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19 May 1939
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1939
Page
1
England Toll Bridges and Car Ownership Snapshot
A recent survey shows England has 70 toll bridges on public highways and Great Britain features about 4 500 level road crossings. The report notes most motor cars pass through three or four owners before ending up at the junk heap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
England
Europe Surpasses One Million Automobile Miles
Europe reports over 1 025 500 miles of roads as public works expand. Prisoner escapes, demographics rise with births, and fuel shifts show broad social change across nations from France to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Next Door Neighbors Update From Our Special Correspondent
George Coffin has been ill in bed for a week. Irma Dobson visited her parents on Sunday. Mrs. Clyde Hoover spent Friday with sister Mrs. Harry Gibson. Charles Coffin painted his houses and outbuildings. C B Blythe from Tama dug a ditch to drain water from the Gibson and Coffin bottom land. Margaret Hines hosted the Happy Hour Club on April 28 with officers led by Mrs. Geo Coffin. The entertainment included a quiz and a lunch hosted by Mrs. Hines with helpers Mrs. Clifford Hines and Mrs. Allen Paxton of Montour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Coffin
Irma Dobson
Clyde Hoover
Harry Gibson
Charles Coffin
C. B. Blythe
Tama
Geo
Margaret Hines
Geo. Coffin
Chas. McCune
Clifford Hines
Women in Focus: Society and Global News Snippets
An assortment of short notes reports on women including Russian stage motor races for women in Russia, Queen Geraldine of Albania's American blood, Princess Juliana's red hair, Hawaii coeds using bixa crellana seedpods as lipstick, English nurses pushing for nurse homes, mothers only train compartments on German trains, U.S. women spending eight dollars yearly on stockings, Britain's 4000 women forming a searchlight sisters unit for air raid precautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
World notes from the week in brief
The British mint reports a $10 000 silver dust loss and a forecast of no blind children in England within a decade. Tokyo tests find 24 tons of dust per square mile per month. Montevideo houses over a quarter of Uruguay’s 2 million people. Northern Ireland limits overtime for under sixteen workers. Jerusalem hosts modern banks with branches across nearby cities but none in Bethlehem. Britain’s merchant navy remains the largest and most efficient, accounting for over 38 percent of young ocean-going tonnage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Britain
World Chronicle Snippets From Far and Near
England reports no ventriloquists out of work while Singapore lights streets for motorists. Braunau Austria Hitler's birthplace is a town of about 5000. London visits peak 3 30 to 6 p m. Singapore adds a new chair for crossing policemen. New Guinea to be officially explored across 20000 square miles. Canada and the United States together have over 12680 directed playgrounds in 1012 cities. Germany has beekeeping for venom used as a rheumatic cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Family Gatherings
Quaker Lane residents and neighbors visited across Iowa with Mrs. Oliver Rosedale and La Wilda joining Friday trip to Iowa City. Harold Perisho family and Kenneth Graham home hosted Sunday. Hoover entertained Lyell Johnson family and Glen Mills clan on Sunday. Dettmer flu care noted. Rubenbauer and Dahl families traveled to Mt. Pleasant and Toledo to mark birthdays and family occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Rosedale
Lawilda
Iowa City
Harold Perisho
John and
Robert
Kenneth Graham
C. E. Hoover
Lyell Johnson
Glen Mills
Kathryn
H. &. Perisho
Will Dettmer
Dettmer
Russell Ruben‘bauer
Mt. Pleasant
Miller
Nelvin Rasmussen
Russell Rubenbauer
Walter Dahl
Toledo
Irving Rubenbauer
Gliding Along In Europe and World Facts
A collection of short notes covers European peanut use for stock, volcanoes in weak crust zones, a London sale of over 22 000 silver fox furs, elevators reaching about 10 miles per hour, glass paneled rooms creating cool feel, global fishing employing over 2 million people and 800 000 boats, East Indian sheep leather used as gas meter bellows in England, a large life insurer spending 1 million dollars yearly on health advice, and evidence suggesting scarlet fever is caused by a virus rather than a streptococcus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Inventions Highlight The Inventors’ New Creations
The Inventors showcase several patents including a theft proof light bulb socket a slipless wristband for watches a heat resistant apron for hair waving a practical Chinese typewriter with 4000 characters a collapsible steering wheel for collision protection and a color television by J L Baird. A German bottle empties only drop by drop.
Dillon Items
Mrs Anna Rubenbauer and family attended the funeral of Wm Gummert of Quarry. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Gummert entertained Sunday. Mr and Mrs Earl Snyder and family and Mr and Mrs Elmer Rubenbauer visited. Mrs Clarence Wolken and Lester of north of Marshalltown called on her mother Mrs Martin Rabenbauer recovering from flu. Mr and Mrs Donald Hoover were guests of Reece Wilkinson of Marshalltown. Wilkinson recovering from a badly burned arm from a boiling radiator on the truck. Mr and Mrs Walter Horn entertained at Sunday dinner for her mother's birthday with Ed Rubenbauer Mary Ann Geo Rubenbauer Lloyd Rubenbauer Betty Dale Glen and Richard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Rubenbauer
Wm. Gummert
Quarry
Wilbur Gummert
Earl Snyder
Elmer Rubenbauer
Clarence Wolken
Lester
North of
Marshalltown
Martin Rabenbauer
Donald Hoover
Reece Wilkinson
Wilkinson
Walter Horn
Ed Rubenbauer
Mary Ann
Geo. Rubenbauer
Lloyd Rubenbauer
Betty
Dale
Glen
Richard
Facts and Figures From American Affairs and Industry
A compact roundup cites retail store density in the United States shadowed by the American Kennel Club’s 198 members in its 53 years. It notes typical dog shows with about 350 exhibitors and over 400 dogs, and lists Montana and Wyoming as temperatures below minus 60. It mentions a five year naturalization rule and Texas contributing 13.4 million of Mohair toward a national total of 15.986 million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Kennel Club
United States
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Unclear World Reports Span Tax to Locusts and Rails
The dispatch notes Cuba's highway tax, Northern Ireland's 48 hour week, Russian supplies to China, and a 3000 mile highway project. It cites Niagara Falls recession, U.S. stations count, and bans on tips in underground parking. It also mentions migratory locusts in South Africa and New Orleans slave market fame.
Striking Facts From American History and Geography
The Great Lakes supply over 100 million pounds of fish annually. There are 209 United States schools for deaf children. The sole antimony smelter in the United States operates in Laredo Texas. Texas hosts 11,433,000 acres in the Trinity river valley with a quarter of the state population. Alligators up to twenty inches long could be mailed across the United States. Since 1871 American Indians have collected $18,000,000 in federal government claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Texas
Trinity River Valley
United States
Early Silk Bat Hat Emerges in Florence Then Spreads
The silk hat originated in Florence around 1760 but only gained common use in the early 1800s. The item’s adoption expanded gradually as fashion shifted toward this refined headwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Italy
Abolitionist Delia Webster’s Memory Across Iowa Ties
The article recalls Delia Webster and her circle in LeGrand Iowa detailing abolitionist work and escapes of enslaved people via the Ohio River. It notes Webster’s life in Wisconsin and Iowa, associations with Lucretia Mott and the Goodrich family, and her imagined life story still unpublished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hage
Ohio River
Lexington
Kentucky
Liberty
Delia Webster
LeGrand
North
Lucretia Mott
Ramlet
B.L. W
Wisconsin
Goodrich
Iowa
Stangeland
Tillie Sawyer
Caroline Meltvedt
Gime
Tibby
Editorial on Buff Cochin chickens and recalled verses
The piece recalls famed Buff Cochin chickens named Pompey Julius Caesar Mark Antony and Cleopatra and includes memory of a French poem Aunt Delia taught the writer. It questions whether sister Callie can reproduce the full poem and ends with a French phrase urging a son to tell his father.
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Pompey
Julius Caesar
Mark Antony
Cleopatra
Delia
Callie
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