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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1930
Page
14
The piece warns that stricter credit terms will tighten finance across industries as consumers defer payments for goods. It notes rising prices and steady demand for coal and oil, with weather concerns and high costs pushing consumers to delay payments, while urging caution to safeguard business.
A historic thanksgiving message urges gratitude to God for liberty and prosperity. The First Baptist Church invites all to services next Thursday with a program including Sunday School, Morning Worship on Our Debt of Gratitude, Young Peoples Meeting on Thanksgiving, and evening services. A calendar of activities for the week is provided.
St Pauls Lutheran Church announces Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. A congregational business meeting will follow services after a motion carried. A Thanksgiving Day service is planned at 10:00 a.m. All are welcome to attend Sunday School and services.
Sunday School at Ida.m. Worship at ML a.m. Prayer meeting 7pm. Worship 4:30 p.m. Midweek service every Tuesday at Merc. Anna Sehneider home. Junior B A G lat and 3rd Sunday monthly. Ladies Aid first Wednesday. Woman's Missionary Society second Wednesday. Choir practice Thursday at 7:80.
M E Church notes report Sunday worship with Pastor George KR McDowell and guest Lilia. Mrs Jennia Swanson and son Oscar visited Lehigh relatives last Sunday. Alfred Anderson and CA Packard were business visitors at Lille Falls. D E Jones and Otto Swanson attended a Chevrolet pre show at Bark Dodge. Carl Mercy was postponed surgery due to appendicitis. The Tins Gillie offers Christmas Greeting Cards by box with name imprint. Gus Rehwer and Mrs A W Treimner attended Reehtater where Mrs Rehwer’s intestinal operation left her condition guarded.
A special town council meeting called by the Town Clerk Nays 11 to 130 adjourned. Mayor Studdard resigns and L W Miller is unanimously elected mayor to fill the term, with J W Miller sworn in by councilman W W McCurry. Fritz Britt is Town Clerk.
Council met November 15 1930 with Mayor Miller and all councilmen present. The resignation of Marshall Harry Hanwell and Mayor L W Miller was read and accepted. McCurry was named mayor pro tem for the balance of the meeting. Elmer Dietrich elected mayor by ballot and sworn in. Adjournment followed. Local notices report Armis tice Day visits events, meetings, and social updates from Goldfield Spencer and surrounding areas. reports include residents visiting relatives and club activities with a health talk and gifts for a member.
The article argues that the Jewish Sabbath did not always align with our Saturday and that early practice varied with priests and the Sanhedrin. It notes that by around 309 A D the week’s cycle shifted and that Jewish leaders gradually adopted Saturday as the regular Sabbath due to dispersion complicating the ancient calendar.
A misspelled request from a 20 year old named Ai Foo-ra applies for a vacant job at a Shanghai wharf. The letter mentions clerk experience on the Chinese Eastern railway Yong Ky-deo wharf, Chinese language skills, typing, and a demand for immediate response.
The article describes track-head gulls common along Europe’s coast and their shorebound lifestyle. It notes their tendency to stay near coastal zones, feeding on insects, worms, and larvae, and reports their winter migration from the Azores to Japan.
Nota. Care Ticharé Brinstey Sherttan and Eduard Burke are credited with a pun. When asked to pay interest on Sun owed the reply claimed it is not in my Interest to pay the principal nor is it my priciple to pay any Interect.
Miss Olga Schipuit from Bradgate and Mervyn Krutainger from Algona visited relatives in local homes over the weekend and early week. A marriage license was issued in Clarion to Donald Brayton and Iris Gillespie of Kenwick. LaVerne Newa reports a three year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs Walkner, suffered a broken collar bone and shoulder after falling from a moving car while the family traveled from Livermore. the door had opened and the child fell out.
A historical note on the Persian poet laureate from Teheran with the court’s unique customs. The last laureate served under a system where royal progresses included a dwarf, giant, jester, and historiographer. The laureate celebrated royal deeds in verse as part of princely spectacle, a practice praised by M. Persin and later abolished by Min rafarad-Lin.
A London Times essay argues for Latin mottoes on coats of arms, public shields, and diplomas, citing tradition dating back to medieval governance in Britain. It notes Latin’s elegance, its historical role among Europe’s educated classes, and the appeal of ancestral links as a justification for retaining Latin phrases such as Ave Numerantur Avorum.
A study by Dr Noback of the New York Eromologlest Society reports gorilla growth in the first three years is slower than that of a human child. The research notes earlier dental maturation and bone development in gorillas, with babies reaching a full set of milk teeth around eighteen months and permanent teeth by about two and a half years.
After the Civil War era, public funds supported perpetual motion devices and machines claiming endless motion without energy. Scientific bodies warned the idea is impossible, likening it to lifting oneself by bootstraps. Yet patent interest suggests some see potential despite widespread doubt.
In the early days at the Iie Lord Bowen prosecuted a prisoner found leaving a house at night with boots off and plunder. A columnist in the Manchester Guardian notes Bowen’s irony about the prisoner removing boots to avoid disturbing a sleeping family. The jury, moved by this extenuating circumstance, returned a verdict of not guilty.
A concise depiction explains medieval defense devices used for gatehouses and walls. It details hanging barriers with counterweights, iron shoes on lower joints, and sometimes full metal construction. Drawbridges rose by chains and counterweights linked to wall-mounted levers acted as fulcra.
A fragmented notice describes a mobile auto hospital on wheels traveling highways in France. It highlights a car equipped with repair tools and a decorative top featuring a crest. The piece appears to be a manufacturer driven advertisement to promote the product.
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