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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1929
Page
2
A young attorney defended a foreign client in police court, pressing claims of ignorance of American customs and truthful narration. The magistrate acquitted the client after a 15 minute argument. In the moment of acquittal the lawyer extended a hand, prompt and awkward, and the freed man warmly grasped it. He remarked it was a fine noise the lawyer made and called him Shanks Goodbye.
The speaker describes relief proposals for agriculture under a Republican platform. A federal farm board would be created to help marketing, stabilize the industry, and empower farmers to meet current and future economic challenges. The aim is a broad, self-directed marketing system rather than government control or subsidy.
Notice to members announces dissolution of the Rock Valley Shipping Association following a referendum. Members must apply to Secretary Emory Suter for their share by April 15, 1929, in person or by letter, or their claim will be void. Directors' orders issued by President Henry Schmidt and Secretary Envoy F. Snier.
The Urmia in Persia is a large inland salt lake about ninety miles long and thirty wide, covering roughly 1,600 square miles with around six islands. Fed by streams, it has no outlet and evaporates, concentrating salts until no fish live there, outstripping most seas in salinity except Caspian’s Karalingas.
Prof Philip K Hitti of Princeton told the Linguistic Society of America that Arabic words enrich English more than any other Semitic, Asiatic, or African group. He cited 198 Arabic entries starting with A, noting indirect loans via romance languages and transmission from Greek Latin Persian Sanskrit Egyptian Turkish and Hindustani, with examples like apricot, azure, borax, camphor, ebony.
The oil chair of St Augustine, used for Canterbury archbishops enthronements, has a long history. Traditionally linked to Kent kings, it likely dates from the early thirteenth century and sits in the Corona chapel of Canterbury Cathedral. Each enthronement marks the primacy of England.
A little girl returns home in distress after a quarrel with a playmate. She tells her mother that another girl is “a cat,” prompting a gentle lesson that thoughts may be unspoken and should not be uttered. The mother explains restraint and the difference between thinking and saying.
A traveler notes doubt about old elephants leaping from cliffs to die but claims herds have natural death sites in swamps or jungles. Natives know these death spots and ivory sources. Other wild animals may also seek specific places to die, suggesting a pattern of choosing death locations.
Jenks asks Bing how to handle a family in midlife. Bing replies his children are at difficult ages. slang offends his wife, correct speech marks him as a back number. The parable of parental restraint and modern parenting humor.
A fragmented historical note traces sign origins from ancient Egypt to Europe and America, noting inns as early adopters and a quip about wine inns. It mentions Rome, Greece, Italy, France, Germany and England and references symbols like the cross for wanderers, with garbled phrases about tavern doors and adages.
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