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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1931
Page
7
Gray's Corner announces price cuts on freight and ore costs at the Farmer Cooperative. A meeting is planned for Saturday at the dining hall to discuss business, with twelve oclock start and a focus on stockholders attending and supporting كبيرة representation.
Several pre nuptial events honored Miss Genevieve Clancy of near Hardy as she prepares to wed Marion Carter Luna of Ames. Seventeenth evening shower at the Clancy home featured games, gifts, and plans. Earlier gatherings included a June 11 party with Miss Clancy as guest of honor and a Monday night event at the James McGowan home with a mock wedding and staged prayer notations.
Next Saturday June 13 Humboldt and Webster counties sponsor Dairy Field Day at Paul Altman farm two miles south of Humboldt depot on Tile and Gravel road. Program starts 10 am to 4 pm with Prof Ploy Johnson of Ames in charge of judging and a talk on better dairying. There will be baseball for all ages, a big noon picnic, coffee and ice cream from H and W cow-teaming association, and neighborly gatherings.
Detroit News summarizes a curious OCR fragment noting the word pie as unknown to Kug Wali speech until a distant era. It cites Mir Jonas A H Murras and a Vest computation, plus a 1400 manuscript cookbook and the Worshipful Company of Cooks chartered in 1482. The garbled text references Hoglish cookery 488 and Columbus discovery in a playful, historical trivia tone.
The piece cites Coleridge and Daniel Webster praising Bible influence on thought and language. It notes Ayron and a Scotch teacher shaping love of Scripture, and mentions Robert Burns and the Cottar’s Saturday Night as drawn from Scripture, referencing the Wash-Loxton Star.
Article notes Washington legislators traveled by boat between Seattle and Olympia. Eastern and western representatives paddled across the Cascades region, with most members making the trip by water, requiring two days of rowing to reach the capital.
A damaged OCR fragment notes a sandwich counter item at Fotirdad with unclear details. It mentions a woman, a Home Commission breeze, and jumbled phrases about a mark on the edge and later news. The text is highly garbled and lacks coherent facts or names.
Local visits include the Schloss/Jones families at the Klasse home in Topeka and E G Selgend driving to Uppertown University for commencement where son Oren graduates and will coach at Dike. Miss Ethel Lindsay dies in Birmingham. her death follows her father’s illness and a prior homecoming. A Women’s Missionary Convention meets in Lucerne on June 18 with Fort Dodge Boxholm Pomeroy Paton Renwick LaVerne churches. Boone Pioneer Club hosts a gathering with health talk and color demonstrations. Rally Day plans and dice luncheon. Local missionary societies in Hardy and Humboldt hold meetings commemorating anniversaries with charter members honored.
Vernon Theatre screens TNT Devils Holiday a comedy featuring Nancy Carroll Phillips Holmes Hobart Bosworth and James Kirkwood. Written and directed by Edmund Goulding. Snappy service billed with 10 cent admission for all audiences.
The Salt Palace featured a coating of salt crystals formed from brine evaporation. Water vapor condensed to crystals on surfaces, coating timber joints during construction. The building shone in sunlight but faded with rain and seasons. Fire origin remained undetermined as smaller cities offered stiff competition and limited profit for rebuilding.
The article laments the decline of sensationalism in theater and literature, arguing that familiarity with shocking content has dulled public reaction. Louise Maunsell Pleld critiques bravado plays, claims we are desensitized, and notes that frankness and dating no longer guarantee impact.
The fragment describes how Tagio transmission replicates pitch tone and the timbre of each instrument, noting microphone limits and general frequency ranges. It references incidental overtones from instruments like the guitar and saxophone and suggests form or timbral identity remains consistent across transmissions.
The Salton Sea in the Colorado Desert forms an 80 mile long lake about 12 miles wide and 250 feet below sea level. In crevices it becomes a larger expanse up to 30,000 acres with shallow margins. Water from irrigation ditches maintains the lake level despite evaporation losses. Evidence of a former Lake Cabuitla named area 12 by 30 miles long wide is noted.
Varying views explain the origin of the horseshoe superstition. Some say it brings luck because it has seven nail holes, others claim witches fear it. Hanging a horseshoe is said to deter witches and display wealth, with older traditions courting the first shoe shed by a mare and hung open end up.
The readable text reads as a jumbled dialogue fragment with mentions of Mrs Brown and a boy named Jerry. It lacks a clear event, date, or source context to form a coherent news item or identify principal subjects.
An article from Better Homes and Gardens describes a spider known for intricate nightly web rebuilding. The creature meticulously constructs a three spoke frame anchored to plants, then reshapes its web over and over. A central wheel and delicate traps guide insects into the web, which is reset and replanned after each capture.
The article surveys attempts to fix Babylon’s ancient population by comparing its size to modern cities. Early methods yield figures from 5,000,000 down to 1,200,000, arguing Selucia’s 690,000 should be about half of Babylon’s peak. It notes available arable land around Babylon would have constrained growth.
A chaotic scene unfolds as a family dinner in a cloister leads to misfit secrecy. Four boys wait under a table while adults finish, a young lad pokes up after growing row. A sharp question about a daughter triggers a flurry of protests and unnamed consequences.
Heinrich von Stephan, hailed as the father of the modern postal system, gained prominence in Germany where he directed the Royal Prussian post. He engineered the world postal onion, implemented after the Berne conference, and is credited with shaping late 19th century postal innovations.
Insurance analysis reveals average weights mislead for life expectancy. Under thirty, best outcomes occur 6 to 10 pounds above average, while after thirty the most favorable results come from weights below average, increasing with age. By fifty, optimal weights are about 20 pounds under the average, implying underweight individuals may enjoy longer life prospects.
The fragment discusses uncertain origins of a phrase linked to posters advertising a dance in Salamanca New York about 88 years ago. It cites Gaingher from Youngstown Ohio noting a 1981 version by Gallagher and mentions a postmaster father connected to the town’s social scene and the poster’s attribution to Gallagher.
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