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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1947
Page
4
Schedule notes show Dr. Pepper Le Mars Sioux Center Indians and Orange City Self Serve Hall All Stars postpone games from Thursday Aug 7 to Monday Aug 11 and Thursday Aug 14.
Norman W. Bell is listed as publisher for the Boyden Reporter. The paper is printed and mailed from Boyden Iowa noting second class matter. It is published every Thursday afternoon with a subscription price of 2.00 per year and a 25 cent discount for advance payment.
The Ossianic Poems published in 1760 by James Macpherson a Scottish schoolmaster created a sensation and made the author famous. Scholars demanded the original Gaelic text and the author faced scrutiny revealing the project began as a joke.
The article describes Japan extending through nearly 0 degrees of latitude and notes a broad climate spectrum from sub tropical in the south to extreme cold in the north. It mentions high summer temperatures and little snow in the southern islands while the Kurile islands retain snow and ice year round, with Kyushu and Shikoku having moderate climates.
The article states no perpetual motion machine has ever been built or discovered in Egypt or elsewhere. It cites consensus among scientists and the Patent Office on impossibility under the conservation of energy. It notes energy cannot be created or destroyed and that friction consumes energy, requiring external energy renewal.
The article notes dumb waiters as an English invention of the eighteenth century with tiers of trays on a central spindle and tripod base. They were placed diagonally at dining table corners for self service after servants left, with Chippendale supplying two mahogany dumb waiters on castors to Kensington Palace.
Description of Liverpool earthenware as an inexpensive tableware produced with transfer printed black drawings. First English attempt to decorate tableware with scenic political or comic prints. Process dates from the mid eighteenth century.
A historical note from Bermuda explains bachelor tax ended as the influence of Bermuda’s attractive women helped dissolve the rule. The reform ended the obligation that taxed single men for remaining unmarried.
The paint and varnish industry uses about 80 percent of turpentine sold in the country. Shoe polish is the next largest use, followed by applications in shatterproof glass production synthetic canny phor insecticides and related products.
Iowa poultrymen boosted June egg output with fewer layers as farm flocks produced 2 percent more eggs than a year earlier. The rate per layer rose 4 percent and set a June record, while national output rose above last year for the first time this year. Also noted were more May and June hatchings and steady farm chick counts as of July 1. Mr and Mrs John H Dykstra visited the Voordeman home in Sioux Center Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Verne Ingalls and daughter and Mr and Mrs Harold Diekevers all of Sheldon visited in the parental Diekevers home Sunday.
Social notes list visits by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Van Velzen to Mrs. Martha Es huis in Sioux Center Friday evening. Others include Rev. and Mrs. Chester Post and Home Freezers promotions by Sigeman Electrical Appliances. Mrs. Paul Fiebig of Sheldon and several others called on Bob Den Hartog in Orange City Monday afternoon. Thursday afternoon Ed Dickevers home welcomed Mrs. Elmer Kooiman and children from Edgerton and Bill Vander Wilt Jr. from Blane Washington.
Mr and Mrs Pete Herwynen spent several days last week visiting the Overgauw residence in Holland Minnesota and the Mrs Frank Ver Hye home in Chandler Minnesota during their travels.
A long article notes Abraham Lincoln loved dogs, citing a bronze statue in Fort Wayne showing Lincoln with a hound. It recounts feats of kindness to animals, his childhood hound Honey, and pets Fritz in the White House, highlighting family joy over litters of kittens and puppies.
Chicago area farmers are urged by the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee to boost soil organic matter and structure through conservation. Deep rooted legumes rotations lime soil tests contour cultivation and returning manure and residues can raise water retention and corn yields.
The piece argues Americans must remain vigilant to defend freedoms as the world grapples with Doctrines at home and abroad. It warns against complacency, noting polls showing gaps in understanding budgets, free enterprise, debt, security, and inflation.
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