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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1931
Page
7
Gray's Corner advertises sales on fence supplies including steel and woven wire, barb, and orange banner steel pots. It warns customers to act quickly to secure limited stock, noting a forthcoming delivery of coal and a shipment of Gren Heprh for shipment at the park later this month, with direct car sales at eight seventy five per ton.
Renwick prepares for a large homecoming celebration with a street parade, speakers, band concerts, and ball games. An airplane show with parachute drops, rides, and ferris wheel will entertain both days. Local business windows display reliving old times, and a big bowery dance will close each night. Several named entertainment acts and a marquee list promise a festive weekend inviting former residents back to Renwick.
The passage sketches the transition from the Roman era to the Middle Ages, noting centralized days at midnight in various cultures and the term Dark Ages. It places the fall of Rome at 475 A.D. and the era ending around 1187, with the later spread to 1550. It mentions Willan Tyndale and the burning of English Bibles between 1694 and 1696, ascribed to heresy and linked to the King James Bible lineage.
World Very Partial to eccentricities of rich New York society enjoyed a hearty laugh when a very wealthy woman was held up by customs authorities on the charge of attempting to smuggle in over a million dollars worth of jewelry. The jewels turned out to be imitations.
Thousands of Japanese goldfish arrive for sale in Solintry after an eleven day voyage. Glacier park aerated water revived the fish, enabling quicker delivery to New York. Japanese observers noted mineral crustacean life in the water provided high vitamin food value. Government officials say the Rovelsiing condition of fruit from Glavler park is a known factor.
The city attracts great musicians from Glock and Mozart to Mahler and Wolf. Modern masters live there, and performances at St Stephan and the Borg chapel leave lasting impressions. The Augusta church, the Mithil town program, and the famous choir showcase Vienna’s global music glory.
The passage describes Bobby Joe playing when a neighbor asks if a young lady is his grandmother. He replies she is his Brindmaster and insists she is old enough, claiming to have known her for a long time. The dialogue centers on family relation confusion between two neighbors.
A poem-like fragment states Grand Pre is a Nova Scotia village near Minas Basin about 38 miles from Windsor with a population near 100. It notes the village famous from Longfellow and explains the name means great meadow in Evangelique. It mentions a French Grand Pre in the Ardennes and a nearby Lower Horton nickname.
An ancient tale explains how animals sought fire during a long winter. Pine trees guarded the fire along the Grande Tronde river. Beaver hid the flame under his chest, sparking a chase as older pines crowded the banks. Fire now comes from rubbing sticks together, the exchange notes.
A 1508 Book of Hours dating from 1508 is shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York after being purchased in Paris for $40,000. Rare copies survive due to constant use, with many famed for lavish bindings and miniature illuminations. Wealthy owners funded elaborate decorations in gold, blue and vermilion on fine bindings by renowned craftsmen.
Praying Pilgrims flock to Mariazell each June on the eve of St. Peter, with about 50,000 pilgrims yearly from Vienna and America seeking the town’s famed shrine and the twelfth century Our Lady statue. Mountains, rail climbs, and a Gothic Baroque church attract visitors, making Mariazell a noted winter resort and pilgrimage site.
The Volga, a vast waterway praised as a highway for hundreds of ships and rafts, carries timber grain salt oil and cargo along its banks. River towns support cavine industries and river houses intrigue visitors, especially as the river enters the Ruhluk republic where locals resemble Eskimos.
The text notes land donated in 1720 for Rock Creek Church and surrounding cemetery, with burials spanning over two centuries. It credits John Clagett Wroktor and Richard Queen for supporting a Christian chapel and burials at Langton, marking these as the earliest interment sites in the District of Columbia and the origin of grave altars around early Federal City churches.
A fragmentary excerpt discusses ragtime's roots in New Orleans and contrasts it with early jazz. It notes the year 911 as a misprint for a composition by Alexanders Hagtiue Rand and mentions Dizzy Whiteman and Teas. The text covers definitions of ragtime, syncopation, and how rhythm evolved toward jazz.
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