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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
3
A lawyer remains engaged in active practice at Ames in Towa while working alongside Judge C. G. Lee. The note highlights ongoing professional activity and association with the judge.
A caretaker uncovered more than ten rare volumes, many first editions, in a locker at Albright College, likely lost during the 9 year merger with Schuylkill College. Among them are a 1652 first edition Uncle Tom's Cabin and a 19th century life and mortality work. Student assistant Leif Henrich salvaged the books for display in the new library. The set includes the Pennsylvania German 1837 Debate in the Pennsylvania Convention, showing wear, and a marked preface page in Elements of Astronomy signed Louisa.
In Los Angeles W E Millar a bachelor man about fifty walked eight miles to see a doctor after feeling unwell. The doctor advised rest andactivity. Millar returned home took a one hour test cooked dinner washed dishes and walked another mile to a Salvation Army meeting where he sang the bass solo Lead Kindly Light. He has never married and is the only son in a family of fifteen daughters.
San Francisco rescue man William Polk crawled forty blocks through a thirty inch pipe to free a black tom cat trapped in the city drainage. He was decorated for the deed despite deep scratches after a two hour effort using fish as bait and a lasso through a vent.
A terse fragment lists Clyde Boore, W. F. Johnson, HN Coffin, Q. T. Larson, and Frank Dodd. The incomplete item suggests an obituary note or public notice naming several individuals, with limited contextual details available from the fragment.
A big truck driver, enraged by a small car driver refusing to yield, was fined 25 dollars by Judge Cahill after the trucker learned the other man was a policeman and a veteran chief of Larchmont, William J. Keresey. The column blends anecdotes from city life including a monkey injury and other vignettes.
Washington officials say extreme heat expands road surfaces adding about 160 miles to national highway length. Pennsylvania cites seven extra miles. A 1935 motor-vehicle tax total reached 1,286,907 dollars, with federal and local levies rising.
Meg Jean Rice, billed as Canada’s only “lying housemaid,” runs a mobile domestic service in Goldfields Saskatchewan. Seventeen year old from Grand Prairie, she bills high prices and commutes to mining camps by plane. Monday tasks include cleaning cabins and laundry for miners. Tuesday she flies to Warren camp, Neilly lake, 35 miles away, returning Wednesday for another round.
John Pezzola, operator of a mining claim near Johnsville California, reports a cache of 470 rare $1 gold coins five $20 pieces and seven $10 pieces unearthed as mining becomes more modernized.
The Republican congressman highlights his Iowa accomplishments including the Iowa Warehouse Act, Iowa Butter Law, and Farm Loan interest relief. He touts work on monetary stability, Federal Insurance Corporation, and corn sealing to aid farmers, urging support over rivals.
The Bureau of Fisheries reportedly advances a theory to distinguish male from female goldfish. Wallace A. Little of Missouri proposes a simple male gill change test, supported partly by Edsvin H. Perkins. The method requires goldfish to be two years old for reliability.
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