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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1925
Page
4
A column of Iowa notes includes spring poultry figures from Loetscher, plans for mail flight routes through Des Moines, and shifts in Winterset park labor. Rev. Linicome decries excess as vice while towns debate removing hitching posts. Historic Des Moines editors and notable visitors are recalled in a mosaic of local history.
A Stanton Iowa school board faced a court ruling over tuition for Children’s Home residents, with Judge Peters upholding the Home’s stance while enjoining the district from enforcing its decree. The column also surveys biographical notes on Rev. John W Holland, aquatic lore near Hamburg, and Mitchell county hemp production with Osige’s hemp mill plans. It mentions mis de scrip tions of blind fish in Silver Lake and local farm anecdotes including a hen hatch record near Gamer.
Rain insurance covered Drake Relay races held in April, with $5,000 payable if three inches of rain fell within a specified hour, costing management $600 to secure the policy. In recent years rain insurance has grown popular for county fairs and large gatherings to guard against bad weather and losses.
Glass hospital walls are praised for strength safety and sanitation aiding wards at Beth Israel New York to allow parental access for contagious patients. Education authorities anticipate new economic benefits from such glass innovations while industry recognizes its infection control value.
Charon, son of Erebus and Nox, ferries buried souls across Acheron for payment. A coin known as an obolus was placed in the mouth of the dead. Without the fee, the shade wanders the shores unable to cross. Charon is depicted as an old, unkempt figure with a befouled appearance.
The mistress hears a noisy scene in the kitchen and finds only the cook. She asks Nora about the disturbance and is told a policeman tried to kiss her. The iceman’s involvement is hinted in the exchange as a forceful episode.
A fragmentary text features a character asking for two word advice and instructing to tear up a note without reading it. The lines include garbled names such as Br. Wader and grimix and reference stray stories. The meaning is unclear but conveys a cryptic request.
No charges for examination by Dr. Doran a regular physician who visits major towns and offers free consultation on this trip. He claims to treat stomach liver bowels blood skin nerves heart kidneys bladder bed wetting catarh and rectal ailments without surgery and urges those with long standing trouble to call. Married women must be accompanied by husbands. Address 336 Boston Block Minneapolis Minn.
A tense domestic scene unfolds as Miriam plans to reveal a painful secret to her husband Morton. Engaged telephone calls fail, decisions loom, and a final daylight confrontation erupts when Morton enters, catching Miriam in a moment of fear and resolve.
The article explains deep sea sounding as hydrographic work using a mechanical line. Depth is read from reel revolutions and wire diameter. A mechanical weight replaces the hand line sinker, aiding inhauling. Sometimes other devices bring up sea samples while near shore angles are measured from boats.
Reported notes recount the Norse explorer Eric the Red born around 950 A.D. in Norway who fled Iceland for Greenland, then returned in 985 to recruit colonists, with Greenland later vanishing. It also mentions Leif Erikson’s probable landing in England around 1000, and Rye church bells dating to 1880 that were rehung after a 1368 French raid and a later 10 year recapture voyage by the Rye and Winchelsea fleets.
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