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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1937
Page
4
A collection of social notes and visits across Creston Ames and surrounding towns. People travel visit relatives attend reunions and await college starts while others mark births and local health updates. The report lists numerous names with brief weekend or recent activity and mentions a birth and a hospital stay.
Local dealers publish Wednesday September 29 quotations for cream corn and related dairy items. Prices include No 3 corn at 245 and cream grade at 96e, with correction notes referencing cream and market listings.
Have you ever caused someone to be injured or warned a mother that her husband is killed? The piece urges safety and accident prevention, stressing the grief sudden loss brings to families and the duty of workers to cooperate in safety on highways, at home, and at work.
Evangelical Church led by Pastor F. J. Lawton announces Sunday School at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 with the theme The Loyalty of Jesus. Evening service at 7:30 p.m. features John the Loyal Disciple. Beginning October 3 the Loyalty Month program urges attendance, adherence to the church budget, and pledge to support Christ's cause unless illness or other worthy reason prevents attendance.
Sun e y School at 10 a m James Nelson Sept Morning Worship at 11 a m The Coming Kingdom ordinance of the Lord s Supper observed Evening Service at 7 50 p m Whats Wrong with Ren wick Prayer Meeting 8 p m Thursday at Charles Trask home Mission Circle meets Friday at Mrs Walter Martin home Bring White Grass quotas for members
M E Church notes list CG Yeager as pastor with worship and Sunday School times. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Anderson and Helen Jersen from Fort Dodge, and Abe Durrett family visiting Wapello. Keystone and Hardy residents visit local homes. Ledyard guests travel to Sperry home for Sunday afternoon visit.
In Manteo North Carolina celebrations marked the 350th anniversary of Roanoke Island’s English settlement founded in 1587 under Sir Walter Raleigh. Virginia Dare’s Aug 17 birthday was observed and Gov John White’s 1591 return reports of the vanished colony were recounted.
Austrian physicians set a desirable yearly fruit target of 200 pounds per person but current consumption runs at about 60 pounds. Austria imports about 3 million dollars of fruit mostly from Italy while possessing 20 million trees. The Austrian Fruit Growers' Association plans to import healthy trees from abroad, especially California and Florida, to raise production.
In Sydney a Methodist minister Rev. A. Norris promises a prize to any congregant who can sleep through a service. He says sermons are too stereotyped and stolid and that his sermons deal with life, using humor.
Professor R I Samoilovich of the All-Union Arctic Institute says four explorers Papanin Krenkel Shirshov and Federov established a base at the North Pole and made key discoveries. They mapped depths near the pole, identified a warm Atlantic current, tracked ice drift southwest toward Spitsbergen, Greenland, noted summer warmth, observed birds on the ice, and measured land magnetism.
Stevens Point Wisconsin features Eric Kedrowicz a barber by trade with scrap iron crafting a fourteen by four foot platform miniature sawmill. A home made steam engine drives a two foot carriage powering twenty iron men figures, weed choppers and cross cut saws in a four year project.
A diner hides two shrimp orders in a napkin then reveals to a department scout that he owns a dozen small turtles who eat ant eggs and shrimps. The piece notes subway quirks including fat women on the Brighton local and Edgar street in New York, and mentions Nadine Conner and Barry McKinley in entertainment blurbs alongside a trivia line about treasurer and currency.
A Royal Institution meeting showcased diamonds emeralds and other gems on a screen. Professor Gordon directed a beam to reveal how scientific cutting splits light into multi colored star patterns with each stone coloring the display. Sphene produced rainbow pairs while emeralds formed a cross shaped star pattern. brilliant cuts showed random splendor.
A Fort Worth resident sued over two trees creaking in a neighbor's yard disturbing his rest. Attorneys concluded the city cannot enforce laws of nature.
Delano Calif residents report the city hosts what is claimed to be the only purely Japanese Epworth League chapter in the United States. The organization serves local Japanese youth with church and social activities.
A bank chairman holds many uncashed checks from friends who backed the winning team. He prefers to keep them under his desk glass as reminders of the losers’ bad judgment rather than cashing them.
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