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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
8
In a wide statement the American Bankers Association defends bankers from blame for the 1929 crash era failures. It argues political regulation and media fear worsened losses, asserts most banks served faithfully, and urges stronger laws and honest management while noting banks generally pay out better than many investments.
State banker associations provide time and funds to improve farming through drought relief seed loans four H Club support and livestock feeding loans. They assist with crop standardization, pure seed adoption, and financing for farmer participation in extensions programs and state conventions.
The piece explains Wiley Post's solo world flight and his automatic pilot Mechanical Mike. It describes gyroscopic reference axes, how one gyro controls elevator and ailerons while the other guides the rudder, and how air jet pick offs convert gyro motion into hydraulic piston movement to maintain level flight on a set course.
Mack and Jimmy, two crows owned by traveling salesman W. E. Hubble of Galveston Texas, have journeyed through twelve states in twelve weeks. The birds eat everything but cicadas and sweet potatoes. Mack, two years old, cracks Jimmy's peanuts as Jimmy is two months old. They have traveled from the Gulf to the Great Lakes three times.
Washington reports six states Montana Indiana Rhode Island Arizona Connecticut and Delaware have set up machinery for liquor control in anticipation of national repeal. Twelve others have repealed state prohibitions and would revert to prior open sale laws in part. eight seek public votes on prohibitions. District of Columbia uncertain.
Boston reports on the United States Fat Men's club whose rule requires members to diet only if their weight drops under 190. The group, founded 22 years ago, counts 1 452 members with weights from 190 to 347 and holds quirky etiquette: napkins under chins, collars on, shoestrings tied, and no mockery of lighter members. Arthur Moulton is noted as the all time champion at 450 pounds and a humorous anecdote of getting stuck in a telephone booth is recalled.
Hayward California mechanical engineer Frederick W. Delaney built a 43 foot cabin cruiser after years of spare-time labor to fulfill his dream of sailing the seas. He names the Gerrie II and plans a trial trip then a Pacific two year world cruise with friends.
The Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln schedules Nationality Days the week of September 3 to 8. Veterans Day opens the event with Civil War and World War veterans gathering. Labor Day follows with state labor groups, then Czechoslovakian Day, German Day, Scandinavian Day and Pioneer Day. Thursday hosts the Grand Parade Nebraka State Fair On Wheels before the grand stand. Friday marks the fair’s closing with a grand climax celebration.
A humorous Kansas City Star panel features cats debating relocation and whether they will move as a duo or stay in their current neighborhood. The dialogue centers on optimism about a better area and shared plans.
Tit-Bit Magazine reports a lighthearted exchange where a shopkeeper notes the neighbor has borrowed their scales, sparking a playful rift as his wife questions the reason. The brief quip captures domestic banter over a petty grievance between adjacent shops.
Opening cattle prices for the week at Union Stock Yards Omaha show fat cattle mostly steady to 2c lower with slow trade. Receipts 10,000 head. best steers around 6.50 to 6.55. Stockers and feeders in good demand and steady. Cattle quotations cover yearlings and steers from prime to common, with fed cattle priced from 2.00 to 6.55 depending on grade. Lambs and aged sheep show declines. fat lambs down a quarter. feeder lambs share the drop. sheep hold steady.
In Boise City Oklahoma a perfectly preserved mummy of an Indian child was dug from a cave near Black Mesa. Found by school teachers the body is thought to date to the basket weaver era. The child aged about eight lay under a rock with beads and corn in a crude grave.
William Hendrickson of Beloit Wisconsin reports his Plymouth Rock hen has adopted 102 White Leghorn chicks. The chicks hatched in an incubator and were adopted by the hen shortly after.
A federal report shows deer numbers increasing from 195,583 to 853,786 and elk from 52,510 to 96,788 across six Western national forest regions between 1921 and 1931. Predators and other causes killed 445,255 deer, while hunters killed 396,997. Hunters took 37,992 elk, with 9,090 lost to other sources.
Receipts of hogs totaled 23 600 head on Monday with about half as bonus pigs. The general market held fully steady from last week and activity was fair. Prices ranged from 2.90 to 4.00, the top for the day, while sows brought 2.00 to 2.90.
About 14 000 fresh sheep and lambs arrived for the week’s first sale. Fat lamb bids were generally 25c lower and feeder lambs unevenly lower while aged stock held about steady. Price ranges include fat lambs 6.25 to 6.85 for good to choice, feeders 5.75 to 6.35, fat yearlings 3.00 to 5.00, fat ewes 1.50 to 2.50, and breeding ewes 3.00 to 4.50, with cull stock 1.00 to 1.50.
The earliest reference to the card game called Bridge appears in a London volume titled British or Russian Whist published in 1886. It notes the name was initially linked to whist and later corrupted into Bridge, challenging a Russian-origin claim without authority.
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