29 Mar 1929
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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
1
A noisy health feature advises flushing kidneys with harmless salts and drinking large amounts of water to maintain kidney function. It explains kidneys filter blood, remove waste, and suggests a salt tonic to keep them active. It also touches on heart rhythm changes and mentions peanut shell sugar production in a brief aside.
An advertisement extols Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a fast neutralizer of acid indigestion and sour stomach. It claims quick relief from gas and grour, noting the product cools the system and provides longer lasting comfort than soda.
Billie Brownie chats with the Secretary Bird who defends its name and archery heritage. The bird argues the term secretary is outdated and jokes about replacing it with a writerly image while describing its bravery, flight, and nest life. The Crane family is contrasted, noting Crowned Crane’s crown and liking of frogs.
The decimal method, base ten, and its global use in money rely on shifting the decimal point for division or multiplication. Its development is credited to 15th century German mathematician Regiomontanus, born Johannes Muller, who translated Greek works and advanced arithmetic, trigonometry, and algebra before dying in Rome while revising the calendar for Pope Sixtus IV.
A fragmented quotation mocks a rhetoric figure blaming Iceland’s vegetation decline on loud noises. The jumbled text suggests satire or garbled OCR and contains a mention of a mischievous quote about rights and women, with no clear source or event.
Promotion at J P Morgan & Co elevates three young bankers ages twenty eight to thirty to partnerships in the New York bank. All hold college degrees and banking experience, with their fathers' wealth noted as influential but the piece emphasizes self made merit and sacrifice as key to achievement.
Harving King explains the superstition of carrying a hangman’s rope as a talisman. He links this to ancient human sacrifice and sympathetic magic, arguing the rope recalls sacrificial knives and rites to gods. The piece cites McClure Newspaper Syndicate and traces beliefs from Odin and Thor eras to modern pockets.
A reflective verse describing happiness as near and found in everyday life. The speaker urges readers to notice ordinary scenes such as work, family, and community, rather than grand castles. The poem celebrates earth, labor, and kindness as the path to joy.
A short essay argues that people create and need enemies to stimulate emotions and provide thrills. It notes enmity fuels the glands of internal secretion, helps imagination and anger, and even offers a harmless outlet for fighting instincts without physical exertion. Some require many enemies to live normally.
A fragment from a Viola Brothers Shore piece discusses risk taking in life and relationships. It contrasts showy choices in courtship with lasting commitment, notes neglect endangers wellbeing, and asserts the value of self care and self awareness in marriage and life decisions.
A quirky note on superstition suggests a football player’s jersey worn wrong side out could cost or not affect a victory depending on intent. The piece blends playful lore with a light, period voice.
An advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a purely vegetable laxative soothing the bowels and stomach, aiding pale underweight children, and restoring energy. It cites a long sales record and endorsements, and includes a customer testimonial from Mrs R W Stewart of Denver praising its effects on her constipated child.
Extermination product E R O claims to kill rats only without poison suit for home barn or poultry yard. Marketed as K R O kills rats only using squill under Connable process with US Agriculture endorsement. Advertises money back guarantee and druggist price 75 cents, large size $2.00. Springfield company offers direct orders.
Maj. Gen. Tolm A Lejer, com mandant of the Marine Corps, cites Valley Forge as housing the toughest pies in history. He quotes an old history of starving times showing Dutch buyers and apple pies as luxury despite hardship. The piece contrasts with others on film critique and domestic humor.
Mrs Anne Loupze wack of 1607 B Front Street Philadelphia testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aided her after childbirth. As a mother of three with two daughters and a baby boy she felt run down and weak, but after starting the tonic she saw improvement from the first bottle and now highly recommends the medicine to friends. Sioux City No 13 1929.
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