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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
15
A collector’s note lists celery centered recipes and serving ideas. It includes baked celery with white sauce and cheese, celery tips filled with cream cheese, an orange sauce for beets, parsnips with egg sauce, German cabbage salad, and spinach dishes with liver and sour cream.
A 1930 Bell Syndicate column condemns Canton authorities for banning Ben Hur for promoting Christianity. The piece argues intolerance reflects ignorance and applies the critique to all societies, urging personal reflection on bias and unfamiliar beliefs.
Poem by Douglas Malloch from 1930 urges leaving a life that guides family after death. It argues lasting influence surpasses legal wills and codicils and suggests living rightly as a lasting bequest.
Photo electric cells outperform trained eyes in grading tobacco leaf and in classifying textiles with hues beyond human vision. A notable device by R C Burt of Pasadena splits light into rays of different wavelengths and measures ray intensity.
A fragmentary discussion of the American sycamore or buttonwood describes its size 80 to 100 feet tall its habitat along streams and its use as a shade tree. It notes reddish brown bark that peels to pale surfaces and round heart shaped leaves. The piece mentions diseases leaf blight leaf spots and a distinctive winter clue bark and leaves both showing when uprooted. It includes an aside about Hoosier poets and a misquoted remark about a restaurant cover charge.
A playful description of a rare northern reindeer with heavy ears stunting forelegs while hind legs keep growing. The creature is imagined as a paper-shell body with a peanut head, cloves for horns, split almond ears, toothpick legs, and navy bean feet, presented in comic style.
A hostess asks a guest about bathroom soap and is surprised to learn the reply refers to a gray soap found on the shelf. The guest admits using the soap, revealing it was flea soap. The moment adds a humorous kitchen table anecdote.
A man once threw a stone at a black cat to avert bad luck and later strolled with his wife to see the same cat, now a furrier's display. The sable fetches $800, ending a grim superstition in costly fashion.
A solemn ceremony unveiled one of the world’s most intricate clocks in the old tower of Cor nelius, Lierre. The clock shows Greenwich time and tracks the universe including the Zodiac, solar system, days of the week, moon phases, and tides.
A mash of quips and musings on manners and humor. The piece riffs on social tact and dignity while glancing at fashion and weather related notes and oddities about Colorado altitudes. Demand for chicken pie fillers and holiday politics are touched on in light editorial tone.
The text promotes Sir Walter Raleigh smoking tobacco as cooler, milder, and fragrant with a mellow pipe experience. It contrasts ordinary tobaccos in different pipes and suggests noting results in chalk on the shoe for emphasis. The ad implies immediate and lasting quality across all puffs.
The Waterbury Republican notes educator Dr. Herbert Sorenson of the University of Minnesota questioning fears about aging minds. He suggests that the issue is not reduced ability but lack of ongoing mental exercise, arguing elderly learners can master new subjects with proper practice.
A jagged exchange quotes a fight promoter Jack Doyle on women and misinterpretation of words. The dialogue features Gwenny and a friend debating a man Freddie’s absence after a declared breakup. The fragment references Wanted-Men and Women, to distribute Battles and Hearthold Necessities by Supreme Products Mfg. Co.
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