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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1929
Page
8
Subterranean animal life develops and dies without sunlight with no cave mammals except a rat species and no cave birds. Many underground beings need little nourishment, reside in caverns with underground rivers, and show extreme adaptations such as whitish or transparent skin, reduced or vanished eyes, enlarged hearing smell and touch, and long coarse hairs across the body.
Joseph F Grawe of Waverly Bremer county reports a farmer near Waverly hosts forty to fifty pheasants in a shed used as their winter home. Izaak Walton league members feeding pheasants found birds occasionally come out to feed with the chicks and stay near the farm yard most of the time.
Snow hindered early ice harvests but supplies are ample now. At Waverly the Chicago Great Western distributes hundreds of cars along its line, and at Burlington twelve million wounds were harvested by 120 workers over two weeks. Thousands of cars have been shipped from northern lakes and the work continues.
H A Grantham in the De Witt Observer touts cornstalk paper as a new material. He cites mills in Kalamazoo and Danville using cornstalk pulp to make wallboard rayon and other products. He notes Iowa towns exploring new industries and calls Clinton county at “the busiest rural crossroad in the world.”
N E Garnsey of Milton says a flag that floated above the Washington DC dome is now owned by Milton school. George Gnah, former Milton boy and captain of the Capitol Police, secured the flag and presented it to his boyhood town. The wool bunting flag has ten inch wide stripes and torn folds.
Miss Mary Hill longtime private secretary to O P Miller of Rock Rapids departs for Chicago to assist C Grant Markham publishing agent and treasurer duties. ALA W Fitch of Manson succeeds Miller as treasurer until next conference session when an officer will be elected.
The article surveys prejudice against selling dogs and biblical interpretations of Deuteronomy 28:18. It notes opposing views on whether the term dog refers to the animal or a person who engages in sin. It highlights how Palestine's view of dogs as unclean is reflected in Scripture and commentary.
A Kansas City Star piece recalls the Medici family crest once linked to a pawn broker sign. Averado de Medici, a Frankish commander under Charlemagne, slew the giant Mugello and kept his club with iron balls. The sign’s three globes echo that weapon and the Medici’s later money lending lore.
The Farm Journal notes that many regions lack gold or silver as wealth indicators. In the South Seas porpoise teeth signal wealth, Yap uses cartwheel stones, the East Indies and much of Africa employ beads and shells, and polar areas rely on fishhooks as currency.
A Siamese money guide outlines units like baht, chang, haph, and salang with gold content and weights. It notes that trial money use ended, and adds a Pathfinder Magazine primer on psychological complexes such as conquest and inferiority versus superiority.
Describes Height of Land as a watershed divide in Minnesota and nearby regions. Explains it marks the line where streams split to flow toward the Red River of the North or toward Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Mentions a small lake named Height of Land and its relation to local drainage basins.
Doon rendering works offer braying and removal services. Richard Sneller, owner, invites calls for dead stock removal. Jake Vande Weerd, manager, lists phone contact 38 and residence 202J.
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