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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1937
Page
7
The Old Ship Meeting House in Massachusetts is claimed as the oldest continually used church building in the United States. The wooden structure, built by ship carpenters around 1681, features a pyramidal roof with a belfry and weather vane.
A Cape tradition says Hingham’s St Pauls clergy were last to sanction marriages. Governor Winthrop resisted English norms, preferring lay clergy to avoid church weddings. The Old Shin Meeting House reflects austere English colonial taste with a stove-less interior and backless benches.
Leonard Barrett argues that amid a recent low mood we can simplify spending by focusing on basic necessities. He notes budgets reveal luxuries consume much of funds and that previous prosperity encouraged privileges beyond need. When denied, people felt the era unjust, though many suffered for others.
A reflection on essential human needs bread water and light and the courage to endure without comfort. The piece argues that bread must be earned, warns against overreliance on possessions, and urges a deeper appreciation of basic needs and inner fortitude beyond modern civilization.
A reader shares plans for renovating a rundown suburban house purchased for 700 dollars, debating gray enamel walls, blue rugs, and dusty pink draperies. Another piece by Mrs. Lee A Dickson describes restoring a family brick home built 1223 95, with old maps wallpaper and 19th century furnishings, aiming for period mood and Victorian touches.
New York Staten Island free port uses an electric eye beam across 2700 feet of water to guard its entrance. The system detects any vessel entering the zone, sounding an alarm instantly, with a white light visible at night. Plans cite four future free ports on Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
The piece recalls Tolstoy noting basic needs versus possessions, a minstrel singing before a noted Lucerne hotel. People applauded yet offered only silent respect to the minstrel asking for necessities, suggesting nature is more generous and urging wisdom.
A reader column offers practical household notes such as using parein to fill floor cracks after cooling, cooking greens with minimal water and uncovered pans, sowing grass seeds in April, and color tips for butters and dressings. Also mentions polishing mahogany with olive oil and vinegar, then cleaning. The page closes with a note from Associated Newspapers about the ostrich as the largest bird, nine feet tall and up to 300 pounds.
Robert Wadlow of Alton Illinois just turned nineteen and stands an astonishing nine feet tall and weighs 450 pounds. He appears in his parents living room with blond hair brushing the ceiling as he passes through doorways, earning the nickname low bridge.
Catherine and Begiey, sisters living in Cincinnati Oak-Twe, were among 97 aliens naturalized by Judge Robert at the United States district court. They have been residents for half a century and are now citizens.
Canada’s celebrated question answerer Pater Lavoie from Windsor Station in Montreal is retiring after answering an estimated 30 million questions in English and French to travelers. He has served as the station’s famed helper for years, guiding passengers and solving queries with a steady hand.
New York women are not very good inventors according to the American Bureau of Invention. Director Ray Gross says of over 2,000,000 ideas patented in the United States in 160 years only about 15,000 came from women.
Harriett Moss, a twenty year old Fowler farm girl, has spent years studying bird calls in her spare time. She is now so expert at avian talk that she can carry on conversations with a dozen or more varieties of birds.
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