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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1928
Page
5
Red Oak Shenandoah and Clarinda announce a mutual aid agreement to protect each other during fires. Red Oak would send one of its two trucks to Clarinda if needed while Shenandoah would dispatch its large truck to Clarinda. Shenandoah would receive aid from Red Oak or Clarinda if a fire breaks out there.
A large fire at the BT Warehouse of the beet sugar factory in Belmont destroyed a vast sugar stock. Fire units from Mason City Dodge Haupton Clarina and Eagle Grove helped save the main factory as water was drawn from the Town river. The loss is estimated at one million dollars, marking a major historical setback for the state’s sugar industry.
Market sights in Des Moines show numerous rabbits bought after the big snow. Rabbits mainly come from southern towns with Diagonal cited as a center, as weeklong hunting opportunities near Thanksgiving opened.
After purchasing two wood saws, T J Dykstra offers wood sawing services. Ready to saw for anyons and neighbors, providing mobile or on site work as requested.
Knute Espe of the Iowa Cooperative Live Stock Shipping Association said Iowa packing houses killed more hogs in the past year than large city plants. He cited Chicago plants at about 713000 hogs and Otumwa and Waterloo each near one million, with Austin Minnesota handling many Iowa-sourced hogs. State board orders extermination of all squirrels on lands under its authority before year end to protect birds and reduce pests.
Hon James B Weaver, after months in Europe, notes Germany’s strong postwar effort and democratic satisfaction. He highlights extensive airplane use with huge passenger traffic and ships carrying four score or more travelers.
A fragment discussing diverse earth and solar system motions. It references axial rotation, solar relation, solar system gravity, and planetary perturbations as topics in Popular Astronomy by Fhiminiprion. The text hints at variations in obliquity and eccentricity, and the sun's motion through space.
In autumn 1874 Mark Twain is said to have bought a primitive typewriter after seeing one in a Boston stationery window. He then typed the manuscript of Life on the Mississippi on that machine, making him possibly the first author to submit a typewritten work to a publisher.
The Mobile Register quotes Grove Patterson noting that people waste time with diversion and hustle. He argues Americans should prioritize quiet thinking over busy, false motion to improve daily work and judgment.
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