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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
11
Poem extols family riches over material wealth. It notes life, spouse, children, home, health, love, and shared daily work as true wealth. The piece ends with a reflection on health and contentment contrasted with gold or lands. Mentions 1839 and Dowex Malloch. Also references large fish species like jewfish and Slack sea bass.
A 1930s Western Newspaper Union recipe feature offers quick lunch ideas for children. It suggests tiny cream puffs, olives wrapped in bacon, fruit salads, small rolls with fillings, grilled sardines on toast, tomato appetizers with cheese, and sauces for fish, plus poached eggs with caviar and scrambled eggs with anchovies, all designed for fast preparation and minimal expense.
A fragment notes superstition linked to trimming finger rails on a Monday. It advises discarding medicine bottles and pit boxes to gain health, attributed to a McClure Newspaper Syndicate source. The readable text presents a folk health superstition without verifiable context.
The Chicago audience at Haverly's theater on November 12 1879 urged Mark Twain to speak for General Grant. Twain declined saying he could not improvise a speech after hours of preparation. The anecdote comes from the Chicago Evening Post. The piece also notes Indian trails used by bisons following salt licks across mountains.
The text describes White Ash tree characteristics including height and bark, leaf count and texture, and resistance to diseases. It notes two traditions claiming people fear lightning and snakes avoid shade, mentions historical uses by North American Indians for bows and paddles, and references illuminated manuscripts and decorative manuscripts.
Vienna dispatch tells of Fritz Mimmiler who tried to jump from a third floor window after a collar button failed. A chauffeur explained the man attempted five times to fasten it before the stud fell away, prompting him to die by own action. The piece argues daily irritations are slow suicide.
The article notes many American Indian languages lack the B sound with Aztec and most North American tongues. It cites exceptions such as New Mexico speech with a perfect B and California Pomona Indians renowned basket makers. It mentions Bagil, a Pomoa mythic heroine, and the name Heename pronounced Enhgee.
A historical note states milk is a complete food containing casein and albumen nitrogen, fat and cream milk sugar salts and water. It claims milk could sustain human life indefinitely though no such long term experiment has been conducted.
A humorous piece describing the Galloway Ghink living among Ireland’s peat bogs. It features a tearful, sensitive beast with side whiskers fashioned from chicken quill and large nut head, described in a playful mock naturalist style.
Lickdale Pennsylvania woman describes reliance on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after years of farm labor and childbearing. She credits the remedy with renewed health and energy, saying she is a new woman and that good health is better than riches.
The fragment mentions Ian continuing for at least fifty centuries and asks when it will end. No clear event, date, or organization is provided to confirm a factual outcome or location.
An article cites Dr Leonard Williams on normal weights for men aged 40 to 44 at various heights and promotes Kruschen Salts as a fat loss method. It suggests a four week plan avoiding pies cakes and heavy foods and recommends daily Kruschen Salt intake before breakfast. It ends with a leading question about global travel and health.
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