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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1930
Page
7
A vintage household recipe collection offers step by step methods for cabbage dishes Shamrock Salad Peach Betty Fried Apples and Onions Butterscotch Pie and Brown Meringue. The home style directions emphasize simple ingredients and plain methods with notes on seasoning and cooking times.
A comic panel depicts a quirky snooperchuck sniffing around an ice box for olives. The figure is built from peanuts and nuts with a pork chop lure, and olives trigger mischief as the character is tossed from a window.
A piece of wood on the shoulder sparks a fight in lumber camps and among youths. The phrase also signals a defiant attitude, used to appear superior or to attract attention. It explores motives from bullying to seeking defense against criticism.
A 1930 Douglas Malloch verse compares staying at a hotel with a hot room to friends missing home. The note conveys affection and shared hardship as they send wishes and updates.
A Canadian woman travels south with her husband and children, enjoying sun and sand before restlessness sets in. She faces an infection after a manicurist cuts her finger, finds relief in pain, and learns a small ache can reveal gratitude for health and happiness.
A McClure Newspaper Syndicates item notes beliefs about newlyweds. If the couple faces each other after the ceremony they will live happily, if they turn their backs they will separate, if the groom walks around the bride he will be kind, if she walks around him she will be unkind.
The association of cats with many nursery rhymes recalls a era when belief in witches and witchcraft was common. Cats were seen as familiars and witches could supposedly transform into a cat and back at will.
Lakehurst New Jersey preliminary tests show the motorized stub mooring mast for dirigible docking is highly successful. The Navy approves further development and a contract of 13 493 to build a new device incorporating the basic idea with secrecy surrounding the project. A telescope feature allows height adjustment for different airships.
Col. John A. Paegelow outlines plans for a new metal dirigible to be built at Scott Field if Congress approves. The 547.2 foot craft would have eight engines totaling 4 800 horsepower and reach 160 mph with a 4 400 mile cruising range. It could aid in Mississippi food relief and create detailed aerial maps of the valley.
Scott Anderson of Rupert Idaho may be the first western man to use an airplane for herding his vast flocks. He owns three planes used to visit sheep camps miles apart delivering supplies. Planes reduce travel time. the sheep acclimate to landings with no stampede.
The Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds air port hosts a national aeronautics event from August 23 to September 1 featuring both vintage and modern craft. Early Birds Day on August 27 spotlights famed pioneers from Walter Brookins to Igor Sikorsky, with women pilots Ruth Law and the Stinsons among participants.
Herbert Hoover Jr presides at a meeting electing him president of a newly formed Aeronautical Radio Inc. The company will operate the radio systems of major aviation firms to cut costs. Headquarters will be in Washington with officers Thorp Hiscock Paul Goldsborough and H C Leuteritz. Directors include Berbert Hoover Jr P G Johnson Lensteritz Jack Frye and others from Boeing Northwest Airways Aviation and New York Rio and Buenos Aires airways.
A Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce survey reports about 2.5 million dollars invested in Wisconsin aviation, detailing 68 air fields including 14 airports and 18 landing fields. Milwaukee County Airport and Curtiss Airport lead with $300,000 each, while 48 fields are municipally owned 45 privately owned and five state provided.
A whimsical remark compares pie to teeth and children’s games with history making a playful moral. The author comments on grammar and punctuation among people who invent none.
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