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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1938
Page
5
Farmers get a break at Gambles with Dairy Pails three for 89 cents. Also offered are Double Quilted Fleeced work gloves or mitts at 15 cents per pair, Flash light Cells two for 7 cents, and a 45 volt B Battery for 89 cents at Gamble Stores.
A poem attacks a business man accusing him of greed and corruption while demanding investigations and harsh punishment. The verse questions employment, payroll, taxes, and ethics, urging sensational headlines and scapegoating. The text is attributed to the Daily Leader Times of Kittanning Pennsylvania. Also notes sugar shipped in hats as an anecdote from early American settlement.
The Sheldon Sun reports Sam Sigman remains in Sheldon after announcing his resignation, unable to dispose of holdings, while Greenwald Brothers of George take over Champlin service station at 8th Street and Highway 38. Sigman keeps an office and salesroom nearby to continue auto parts, used cars, tires, and batteries.
A compact observation on poetry functioning as an outward form of social life and opinion. The piece frames poetry as a public instrument reflecting and shaping political and social currents.
A historic note states that the first material used to conduct electricity was not metal wire but a linen thread. This early experiment marked a key step in understanding electrical conductivity and the development of modern conductors.
Mr and Mrs John Landhuis of Rock Valley return from a three month visit in the Netherlands with daughter Joan. John, known as Pickles locally, left Hospers to work in a barbershop with his uncle. He says relatives in the Netherlands range to seven brothers and two sisters, with only he in America. The trip included Rotterdam on the queen's birthday and a surprise visit to his parents who celebrated their golden wedding. Weather abroad was damp and chilly. John gained 36 pounds and returned with five Holland shoe pin souvenirs for friends.
In Jefferson South Dakota, two teachers Theron Terman and Henry Hladky both aged 24, died from burns when a furnace boiler exploded at the high school after a Sunday workout and warming fire. The district contends the men were trespassers with no right to light the furnace, citing no liability.
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