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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
5
The piece argues that more laws lead to unenforceable, burdensome statutes and mock reform. It criticizes emotion over logic, cites overextended legalities, and urges fewer fool laws with better enforcement, swifter arrests, and well equipped police to prevent crime.
Mrs Cressie Shearer died Friday at her Goldfield home after a brief heart illness. She was 57, a 40 year Goldfield resident, and widowed a year. Survived by son John and Dale Shearer of Oregon, daughter Mrs Otto Engstrom of Humboldt, a daughter, two brothers Morton Tyler and Fred Tyler, sisters Rosie Hayes Inez Worley. Funeral Monday at 1 40 PM from Engstrom home near Humboldt with Rev J J Share officiating. The boy was taken to Goldfield for trial.
An Odd Fellows gathering in Swen City was halted when a member’s pocket 22 shot shell exploded while a pipe was being filled. The blast caused panic but no injuries. The incident involved Jim Vaux who recalled the shell in his pocket and the group resumed the meeting after the scare.
Vernon consolidated school held its alumni banquet Monday evening at the Legion hall with the Auxiliary serving. The Bureau of Standards announced a rapid six minute method for analyzing human breath, with some wives able to perform a rough analysis in about five seconds.
The fragment describes Hasternera actions after rescuing Waylipit and notes the sun’s intense effect on a girl named Nother, hinting at changes in the environment and character. The tone evokes a frontier scene where wanderers face unusual challenges and lingering questions about the rescued Waylipit.
A survey by Cornell University's Agricultural Experiment Station finds better road networks raise farm profits. Paved roads in New York add about 725 miles of truck travel annually versus dirt roads, and two thirds of paved-road farmers own trucks. Feeder roads linking rural areas to main highways would benefit farmers, merchants, tourists, and reduce congestion.
The Department of Agriculture rejects the practice of farming by moon phases as foolish superstition with no scientific basis. It notes moonlight does not influence animals weather or soil. The article cites old French laws about cutting trees during certain lunar phases and argues superstition persists despite scientific investigations.
The public increasingly embraces air travel with 00,000 scheduled passenger trips last year, doubling 1928 figures. Planes are now a standard transport alongside rail, road, and autos, praised for comfort and speed amid a brief era since modern passenger planes emerged.
An eccentric tribute extols Benjamin Franklin as the ultimate universal man. It cites his diverse roles as journalist, printer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, university founder, and world figure, claiming he embodies the modern bourgeois ideal and global influence.
The article traces horseback riding gear from bareback use by ancient Greeks to late medieval saddles. It notes Athenians experimenting with saddlecloths, mentions Nero era monuments, and describes saddle evolution through the fourth to twelfth centuries, highlighting gradual shifts toward the modern saddle.
An outline of Bartolommeo Cristofori, born about 1651 in Tatua, training as an instrument maker, gaining recognition after moving from Padua, and becoming famed as the inventor of the pianoforte action in Florence where he died in 1734.
An article notes turmoil over dress norms in South Africa, citing police tape measures on bathing costumes in Durban, bans on skimpy swimwear in Cape Town, and a man jailed in Johannesburg for court attire. It recalls a 1733 Dutch East India Company rule on umbrellas and stresses dress as a reflection of the founders' spirit.
Archaeologists uncover more than forty skeletons on Hag's Back near Guildford Hogland revealing a Saxon settlement once thriving beside the Sibbet water. Finds include a well preserved drinking vessel and a spearhead with burial dated 200 to 650 A D. Some skeletons belong to unusually tall individuals over six feet.
A fragmentary note recounts that Nicot of Nimes introduced tobacco to France after meeting a Flemish merchant in the service of a French ambassador. Seeds were carried from South America in 1359, leading to the plant named Nicotiana and its active principle Nicotine.
In southeast Essex England a land reclamation effort tests Spartina Townsendii to curb coastal erosion. The grasslike plant tolerates mud and rising tides, rooting deeply and raising land by inches yearly, a method revived after centuries. Local fields and shores are being remade with this aid.
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