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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1928
Page
11
King Amanullah unveils reforms in Afghanistan including coeducation for under elevens, tax cuts for tennis rackets and footballs to boost sports, opening a state bank, Latin alphabet for drugstores, recognition of the secret police, and the creation of a civil aviation society with a yearly subvention of 500000 rupees.
E B Howard conducts a 335 acre Palestine, Texas farm while serving as a track conductor on the Missouri Pacific lines. He applies railroad accuracy to farming, growing a fire dairy herd with a broad sow and two litters yearly, plus 27 Angora goats for mohair. He raises his own feed and crops include cotton, corn, cowpeas, sorghum and hegari with a developing home orchard.
The U S government helium plant near Amarillo Texas will operate 24 7 once finished next January. Specialized railway tank cars carry 200000 cubic feet of helium at 2000 psi and three such cars are ready with two for the army and one for the navy. The first unit includes nine buildings with storage tanks and aims to handle up to 4 000 000 cubic feet daily, representing a fraction of the eventual 6 000 000 capacity of raw gas.
A cave near Sullivan in the Ozarks features onyx limestone and marble formations with giant stalagmites and stalactites. Fisher's cave hosts an immense chamber called the ballrage where Governor Fletcher held his 1868 inaugural ball attended by over 200 couples. Guests were conveyed a mile through a tunnel in a mule drawn car.
A friend sends a clipping from an English newspaper noting playful misquotes attributed to poets. The piece contrasts an American poet’s line about making lives sublime through discipline with a supposed English poet’s claim to be or not to be only when distracted.
In Marblehead Massachusetts Barry Whitehead and a companion stroll by the boxch when a lively talk sparks a quarrel about local status. A Marbleheader defends an elderly outsider born in Salem as not truly prominent, citing sixty seven years in Marblehead and challenging claims of foreign-born prominence.
A Tennessee kindergarten scene has Mary saying she is a blue bird because she is dressed in blue, followed by Williaa declaring he is a redbird because of red underwear, a lighthearted moment in class.
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