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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
7
A rustic weather chat notes a cold spell and how to prepare for it. The speaker urges stocking coal and predicting chill, then shifts to farm supply orders, promoting Sargent's Laying Mash and Mash Maker with prices and instructions to mix feed for poultry and livestock.
The discussion splits into two camps. One group backs protection for American workers while limiting foreign goods. the other pushes a broad levy on all duties to ease foreign and domestic trade. A middle way is urged to avoid steep prices and a death blow to exchanges between nations.
Earnest Gugger and partner open a machine shop in a cement block building at the west end of Main Street offering general machine work and auto repair. They solicit all business and guarantee good workmanship.
Mr and Mrs Chas A Walker and their son Richard visited the George Walker home in Omaha Nebraska over Thanksgiving weekend. The gathering highlighted family time and regional ties during a holiday period.
State of Iowa Humboldt County notice announces Carl F. Flemong appointed executor of Cordelia M. Potter deceased. Creditors must promptly pay or present claims with proper authentication for allowance and filing with the Clerk of the District Court. Frank S. Lovrien is the attorney of record. dated May 19, 1938.
A Monday night wrestling event at Goldfield drew jeers as Tageson tried a controversial system provoking the audience. Renwick’s fang and clashes with French highlighted the bout, with Tageson offering to quit and award the match to French for a $12 payoff. Breddie Engstrom and Teddie Engstrom opened the show, while Lider Tandberg outboxed a Kanawha hopeful over four rounds.
Boone township hosts a Farm Bureau meeting at the Boone Center School Friday evening December 6 at 8 oclock. All farmers and families are invited. County Agent Romey will discuss horse treatment in Liberty and Mager townships with lantern slides and photos from his Washington observation tour in July.
An advertising notice touts the Spermatic Shield Complex with Retainer Simplex patent as a cure for rupture cases. It claims no surgery or drugs are needed and offers on site demonstration by F. H. Seeley at the Alvona Hotel Algona on Friday December 6.
A fragmentary discussion traces the Faust legend from a sixteenth century native of Suabla through Mephistopheles the devil and Wagneric servants. It notes Goethe's dramatic poem Faust and an 1708 opera by Constai, with Marlowe in Shakespeare's era shaping the tragedy.
The article explains that the moon shines by reflected sunlight and that its phases depend on its position relative to the earth. It describes how the illuminated portion changes from crescent to first quarter to full moon as the moon orbits, with the near side appearing lit when the sun sets.
The article explains Pluto as the farthest planet from the Sun with a 251 year orbit, slower than Neptune’s 165 year path. It notes Pluto will come closer to Earth in 58 years and, in 1983, will be about 30 astronomical units away, corresponding to roughly 8,000,000 miles.
Old prints of flowers birds and personages are popular for framing. Consider modern pictures or magazine prints and antique them with a light casting of liquid wax to achieve a mellow old tone. Pin the pictures to a flat surface before mounting for best results.
Local residents, including Mr and Mrs Howard Granner and their families, and Mrs Toy Greene with children, spent Thanksgiving in Des Moines Prescott Ames and Cedar Falls. K H S basketball teams beat Thor on Tuesday night though scores are not learned. A door display at A R Martins drug store will be sold Saturday at the O C F hall.
In old beliefs mechanical toys and wax figures were thought to hold magical powers useful in warding off illness and misfortune. People made wax dolls and toy animals to resemble objects or beings, sometimes sacrificing or chanting over them, while others viewed these as miraculous creations from early scientists.
In colonial Virginia rose gardens became a sought after beauty. Gardens were walled or hedged with clipped box and arranged in neat beds. Visitors note how these historic plots, once neglected after the civil upheaval, are now being restored and cherished as a link to early American life.
Italian violin maker Cremona Vio Carls Perzoni Cremona lived from 1tt to 1y4B. Regarded as one of Strodivarius's best pupils, he produced models with specific internal proportions and sound holes. His varnish ranges from light red to brown red, sometimes yellow, with a tendency to crackle slightly. The tone is described as refined yet powerful, and his instruments are praised for superior sound quality.
The Post Office issues a commemorative stamp honoring General Anthony Wayne and the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Wayne led campaigns on the Ohio frontier in 1793 94 and 95, defeating tribes at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20 1794 and securing the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795.
The article notes Buckingha m Palace gardens as sites tied to early English industry during the reigns of Charles I and II. Mulberry grounds, called mulberry gucideng, are cited by Evelyn Pepys and Dryden as fashionable, used for mulberry tarts and later to feed silkworms under James II to boost silk production.
Noburt Harpers, born 1703 in Oxford England, founded Harpers Ferry after emigrating to America. He bought the Harpers Merry estate for 60 guineas plus a squatter’s rights and a patent from Lord Falefas. The property later transferred to state control of West Virginia.
In a school setting Jay reports a new game called Flookey introduced by an older boy. Billy asks what the game is as the mother learns of the change and the boys discuss its play.
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