia. They left Tuesday.
South County Line notes Mabel Mitchem leaves for Waterloo for work. Ames wedding of Richard Tewksbury draws A J Banks and wife. Iverson and Tiedt and Rosedale families visit George Iverson. Tollers host Knudson and Rosfjord reunions with extended families. Reporter subscription urged.
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