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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
8
The piece explains that war coverage is heavily censored and filled with false reports. It introduces Weekly News Analysis as a concise, factual war digest with interpretation and comment to aid reader understanding.
Newington New Hampshire began America's first community forest in 1710, 110 acres bought from wilderness. Such forests, now 1,500 across the nation totaling over 3,000,000 acres, supply timber for buildings and fuel while cutting local taxes. President Roosevelt championed community forests as fibers of conservation, recreation, and jobs. Seattle owns the largest, with 66,380 acres and over $1,000,000 in timber sales from its watershed forest.
Prof Douglas Johnson of Columbia University proposes that giant submarine canyons on the ocean floor were carved by underwater springs under artesian pressure. He cautions there may be multiple explanations and expects future soundings to refine the theory.
Westminster College in New Wilmington Pa requires English majors aiming to teach in high schools to have voice recordings. Dr Mary Purdy says a clear pleasant penetrating voice helps students enjoy poetry and prose, and officials insist reading technique is a key teaching tool.
Pittsburgh fire crews use a powder called basic fuchsia to stain suspect hands after touching alarm boxes. The nearly invisible dye colors red on skin and lasts days, allowing detectives to identify false-alarm pranksters. The tactic has reduced false alarms as word spread that boxes could be fixed.
Receipts at Omaha show Monday cattle hogs and sheep with weak to lower bids. Cattle: 9 500 head with mixes of choice to common beef and feeders in varying supply. hogs at 13 000 head with prices 10 to 15 cents lower. sheep and lambs 5 000 head with demand softer and lambs mixed in price from 8.00 to 11.50 for various grades. Fat lambs around 10.75 to 11.10 for fed spring lambs and feeders 8.50 to 9.10. Cows and calves listed with prices across several grades and loads of stock cattle measured by quality and weight.
The Lava Beds National Monument in California features caves with ice formations that never melt, crystal stalactites and stalagmites, and solid ice columns. Other caverns show lacework from lava drippings while the surface remains billowy lava. Scientists note the lava flowed like molasses from fissures and appears only recently weathered.
An article notes the shift from eye judging to photo finishes. It cites C. M. Gibbs saying ten dead heats per year were common before cameras, while now American tracks average 70 to 80 per year. The change suggests more accurate judging or more even horses.
An S shaped ridge runs north to south along the Atlantic floor with depths of 9,000 to 10,000 feet above it and 15,000 to 17,000 feet on its flanks. Peaks of this submarine range rise above the surface forming the Azores and islands St Paul Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
Fanny Regal and her aunt pursue a noble match as a prince visits the new country estate. The prince is a pretender, exposing the scheme, and Winfield Sims learns his brother Steven is killed, forcing Fanny to marry the title and leave for abroad.
Livestock prices at Grand Island list fat hogs from 4.25 to 4.92 per hundredweight across weight classes with vaccinations noted. Hog market active but down about 40 to 50 cents from a week ago. pig runs larger, stock pigs slow. Cattle runs larger with prices down 25 to 60 cents for fat cows and fat heifers, bulls down about 40 cents from last week.
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