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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1937
Page
9
In central California Willows area farmers adopt aerial sowing to plant rice. Airplanes fly low with eight-man ground crews guiding routes by flags. Each plane can plant one strip per trip, with six planes operating and potential earnings near $100,000 on about 130,000 acres.
A clipped kitchen and garden note advises using pepper mixed with water to deter cabbage worms and spraying cabbage. It also recommends cutting dead blossoms to keep gardens colorful, plus a cake frosting tip to prevent crumbs mixing with frosting and a cookie cutter method to improve cookie yield.
A historical excerpt notes Theodore Roosevelt reading Jacob Riis's Half There is no direct date but mentions Roosevelt leaving a card with the message Have read your book and came to help The work urged mutual understanding between social classes and the need to know how the other half lives
The speaker urges awareness of poverty and hunger across social classes and calls for action to improve conditions. He stresses that no one can live alone and emphasizes the need for mutual understanding to curb social injustice and promote progress. He cites Hibing's Wee Willie Winkie as a parable of understanding between enemies.
Betty Wells offers a guide to brightening kitchens with simple wooden valances in blue oilcloth, plain white voile curtains, and patched oilcloth accents. She suggests coordinating tie backs, then envisions colorful living room and kitchen schemes, including French gray draperies, cream nets, and bold wall colors with Japanese printed fabrics.
A Western Newspaper Union message urges action to aid fellow humans and subdue indifference at every tragic crossroad, calling for shared concern and practical help. The statement emphasizes the need to translate words into aid.
Fourteen year old Merietta Henderson of the Traphage School of Fashion in New York won second prize at the recent school fashion show with a spectator sport dress in navy blue linen featuring cholera trim and blue catch sockets. She styled a blue catelin brace as costume jewelry.
Berlin, a metropolis of over 4 million, celebrated 700 years since its origins from the villages of Coelin and Berlin. The city’s growth, from a 13th century settlement to a modern capital, included absorption of surrounding towns, a booming industry district, and the development of an extensive underground railway system.
In Trenton Ontario, a distressed father, Captain HL Stepien of the Royal Canadian... watches police divers and volunteers scour the Trent River for his missing son’s body as authorities pursue leads and mend lives.
Ponderous machinery has gone automatic. Tiny mikes cut, shaped, or drilled by speech or hand gesture. A microphone attachment vibrates at command, starting and stopping complex machines. A large automated device was shown, operated by a keyboard of push buttons and finger touch.
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